The 2005 movie that almost ruined Natalie Portman’s career: “No director wanted to work with me”

The 2005 movie that almost ruined Natalie Portman’s career: “No director wanted to work with me”These days, Natalie Portman sits in ratified air. She’s achieved a sort of elder stateswoman position, which is weird considering (at time of writing) she’s only in her mid-40s. Initially presented to audiences as a handmaiden of the Queen of the planet Naboo, a young Padmé reveals herself to be the real monarch. The prequels were big business, with each one of them making hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office. “Everyone thought I was a horrible actress,” she said, “I was in the biggest-grossing movie of the decade, and no director wanted to work with me.”