Hayden Christensen likes to spend time along with his 11-year-old daughter, Briar Rose, regardless of the exercise.
“I’ve a younger daughter, and I really like watching reveals together with her,” Christensen, 45, informed MTV UK on the 2026 D23: The Final Disney Fan Occasion on Friday, August 14. “Her favourite ones proper now are Liv and Maddie and Henry Hazard, so I get pleasure from getting to observe these together with her.”
Christensen, who shares Briar with ex Rachel Bilson, additionally deviates from the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon when his little lady isn’t current.
“I not too long ago received into The Company with Michael Fassbender,” he gushed on the purple carpet of the hit Showtime collection. “It’s actually good.”
Christensen stepped out on Friday to disclose his upcoming function in season 2 of Ahsoka. Disney confirmed throughout its annual fan expo that Christensen will play Drive ghost Anakin within the Star Wars collection.
Christensen, in fact, famously performed Anakin Skywalker, a younger Darth Vader, within the intergalactic franchise, although Briar hasn’t caught up on the Star Wars movies but.
“She’s not conscious that her dad is likely one of the largest villains of all time,” Bilson, 44, completely informed Us in 2020. “When that [time] comes, I don’t understand how that’ll most likely fare in class as a result of no person will mess together with her!”
Two years later, Christensen revealed that Briar was lastly conscious of his Star Wars previous as a result of she was his “first lightsaber coaching companion” for Disney+’s Obi-Wan.
“She is aware of Daddy’s Darth Vader, [but] she’s by no means seen Daddy as Darth Vader,” he revealed on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2022. “I’m nonetheless ready slightly bit, you realize, till that occurs. I would present her the prequels quickly, however nonetheless, there’s some scenes we’d should quick ahead by way of.”
Christensen and Bilson dated from 2007 to 2017, welcoming Briar in 2014 earlier than their eventual break up. The now-exes have since remained dedicated to amicably coparenting their daughter.
“Ours is, like, a novel model of it. We do lots of stuff collectively — so much,” the Hart of Dixie actress stated on a January episode of the “Let’s Be Sincere” podcast about her dynamic with Christensen. “We’ve been capable of hold it very copacetic and good for [Briar]. We weren’t ever married so we … found out our personal method. [My advice for other coparents] is communication and typically it’s important to compromise so much.”
Bilson continued on the time, “I’m actually near his household and it’s been virtually 19 years or one thing, which is a very long time [ago]. It seems like [water under the bridge].”
