Natalie Portman: Why My Son Aleph Won’t See My ‘Star Wars’ Prequels

While the actress didn’t say whether her family had seen the newest Star Wars film, Natalie did confess her son knew about the franchise.

Natalie Portman is hesitant to have her boy see her in a galaxy far, far away. It turns out she has a pretty good reason for not showing her children the prequel trilogy, and it has nothing to do with Anakin’s bad “I hate sand” speech.

“He [hasn’t seen], but he knows about it, of course”, the Oscar victor, 35, told host Kimmel, 48, on Thursday, August 25. In fact, she wants to show the prequels to her son. Looking back, we all know the prequels are now a bit cringeworthy to watch but a necessary backstory to the Star Wars universe. If her son has already seen some Star Wars films, then he could be watching the films as many die-hard fans did decades ago, starting with original trilogy.

That was the bombshell Portman dropped when she appeared last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live. You know, when I made it, I was like, ‘This is going to be the coolest thing. Here’s here’s hoping she can also offer a good explanation why her character died of a broken heart and orphaned her children to grow up not knowing their deadbeat dad was Darth Vader. [But] I realized, I die in the movies.

Once Portman’s son does see Episodes I through III, he’ll likely be bragging about how his mom is not only the mother of Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, but the grandmother of The Force Awakens baddie Kylo Ren.