Hayden Christensen, who plays Anakin Skywalker in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode II--The Attack of the Clones, told SCI FI Wire that he expects his life to change when the film comes out next year. "Both Ewan [McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi)] and Natalie [Portman (Amidala)] kind of got their worlds turned upside down when Episode I came out, and so they all had to deal with what I will deal with in a year," he said in an interview while promoting his new film, Life as a House. "I will experience a loss of anonymity that is going to be unsettling. You have to be a pretty deranged individual to want that, to want to be famous on that level. [Privacy]'s something that has to be taken from you, and it comes with the territory, and when it's taken from me, it's taken from me."
With George Lucas' emphasis on computer-generated effects, Christensen said that he had to get used to a lot of blue-screen work. He said his stage background prepared him for that. "It was a new experience for me, working off a blue screen, and it's not too dissimilar from theater, in that it requires a lot of the imagination. I'd say about a 10th of the work we did in the studio environment was with a constructed set. Everything else was blue-screen work. But even in the sets there were some elements of blue screen."
As for the controversial title, Christensen said that he had not heard McGregor's scathing remarks. (McGregor called the title "terrible," but later recanted.) "It's pertinent to the story," Christensen said. Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones opens in May 2002.