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2 days ago
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Kelly Clarkson and Natalie Portman react to wearing 'identical' red carpet looks: 'We went to the same store'
Great minds think alike: Kelly Clarkson and Natalie Portman are bonding over their almost identical red-carpet looks. In a preview clip from Tuesday's episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Grammy-winning host surprised the Star Wars alum with a side-by-side photo comparison of the time that they both wore 'the most identical outfit ever' at two separate MTV award ceremonies in 2002. 'When I was younger, we didn't have stylists,' Portman recalled prior to the photo reveal. 'You could kind of wear whatever you wanted. I would just be like, go to the store with my mom, pick something out. Now it's like a whole big to-do.' Clarkson then explained that she had some 'early red carpet photos' of the pair to showcase, before displaying two snapshots of her and Portman both wearing a white button-down shirt, necklace, blue jeans, and sandals. 'Oh my God!' Portman shouted, bursting into laughter as she stared at the two images. Clarkson cheekily declared, 'We went to the same store with our moms and got the same outfit.' The 'Stronger' singer explained that she was informed of their matching moment by a staff member on her talk show. 'I was like, 'We are almost wearing the most identical outfit ever,'' Clarkson said. 'It was a time, people! We're the same age. But yeah, I just found that so funny. Do you remember what were you doing that day?' Portman correctly identified that she wore the outfit to the MTV Movie Awards in June 2002. The actress presented the category for Best Female Performance alongside her Star Wars costar Ewan McGregor, which went to Nicole Kidman for her role in Baz Luhrmann's 2001 musical, Moulin Rouge. (Which also starred McGregor!) Meanwhile, Clarkson, who was still competing on American Idol at the time, wore her look just two months later at the MTV Video Music Awards in August 2002. At the event, the Idol hopeful teamed up with fellow contestant Justin Guarini and the show's then-judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson to present the award for Best New Artist in a Video, which was received by Avril Lavigne for her rock banger, "Complicated." "I just thought that was pretty hilarious that we look identical,' Clarkson told Portman of their shared style. 'That's the one time I get to say I look like you.' Portman replied, "That's amazing." The Kelly Clarkson Show airs weekdays in syndication. Watch Clarkson and Portman bond over their looks in the clip above. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
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3 days ago
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Jenna Ortega Bonded With Natalie Portman Over Being Treated Like Kids: ‘I Relate to That So Immensely'
Jenna Ortega said she's grateful for befriending former child stars like Natalie Portman who also know what it's like to be perceived as a little kid – no matter how old you are. The 22-year-old 'Wednesday' actress told Harper's Bazaar in a new interview that she related 'so immensely' to something Portman, her costar in the upcoming thriller 'The Gallerist,' told her about how child actors get stuck in that phase in people's minds. 'It's always been really annoying, because you just don't feel like you're being taken seriously,' she told the magazine. 'You know, it's like how you're dressed in the schoolgirl costume. … There's just something about it that's very patronizing. Also, when you're short, people are already physically looking down on you.' She said that becoming friends with Portman, as well as Natsha Lyonne and Winoina Rider, has 'been so beneficial and so cozy… They've seen it all, and, honestly, during a much darker time in Hollywood. Ortega continued, 'We've all got this jaded way about us that I don't think we'd have if we hadn't started so young and had so many brutal realizations and experiences.' She paused before adding, 'But they turned out all right.' Portman echoed Ortega's take on their friendship: 'We're both physically tiny, so people will often treat you like a child forever. I'm 43 now, and people kind of pat me on the head. I don't look like a child, but I often feel like I'm treated like a kid. Child actors often cultivate a serious persona because otherwise they'll get treated like kids forever.' Ortega, whose films include 2022's 'Scream,' 'X'and 'Death of a Unicorn,'said that people, especially on social media, are harder on young women than on young men. 'If [girls] don't stay as this perfect image of how they were first introduced to you, then it's 'Ah, something's wrong. She's changed. She sold her soul.' But you're watching these women at the most pivotal times in their lives; they're experimenting because that's what you do,' she explained. She may have been referring to incidents such as when 'Spartacus' producer Steven DeKnight her called 'beyond toxic and entitled' for requesting script changes for her Wednesday Addams character in 2023. (He later apologized.) She said she's felt 'incredibly misunderstood' since becoming famous. 'I feel like being a bully is very popular right now,' she said. 'Having been on the wrong side of the rumor mill was incredibly eye-opening.' 'Wednesday' Season 2, Part on which Ortega is also a producer, returns in August. The post Jenna Ortega Bonded With Natalie Portman Over Being Treated Like Kids: 'I Relate to That So Immensely' appeared first on TheWrap.
