Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen surprise ‘Star Wars’ screening

The Pressure was robust on the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on Friday.

Star Wars castmates Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson stunned followers after they confirmed up at a particular Twentieth-anniversary screening of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.

Christensen first took the stage on the historic Hollywood cinema whereas wielding a pink lightsaber, telling the crowd that he had “so many amazing memories of making” the ultimate Star Wars prequel, through which Anakin Skywalker embraces the darkish facet as he turns into Darth Vader and aids Palpatine in his hostile takeover of the Galactic Republic.

“I see a lot of lightsabers out here,” Christensen mentioned to the viewers. “I see a lot of red lightsabers, which truth be told is my personal favorite lightsaber color.”

He was then interrupted by the voice of an unseen customer. “Hold on, Skywalker,” Jackson mentioned from off stage. “This party ain’t even over.”

Christensen then launched his former costar. “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Mace Windu himself, Samuel L. Jackson.”

Jackson appeared thrilled by the viewers’s thunderous applause. “This is so, so, so awesome,” he mentioned. “Twenty years later, I can hardly believe that we’re still as popular — as happenin’ — as we are. I haven’t seen Hayden in a while, but so, so, so happy to come back, see him, and see all of you at the same time. Thank you all so much. We had a great time making the film down in Australia. We were hangin’ out, doin’ stuff.”

The Pulp Fiction star then joked in regards to the closing scene for his Star Wars character, Jedi Grasp Mace Windu, who meets his premature finish after unsuccessfully making an attempt to arrest Palpatine and getting hurled out a window in Coruscant.

“I hope you enjoy the effort that went into this and watching me do my ‘I move almost all backwards’ fight with Palpatine,” Jackson mentioned. “Before my unexpected exit. And for the record — Mace lives!”

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That final quip harkens again to Jackson’s insistence that Windu might nonetheless return for a brand new Star Wars undertaking, with him declaring “he’s not dead!!!” in an Empire story in 2024.

Jackson has expressed curiosity in reprising the position for a Disney+ sequence, and his voice could be heard in an audio cameo as Windu’s unseen ghost in 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. However regardless of the frequency of resurrections inside the Star Wars universe, Windu stays canonically useless — for now.

On the finish of their look on the El Capitan, Jackson and Christensen advised the followers in unison, “May the Force be with you.”

Christensen not too long ago revealed that he’ll return to play Anakin as soon as extra in Ahsoka season 2. He beforehand reprised the position on the present’s first season, in addition to on the 2022 sequence Obi-Wan Kenobi.