Emma Watson insists she isn’t your “classic” public schoolgirl — and she hates it when people judge her. The Harry Potter star has transformed herself into a punky siren for the latest issue of Elle magazine. And she insists her clean-cut reputation is inaccurate. “I’m not your classic public schoolgirl because I’ve been brought up in Watford,” she dished. “And I’ve met and worked with people from a million different backgrounds. “You can’t please everyone. And that’s something that I’m learning.” “I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. “I want to avoid becoming too styled and too ‘done’ and too generic. “You see people as they go through their career and they just become more and more like everyone else. “They start out with something individual about them but it gets lost. “Natalie Portman is an exception. I’m in awe of how she’s handled herself.”

Behind Her Smile wants to wish Natalie a very happy 28th birthday! We hope that all her wishes come true and that she spends a wonderful day with her beloved ones!

Is Natalie Portman the hardest working woman in show business? The 27-year old actress just debuted a new web venture Makingof.com, which features behind-the-scenes access to the movie industry. And on Wednesday (May 06), her year-old production company, handsomecharlie films, announced its first acquisition, the darkly comedic indie Hesher from first-time feature writer/director Spencer Susser. The movie, about a family grappling with loss and an anarchist who helps them overcome it, begins filming outside of Los Angeles next week. She chatted with EW.com about her latest entrepreneurial endeavors.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What prompted you to become a producer?
NATALIE PORTMAN: I started the production company because I wanted to have the ability to create my own projects and support filmmakers I believe in. Also, I wasn’t always finding the roles I wanted to work on. I’m excited that Hesher is the first thing the company is making. I’ve known Spencer for a really long time. It’s really exciting to not only do something that I believe in artistically but also to work with my close friends. It’s a maturation thing for me too because I started working at 11 years old. I’ve always been the kid working for other people. Now to be peers with the filmmakers I’m working with — and friends with them too — is so much fun. It’s not obeying the authority but being the authority.

Celebs Gone Good: First of all, what did you think of the documentary A Powerful Noise?
Natalie Portman: The film is so amazing. I think its always more powerful to hear individuals stories, to tell about a larger issue… when you talk about things in abstract terms, overriding terms, it’s very hard to grasp truth of it, whereas when you meet one human being and you really come to love them, and live their story, you understand it in such a different way
CGG: Since Sunday is International Women’s Day, CGG wanted to know what do you think are some of the biggest issues women face in today’s society? What issues have you personally faced being a woman in society and specifically a successful woman in the entertainment industry? What advise do you have for young women entering the workforce for dealing with those problems?
NP: We have a lot of issues that we still have to work on right here for women. Its something we really have to navigate; how to be unique in our own womanhood, not just trying to copy a male model but also demand the same access and the same rights hat men have, but in our own unique way, and its definitely a big challenge when our culture is simultaneously pushing girls to be in bras or on covers of magazines AND proclaiming their virginity at the same time, and it’s still a very old mindset we have about girls that we need to really work hard to fight against and we need to just create our own definition of ourselves.

More problems for the big-screen adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. In May Natalie Portman, who was to play Cathy Earnshaw, pulled out because she didn’t think she could manage a Yorkshire accent. Now the film’s director John Maybury has quit, leaving the future of the movie in serious doubt. It is not exactly known why Maybury, whose credits include the recent Dylan Thomas movie The Edge of Love, left, but the Daily Mail claims it was down to differences of opinion between himself and the producers over the script and cast (as reported on The First Post, Maybury was never keen on Portman taking the lead role). It seems the project had moved into a direction he was not happy with. In a recent interview, Maybury said that the producers initially wanted “a weird, dark version of the weird, dark tale”, but it soon became apparent that was not the case. The search is now on for a new director – and a new leading actress. Keira Knightley was offered the part of Cathy after Portman left, but turned it down because she didn’t want to take on a role an American actress had dumped. Sienna Miller was then approached, but she had other commitments.