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4 days ago
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Natalie Portman Says She Set a ‘Strong Boundary' to Keep Private Life Private After Learning Fame Can Be ‘Really Hurtful'
Natalie Portman learned early on in her career the importance of a strong boundary. While talking on Tuesday's episode of 'The Kelly Clarkson Show,' the 'Fountain of Youth' star was asked about where she drew the line between having a thin skin in her private life and thick skin in her public-facing one. Clarkson asked how she navigated that tight rope and she said boundaries were key. 'I think it is really a boundary, like a strong boundary, that you have to repeat over and over and over,' Portman said. 'I think I figured it out early because I figured out that it was really scary to have that boundary crossed – and also sometimes really hurtful if I let that energy come in that was negative.' She continued: 'I had to kind of build those walls but then you have to be careful, like you said, with your art and not just art but personal relationships that you don't keep those walls up.' Portman appeared on the show to support her latest film 'Fountain of Youth' which is streaming now on Apple TV+. The film stars her and John Krasinski as estranged sibling treasure hunters tasked with tracking down the titular fountain. TheWrap reviewer William Bibbiani found the movie to be more empty than harmless fluff. 'It would be nice to report that 'Fountain of Youth' is harmless fluff, a brisk escapist adventure with a game cast and a few fun set pieces,' he wrote. 'And I suppose it may be mostly harmless, unless you count wasting your time as a 'harm' (and I wouldn't fight you on that). But it's annoying fluff. It's tedious fluff. The only thing I wanted to escape was the movie itself. The cast is either trying too hard or not enough, and none of the action sequences blew me away. There's a bit on a boat that was probably expensive. There's a fight in a library that's competent. There's a shootout at the pyramids between characters we don't know or give a damn about. There's a big difference between 'fluffy' and 'empty.' 'Fountain of Youth' seems to have found it.' You can watch Natalie Portman's segment on 'The Kelly Clarkson Show' in the video above. The post Natalie Portman Says She Set a 'Strong Boundary' to Keep Private Life Private After Learning Fame Can Be 'Really Hurtful' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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7 days ago
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Neon Taking North American Rights To Natalie Portman Cannes Animation ‘Arco'
EXCLUSIVE: Neon is closing up a North America deal for rights to Natalie Portman-voiced animation Arco, which recently launched at the Cannes Film Festival. French director Ugo Bienvenu's animated feature, which has been described as 'France's answer to Studio Ghibli', is about a boy who uses rainbows to travel through time and his adventures as he gets stuck in the wrong era. There's chatter the movie could feature in the awards race. More from Deadline 'Imago' Director Déni Oumar Pitsaev On Winning Two Prizes In Cannes: "I Didn't Expect It At All" Foul Play Suspected In Cannes Power Outage With Electricity Pylons Sabotaged Cannes Power Restored; Festival Closing Ceremony To Go Ahead As Planned In Wake Of Five-Hour Power Outage In South Of France Oscar winner Portman is also producing with Sophie Mas under their joint Paris and New York banner MountainA with Félix de Givry at Paris-based Remembers. The movie debuted as a special screening in Cannes. It's another win for Neon, which has been voracious once again at Cannes, also acquiring The Secret Agent, It Was Just An Accident and Sirat, in addition to Sentimental Value, which they already had. Taking its cue from the fantasy premise that rainbows are time machines, the movie revolves around 10 year old rainbow-child Arco, who lives in the distant future, 2932. His maiden journey in his multi-colored suit does not go to plan. He loses control and veers off course to land in a near future, 2075, where Iris, a girl the same age as Arco, witnesses his fall and then makes it her mission to get him home. Arco is the first feature for Bienvenu after short films Maman and L'entretien and comic books. His multi-awarded best seller System Preference has been translated in over 10 languages and was released by Penguin in the US, England, and Canada at the end of 2023. Bienvenu, who studied and now teaches at France's famed Gobelins animation school in Paris, has built his production team from talent he trained and nurtured there. Portman will be among the English-language voice cast. The French language voice cast will feature Alma Jodorowsky (Blue Is The Warmest Colour), Swann Arlaud (Anatomy of a Fall), Vincent Macaigne (C'est La Vie, Suspended Time) and Louis Garrel (Little Women, The Dreamers) and rapper Oxmo Puccino. Exec producers are Jamil Shamasdin, alongside Bill Way and Elliott Whitton for Fit Via Vi, and Douglas Choi and Martina Bassenger for Sons of Rigor. Arco marks the first feature animation for Portman and Mas' MountainA since its launch in 2020. The company made its festival debut at Cannes 2023 with Todd Haynes' May December. Goodfellas and CAA Media Finance are repping rights. Best of Deadline 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg Everything We Know About Amazon's 'Verity' Movie So Far Everything We Know About 'The Testaments,' Sequel Series To 'The Handmaid's Tale' So Far
