Natalie Portman is known as a beautiful and intellegent woman, actress and Oscar winner but did you know she also works behind the camera?
Though the credits are small Natalie has started to venture into the production side of film besides dazzling us with her acting skills. Her first venture was a short, Eve a short film that starred Lauren Bacall and Olivia Thirlby which she directed and wrote. Then she took did a repeat performance as writer/director in one of the segments of the film New York I Love which was about a father dealing with the having only a small amount of time to spend with his daughter and the fact that people assume he is her "manny".
Besides directing and writing Portman has begun to produce films with a company that she created called HandsomeCharlie Films. Besides Eve being her first film that she write and directed it was also the first film that she produced with her company. Next came the film The Other Woman that was filmed in 2008, selected for the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009 and released into the international market in 2010 but did not see a domestic audience until just this year. She went on to produce Hesher which was released today and No Strings Attached that was released earlier this year, in which she also co-starred in both.
I myself may have never heard about Portman's production company and not completely noticed her producing efforts if it weren't for a recent interview conducted with Portman's Hesher co-star Joseph Gordon Levitt with PopSugar. He mentioned how much he has admired Portman since he saw The Professional. Also he was grateful for her supporting the project (Hesher) when she could back any project that she likes with her name and stature in the industry.
So I hope to see a lot of great projects coming our way as of her production company.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's PopSugar interview.
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