This has probably been covered before but was Natalie Portman’s voice pitch shifted to be lower in her scenes as the queen in TPM? I’ve always suspected that was the case but watching some trailers and featurettes (where her voice is noticeably higher) got me thinking it might actually be.
Yeah, I think both Queen-Natalie and Kiera Knightley’s voice were both deepened.
This brings up another question I’ve always had, am I crazy or is Sabe’s voice just Natalie also, but with a slightly different accent?
I do think a few edits have tried fixing this. This video is an example of an attempt at correcting her voice (I think they have another video for Kiera)
Probably not far enough, look at this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo--sWDK_nU
I was just thinking about this the other day when TPM was on TNT. I really think making her voice deeper made it harder to relate to Padmé. It just sounds so strange to me, I don’t know.
Between the voice deepening, the accent, and the fact that Amidala and Padme are treated as separate characters until the third act makes it really hard to follow the character in that movie honestly.