Star Wars: Natalie Portman Shares Promising Response About Potential Return

After Padmé Amidala's passing in Episode III, would Natalie Portman ever return to a the Star Wars franchise?

May 21, 2023 · 2 min · 224 words · Justin Evans DVM

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The actress stated that shed be game to make a return:

“I have no information on this.

No one’s ever asked me to return, but I’m open to it.

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 afterwards, he said in some interview, that he like, was cringing afterwards.”

Natalie Portman as Padme poster, Revenge of the Sith

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