In an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live” to advertise her highly anticipated Netflix thriller “May December,” Natalie Portman reiterated to fans of “Star Wars” that she would be beyond thrilled to play Padmé Amidala once more in future films. When Portman was cast in the titular character of George Lucas’s “Star Wars” spinoff trilogy, she was only a teenager. At the age of eighteen, Portman made her debut in 1999 with the release of “The Phantom Menace.”
When host Andy Cohen questioned Portman about her experience encountering the British royal family at the screening of “The Phantom Menace,” she reminisced, “I remember Prince Charles, he was then Prince Charles, asked me if I was in the originals. I was like, ‘No, I’m 18!’ But he was very friendly.” Although “no one has asked,” Portman stated that she is “open to” going back to the “Star Wars” universe. She described her experience embarking on the spinoff trilogy as “amazing,” noting, “It was the first time I worked digitally. I don’t think anyone was shooting that way then. It was my first time working with a green screen. It was a whole new set of skills to pick up and a whole new world to enter.”
While working on a new “Star Wars” film, Taika Waititi said in a widely circulated tale from the summer of 2022 that he had asked Portman if she would like to appear in it without realising that she had previously played Padmé in the “Star Wars” the cosmos. Waititi was Portman’s director for “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Portman said to GQ magazine a few months ago, “He says he did [forget] because he like asked me if I wanted to be in a ‘Star Wars’ movie and I was like, ‘I was, I thought he was joking. He’s such a joker that I thought it was a joke. And then afterward he said in some interview that he was like cringing afterward.”
