NATALIE PORTMAN

Natalie Portman will star and produce comedy "Best Buds,” variety reports. The V for Vendetta actress though her company Handsomecharlie along with Vendome Pictures is to take to the big screen Jamie Denbo's script. Best Buds tells the story of a  woman who undergoes an emotional breakdown on the eve of her wedding, and embarks on a road trip to San Diego with two best friends, relying on a combo of marijuana and her long-time friendship. Portman and Vendome's CEO Philippe Rousselet are looking for a filmmaker to direct the project.  Natalie will next be seen on fantasy-comedy "Your Highness, directed by David Gordon Green.

Natalie Portman is happy about playing more challenging role in her new film Brothers. In the movie, the 28-year-old actress plays the love interest of Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal. Natalie says she was tired of being the cutie. “I just don't want to be cute any more. I've been playing girl-woman roles for a long time and I was excited about the opportunity of playing an adult. I really wanted the challenge,” she tells daily Mirror. “My own mother is the most maternal, nurturing, warm, cosy mummy. So I had all that in me. She was a great role model,” she added.

Natalie Portman explains why she doesn’t want to do rom-coms. The 28-year-old actress tells in the January issue of Elle magazine that she wants more challenging roles because many of them are “offensive”. "It wasn't that I didn't want to do comedy. It's just that I would only get offered girlfriend parts in guy comedies, which aren't exciting to me, or those offensive roles in romantic comedies where the woman has to have a job in fashion so that she can have nice clothes, and her goal is always marriage," she explains. "I'm more interested in finding characters that make me laugh," Portman concluded.

Natalie Portman admits she’s stay away from performing Jews because she used to hate the genre. The actress, who was born in Jerusalem but was raised in the US, tells the NY Daily News, “I’ve always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.” But she’s changed her mind, playing a Hasidic bride in the film “New York, I Love You ”. “That was the first thing to come my way (“New York, I Love You”) that really intrigued me,” she added. “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to do comedy. It’s just that I would only get offered girlfriend parts in guy comedies, which aren’t exciting to me, or those offensive roles in romantic comedies where the woman has to have a job in fashion so that she can have nice clothes, and her goal is always marriage.”

Natalie Portman is the latest celebrity in being victim of dead hoax. The actress was said she had died from a fatal fall while shooting in New Zealand. Other Hollywood actors that were victim of internet hoaxes included George Clooney and Jeff. In other news, Natalie looks stunning on the cover of UK Elle magazine in its February issue.