Head to Head with Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman has probably populated more fanboy fantasies than anyone this side of Jessica Alba.
Besides presiding over the recent `Star Wars’ films as Queen Amidala, she plays a bald, beautiful and badass revolutionary in “V For Vendetta,” the latest film from Matrix masterminds Andy and Larry Wachowski.
As the missing link between the universes of George Lucas and the Wachowski Brothers, Portman holds an unique place in geek-movie history.
“Yes, they’re all somehow linked now,” she says. “It’s sort of hard to put a genre label on `V For Vendetta’ but it fits in the action category with `Star Wars’ even though it’s a little bit more provocative, I would say.
“But I will leave it to all the people who love to write essays about this kind of stuff to make `Matrix’ and `V’ connections and `Star Wars’ and `V’ connections. There’s certainly plenty to discuss.” (more…)
