The death of Princess Padme Amidala, played by Natalie Portman, is the event that triggers the base story of Star Wars. Without this situation, perhaps there would not have been a Darth Vader and the upbringing of Luke and Leia would have been very different.
Now imagine for a moment that there never was such a death, and that Padme was hiding all this time running from the monster that her lover, Anakin Skywalker, became.
That, in case you don’t remember, was raised in a comic distributed by marvel comicsin 2020, which tells the story of Darth Vader and which has the blessing of Lucas Film. So this is an element with which one could think about the return of Natalie Portman to this brutal role that she played in the first three prequels of the original universe of Star Wars.
How come Padme Amidala is alive? The comic written by Greg Pak and Raffaele Ienco tells the story of what happens after the events of The Empire Strikes Back. The creators of this story relate that after Luke’s refusal to join the dark side, Darth Vader set himself the goal of eliminating those who had turned his son into a weak person.
In this way, Vader begins to visit the places where he was with Padme, such as Tatooine and Coruscant. In search of him. Anakin tracks down a surveillance device and to his surprise he meets his old love.
Padme Amidala survived and somehow kept herself hidden, just like what was left of the Jedi Order did Luke and Leia.
Can Natalie Portman return?
The 41-year-old actress has recently been under the spotlight of the seventh art for her brilliant participation in May December, which debuted to good reviews at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. In the midst of interviews related to this film, she was asked about the possibility of a return to the Star Wars universe.
And although she said that she has not been formally invited to anything, she said – to the excitement and madness of the fans – that she is completely “open to it”.