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Shock reason Ryan Phillippe lost 'dream role' in Star Wars prequels

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones might have been released in the year 2002, but the 50-year-old actor was 27 when he auditioned to play Anakin Skywalker just two years earlier

Phillippe wasn't alone as Hayden scored the plum part over Leonardo DiCaprio, Chris Klein, Devon Sawa, Charlie Hunnam, Topher Grace, Joshua Jackson, James Van Der Beek, Colin Hanks, and Paul Walker. The problem was that future Darth Vader was supposed to be 19, so director George Lucas wound up casting 19-year-old Hayden Christensen (R) to play the love interest of 19-year-old Natalie Portman's (L) Padmé Phillippe wasn't alone as Hayden scored the plum part over Leonardo DiCaprio, Chris Klein, Devon Sawa, Charlie Hunnam, Topher Grace, Joshua Jackson, James Van Der Beek, Colin Hanks, and Paul Walker

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