Natalie Portman has been ready virtually 20 years to reprise her “Star Wars” prequel function.
The “Might December” actress revealed throughout a GQ profession retrospective (beneath) that after starring as Padmé Amidala within the “Star Wars” prequel trilogy movies, she is “open” to returning to the franchise however hasn’t been requested.
“I’ve no data on this. Nobody’s ever requested me to return, however I’m open to it,” Portman advised GQ.
Portman’s closing look as Padmé was in 2005 film “Revenge of the Sith,” by which the character seemingly died. Padmé was the love curiosity of Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) and the mom to twins Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa.
Portman moreover responded to her “Thor: Love and Thunder” director Taika Waititi forgetting that she was in “Star Wars.” Waititi is about to be writing and directing an upcoming “Star Wars” characteristic movie that deviates from the core franchise characters.
“He says he did as a result of he like requested me if I needed to be in a ‘Star Wars’ film and I used to be like, ‘I used to be,’ ” Portman remembered. “I assumed he was joking. He’s such a joker that I assumed it was a joke. After which afterwards he mentioned in some interview that he was like cringing afterwards.”
“Star Wars” producer Kathleen Kennedy confirmed in April 2023 that Waititi is still currently working on his yet-untitled movie.
“Taika continues to be working away,” Kennedy mentioned. “He’s writing the script himself. He doesn’t actually need to convey others into that course of and I don’t blame him. He has a really, very distinctive voice. So we need to defend that and that’s what he’s doing. However we’re going to make that sooner or later.”
The movie’s launch is presently dated for December 19, 2025.
Waititi teased that his “Star Wars” imaginative and prescient will “develop” the universe behind the sci-fi franchise. “I want to take one thing new and create some new characters and simply develop the world, in any other case it feels prefer it’s a really small story,” he mentioned in June 2022.
The “Jojo Rabbit” Oscar winner is believed to also be starring within the movie.
