I feel like this is a stupid question, but did audiences know that padme was Amidala?
I know they were promoted as seperate characters but surely people knew that they were played by the same actor.
Edit: Thinking about it more. The film doesn’t tell or show that Padme is Amidala until the reveal, but plenty of scenes and dialogues play out as if the audience knows.
On that note, did people (who hadn’t read the books… The name “Palpatine” wasn’t in the OT movies but it was in the books) know that Palpatine was the emperor before episode 3? I didn’t at first. And I only figured it out by looking at the back of the boxes and noticing it was the same actor that was in Rotj.
Yes I know it’s extremely obvious but I was a wee lad.
The back of the TPM VHS sleeve said that Senator Palpatine was the Emperor.