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Natalie Portman to Star in Your Highness Film

Natalie Portman
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Natalie Portman
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Stage and screen star Natalie Portman will appear opposite James Franco and Danny McBride in David Gordon Green’s new film Your Highness, according to Variety. She will play a warrior princess who gets caught up with a lazy prince.

Portman appeared in the title role of the Broadway revival of The Diary of Anne Frank and as Nina in the Shakespeare in the Park production of The Seagull. She received an Oscar nomination for the film version of Patrick Marber’s Closer.

Her many other upcoming films include Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Hesher, Brothers, and New York, I Love You, a series of short films in which she also directed one of the segments.