Natalie Portman Avoids Heights
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Natalie Portman can't make time for another torturous period romance after all.
Despite being an early champion of the project, the Other Boleyn Girl star has had to drop out of an upcoming adaption of Emily Brontë's haunting classic Wuthering Heights because of a scheduling conflict, a rep for Portman confirms to E! News.
There's no word on who might fill Cathy's headstrong shoes now, but German-born thesp Michael Fassbender is reportedly in final negotiations to play Heathcliff and cameras are still set to roll this fall, with Brit John Maybury directing.
The film keeping Portman from tromping around the moors is as yet unannounced, but we do know that the almost-27-year-old has the Jim Sheridan drama Brothers, costarring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, coming up, as well as the vignette-driven New York, I Love You, an American answer to last year's Paris, je t'aime.
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6 Comments
josie Fri, May 9, 2008 5:14 PM
pffft **
Reportelle Fri, May 9, 2008 5:39 PM
she looks absolutely stunning, i like her movies and cant wait to see more of them!! i wonder who her celebrity friends are! like who she hangs out with and stuff. Do you think she hangs out with kimora or heidi klum or anyone like that?
Reportonesided Fri, May 9, 2008 11:29 PM
Smart, beautiful, talented and rich. It must be wonderful.
Reportoldnewbie Sat, May 10, 2008 6:56 AM
From what I had read, She shys away from the Hollywood crowd and spends her down time far far away in Israel. There she sheds her movie name (Natalie Portman is not her real name) and she lives life as an ordinary person.
ReportWinifred Sat, May 10, 2008 12:54 PM
You probably also should note that Brothers is a Susanne Bier film * originally known as Brødre.
Reportnicolek Sun, May 11, 2008 8:14 AM
Please cast someone British in this adaptation of a classic British novel! It's very rare to find actresses who can pull off the accent as well as Gwyneth, Reese or Renee and they can only do the sterotypical posh accent. The Yorkshire accent is tricky. I just can't bear to see it ruined again after the travesty of Juliet Binoche playing Cathy with a French accent the last time.
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