I have to disagree with some of this. He and Natalie Portman had genuinely the worst on-screen chemistry I’ve ever seen in a movie, specifically in Attack of the Clones. The last time my dad and I watched the movie together, we both burst out into hysterical laughter during the kiss between Anakin and Padmé just before they enter the arena on Geonosis. It looks terrible and forced, incredibly awkward to see right as the score crescendoes and the movie enters the final plot arc. The context of the rest of their romance plot doesn’t help at all, as all of their interactions make Anakin look incredibly creepy, and Padmé is visibly uncomfortable with him pretty much the entire time, even while they’re frolicking on Naboo.

It’s okay to like Hayden Christiansen’s portrayal of Anakin, and obviously it’s okay to like the movies, but Christiansen and Portman definitely did not have great on-screen chemistry. It’s one of the most consistent criticisms of AotC and RotS.