This is a totally gossipy post, but I just couldn’t resist as it is somehow fascinating news to me as Natalie Portman’s representatives have confirmed with People that the 29-year-old actress is pregnant and engaged to Benjamin Millepied who served as choreographer on Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan and was Portman’s dance partner in the film.
In an attempt to make this a bit more newsworthy I was going to attach it to the idea Portman’s Oscar chances for her much ballyhooed performance in Black Swan may be marred by her co-starring in the potentially dreadful No Strings Attached (a la the demise suffered by Dreamgirls star Eddie Murphy after Norbit in 2007), but I felt merely mentioning it as an aside in this post would serve the purpose.
Millepied and Portman’s involvement isn’t new as the two have been dating for some time after meeting on the set of Black Swan.
This news will certainly remove Portman’s name from the list of potential casting arguments for a little while as she was one of many mentioned when it came to all the hot female leading roles in Hollywood including Ridley Scott’s Untitled Alien Prequel, Cloud Atlas for the Wachowskis, The Dark Knight Rises, Zack Snyder’s Superman: Man of Steel and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Up next for Portman, beyond No Strings Attached, are the medieval comedy Your Highness and Marvel’s Thor.
There, I hope I made it somehow movie related, worthy of posting and mildly engaging.
