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Actor Natalie Portman has a piece of advice for kids who are willing to enter the entertainment industry. She said she would "not encourage" young people to enter the glam world, reported People. During an episode of Variety`s Awards Circuit Podcast, the Oscar winner, 42, told the outlet that it was "an accident of luck" that she was not harmed as a young actress, adding that she would not advise kids to enter the industry. "I would not encourage young people to go into this," Portman, who shares two children -- son…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWhat on earth would make a woman in her mid-thirties have an affair with a teenage boy? This is the question asked in Todd Haynes’s May December, the latest of the filmmaker’s torrid, probing melodramas. It has a plot that could come straight from a prurient TV soap opera, but Haynes – best known for films such as Far from Heaven (2002) and Carol (2015) – comes at his material with an…

Dame Deborah James charity single to be released by Natalie Rushdie ( Photo Credit – Bang Showbiz ) Natalie Rushdie is honouring the late Dame Deborah James by releasing a charity single, with 100 per cent of the proceeds going to the Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK. Deborah’s friend and jazz singer Natalie sang ‘Tell Me It’s Not True’ at the late star’s funeral a year ago, and now to honour a request of Deborah’s family, she is releasing the iconic ‘Blood Brothers’ musical track on Monday (03.07.23). Natalie…

It’s not yet noon in Portland when Natalie Morales repairs to a modest Airbnb and plops on to a couch next to a deep-slumbering lap hound named Taco, a very good dog. Morales is filming a feature about veterans with PTSD that’s only pressing on through the writers’ strike because it’s an independent film. Its small budget and tight schedule has Morales on call six days a week. But intense work schedules are nothing new for the 38-year-old multi-hyphenate dark comedy queen, whose deadpan acting credits run from Parks and…

In The Bawk-Ness Monster by Sara Goetter & Natalie Riess, the first book in the Cryptid Kids series, Penny and her best friends Luc and K are hunting down the half-chicken, half-serpent the Bawk-Ness Monster! Will the crew be able to locate the cryptid? The Bawk-Ness Monster will be available at your local bookstore and/or public library beginning on June 27th, 2023. In the meantime, check out this Q&A with Goetter & Riess, and be sure and read the preview pages included at the bottom of the article. What…

Natalie Portman battles to save marriage after husband ‘cheats with 25-yr-old’ ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) The ‘Black Swan’ star Natalie Portman is battling to salvage her marriage which has been rocked by allegations that her husband, Benjamin Millepied, has cheated on her with a younger woman. The 41-year-old Oscar-winning star has been married to 45-year-old dancer and choreographer Benjamin – who is French – since 2012, reports Mirror.co.uk. Together the couple share two children, 11-year-old son Aleph, and…

Black Swan star Natalie Portman and husband Benjamin Millepied are trying to desperately save their marriage after alleged extramarital affair, according to reports. The duo who met on the sets of the Darren Aronofsky movie, are privately trying to save their marriage after word came out that Millepaid had an affair with a much younger woman. (Also read: Elliot Page reveals A-list actor verbally assaulted him after he came out as gay: I’m going to…) Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied are privately working…

Image: Amy Sussman (Getty Images)While I firmly believe that whoever came up with the now-ubiquitous interview format where celebrities are asked to read tweets or guess at what Google autocompletes after their name will never see the kingdom of heaven, I have to admit... this GQ interview with Natalie Portman is very charming. Mostly because Portman is effortlessly earnest and reveals some very amusing anecdotes about what went on behind the scenes of a few of her nerdiest movies.Natalie Portman Replies to Fans on the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWhat on earth would make a woman in her mid-thirties have an affair with a teenage boy? This is the question asked in Todd Haynes’s May December (which received its world premiere in competition in Cannes on Saturday 20 May). The new feature is another of the US director’s probing and torrid melodramas. It has a plot that could come straight from a prurient TV soap opera but the US…

“Insecure people are dangerous,” says Julianne Moore’s character in this movie. She should know. Todd Haynes has come to Cannes with this amusing and elegant drama, Highsmithian in its intimacy and malice; a darker shade of Haynes’s Carol, maybe? It’s an unacknowledged duel between two women, played by Moore and Natalie Portman, who have found a potent frenmity at an important stage in each of their lives. Periodically Haynes will present us their faces side-by-side in closeup as they gaze at themselves and each other in…