Natalie Portman Covers Vogue Australia May 2025 in 'Leading Light' by Lachlan Bailey AOC Fashion

Natalie Portman is Vogue Australia’s [IG] May 2025 cover star, interviewed by Hannah-Rose Yee. Christine Centenera styles Portman in images by Lachlan Bailey [IG].

The actor is eager to discuss her upcoming movie ‘Fountain of Youth’, which Yee calls a “globe-trotting extravaganza” that looks like it was fun to make. The movie opens May 23 on AppleTV.

“It was so fun. It was really a dream offer when I got it. Wait, I get to work with Guy Ritchie and John Krasinski? And all these other actors, between Domhnall [Gleeson] and Eiza [González] and Arian [Moayed] and Carmen [Ejogo], who I love so much. And then we also get to go to all these places that I had never been that I had dreamed of going to, like Vienna and Cairo. Vienna was extraordinary and Cairo was a dream. It’s so rare these days to go to the real places.”

Portman pushes back on the issue of aging in ‘The Fountain of Youth’, although she affirms that her beautiful, aging-naturally mother inspires her not to be afraid of physical aging.

What the latex-leggings loving actor is very serious about is her pursuit of “youthful idealism, my youthful belief in people, my youthful passion for what I do and excitement and what lights me up.”

In ending a long, meaty interview Portman addresses a state-of-being for so many of us.

“ . . . I’ve been feeling like we really need our escapism and good vibes right now from entertainment, so I’ve been trying to contribute in my own little way to that. I’m like, what is our art for? Right now, I really want to put some light into the world.”