While Natalie Portman is known for her dramatic, Oscar-winning chops, she’s done quite a lot of comedy, too. Along with Thor: Love & Thunder, she also starred in Your Highness, No Strings Attached, and more. Following her acclaimed performance in May December, Portman has signed on to star in the new romantic comedy from Lena Dunham, Good Sex.
Deadline confirms that Portman will produce and star in Good Sex, an original rom-com from Girls creator Lena Dunham. Dunham will write and direct the film, the latest to feature an age-gap romance between and older woman and a younger man.
Here’s the synopsis: After spending a decade in a failed relationship, successful couples’ therapist Ally (Portman) is turning 40 and is pushed, kicking and screaming, by her best friend back into the hopeless New York dating scene. But Ally finds her life pulled in opposing directions as she falls into a steamy fling with a 20-something Brooklyn hipster just as she begins a promising, more conventional relationship with Alan, a successful 50-something in Manhattan. As a romantic crossroads blossoms into a full-blown identity crisis, Ally juggles to keep these two very different men separate and to make sense of her own conflicting desires before she risks losing them both.
Dunham has been out of the spotlight of late. She recently directed the sex comedy Sharp Stick and the period comedy Catherine Called Birdy.
Coming up for Portman is Guy Ritchie’s adventure film Fountain of Youth, opening later this year.
