https://screenrant.com/star-wars-natalie-portman-return-not-asked/
Natalie Portman has addressed a potential Star Wars comeback as Padmé Amidala, revealing that no one at Lucasfilm has ever asked her to return.
Considering what kind of a bitch is running the joint, and the fact that Nat has been avoiding sci-fi films like the plague ever since 2005, it doesn't surprise me that she hasn't come back.
share THREE THOR FILMS. (2011...2013...2022)
ANNIHILATION (2018)
LUCY IN THE SKY (2019)
MISSED THOSE ONES,HUH?...YOU ARE NOT VERY KNOWLEDGABLE ON FILMS.
She doesn't have the 20 year old body anymore.
shareKathleen Kennedy sees her as a threat to Rey, who is the ultimate power in the universe according to KK.
shareShe will be asked to play the role of aunt May when she reaches old age. Right now she is too old to star in superhero movies, and too young to play the mother roles. Also, I think the lack of more Oscars made her not that big a star. Lastly, she simply chooses her projects with less flair than Charlize Theron, Scarlett Johansson and other even older and more decorated actresses. She doesn't have the physique to do action scenes.
shareI don't get the point of her character getting her own show or being used at all. Her story was already told in the prequels (though not in the way I would've liked it, stupid Jedis can't be married bullcrap).
shareshe should have returned as a ghost visiting young leia on the obiwan kenobi show.
shareBut Padme wasn't a Force user, how does a Forceless person become One With the Force?
And why the hell would she want to be reunited with Anakin in the afterlife, anyway.
maybe it would be the other way around then, leia sees her in her visions. didn't she say something like that in rotj?
shareNah, she said that she remembered her mother but they were just glimpses of memories, and that she remembered her being very sad. Luke was the one that said the force was strong in his family and that his father had it, his mother had it, he has it and... his sister has it. George retconned the hell out of all of that.
sharetechnically, everyone who dies "becomes one with the Force"
it's being able to create a body and a voice that you are asking about
sorry for the nitpicking!
Padme is DEAD, how can a CORPSE return???
in STAR WARS.... seriously? lol
shareEveryone seems to be assuming a Natalie Portman return MUST mean she’d be playing Padme Amidala again.
An obvious supporting or cameo role for her would be to play a family Elder on Naboo in a story of the emergence of the young (recast) Queen Amidala, on what is essentially a political career, and it would focus on her interactions with Sheev Palpatine, the Gungans, and early disputes with the Trade Federation chinks.
This direction is designed for the Disney-audience similar to how the young-Leia was recently incorporated in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series to give the kiddies an anchor character to identify with.
Couple of possible factors.
First, she really didn't seem to like the Star Wars movies she was in for a long time. Whether that was true or not, she kind of gave off the vibe that she was too good of any actress to be in those movies, and she didn't want that to be the first thing people remember her for. If that were true, it seems like her attitude about it has changed over the past decade. Maybe having had a long successful career after SW, and having won her Oscar's made her more comfortable looking back at those movies with fond memories. Or now she has seen how much those movies mean to people and appreciates how special it was to be a part of them. And most of still receiving residual checks from movies from 20 years ago might soften your opinion on them.
Second, what would her character do? Her character died young and isn't with the Force. Maybe if they wanted to focus on her during the Clone Wars, but what would there be to tell, that the show didn't already cover?
It really seems like she had a lot of fun making the last Thor movie. Maybe she has learned that not every movie has to have a dour tone to it, and just because it's not going to win Oscar's doesn't mean it can't be well done and a success in its own right.