Earlier than she performed Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Natalie Portman was already a longtime star due to her roles in Léon: The Skilled, Warmth, and Mars Assaults!. The prequel trilogy definitely helped launch Portman’s profession to the subsequent degree and there aren’t many who don’t acknowledge her as Padmé, besides maybe for Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi.
Natalie Portman returned to play Jane Foster in Thor: Love and Thunder and as we all know, Taika Waititi can also be creating a Star Wars film for Lucasfilm. Whereas talking with Rolling Stone, Waititi confessed that he momentarily forgot that Natalie Portman had starred in a whole Star Wars trilogy.
Natalie mentioned to me, what do you do subsequent? And I mentioned “I’m making an attempt to work on a Star Wars factor. Have you ever ever wished to be in a Star Wars film?” She mentioned, “I’ve been in Star Wars films.” I forgot about these ones. [Laughs]
It occurs to the perfect of us. As for Natalie Portman’s involvement within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s been fairly a while since her final main look in Thor: The Darkish World. Taika Waititi defined that Portman was lastly introduced again as a consequence of followers desirous to see her character once more. “It simply appeared like the proper alternative, as a result of the character was so nice within the Jason Aaron run of Thor. Kevin [Feige] was already like, ‘I’d like to try to work out a solution to convey Mighty Thor into this movie and produce Natalie again,’” Waititi added. “It didn’t take a lot convincing. She had by no means heard of that run of the comedian, so I simply dropped off some comics for her…. Anytime you ask, how did we solid so-and-so? We supplied them hundreds of thousands of {dollars} they usually mentioned sure!“
Thor: Love and Thunder will hit theaters on July eighth, so remember to try a overview from our personal Chris Bumbray proper right here!
