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Before she was Padmé, Natalie Portman got her start acting in a rather controversial role in the 1994 action-drama Léon: The Professional. Portman, who was just 12 years old at the time ...
"It's complicated for me," Portman said of the legacy of Luc Besson's "beloved" film. “It’s a movie that’s still beloved, and people come up to me about it more than almost anything I’ve ...
So, yes, it’s complicated for me.” American actress Natalie Portman and French actor Jean Reno on the set of the film “Leon”, directed by Luc Besson. (Photo by Patrick CAMBOULIVE/Sygma via ...
When Natalie Portman's Mathilda is saved from that music and cocaine-loving Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman), her fate is left unknown.
Natalie Portman ... life in the spotlight. Portman appeared on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast back in 2020 and noted that being 12 on the set of “Leon” “didn’t allow ...
Natalie Portman’s debut film, 1993′s ‘Léon: The Professional’, has had lingering impacts on her and that she still has “complicated” feelings about the film. Portman was 13 years old ...
Natalie Portman made her big-screen debut in Léon: The Professional when she was 12 years old. She’s 41 now, and the Oscar winner has a different perspective on making the action-thriller now ...
The Professional, Natalie Portman's Mathilda makes a bold and controversial declaration to a hotel receptionist, who had apparently assumed she was the daughter ...
In 2020, Portman said she built “fortresses” to protect herself from the media after being painted as a “Lolita figure”. Jean Reno and Natalie Portman in ‘Léon’ (Moviestore ...
Natalie Portman has reflected on her role in Léon, which led to her being “sexualised” as a child. The actor made her debut in the Luc Besson film when she was 13, playing Mathilde ...