"Given Natalie Portman’s elegant demeanor, a turn in a period Jane Austen adaptation was inevitable.
Portman will star in and produce “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, a film that is based on the bestselling book written by Seth Grahame-Smith and Austen. Lionsgate will finance and distribute. Quirk Books published the tome.Though Austen’s name is on the book, Grahame-Smith took the liberty of adding bloodthirsty flesh-eating zombies to the mix.
Portman will produce through her handsomecharlie shingle with Annette Savitch, plus Darko Films’ Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick and Ted Hamm". Source: www.variety.com
Natalie Portman in "Vanity Fair" Italy magazine, December 2009.
Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams in "Greed", a fictional ad campaign for an imagined perfume, directed by Roman Polanski.Backstage at the 2009 Gotham Independent Film Awards, Scott Feinberg interviews Oscar nominee Natalie Portman about her GIFA career tribute and her new film "Brothers".
Natalie Portman and Tobey Maguire, Grace and Sam Cahill in "Brothers" (2009).
"When she was shooting her latest movie, Brothers, a Jim Sheridan-directed drama about the effects of the war in Afghanistan on an American soldier's family, she ate vegan because her costar Tobey Maguire brought his own vegan chef to the set. "I was like, 'Um, could you make two of those?'" She grins. "And I'd make a cute face, and they'd roll their eyes and give me another falafel."
If the Star Wars prom dress seems a startling reminder of how long the 28-year-old actress has been in the business (she first played the young Queen Padmé Amidala, Princess Leia's mother, in 1999), let's be clear: She's been in it much, much longer than that. When shooting began on The Professional, her rivetingly sleek first movie, she was 11. 
Portman keeps her personal life very private. Until recently, she was with the musician Devendra Banhart, but now proclaims herself to be single.
She doesn't spend her time with a posse of celebs; her closest circle of friends is still mostly made up of people from high school and college, plus a small core of women in L.A.
Mike Nichols, who directed her in Closer and in the 2001 Broadway production of The Seagull, says that as a result, Portman "has a very solid, generous center, even though for a little while she was at sea in a world of narcissists."
Portman shrugs: "OK, so I didn't really go to high school parties," she says, "and yeah, I didn't touch pot till I was in my 20s. I didn't get flat-out drunk until I went to college. But I think that's a good thing in many ways." Source: www.marieclaire.com
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