Natalie Portman to star in new rom-com ‘Good Sex’ written and directed by Lena Dunham

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Natalie Portman is on board to star in a new rom-com written and directed by Lena Dunham.Good Sex, which currently has no confirmed release date, is set to be the latest in a string of films exploring age-gap romances, following on from the likes of this year’s Nicole Kidman-starring Babygirl.Portman will star as a successful couples’ therapist named Ally, who is freshly out of a decade-long relationship and nearing 40.Her best friend encourages her to enter New York City’s dating scene, where she “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,” per the synopsis shared via Deadline.It continues: “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.”Portman and Sophie Mas will produce through their company, MountainA, alongside Dunham and Michael Cohen under their studio Good Thing Going.

In other Natalie Portman news, she’s also due to appear in The Gallerist, an upcoming film by Cathy Yan (Birds of Prey).She joins the star-studded cast alongside Jenna Ortega, Charli XCX, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Sterling K.