Sunday 1 August 2010

BEHIND THE SCENES IMAGE: HAT HUMOUR!


At FOX STUDIOS Australia in 2003, Natalie Portman has fun with costume designer Trisha Biggar whilst trying on a hat-part of a costume for her Delegation of 2000 meeting scene with Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). The eventual peacock-like costume she wears, with dreadlock-style hair, is a brilliant and distinctive creation, and involved in lots of promotional work for REVENGE OF THE SITH (including Drew Struzan's strangely disappointing poster art), as well as lots of promotional/costume reference photos (with a classic spread image in VANITY FAIR, shot by Annie Leibovitz), but the filmed tense scene itself is sadly cut from the film, and not seen by STAR WARS fans until the eventual 2005 DVD release.

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