Natalie Portman says Star Wars was one of her earliest lessons in failure

Almost three decades later, Natalie Portman can look at the reactions to Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace as a teachable moment. “I had lucky early experiences of failure,” Portman said in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar, published on Monday. “I know I’ve been also very lucky to have a lot of successes that have balanced it out.