Natalie Portman has hinted at being a versatile actress, willing to go deep to access the emotional soil for a part, but never has she committed this fully and completely, giving herself over as actors sometimes do — Robert DeNiro is Raging
Bull, Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Names Desire, Charlize Theron in
Monster, Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose, Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (Tootsie, Rain Man, etc.) These are those rare occasions when the actor is eclipsed by the character, the performance that then reaches something more than likable, believable; it becomes
moving art.