Natalie Portman was fired from this iconic film starring Leonardo Dicaprio to avoid causing controversy

The renowned actress Natalie Portman, although she has achieved great and important performances in the world of cinema, such as in the three installments of ‘Thor’, ‘The Black Swan’, the ‘Star Wars’ saga and other truly successful titles, comments that she obtained the leading role in one of the most iconic titles on the big screen.

This is ‘Romeo and Juliet‘, this classic romantic tragedy by the poet and playwright William Shakespeare, was adapted to film, and was released in 1996. Natalie Portman was part of the main cast, since she was the one who would play Juliet, however There was a problem, although her performance was truly impeccable, her age did not favor her.

Portman was only 13 years old, much less Leonardo DiCaprio, who had obtained the role to give life to Romeo and he was 21 years old, already of legal age, which would cause a lot of controversy in the scenes where a lot of affection was shown between both actors.

Through an interview for The New York Times, the actress revealed that “Fox said that it seemed like Leonardo DiCaprio was abusing me when we kissed“, and this was the reason for her dismissal from the production, thus the actress who would get the role would be Claire Danés, with a majestic performance and highly acclaimed by critics.

Watch the trailer for this movie ‘Romeo and Juliet’, which was finally starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes below:

Do you think it was a good idea to fire Natalie Portman from the love and tragedy movie based on Shakespeare’s successful novel?