Another fun column from Adam at Jedi News focuses on casting the parents of Luke and Leia and making the family connection believable:
Often in fiction, especially fiction aimed at younger audiences, when two characters have a son and a daughter together the children will end up being carbon copies of the same-gendered parent. Lucas was smart in that it seems this is where it’s heading when we first meet Anakin and Padmé in The Phantom Menace, but as Clones and Sith went on you could really see how mixed – and sometimes opposite – the twins would turn out.
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January 24, 2013 at 9:15 pm |
I agree, Adam. George did a great job of casting retroactively, so to speak. Although Leia may have more of her father’s personality at times, I really think Carrie/Leia has that family resemblance to Natalie/Padmé. It’s in AotC where you see the feisty Padmé. I see a parallel in TPM and RotS requiring Padmé/Amidala to get things accomplished not so much with physical action but with brain power. However it was Padmé who first suspected Dooku.. so she was always thinking. Just as she was in TPM – she actually listened to Jar Jar when he talked about the hidden army on Naboo, “We are warriors” – and when Qui Gon said he and Obi-Wan could not interfere, Padmé knew who would…. “Jar Jar – I need your help”
January 25, 2013 at 6:29 am |
I still think Leia got Ani’s nose.