In 1999, during the premiere of “The Phantom Menace”, Prince Charles (now King Charles III) asked Natalie Portman a question she didn’t expect.
In 1999, when her acting career was just beginning and she was only 18 years old, Natalie Portman was chosen by George Lucas to play Padmé Amidala, future mother of Luke and Leia Skywalker, in the Star Wars prequel . (Recently, a fan imagined what Luke’s face would have looked like if he was really the actress’s son.)
Upon the release of Episode I – a colossal event in cinema history – Natalie Portman suddenly found herself propelled to the rank of global superstar. She, who had already acquired a certain notoriety by playing opposite Jean Reno in Léon, Al Pacino in Heat and Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks, was now at the forefront of the most popular saga on the big screen.
While she recently returned to the unforgettable release of The Phantom Menace, the actress, now 42 years old, notably remembered a rather amusing anecdote, which occurred during the film’s premiere in the Kingdom. -Uni and his meeting with the royal family.
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“I remember that Prince Charles – at the time it was still Prince Charles – asked me if I was in [la trilogie] original. I told him: ‘No, I’m 18!’ But he was very friendly.”said the actress in the show Watch What Happens Live.
On the same set, Natalie Portman also confided that she was ready to reprise her role as Padmé in Star Wars if ever an opportunity presented itself, but that for the moment, no one had offered it to her yet. His experience on the Lucas prelogy seems in any case to have left him with beautiful memories:
“It was my first time working digitally. I don’t think anyone was shooting that way at the time. It was my first time working on green screen. There was a whole new set of skills to learn, and a new world to enter.”
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