Taika Waititi Slipped Up While Talking To Natalie Portman About Star Wars

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Taika Waititi, director of Thor: Love and Thunder,recently revealed that he slipped up big time when discussing Star Wars with actress Natalie Portman, who plays Jane Foster in the upcoming Marvel Studios film.

Before Thor: Love and Thunder, Portman starred in all three chapters of George Lucas' often divisive Star Wars prequel trilogy. She played the character Padmé Amidala, the sovereign Queen of the Naboo who would go on to represent her planet and people in the Galactic Senate. She was also the primary love interest of a young Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) before he become Darth Vader. Tragically, Padmé died in the third prequel movie, Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, after Anakin turned to the dark side of the force, but not before she gave birth to their twin children, Luke and Leia.

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In an interview with Rolling Stone Waititi revealed that during the production of Thor: Love Thunder, the Kiwi filmmaker asked Portman about potentially working together again. In the interview, Waititi explains, «She said to me, 'What are you up to next?' I said, 'Oh, I'm trying to work on a Star Wars thing. Have you ever wanted to be in a Star Wars movie?'» According to Waititi, he forgot about Portman's role in the prequel trilogy, and after Portman explained that she'd already been in a Star Wars movie, the director quickly replied, "…should we do another take?'"

While it's pretty funny that Waititi forgot about Portman's role in the prequel trilogy, it certainly speaks to the amount of time that's passed since those films came out, and to the often diminished role that Padmé plays. It's hard to believe but the Star Wars prequels came out over