Natalie Portman Does the Cannes Cannes

Natalie Portman joins other jury members for the Jury Photocall during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on Wedesday in Cannes, France.

Portman, 26, talked a bit about American politics at the photocall. She was not endorsing anyone but “that for the first time in a while we have to chose between who we like better instead of who we hate less”.

Penn added a few comments about President George Bush’s politics, which he referred to as “inane stupidity”. He said, “When somebody operates without a brain and without a heart they kill hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. It is a shame that we have to bastardize the word ‘politics’.”

Pictured below left to right: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Rachid Bouchareb, Natalie Portman, S, Jeanne Balibar, Sean Penn, Alexandra Maria Lara and Sergio Castellitto.