Japan Today
23-05-2025
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Natalie Portman and John Krasinski embark on a globe-trotting adventure in ‘Fountain of Youth'
By LINDSEY BAHR The spirit of Indiana Jones is baked into the essence of the new movie 'Fountain of Youth.' This lighthearted, globe-trotting heist from Guy Ritchie, debuting on Apple TV+ on Friday, stars Natalie Portman and John Krasinski as estranged siblings attempting to piece together historical facts in hopes of finding the mythical spring. The quest takes them to far-flung places from Vienna to the pyramids, as they try to evade capture by the authorities and a shadowy operation intent on stopping the search. 'I've been looking to watch this movie for years,' Krasinski said in an interview with The Associated Press. 'This is the movie I pretended to be in when I was a kid. This is what got me into the business.' The film also stars Domnhall Gleeson as the wealthy businessman funding the operation and Eiza González as one of the protectors of the Fountain of Youth. ' Guy Ritchie gets to work with some of the best cast in the world,' said González, who has now worked with him three times. 'The biggest gift Guy has given me, besides the privilege of working with him, is working with them.' Gleeson, a newcomer to the world of Ritchie, was pretty sure that it was going to be as enjoyable as it looked. And he got a vote of confidence from his director. 'Guy basically said, if you're not having fun, then this is not going to work and so the idea is to turn up and have fun,' Gleeson said. There were a lot of things about 'Fountain of Youth' that piqued Portman's interest. The chance to work with Ritchie, Krasinski, and the rest of the cast, as well as the travel, but it also felt like something she could share with her own son and daughter. 'It's so rare to get to make a movie that has this scale and this scope of adventure that you can watch with your kids,' Portman said. 'I'm always looking for something that I can enjoy with my children.' Her character, Charlotte, is an art historian who had an adventuresome childhood with her explorer father and brother Luke (Krasinski) but has since settled for a more stable life. We meet her amid a contentious divorce and custody battle over her 12-year-old son, and she's not exactly pleased when Luke steals a piece of art from her gallery and attempts to recruit her for the bigger mission. But soon, she's in scuba gear hunting down a lost Rembrandt in the wreckage of the RMS Lusitania. 'I think that something we search for as adults is how to regain that youthful spirit, how to hold onto that youthful energy and freedom and wildness, even when having to move into some adult responsibilities,' said Portman, who, like her character is recently divorced. 'Maybe that can make you a better parent to have a little bit of that glint in your eye.' She and Krasinski, working together for the first time, fell into the sibling dynamics easily. 'These movies sort of live and die with the relationships,' Krasinski said. 'The sibling thing really only works if you're having genuine fun with the person and it can come off screen. And I laughed with her every single day. She's so funny.' Globe-trotting films aren't just travelogues for the audience, but their own sort of adventure for the cast and crew. This production earned their miles, skipping between the streets of Bangkok and Liverpool, the Austrian National Library in Vienna and Cairo to film at the great pyramids — where 'Fountain of Youth' became the first film of this scale to be granted the privilege to shoot action sequences there. 'It was really a pinch me kind of moment to be like, oh, those are the pyramids and we're just hanging out here and walking into them and filming in them,' Portman said. The big first was landing a Boeing Chinook CH47 helicopter in front of the Giza Plateau, and blowing up a jeep, all while the site remained open to tourists. 'With any luck, we didn't blow it for Hollywood going back there for somebody else,' Krasinski said. 'But if we did, at least we got to do it.' Most of the big action moments 'inside' the pyramids were saved for the safety of sets constructed at London's Leavesden Studio, where they also built the wreckage of the Lusitania in a water tank so big that it took two weeks to fill. 'Fountain of Youth' might seem like the type of movie that would be a natural fit for the big screen: A big budget, global adventure with major stars and sweeping vistas. While Krasinski champions movie theaters — at the time of the interview, he had a ticket to see 'Sinners' on IMAX the next day — he's also not feeling bittersweet that this one won't be playing at the multiplex. They all came into 'Fountain of Youth' knowing that it was a streaming-first endeavor. 'This was always going to be a streaming movie, so I didn't really think about it in terms of ... Would people want to see it in theaters because it was just one of those things,' Krasinski said. 'And I think that's the new reality. There are definitely movies that are being made for streaming, and there are movies being made for theatrical.' He added: 'It all depends on what the filmmaker's intent was, what the studio's intent and I think as long as those rules are laid out clearly in the beginning, I'm down for either one.' © Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
