Natalie Portman interview with THR..

Saw this on my daily scan of the drudge report:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/natalie-portman-sounds-israel-netanyahu-793425
It's also connected with an adjunct article:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/10-things-you-didnt-know-793210

Curious, I read the opener:
She sits, ramrod straight, plunking her iPhone in the middle of the table and hitting "record" before she has said a word, as if challenging me to quote her with razor-sharp accuracy — which, I must admit, casts a pall over our conversation.

"Did somebody burn you?" I ask.

"No," she says. "I just, when I'm talking about delicate issues, I want to make sure that everyone's accurate, you know."

This may not be the best way to start, but it does make a point: During the next 79 minutes, Portman is going to be blunt.

And I had to admit, I thought for a moment she might get a blunt about George Lucas, now that he's off in the sunset.

Alas, not so. All she stated regarding the PT was:
She started acting with the 1994 thriller The Professional, and her career soared when she was chosen to play Queen Padme Amidala in the secondStar Wars trilogy (1999's The Phantom Menace, 2002's Attack of the Clonesand 2005's Revenge of the Sith).

"No one’s contacted me about [Star Wars]," she says. "I think, because I’m dead, that it kind of seals the deal, unless there are even more prequels." She has no special plans for seeing the upcoming Episode VII: The Force Awakens, but says: "I would love to. I would love to. I’m very excited that they’re making them, of course. I think everyone is. And great people [are] doing it." She adds: "I really liked all the people I worked with. You know, between George[Lucas] and Ewan [McGregor] and Hayden [Christensen] and Jake [Lloyd] on the first one and Ahmed [Best], who played Jar Jar, they were all wonderful. The experience was really hard for me, because I didn’t really, didn’t really understand what was going on with the blue screens and everything. I just was, you know, I was like 16 and had never done that before and I was kind of confused."

Despite the dearth of any 'blunt' prequel revelations, Drudge chose to run this pic with the article link:


The only thing I really gleaned was that even though she is now a film producer herself, she (publicly) blames nobody but herself and her own unfamiliarity with blue screens for any weakness in her performance.

Saw it, posted it; comment below.