Natalie Portman: Concerned For Creativity on Broadway

IMDB News is reporting that Broadway vet and screen star Natalie Portman is hopeful to return to Broadway, but fears that the high ticket prices has changed the nature of the Broadway roles available to young actresses like herself. 

As she recently explained to the New York Post: "It's gotten so expensive that the audiences you get aren't up for something experimental."

She especially fears that due to the expense, people are seeing less shows and will chose instead to spend on the bigger blockbusters or musicals, as opposed to with meatier, lesser-known plays.

Portman has starred on Broadway in The Diary of Anne Frank, and in the Shakespeare in the Park production of The Seagull alongside Meryl Streep, Kevin Klein, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. She came onto the international scene at just 13 after her critically hailed performance in the 1994 independent film Léon (known in the United States as The Professional). She achieved wider fame after playing Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. In 2005, Portman received a Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actress in the drama Closer. In May 2008, she served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. Portman's directorial debut, Eve, opened the 65th Venice International Film Festival's shorts competition in 2008. She is a graduate of Harvard University. Recently seen opposite Scarlett Johansson (appearing on Broadway in The View From The Bridge with Liev Schrieber) in The Other Bolyn Girl and New York, I Love You,  she will soon appear in several upcoming films including Thor, Your Highness, Brothers, and Hesher.