Actress, producer and director Natalie Portman has added author to her list of accomplishments with her debut book for children, “Natalie Portman’s Fables.”
The Jerusalem-born Oscar winner for “Black Swan”–and the mother of Aleph, 5 and Amalia, 3–modernized three classic fairytales: “The Tortoise and the Hare,” “The Three Little Pigs” and “Country Mouse and City Mouse” to make them more gender-inclusive and reflect the real world.
Portman, who recorded the audio version of the book from the coat closet in her home, has been making promotional appearances for the book from Sydney, Australia, where she’s currently in preparation to shoot “Thor: Love and Thunder.”
She will appear at the Los Angeles Times Virtual Festival of Books on Nov. 1 at 2:30 p.m. PT to give a reading from the book and talk with Times film critic Justin Chang.
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