Natalie Portman to Lead Rom-Com Movie Good Sex From Lena Dunham

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Natalie Portman to Lead Rom-Com Movie Good Sex From Lena Dunham

Natalie Portman has signed on for the leading role in the upcoming romantic comedy movie titled, Good Sex. This marks the Oscar winner’s first rom-com project in a long while, after starring in 2011’s No Strings Attached with Ashton Kutcher.

The movie will be written and directed by Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham (Girls, Tiny Furniture). In addition to leading the cast, Portman will also be serving as a producer alongside Sophie Mas through their MountainA banner. Dunham and Michael Cohen are also producing through their production company Good Thing Going.

What is Good Sex about?

“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,” reads the film’s official synopsis. “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.”

Portman was most recently seen starred in last year’s Apple TV+ limited drama Lady in the Lake. Besides Good Sex, she will next be seen in director Guy Ritchie’s upcoming action adventure movie Fountain of Youth, with John Krasinski and Eiza Gonzales.