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Natalie Portman
Elfin beauty Natalie Portman chats about being snapped by the paparazzi as she talks up new magical comedy Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, in which she plays a toy shop worker alongside kooky Dustin Hoffman.

by Ben Falk

Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Pictured: Natalie Portman.

Unique indeed. Natalie is the shop assistant at a magical toy shop run by the impossibly-old Dustin Hoffman, who finally decides to pass on the business, Willy Wonka-style, to her.

"I could really relate to the character too," she admits. "It was
something I could really understand - that transition into adulthood."

Ah yes, the old passage from child actor to bona fide movie star. It's
something that Natalie continues to grapple with, ever since making her debut aged 12 as a precocious wannabe hitwoman in Leon. Her role as Queen Amidala in the second Star Wars trilogy straddled the divide between youth and grown-up, but by semi-abandoning films and focusing on her studies, it seemed for a while that she wasn't interested in being a woman in Hollywood.

"I feel like there's two categories of women's roles. One is like, the
muse, where it's literally the muse of some sort of artist, or you're
the girl who makes the guy change," such as her recent flick Garden
State, "or it's stripper/prostitutes," cue her role in film Closer. She
laughs: "There are this many strippers and prostitutes? Because every script I get is one or the other."

It's no wonder she has expressed interests in pursuing other careers. She has a degree in psychology, speaks fluent Hebrew and her work has appeared in several scientific journals. Nonetheless, she now says it would be tough to give up acting and instead: "I try to pursue my interests as far as I can. I'm always taking a class in something."

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	Natalie Portman Elfin beauty Natalie Portman chats about being snapped by the paparazzi as she talks up new magical comedy Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.
	Unique indeed. Natalie is the shop assistant at a magical toy shop run by the impossibly-old Dustin Hoffman, who finally decides to pass on the business, Willy Wonka-style, to her.
	Maybe she fancies herself as the new Angelina Jolie?
	In other words, she's more than happy to continue as she is without making it into the pages of Heat.

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