Up until last year, there were only two times that Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader battled each other in the Star Wars timeline: on Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith, and then aboard the first Death Star in A New Hope. Then the Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries arrived, and Disney+ subscribers got to see them lock lightsabers two more times in the ‘present day’ storyline. Additionally, “Part V” showed a flashback of Anakin and Obi-Wan sparring prior to Attack of the Clones, and Hayden Christensen recalled the sweet and unexpected his daughter had to watching his character and his former Jedi Master take each other on.
Outside of a vocal cameo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi marked Christensen’s first time reprising Anakin since Revenge of the Sith was released in 2005. The actor reflected on his return to a galaxy far, far away while chatting with fellow Star Wars actor Diego Luna, who appeared in Rogue One and currently leads the prequel series Andor, for Variety. After the former informed the latter that his eight-year-old daughter not only hasn’t seen him in the Darth Vader suit yet, she hasn’t even properly delved into the Star Wars franchise, he said this:
