It makes perfect sense that badass Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman is lined up to play badass Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a biopic focused on her feminist legal work in the '70s.
But Portman had one hold-up before starting on the project: She requested that a woman direct the film, Ginsburg said at the American Constitution Society Convention.
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