Natalie Portman's very excellent week

Portman is set for Oscar achievements with Dark-colored Swan – and her newest romcom is leading the US box office

It's an excellent weeks a chance to be Natalie Portman. The small celebrity won the Fantastic World last Saturday for her part as a tormented dancer in Dark-colored Swan, which is enjoying gangbusters at the box workplace. Now Portman's new film, the romcom No Post Connected with Ashley Ashton kutcher, just started out at the top of the US index charts on an approximated $20.3m.

Black Swan
Production year: 2010
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 15
Runtime: 103 mins
Directors: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder

Portman's presents have never been in question, but the Bulbs achievements creates her a authentic A-lister. A likely Academia prize cause celebrity nomination these days will only enhance Hollywood's perception that she is bankable. And she has variety, as confirmed by a number of films arriving out this season.

She'll be seen in Level Gordon Green's silly funny Your Highness and performs the really like attention in Amazing Studios' big summer time launch Thor. Portman has two arthouse films arriving out this year, too: the unusual dilemma Hesher, which was released at Sundance last season and is an obtained flavor to say the least, and funny dilemma The Other Lady.

Portman's star-making convert in Dark-colored Swan was a while in the performs. Darren Aronofsky at first contacted her about the concept 10 decades ago, but you know how these elements go. Other tasks came along and the regular funding difficulties that beset the separate industry put Dark-colored Swan on a rugged street.

Critical popularity for Aronofsky's 2008 Venice Fantastic Lion victorious one The Wrestler shifted elements along and created him a more eye-catching undertaking. With the assistance and determination of period of your energy and energy manufacturer Robert Medavoy and a newish supporter known as Corner Stream Images, the film lastly came together in overdue 2009.

Portman informed me lately how she slaved away for the part and open herself to a constant program for more than a season. The everyday dancing exercising was strenuous and tells me of Level Wahlberg's arrangements for The Martial artist. He designed a full-size punching gym on his residence, as you do, and qualified every day for more than four decades in the wish that the film would get created.

On the set of Dark-colored Swan, Portman experienced concussion and a damaged rib. The Academia likes to know that stars are pulling themselves through terrible for a part and that's another purpose why she is the one to defeat at the Academy awards on 27 Feb. She's also in the operating for the Display Actors Guild top prize on 30 Jan.