Oscar-winner Natalie Portman has signed on to star in and executive produce the HBO feature “The Days of Abandonment”.
Based on a novel by “My Brilliant Friend” author Elena Ferrante, and both penned and directed by Sundance award-winner Maggie Betts (“Novitiate”), pre-production on the title is underway.
Portman plays Tess, a woman who abandoned her own dreams for a stable home life and is in turn abandoned by her husband, throwing her world off its axis.
The story will delve into the mind of a woman in crisis that confronts the norms of motherhood and female identity as Tess traverses the darkest reaches of her own psyche.
Portman recently signed on to join Lupita Nyong’o in the Apple limited series based on Laura Lippman’s novel “Lady in the Lake”.
Source: The Live Feed
