Few moments at this week’s Lumière Film Festival drew as much fervor as Natalie Portman’s masterclass. As one of this year’s guests of honor, the Oscar-winning actor held the packed Pathé Bellecour theater spellbound – poised, luminous and down-to-earth – with queues outside snaking for dozens of meters from those hoping for a last-minute seat.
Over the course of the talk, she reflected on a career that has moved with ease between studio blockbusters and intimate auteur films, explaining that she founded her own production company “to create the movies that I want to see in the world, that I want to participate in.”
“I didn’t grow up with much of a cinematic knowledge or appreciation,” she admitted with a laugh. “I was really seeing kind of mainstream movies. I grew up with “The Lion King,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Dirty Dancing,” “Pretty Woman”… It was only after I started…
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