--- title: Natalie Portman on Not Showing Star Wars to Her Son Kimmel description: Natalie Portman may have played a main character in the Star Wars prequels, but she has never shown her son the famous trilogy. canonical: https://time.com/4472919/natalie-portman-star-wars-son/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-30T19:25:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:01.720Z og:title: Natalie Portman Explains Why Her Son Hasn't Seen Star Wars og:description: Even though she had a starring role og:url: https://time.com/4472919/natalie-portman-star-wars-son/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Natalie Portman Explains Why Her Son Hasn't Seen Star Wars twitter:description: Even though she had a starring role twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Natalie Portman Has a Good Explanation for Why Her Son Hasn't Seen _Star Wars_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 30, 2016 7:25 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 30, 2016 7:25 PM UTC [Natalie Portman](http://time.com/4197885/natalie-portman-fallon-lyrics/) may have played a main character in the [_Star Wars_ prequels](http://time.com/4143743/star-wars-fans-react-to-the-premiere-of-the-phantom-menace/), but during an episode of [_Jimmy Kimmel Live!_](http://time.com/4423798/matt-damon-and-jimmy-kimmel-make-some-real-progress-in-couples-therapy-again/), she revealed that she has never shown her son the famous trilogy. In a clip from Monday’s installment of the late night show, the 35-year-old actress — who starred as Padmé Amidala in the space fantasy saga — tells Kimmel that she made the movies picturing how fun it would be to watch them with her future kids, but thanks to Padmé’s fate, ended up changing her mind. “It’s kind of a shame,” she says. “You know, when I made it, I was like, ‘This is going to be the coolest thing. One day when I have kids, I can show them.’ And boys, of course, are obsessed with it and know all about it before they’ve seen it. \[But\] I realized, I die in the movies. I feel like it’s kind of a scary thing to show your kid.” “You can’t show him _Black Swan_ either I guess,” Kimmel jokes. **Quiz**: [_Are You Ready for Back to School?_](http://time.com/4457305/back-to-school-quiz/) Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4472919/natalie-portman-star-wars-son/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4472919/natalie-portman-star-wars-son/"},"headline":"Natalie Portman Has a Good Explanation for Why Her Son Hasn't Seen Star Wars","datePublished":"2016-08-30T19:25:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:01.720Z","description":"Even though she had a starring role","url":"https://time.com/4472919/natalie-portman-star-wars-son/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","movies","Star Wars topic","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","natalie portman"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"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/4472919/natalie-portman-star-wars-son/","name":"Natalie Portman Has a Good Explanation for Why Her Son Hasn't Seen Star Wars"}}]}] ```