How did Natalie Portman escape the "Star wars prequels" curse?

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

I'm referring to the prequels only.

Point was there was NEVER a curse it was just choices made on the part of the actors that made or broke their careers. Hayden certainly wasn't typecast- he was a relative newcomer and simply didn't take roles that were memorable enough (or good enough) to matter. Portman did. So it's no more a curse than there was in the original films.