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I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is quite possibly the finest actress of her generation,

Natalie Portman. The 35-year-old Israeli-American has been a star since she was just

12 and made her big-screen debut in Leon the professional. Over the decades since she

has established herself as one of the most talented, committed, and respected

practitioners of her profession in films ranging from the second Star Wars trilogy to the

romantic dramedy garden state to the drama closer to the action flick v. Veeetta, to the dramatic thriller for which she won the best

actress Oscar six years ago, Black Swan.

Her latest performance as Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Lorraine's Jackie, which focuses on the days before and after the assassination

of John F. Kennedy, may be Portman's best yet and could bring her a second best actress Oscar.

Over the course of our conversation, we discuss a wide range of topics, among them, how a

fateful encounter at a pizzeria sparked the beginning of her acting career, why she was able

to avoid the pitfalls of child stardom when so many others were not. What she learned from her late mentor, Mike Nichols, how she began to shed her good girl image after graduating from Harvard, why her Israeli and Jewish heritage are so important to her, and how she conquered

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