I never thought I’d see the day that a female stoner movie would come into my life. Even if I did happen to consider it, I had already mentally cast Rosanna Arquette in the lead role. You know, someone who looks like they’ve been stuck in a drainpipe for a week or so. NEVER have I uttered the words “Natalie”, “Portman” and “weed” in the same sentence. Ok, I lie. She does frequent my hallucinations, but she’s definitely not someone I would ever think I’d be able to punch a cone with. Hence, my surprise (albeit delayed) at the news that Natalie Portman is set to star in, and produce, a stoner film. I feel like she’s too pretty and pure and intelligent for that. Then again, it’s always those chicks you gotta keep your eye on. And I suppose, ‘pretty’ and ‘ganja’ do mix quite well. Think Mary Louise Parker in Weeds or James Franco in Pineapple Express.
The film, for which Portman has been scouting a director, is set to be called “Best Buds” (witty, right?) adapted from a script by actress Jamie Denbo. The plot sounds vaguely like Thelma and Louise, but younger, herbal, with joints, rather than a joint suicide. Actually, it’s nothing like Thelma and Louise at all. It reads like this: “Two best friends take a road trip to their friends wedding in order to save her by bringing her weed.” Like anything high, even the tag line doesn’t make sense. This film will however, be a landmark cinematic moment, proving just how far 21st century feminism has come, that we now live in an age where there can be two female leads in a stoner flick. Now that’s something to be proud of.
Bianca Georgiou
