Natalie Portman goes into Directing
Eventually, that’s what many stars dream of doing — to get into directing. We’ve seen a lot of actors turned directors in recent years. Some have had quite a success at their new career, while others are better off seen and heard in front of the camera.
The latest among actors who have desires of going into directing is the young and lovely Natalie Portman, who first tried her hand at working behind the scenes vi the short film Eve starring Lauren Becall. It was shown to lukewarm reviews at the Venice International Film Festival. She also served as writer to the short film and from the experience Natalie says —- “The film was definitely inspired by personal experience and also all my friends, female friends, starting to define themselves in relation, and in reaction to, their mothers and their grandmothers. When you are an actor, of course you are creating something, but you are serving someone else’s vision and ultimately it’s someone else’s creation.To have authorship… feels like a more adult job.”
Next up is New York, I Love You, the adaptation of the French movie, Paris, Je T’aime. While there are a dozen of directors at the helm for this film, Natalie also gets extra credit as writer and is also starring in it. She is also is slated to make her first big full-length directorial debut via A Tale of Love And Darkness. The movie is based on the book by Amos Oz, the famous Israeli author, and it is about his life growing up in turbulent Jerusalem.
From these choices of projects, one can say that Natalie is picking work that will eventually have the world looking at her as a serious director. A grown-up job it truly is. Of her recent dabbling into directing, Natalie says in an interview that she now has a “whole new respect” for every director out there.
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