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Featuring information about the Queen Amidala Padme character from Star Wars Episode 1 i One The Phantom Menace as revealed by genius mastermind George Lucas

George Lucas speaks about Queen Amidala Padme as featured in The Phantom Menace:

"The old Star Wars films are very vague about what happens before A New Hope. I planned it that way specifically because I didn't know exactly what I would be doing with the story for the Star Wars prequel trilogy. One of the characters we couldn't really explore in the old movies is the biological mother of Luke and Leia Skywalker.

Luke and Leia's mother is not mentioned by name in the old films because her character name didn't exist at the time I completed Return of the Jedi.

Whenever I got involved in the back story of a character like Darth Vader, it always turned out to be a mistake. Obi-Wan reveals details about Anakin Skywalker to Luke in the first Star Wars, which turns out to really be false after what is revealed at the end of The Empire Strikes Back.

That's why The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi don't have any secret revelations about the prequel era. Qui-Gon Jinn, Mace Windu, Jar Jar Binks, Count Dooku and Darth Maul to name a few aren't mentioned in the old films because those characters didn't exist until after I started writing the script for The Phantom Menace in 1995.

If I had made references to prequel era characters in the old films, then I would be essentially trapped. Such a character would have to be in the Star Wars prequels out of necessity.

It's impossible to plan a screenplay decades in advance. There is no master plan. I enjoy making up Star Wars as I go along with no careful planning.

The old films focus on Anakin, Luke and Leia while the new ones are about Anakin, Padme and Obi-Wan. It's really the story of Anakin. His rise, fall and ultimate redemption.

Padme is integral to the plot because she is the most important person in Anakin's entire life. However, she has to have a tragic fate in Revenge of the Sith because if she hadn't perished Darth Vader would have spent every waking moment trying to locate her if Padme had gone into hidden exile.

It was best to end Padme in the prequels so the audience can understand why Vader won't allow Darth Sidious to destroy Luke. In the end, Anakin's eternal love and devotion to Padme saves Luke." (Source: George Lucas, the unparalleled gigantic intellect behind Star Wars.)

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