^ Yeah, I mean, those 1930s/1940s actors were trained to enunciate in that style. When Natalie Portman does it in her bland modern American accent it just sounds horrible. She sounds like people I went to school with struggling badly with a school play. (I’m also from Long Island.) I’ve heard that the Prequels are a lot easier on the ears for people who don’t speak English as a first language. But Natalie Portman is a fantastic actress in other films, so clearly she wasn’t receiving any direction here and Lucas obviously saw nothing wrong with her performance or he just didn’t care.