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i guess we could start a thread of the film posting news and reviews and ,hopefully soon, new pics of the film

here is a report, containing spoilers, of the film and some natalie portman quotes:

Portman sticks her neck out for 'Boleyn'

This winter, Natalie Portman loses her head as England's infamous queen in The Other Boleyn Girl.

The role is rife with historical drama. But the actress, who earned an Oscar nomination for 2004's Closer, had a hard time keeping a straight face when bickering with her co-star Scarlett Johansson, who plays Anne's slatternly sister Mary in the movie of Philippa Gregory's best-selling novel.

"It was hard not to laugh sometimes, when the lines get so nasty and extreme," Portman says. "The characters are so mean to each other, so there was a great, great need for the opposite."

To Portman, Anne is more of a victim than a plotter who schemed her way into Henry VIII's heart. Boleyn "sees herself as … a commodity. That obviously didn't end well for her. But it got her really far."

Mary, Portman says, could have been played as "this nice, sweet girl. But the fact that Scarlett played that role made it a much more interesting, complicated thing. She's super bright, and she imbued it with the fact that Mary had ambitions, too." —Donna Freydkin