Portman gets her ‘revenge’ at Cannes

LOOKING less like her character Princess Amidala and more like Sinéad O’Connor, Natalie Portman’s shorn tresses stole the show at yesterday’s special screening in Cannes of the third and final film in the Star Wars saga.

The youthful Obi-Wan Kenobi in the shape of Ewan McGregor was missing from the Cannes line-up of his Star Wars colleagues, although Portman, Hayden Christensen, Samuel L Jackson and George Lucas himself were on hand for the screening of Revenge of the Sith, which rolls out globally this week.

At a news conference, Lucas acknowledged the political allegories of the saga, which could have contemporary resonance although he wrote it at the time of the Nixon era.