Yeah it was awesome. She's great in Beautiful girls as well. She's by no means a bad actress, anymore then SLJ is a bad actor. They just suck in SW for some reason. With portman I can kind of understand because she never even saw the OT before she took the part and has a best moderate interest in working on these films. But SLJ is a huge SW fan so I just don't get it, of course it doesn't help that Mace and Padme are probably the two worst written characters in the PT, there's really no place for them to go with the material, Padme is completely inconsistent in her motives and behavior from scene to scene, and Mace is about as one dimensional as they come, from what i can tell his two basic functions are to give Yoda someone to talk to, and to be the most important Jedi to die.