How well do you know Natalie Portman?
, a drama in which she also stars. The production is based on Amos Oz’s international best-selling memoir by the same name. But for her part, Portman finds her own autobiography somewhat tedious. “I get really bored reading about myself,”. “Really nice, good parents. I grew up really well. Happy.” We, however, take great heed in revisiting Portman’s past, and on the occasion of her directorial foray, have been gathering a few of our favorite fun facts about the actress turned director.
1. Natalie Portman was discovered at the age of 9 when a scout for Revlon approached her in a pizza parlor and asked her if she would be interested in modeling. “No, but I would like an agent,” was Portman’s response. “I kept my cool,” . “I told him that I wanted to act.” At that time, Portman had already begun to push for a childhood career in Hollywood and citesas one of her earliest influences. “That was my movie growing up,” she has said. Portman landed her first film, Luc Besson’s, just two years later. “I went into that film and I didn’t know what I was doing—but I was 11, and it was before the whole preteen self-doubt set in,” Portman said.
. “I wasn't actually allowed to inhale. My dad would have people standing behind me, blowing the smoke out.” because it included a love scene with actor Corbin Allred that required nudity. But Susan Sarandon, who had costar approval, refused to do the film opposite anyone other than Portman. “Natalie was cast for her intelligence and strength,” Sarandon. “I needed someone I could go at full force who could hold her own.
3. Portman, who in 2003 graduated from Harvard University with a degree in psychology, has always been something of a bookworm, and in high school was voted “Most Likely to Appear on,” which she later claimed was “code for nerdy.” Recalling her pre–Ivy League education: “I went to public school in Long Island. The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. People didn’t pay much attention to the fact that I was an actress.
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