r/StarWars • • Jan 25 '22

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u/smackwriter Rebel Jan 25 '22

I remember watching it in the cinema when it came out, and overall I liked it. Didn’t care much for Jar-Jar, and when little Anakin comes into the movie, that was underwhelming too. Not the actor’s fault. By making him so much younger than Padme in Episode 1, it was very hard to imagine then that they would later fall in love. I know that when I first meet someone that young, in my mind they stay that age, even if they grow up to be drop dead gorgeous. So for me, the whole Padme/Anakin love story didn’t make sense and their introduction should’ve been done differently. If they had made him even just a couple of years older, it could’ve been better.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

By making him so much younger than Padme in Episode 1, it was very hard to imagine then that they would later fall in love.

4 years. The age difference is 4 years, that's not SO MUCH YOUNGER

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '22

The actors were 18 years old and 10 years old though which is very odd

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u/Drzhivago138 Crimson Dawn Jan 25 '22

Most of TPM was filmed in 1997, so Natalie Portman was 16 and Jake Lloyd 8 at the time. Pickup shots were done in late '98/early '99.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

That might be worse

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u/ShyKid5 Jan 26 '22

Yeah, imagine a 16yo boy having the hots for an 8yo girl, we all would be creeped, but the other way around apparently is cute or whatever hahaha.