Apparently, people keep asking her about the diaper...
, Portman plays astronaut Lucy Cola. The character is based on Nowak, a former robotics specialist who traveled into space in 2006 to work on the International Space Station. Loosely mirroring Nowak’s own affair with William Oefelein, Cola becomes involved withMark Goodwin , but her life is further upended after Goodwin starts up a relationship with another woman.
Here’s the real-life version of what happened next. After her relationship with Oefelein ended, Nowak drove from Houston to Orlando to confront Oefelein’s new girlfriend, U.S. Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman. NowakThe New York Times . She was also prepared for other challenges: Nowak reportedly wore a diaper, as Portman said, presumably so as to not be slowed down by bathroom breaks. Nowak was later arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping and murder.
Portman’s depiction of Nowak as Cola apparently stays true to the kidnapping plot, sans diaper — and while that has caused
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