'STAR WARS': NATALIE PORTMAN REMEMBER HOW THE CRITICS OF 'THE PHANTOM MENACE' LIVED
On the twentieth anniversary of the premiere of 'Star Wars: Episode I', and taking advantage of the fact that it is May 4, the day of Star Wars, the protagonist of the story during the first trilogy, Natalie Portman, wanted to remember how bad things affected her criticism that the long-awaited blockbuster garnered - and which was later followed by 'Attack of the Clones' and 'Revenge of the Sith'.
And it is that for the actress who played Padmé Amidala in the trilogy directed by George Lucas between 1999 and 2005, it was not easy to deal with the bad comments and the fraud that the arrival of these prequels meant for many followers.
Portman has confessed that she was really frustrated with the negative reactions from the public. "It was hard, a big blow, a disappointment because people went from being very excited about the new movies to being disappointed," the actress, who was only 17 when she joined the Star Wars cast, told Empire: "Al being so young I didn't get to understand the nature of the beast, but then I understood that something so, so anticipated could only lead to disappointment".
Now, two decades later, the films have aged and the actress sees it from a different, more positive perspective: "Over time it has been re-evaluated by many people who now love it and think they are the best films."
End of a stage
On this twentieth anniversary of 'The Phantom Menace' another great event is yet to come. The Rise of Skywalker opens on December 20. The third film of the current trilogy, directed by J. J. Abrams, will be the finishing touch to all the stories that the Star Wars fandom has been learning about over the years so far.
As the director himself recently explained, 'The rise of Skywalker' is not only the end of three films, but nine. It's no small feat, the Skywalker saga will come to an end after 40 years.
The upcoming release has promised to "incorporate the stories that have come before. This is the story of the film"; Well, hopefully with it the definitive peace between past and intergalactic present will be established.
