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Natalie Portman<\/a> <\/strong>is teaming up with Lena Dunham<\/strong><\/a> for a raunchy new romcom, Good Sex<\/em>, and she\u2019s excited to be embracing her sultry side post-divorce from Benjamin Millepied<\/strong> in March 2024, while giving herself a career makeover off-screen, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIs it risky to get into business with Lena Dunham at a time when Lena is not the most beloved or celebrated figure in Hollywood? Sure, and Natalie knows it,\u201d a longtime pal of the 43 year-old actress exclusively tells Life & Style<\/em>. \u201cIs Natalie rolling the dice a little with this thing? Yeah, but there\u2019s also a huge financial upside for her if people like the movie,\u201d the source adds, noting because it is being independently financed, the V for Vendetta<\/em> actress, 43, has rights to a pretty sizable piece of the pie if it turns out to be a success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis kind of move has paid off for her before, like when she made Black<\/em> Swan<\/em> 15 years ago and it became a massive worldwide box office hit,\u201d the insider explains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Good<\/em> Sex<\/em> kicked off an intense bidding war between some of the industry\u2019s biggest players, including Warner Bros., Amazon, Apple and the ultimate victor \u2014 Netflix, with a reported<\/a> $55 million sale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The synopsis for the upcoming project reads: \u201cAfter spending a decade in a failed relationship, successful couples\u2019 therapist Ally (Portman) is turning 40 and is pushed, kicking and screaming, by her best friend back into the hopeless New York dating scene<\/a>. 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Given the recent success of several other age-gap relationship-focused movies, like Natalie\u2019s May<\/em> December<\/em>, Nicole<\/strong> Kidman<\/strong>\u2019s Babygirl<\/em> and Ren\u00e9e Zellweger<\/strong>\u2019s Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy<\/em>, the Star Wars<\/em> actress is banking on studio execs seeing her potential in her new flick as not just a pretty supporting actress but a performer with real substance<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOnce again, Natalie is going to make a very sexually explicit R-rated movie, but she\u2019s doing it for the right reasons and, at the moment, she\u2019s backing Lena\u2019s vision with everything she has,\u201d the source continues. The Black Swan<\/em> star expressed her admiration for Lena\u2019s filmmaking, praising her 2010 film Tiny Furniture<\/em> as \u201cjust amazing\u201d in an interview with Vogue<\/em><\/a>, adding the Girls<\/em> actress\u2019 confidence helped her confront sexism in Hollywood, too. \u201cShe\u2019s the subject, she\u2019s not the object, and it\u2019s beautiful \u2014 that\u2019s the kind of thing we need more of.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The source notes Natalie\u2019s eagerness to collaborate with Lena<\/a> is part of a broader plan to reinvent herself within the industry. \u201cThis project is becoming a cornerstone in the total reset Natalie is doing around her career. She wants to do uncompromising projects that get attention all over the world, and she seems to have picked a winner with Good Sex.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n