Hayden Christensen and his 11-year-old daughter, Briar Rose, enjoyed a father-daughter evening on the red carpet.
Christensen, 45, brought Briar Rose, whom he shares with ex Rachel Bilson, to the Saturday, September 19, opening night of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.
While the actor sported a gray T-shirt and dark-wash jeans over a navy blazer, his daughter sported a white sundress. The daddy-daughter duo were all smiles on Saturday, holding hands as they walked down the red carpet.
The Lucas Museum, which aims to explore how narrative art shapes the world, was founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas. Christensen, for his part, famously stars in the intergalactic franchise as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.
As for Briar, she’s only started to understand that her dad portrayed a notorious movie villain.
“She knows Daddy’s Darth Vader, [but] she’s never seen Daddy as Darth Vader,” Christensen said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2022. “I’m still waiting a little bit, you know, until that happens. I might show her the prequels soon, but still, there’s some scenes we might have to fast forward through.”
While Christensen was hesitant to show his young daughter Star Wars, he noted at the time that Briar was his “first lightsaber training partner” when he reprised his famed role in Disney+’s Obi-Wan.
Christensen dated The O.C. alum Bilson, 45, from 2007 to 2017. The now-exes welcomed Briar Rose in 2014 before calling it quits and amicably coparenting their daughter.
“Ours is, like, a unique version of it. We do a lot of stuff together — a lot,” the Hart of Dixie alum said on a January episode of the “Let’s Be Honest” podcast about her dynamic with Christensen. “We have been able to keep it very copacetic and nice for [Briar]. We weren’t ever married so we … figured out our own way. [My advice for other coparents] is communication and sometimes you have to compromise a lot.”
Bilson continued at the time, “I’m really close to his family and it’s been almost 19 years or something, which is a long time [ago]. It feels like [water under the bridge].”
In addition to jointly raising Briar Rose, the two actors also enjoy their solo parenting moments with the preteen.
“I have a young daughter, and I love watching shows with her,” Christensen told MTV at the D23 Expo last month. “Her favorite ones right now are Liv and Maddie and Henry Danger, so I enjoy getting to watch those with her.”
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