“ Natalie Portman says she stayed away from comedies for years because she didn’t want to play the dreaded ‘girlfriend’ role. She explains, “It wasn’t that I didn’t want to do comedy. It’s just that I would only get offered girlfriend parts in guy comedies, which aren’t exciting to me, or those offensive roles in romantic comedies where the woman has to have a job in fashion so that she can have nice clothes, and her goal is always marriage.
