'Ahsoka' Stars Talk About The Reunion Of Master And Apprentice

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Jun 1

Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka) and Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker) were excited to trade lightsaber blows on the Ahsoka set, but their history started before the show. Back in 1995, Dawson and Christensen were both enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York City. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Dawson said, “I had just started acting. Kids was in the theaters, and my grandmother was like, ‘If you’re going to take this seriously, you go to acting class.’ She could afford one semester, and in those couple of weeks over that summer I got to meet Hayden and do a class where I learned how to really feel a drop of water hit my head and drip down my body. I learned how to go method!”

Christensen was also present for the interview. Speaking of the reunion, he said, “It’s really been a very special experience for us to reunite on this project and to get to play these characters that have the history to their relationship that they do, and to get to explore some of that with someone I’ve known for quite a while myself.” The actors confirmed that it didn’t feel like work when they were working with lightsabers Dawson joked that Ray Stevenson and Christensen were so convincing with their lightsaber swings that she had to confirm, “We’re pretending to kill me- right, guys?"

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The pair also speculated about how Ahsoka would relate to Anakin in future seasons. Dawson mentioned how her character has several recordings of Anakin from her training, so the show could bring him back in that way. Dawson continued, “But I love, also, not just being relegated to those messages and things that we might be able to see more of in the future. We've gotten to see from the films now into the show that he's been able to become this force ghost that brings him back to Anakin, who at the end of the day, when he went and ascended to that space, that's what he became.” Christensen added, “As to whether or not we see Anakin again, I don't know. But as evidenced by that last shot of the series, he’s with her in spirit, and they continue to have this connection.” Hopefully, the pair will get more screen time together in future Star Wars projects.

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