Natalie Portman & Scarlett Johansson : 2019 Elle Honorees

This rug shot reminds me of the type of pictures she's taken for luxury company Christian Dior.

I try to use sites I think are popular and quite well trusted on google. Sites like pinterest, tumblr and flickr. I think the photo I posted there was on imdb which also has numerous galleries - they come up as Amazon on links, another popular site. Then I just type the person's name and add something after it. So, in this case, I'd google "Natalie Portman - Christian Dior", maybe add one of those site names to the search bar too.

I put a lot of stock in the directors a performer chooses to work with, as that's how I approach movies. The performers I like often work with directors whose film work interests me.

Natalie Portman's a little older and she's always shown a passion for working with old school filmmakers who helped reshape cinema - directors like Milos Forman, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, George Lucas, Ivan Reitman, Terrence Malick and Michael Mann. I believe she ticks all the necessary boxes when it comes to the directors that built American indie in the 1980s & 1990s - working with directors like Wayne Wang, Ted Demme, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola and Darren Aronofsky. And then there's her work with international artists like Tim Burton, Wong Kar-Wei and Tom Tykwer, which further represents the kind of bold, creative choices she's often making. She's also drawn to political and feminist issues and enjoys working with female directors at the start of their creative journies.

Scarlett Johansson ticks many of the same boxes. She's worked with veterans like Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Cameron Crowe. And she's always firing on all cylinders when it comes to indie cinema, her old stomping ground, be it working with the Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze, Terry Zwigoff, Sofia Coppola, or currently with Noah Baumbach.

Both of them slip between blockbuster studio projects and small-scale indies which I appreciate. Both have appeared in massive studio franchises. I think they are two of the world's leading actresses and I don't feel that's at all by accident, I feel it's by design, and it's always made perfect sense to me that they admire each other, and say they get along well.

Natalie Portman has been nominated 3 times at the Oscars : for 'Closer', 'Black Swan' & 'Jackie'.

Now Scarlett Johansson joins her as an Academy Award nominee, following yesterday's announcement that she's been Oscar-nominated for her performances in 'Marriage Story' (2019) & 'JoJo Rabbit' (2019).

And in doing so, she creates a little bit of history, becoming only the 12th performer to be nominated twice in the same year.

Is there a sort of creative project you mght one day like to see them both appear in, I guess bearing in mind 'The Other Boleyn Girl' was filmed more than a decade ago, and that there is a dramatic age difference between the two performers?