There’s even too many “Star Wars” movies for Taika Waititi to keep straight.The Oscar-winning writer-director is gearing up to helm his own franchise installment, but seemed, perhaps in jest, to have overlooked “Thor-Love-and-Thunder-2022-movie-posters/”>Thor: Love and Thunder” star Natalie Portman’s pivotal role in the prequel films.After wrapping the third “Thor” film with Portman reprising her character Jane Foster, Waititi asked if she’d be willing to star in his “Star Wars” movie… you know, after she famously portrayed Princess Leia’s mother Padmé Amidala in “The Phantom Menace,” “Attack of the Clones,” and “Revenge of the Sith.”“Natalie said to me, ‘What do you do next?’ And I said, ‘I’m trying to work on a ‘Star Wars’ thing.
Have you ever wanted to be in a ‘Star Wars’ movie?’” Waititi told Rolling Stone.
“She said, ‘I’ve been in ‘Star Wars’ movies.’”Waititi said with a laugh,
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