Natalie Portman's Dr. Jane Foster Gets A Major Thor Makeover, Says ELLE France

Actor, activist Natalie Portman misses Paris. “With the health crisis, it's been so long since we've been able to get there. In this city, I felt surrounded by books, museums, dance, theater, opera, bookstores. Everyone I met there was so steeped in culture. I've never seen it anywhere else. And then some of my dearest friends live there. I think about it all the time,” Portman tells ELLE France.

Portman is styled by Ryan Hastings in “appearances are deceiving” femininity-rich fashion lensed by Jennifer Stenglein [IG] for the September 3, 2021 special beauty issue of ELLE France. / Hair by Renya Xydis; makeup by Liz Kelsh

Portman and her partner, choreographer Benjamin Millepied lived in Paris from 2014-2016, when he was named director of the ballet of the Paris Opera. The couple met on the set of ‘Black Swan’ and have two children. LA has been home since 2016, although the couple has lived in Australia for the last year.

Note: If you are a sensualist with a high-aesthetic eye and a tender heart, Jennifer Stenglein’s IG is for you.

The hyperfeminine ELLE France images are in contrast to Portman’s work in Australia, where the family has camped out since September 2020. Portman is filming the fourth installment of Thor’, directed by New Zealand’s Taika Waititi.

Portman was finished with Thorworld in 2013, rumored to be unenthused with her role as “damsel in distress” Dr. Jane Foster. Speaking to Vanity Fair in 2016 about her future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Portman herself said, "As far as I know, I'm done."

Waititi turned Portman’s resolve to bid ‘adieu’ to her Foster character into ‘yes’ reimagining Foster as the Mighty Thor. In the words of ELLE France “the delicate muse of the perfume Miss Dior” transforms into a “goddess of biceps and deltoids”.

Natalie Portman has always marched to her own drum, famously rejecting Israel’s Genesis Prize in 2018, saying she ‘does not feel comfortable participating in any public events in Israel’. Stressing that she did not support the BDS movement, Portman said: “Like many Israelis and Jews around the world, I can be critical of the leadership in Israel without wanting to boycott the entire nation.”