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4. Vinette Robinson Finally Gets Her Star Wars Moment
An audition for a series as well known and undoubtedly epic as Star Wars can be a pretty daunting task for even the most seasoned of thespian. So then add into that mix the little addition of said audition for a part in the galaxy far, far away being your first-ever meeting for a character and you can imagine why Sherlock star Vinette Robinson was a touch nervous heading into her Phantom Menace audition.
At the age of just 13-years-old when auditioning for the part of Padme Amidala, Robinson would confess that at the time:
"I didn’t know what to do and I was really nervous and I felt like I had to talk really proper, like I tried to talk properly (and) sit up really straight.”
It turns out that all the sitting up and posh accents in the world couldn't bag the Yorkshire-born youngster the part of Luke and Leia's mother in the end.
However, the actor would finally get her moment in the two suns later down the road, appearing in The Rise of Skywalker as Pilot Wrobie Tyce, a character seen forming one half of the first-ever on-screen Star Wars LGBTQ+ kiss.