Hayden Christensen arrested on spousal battery charges.

April Fools.

Well at least its not another Hayden sucks as an actor thread,lol.

Fucking LOL.

As soon as I saw the topic I laughed hard knowing what day it was. That's the fun of being nearly a day ahead of a lot of the rest of the world. I get one day of April Fools jokes in the real world then I'm prepared for the next day on the internet.

It made me laugh because Hayden to me seems rather meek and good natured but you never know they say it's always the quiet ones.

Even though he may not be the most talented actor I've never hated the guy or even made fun of him as much as other do, he seems like a genuinely nice guy. It's not like he wanted to be pasted into ROTJ or even knew about it.

That is until a few months ago I watched one of Kevin Smith's "Evening With" dvds. If you don't know basically they're a recording of one of the many Q and A's Smith does, basically him rambling on about life, his work, whatever people want him to talk about for a good 4 - 5 hours. Anyway, in one of them Smith tells a story about Hayden Christensen.

I'll paraphrase the story and I'm sure I'll get a few unimportant facts wrong. According to Smith just after the release of Clerks II (a Kevin Smith film in which in a scene two characters have an argument about which is the the better trilogy - Lord of the Rings or the OT, the guy supporting LOTR calls Hayden Mannequin Skywalker) Smith got a call from someone at Skywalker Ranch / Lucasfilm (Smith has connections there as he does all his sound editing on his movies at Skywalker Sound and got married on the Ranch back in the day) saying that Hayden called up George and/or a person in a position of power livid that Clerks II was making fun of him and suggested that Lucasfilm should sue Kevin Smith and/or The Weinstein Company/Miramax. Apparently the response was "ah no Hayden we are not going to do that"

Smith went on to say that it's parody, it's no big deal and by what he wrote he was supporting Star Wars over LOTR and it was the moronic fanboy character calling him Mannequin. He further went on to say he's Darth Vader stop being such a pussy and added the "NNOOOoooooo!!!

I'm sorry I'm not doing it justice but it's a really funny story and worth a watch.

I assume Hayden was sick of all the fanboy hate that has been aimed at him and finally snapped but still what a douche bag move.

Hayden comes across to me as a sheltered kid or something. Both in his acting and little stories like that.

I'd probably give the guy a hug and pat on the back. And nickname him Darth Vader so he'd feel better about himself. Poor guy.

TheBoost said:

But then again, when the man has released almost as many documentaries about how cool he is as he has actual movies, what more can we expect?

Wow! For many years I had suspected that I was not the only person in the world who didn't think Kevin Smith was a god among film makers, but I had never known for sure. Good to know I am not alone.

Was a funny story though. Because my only exposure to Hayden has been SW, I tend to see him as the whiney type. Never having met him personally, or having seen any interviews with him where he was talking about anything but Star Wars, I really can hold any kind of opinion of him that even pretends to be realistic.

DarkFather said:

...battery charges...

Cr*p, so I can't recharge my own batteries with my own wife now?

;)