YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollections  No need to cry for Hayden
Christensen  His characters have done it a lot. But the actor
continues to grow beyond his days as a young Jedi knight.
February 16, 2008|Cory Ohlendorf | Special to the Washington
Post  Our theory on the Roles of Hayden Christensen goes
something like this:  An angry, misunderstood boy-on-the-verge-
of-manhood seeks respect and attention and has a fantastically
affecting crying scene along the way to his eventual
enlightenment, vindication or descent.  Really, this happens in
virtually all his films -- from the Goth teen in "Life as a
House" to a cub reporter in "Shattered Glass" to his eventual
turn to the dark side in "Star Wars." (And no one cries like
Christensen. He's even the cover face on "Crying Men,"
photographer Sam Taylor-Wood's book, which also features Jude
Law, Ryan Gosling and Ed Harris.)  We explain this theory to the
actor here at lunch, where he's just come from a panel
discussion at MIT on quantum teleportation -- the basis for h