Hayden Christensen

AGE AND OCCUPATION: 20, actor PROVENANCE: Vancouver, British Columbia. AN EPISODE OF GOOD LUCK: George Lucas handpicked Christfensen for the role of Anakin Skywalker—the future Darth Voder—in next spring's Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones. "My older brother was a Star Wars fanatic. He is really excited, but at the same time a little disappointed because I'm ruining the rest of the trilogy for hirr^^IVs like, 'You're not Darth Vader!'" YOU MUST BE CHOKING: His first major film role is in this month's.Life as a House, as the troubled teenage son of Kristin Scott Thomas and Kevin Kline. "It's pretty intense how my character is introduced. He wakes up, gets out of bed, ^alks over to his closet, and starts huffing paint. There's a tie hanging there, and he lowers himself into it and starts to get off through asphyxiation." YOUR PARENTS MUST BE SO PROUD: "I think they were kind of hoping I would go to university on a tennis scholarship.'Which is what my father wanted for me. But he's happy that I've found a life doing this." THE FORCE WAS WITH HIM FROM AN.EARLY AGE: "I was discovered when I was eight or nine. At the time, my older sister was a junior wofrld champion on the trampoline and my parents wanted to get her an agent. I was with her in the agent's office, just along for the ride, and they asked me if I wanted to do commercials." -KRISTA SMITH

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