By Wade Sellers For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 03:03 BST, 3 April 2019 | Updated: 03:09 BST, 3 April 2019
View
comments
She's one of Hollywood's most highly-acclaimed actors who has also become a staunch activist for gender equality.
And during her recent holiday Down Under, Natalie Portman, 37, heaped praise on Australia's support for women in AFL - and wishes the US would follow suit.
In interview interview for April's issue of Vogue Australia, Natalie spoke of her 'amazing' introduction to Australian Rules Football - after an Aussie friend took her family to watch a practice in Melbourne.
'I wish we had that': Natalie Portman gushes about women in Australian Rules Football saying she wishes there were women's teams in the U.S.
'They were super-lovely and incredible athletes,' she told the publication.
But it was the women's football teams that peaked the Israeli-born star's interest.
'It's so cool that there are women's [football] teams,' she said.
'They were
