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BN: The first three films in the series were in a sense, morality plays, but you've taken it a lot further in the new one, because there's almost a quasi-Christian element here that Anakin is the result of a virgin birth and he is the chosen one. How intentional was that?

GL: It wasn't really meant as a virgin birth, more as a metaphor for life.

BN: So, you weren't trying to invent a new religion there?

GL: No, no. The idea is that the hero, throughout mythology, has always been the result of a special birth. Usually, as with Hercules, the father is a God. Every hero has a mysterious birth.