Ryan Phillippe may have everything to become Anakin Skywalker – but his age disqualified him for the role.

The star, known for Cruel intentionsremembered that he almost played the hit character in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.

“Being a child born in the 70s I was like ‘what dream that would have been,’ he said to Black.

But a seven-year-old age gap between him and Natalie Portman, who plays Padmé Amidala, led him out of the race.

“But I think things happen for a reason and it’s easy to make peace with it,” he continued.

“Part of what we need to develop as actors is the thick skin that comes with rejection or maybe things that don’t go that you would have in a particular project or potential job.”

“So there’s an element in being able to let go and release and don’t spend too much time thinking about these things,” the 50-year-old.

Apart from this, Ryan remembered how he “did the wrong step” of producing characters in movies that were killed at the end, leaving him unable to return in reboot.

“I thought it was cool. I’m like ‘if I could take a character to their last minute.’ Now I’m like, ‘what do you think?

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