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Should've been Anakin Skywalker.


Has much natural acting chops compared to Hayden Christiansen. Would've made for a more believable character. Plus his resemblance to the younger Mark Hamill would've added to the effect and making it feel more genuine.

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I agree

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While it might have helped make the character a little bit more tollerable, I'm not sure casting someone else in Hayden's place would have solved all the problems that the character had. A lot of the issues I had with the character seemed to stem not even so much from Hayden's acting as it did the writing (and directing) for the character in general. There's only so much that even a good actor can do with terribly written dialogue (and poor direction in how to bring that dialogue across)

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Hayden Christensen is actually a decent actor (seen him in other films... of course...). I don't think it was his fault... I mean in star wars starred oscar winners (eg N. Portman, L. Neeson) and actors as S. JAckson and E.McGregor and God were they awful...
Fyrthermore, H. Ford is said to have made changes to the script he had given, because it was awful... It's G. Lucas fault... Portman and Christensen were too young to have such a strong opinion on that matter.

To answer your question... no. I doubt anyone would have been better (considering the actor should be of young age)

PS: Sorry for the long answer, but I'm really tired of the trash throwing at H.Chr... He was as good as anyone else in there...


Sorry for my English, not my first language 

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The dialogue was awful. I don't think Seb looks like Mark Hamil either. Did he try out for Anakin, I read where he auditioned 4 times for Star Wars.

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He looks like a prettier MarkHamil post the accident. Hayden wasn't the problem...Anakin was a horrible Character from start to finish.
Everyone sucked in those films not counting Ewan McGregor.

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Heck, I could've done a better job than Hayden, and I'm not an actor 😂

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For those who think he looks nothing like Hamill. Take a gander.

http://www.tor.com/2016/05/10/could-sebastian-stan-play-a-young-luke-skywalker/

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WOW!!! That's crazy awesome!

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