Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

Thank you so much as always for clicking and joining us again this week.

My guest is Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman.

We got together to talk about her latest film called Vox Lux.

It is an amazing, super creative, totally different film where she plays a survivor of a school

shooting who becomes a pop star after the tribute song she makes for her fellow students

becomes a viral hit.

She goes on to become like a lady Gaga level superstar and all that comes with that fame,

including a downfall.

It's a wild story.

She's really, really good in it and we'll let her explain the backdrop to it in the context

for the movie.

We also talk about how she got into showbiz.

She's only 37 years old but she's been doing this for 25 years.

She got discovered as a young girl in a pizza parlor near her home in Long Island.

She was born in Jerusalem in Israel, moved with her family when she was a little girl to

the United States and really grew up out on Long Island in New York.

She also talks about keeping some sense of normalcy because her parents were all about

school.

She surrounded herself with parents and friends and tried not to have a showbiz life.

She got the job on Star Wars, phantom menace when she was a teenager.

She was in high school.

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