--- title: Natalie Portman Hasn't Seen 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' description: "Believe this, I don't" - Yoda, probably. canonical: https://time.com/4196317/natalie-portman-still-hasnt-seen-star-wars-the-force-awakens/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-27T19:20:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:21.019Z og:title: Natalie Portman Hasn't Seen 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' og:description: Despite appearing in the prequel trilogy og:url: https://time.com/4196317/natalie-portman-still-hasnt-seen-star-wars-the-force-awakens/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt191acca923ede6f5/69887ace0b72e363766e7d58/natalie-portman-star-wars.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2016 New York Jewish Film Festival - "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" Closing Night Screening og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Natalie Portman Hasn't Seen 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' twitter:description: Despite appearing in the prequel trilogy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt191acca923ede6f5/69887ace0b72e363766e7d58/natalie-portman-star-wars.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Natalie Portman Still Hasn't Seen _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ by [Jodi Gulgiemi / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jodi Gulgiemi / People Jan 27, 2016 7:20 PM UTC  Actress Natalie Portman attends the 2016 New York Jewish Film Festival - "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" closing night screening at Walter Reade Theater on January 26, 2016 in New York City. Actress Natalie Portman attends the 2016 New York Jewish Film Festival - "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" closing night screening at Walter Reade Theater on January 26, 2016 in New York City.Jim Spellman—WireImage by [Jodi Gulgiemi / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jodi Gulgiemi / People Jan 27, 2016 7:20 PM UTC Apparently, The Force is not strong enough to get [Natalie Portman](http://www.people.com/people/natalie%5Fportman) to see _The Force Awakens_ yet. The actress – and [_Star Wars_](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,MediaProductsTax:StarWars,00.html)veteran – stopped by [_Good Morning America_](https://gma.yahoo.com/video/natalie-portman-takes-over-wild-125217342.html) on Wednesday, where she revealed that she has not yet watched the franchise’s newest film. “I haven’t been able to see it yet,” she said, adding that she’s only heard positive reviews about the film. “I’ve heard it’s amazing and it’s so nice that it’s sort of this continuing part of everyone’s shared cultural knowledge.” Portman, 34, famously starred as Naboo monarch Padmé Amidala, the mother of Luke and Leia, in the _Star Wars_ prequel trilogy, starting with _Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace_. But despite the success of the films, Portman said she struggled to land another serious movie role after the trilogy ended. “_Star Wars_ had come out around the time of _Seagull_, and everyone thought I was a horrible actress,” she told [_New York_ magazine](http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2014/mike-nichols/) in 2014\. “I was in the biggest-grossing movie of the decade, and no director wanted to work with me.” Portman reunites with two of her _Star Wars_ costars, [Joel Edgerton](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:JoelEdgerton,00.html) and [Ewan McGregor](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:EwanMcGregor,00.html), in her upcoming film _Jane Got a Gun_. “The three of us sort of had a reunion,” she said. “It was nice that we all had that familiarity to start off with.” _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/natalie-portman-has-not-seen-new-star-wars-movie) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4196317/natalie-portman-still-hasnt-seen-star-wars-the-force-awakens/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4196317/natalie-portman-still-hasnt-seen-star-wars-the-force-awakens/"},"headline":"Natalie Portman Still Hasn't Seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens","datePublished":"2016-01-27T19:20:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:21.019Z","description":"Despite appearing in the prequel trilogy","url":"https://time.com/4196317/natalie-portman-still-hasnt-seen-star-wars-the-force-awakens/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Star Wars topic","celebrity","natalie portman","star wars: the force awakens"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt191acca923ede6f5/69887ace0b72e363766e7d58/natalie-portman-star-wars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jodi Gulgiemi / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt191acca923ede6f5/69887ace0b72e363766e7d58/natalie-portman-star-wars.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 New York Jewish Film Festival - \"A Tale Of Love And Darkness\" Closing Night Screening","caption":"Actress Natalie Portman attends the 2016 New York Jewish Film Festival - \"A Tale Of Love And Darkness\" closing night screening at Walter Reade Theater on January 26, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Jim Spellman—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4196317/natalie-portman-still-hasnt-seen-star-wars-the-force-awakens/","name":"Natalie Portman Still Hasn't Seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens"}}]}] ```