While her role in Revenge of the Sith took a backseat to the story of Anakin Skywalkers fall to the dark side and battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala as played by actress Natalie Portman was very much the victim of rather than the instigator of Anakin’s dark path, and speaking with Vanity Fair she discussed the role and specifically the idea that Padmé – as seen in a piece of Sith concept art showing Amidala with a knife in her hand – could have instead turned on Anakin.
“Oh, that’s cool. No, no. And cool, but nope.
It was such a big part of my life to be part of Star Wars for so many years. I made the first one when I was 16 years old and then this one I did when I was 22. It was really wild to do green screen. It felt like a very pure form of acting, actually.
It’s like almost like when you’re a kid and you’re pretending that you know your refrigerator box is your rocket ship, you know, that you have to really not just create the world inside of you, but the world around you as well.
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.”
We’ve seen flashbacks to Clone Wars era Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka, and with the Oscar-winning actress making it very clear she’d be willing to return (“No one has asked” but she’s “open to it“) maybe there is an avenue to step back in time to see the tragically young Padmé one more time.
