It must have been in the actors' brief - 'pretend you can't act, or in the case of those REALLY can't act (Hayden), just be yourself :wink: '
When Shatdom Menace was on TV the other day i was gob smacked by how crap Natalie Portman is playing Queen Amidala. What's with that ****ing stupid monotone robot voice! :| I figured that she may be even more annoying than Jar Jar Binks ...and that's saying something :roll:
Yeah she was pretty naff. Even Darth Maul was shite... so much promise before the movie came out of a cool evil character, but the sad reality was that he was really quite dull :roll: