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- #191245
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- Hayden Christensen wins Razzie for ROTS
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But what if Lucas tells them to act a particular way? I don't recall specifics, but I recall there were many times, especially in AOTC, where Lucas kept toning down Hayden's "anger", like when he was talking to Padme about killing the sand people.
"Remember, the actors aren't present during post and may not even see their perfomance at the trails or the premier."
Case in point: Hayden's "ghost" at the end of ROTJ. This was copy/pasted from another scene altogether, which explains why Anakin's facial expressions and eye line don't jive with the scene as is. Hayden didn't even know he was in ROTJ until he saw it on DVD. This is entirely Lucas' fault - Hayden had no direction in this at all, but certainly wasn't an "empty vessel".
I also recall Anthony Daniels lamenting that his last filmed scene for ROTS was done, like many, many other shots, in bluescreen limbo. Most actors will tell you that bluescreen acting is difficult, and in the TPM and ROTS documentaries, there are at least two scenes where Lucas cut/pastes different scenes together to make completely new scenes that bear little relation to what they originally were (C3PO and R2 in the Tatooine garage, and Mace walking over to Yoda outside of the Galatic Council chambers.) In these and many other cases, the performances of the actors are taken completely out of their original context. The actors could be following their directions to a T, and be giving the performance of their life, but if the scene is later drastically altered to create a new, unintended scene, then the performances suffer at the whim of the director.
Of course, many times, Lucas would do one, maybe two quick takes, and then proceed to the next scene, hoping to many any necessary fixes in post. That doesn't leave much margin for error.
