The only actor who intimidated Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman has been around long enough to avoid being overawed by her more established and illustrious co-stars, with one exception.
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Film » Cutting Room Floor
Fri 17 January 2025 19:45, UK
With an acting career that stretches back 30 years and began when she was still a child, working with so many legends and superstars of stage and screen at such an early age ensured Natalie Portman became familiar with working closely with Hollywood’s biggest names at an early age.
By the time she’d even left her teenage years, Portman had shared scenes with Gary Oldman in Luc Besson’s thunderous Leon: The Professional, been a part of Michael Mann’s stacked Heat ensemble alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, worked with an even more star-studded cast on Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks!, and played the female lead in Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, in what was the most hotly anticipated blockbuster in history at the time.
Since then Portman has gone from strength to strength, notching three Academy Award nominations and winning ‘Best Actress’ for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan while continuing to rub shoulders with the industry’s most illustrious figures, a list that includes Anthony Minghella, Mike Nichols, Julia Roberts, Wes Anderson, Dustin Hoffman, and Terrence Malick to offer up just a few.
It’s acceptable to think that somebody as experienced as Portman, never mind someone who’s sparred with plenty of the greats on either side of the camera, is long past the intimidation face. However, there are always exceptions to the rule, and for her, it came under the sort of circumstances nobody would have expected.
A Marvel Studios movie doesn’t jump out as the sort of place where one of the best actors of their generation would find themselves stricken with nerves by the daunting prospect of working with a living legend, especially when their interactions were virtually nonexistent onscreen. And yet, Thor and its sequel, The Dark World, left her tongue-tied in the mere presence of Anthony Hopkins.
“I was completely intimidated,” she said to The Telegraph. “I kept messing up my lines around him because I was so nervous, and he was so sweet about it. He made me feel at ease. He’d be like, ‘That’s a really hard line to say’, and I’d be like, ‘No, I just can’t get it out’. Your jaw drops on the floor watching him. He’s just… Man.”
Portman may have flapped when standing opposite Hopkins, but he probably couldn’t have cared less. After all, the two-time Oscar winner admitted that his first thought when perusing the screenplay for Kenneth Branagh’s opening instalment was that it required him to do precisely zero actual acting, with his contributions limited to sitting in front of a green screen and spouting some faux-Shakespearean dialogue.
Those were his words, which did Thor a major disservice in the long run after Hopkins confessed that the film reignited his passion for his profession, having grown too comfortable and borderline lazy for his liking. He wasn’t even interested in the material, which was still more than enough to leave Portman starstruck.
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