Posted on 05/08/2015 8:22:00 PM PDT by Steelfish
Natalie Portman Set To Play Ruth Bader Ginsburg In New Biopic
Ben Jacobs 8 May 2015 Natalie Portman has played rebels, ballerinas, the Queen of England and Luke Skywalker’s mother but now she looks set to take on her most intimidating role yet: “the Notorious RBG”. Deadline reported on Friday afternoon that Portman had signed on to play supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a biopic about the life of the octogenarian jurist.
The movie, entitled On the Basis of Sex, will focus on Ginsberg’s career, including her position leading the Women’s Rights Project, where she litigated landmark cases in front of the supreme court two decades before being appointed to it. In this role, Ginsburg played a crucial part in establishing that the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment applied to gender.
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When beautiful actors get old, they often play villains. For example... Gregory Peck.
Natalie’s still young for that kind of role switch.
... unless she thinks Ruth is some kinda heroine model?
Holy Moley. She sounds like Margaret Sanger. And Hitler.
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