'Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones' trivia and fun facts

Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman play the parents of Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Hamill and Christensen both have Swedish descent, while Portman and Fisher have Jewish ancestors.

The last scene in which Padmé and Anakin are looking out on the lake in Naboo along with R2-D2 and C-3PO, is a nod to the end of 'Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back' in which Luke, Leia and the two droids contemplate the space from the ship.

Christopher Lee, 78 years old, did not make all the fight scenes himself but most of the work with the lightsaber is his. Only at times a double was used whose face was digitally replaced by Lee's.

In ''Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones'' we first watch Yoda wielding his lightsaber. That's because in the episodes IV, V and VI the puppet that was used in the filming couldn´t grab the sword realistically.

''Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones'' was the only 'Star Wars' film that was not the top box-office earner the year of its release.

The release year of ''Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones'' also coincided with the 25th anniversary of the release of 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope'.

Hayden Christensen says he had a blast shooting the bar scene because it was filmed in a real scenario and not with blue screens.

Hayden Christensen was the only actor in the saga who couldn't choose the design of his lightsaber. It had been a tradition, but Christensen had to settle for using a sword with a very similar design to the one that Obi-Wan gave to Luke in 'Star Wars : Episode IV - A New Hope'.

Due to the animosity aimed towards Jar-Jar Binks, the most hated character of 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace', the working title of ''Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones'' was "Jar-Jar's Big Adventure".

As Ewan McGregor made ??in 'Star Wars : Episode I - The Phantom Menace', Hayden Christensen also enjoyed making the sound of the lightsabers, until Gorge Lucas told him there was probably someone in postproduction able to do it better.