Although there is no evidence of a close relationship between the author and her rumored subject, who is now expecting her third child with French musician Tanguy Destable, pop culture critic Hunter Harris wrote a Substack piece posing the question, “Does Natalie Portman Have a Bad Art Friend?”
In her review, Valerie Stivers commented, “Natalie Portman has long seemed more like a person who wants to brand herself as smart than like a person who is actually smart—and her decision to let her friend Rachel Cusk write a book about her seems to confirm this.”
The larger issue, however, is that it appears the Harvard graduate, 45, did not approve of all this attention, with anonymous insiders informing the Daily Mail that she is less than pleased with both the portrayal and the notion that she cooperated.
Another source mentioned to The Hollywood Reporter that while the character is clearly intended to represent Portman, “M bears zero resemblance to the person of Natalie Portman. If you asked anybody who knows her they’d say the same.”
