Natalie Portman ‘just your average Jewish mother’

Okay, now we’ve heard it all. Actress Natalie Portman told New York Post’s Page Six celebrity columnist Cindy Adams that she’s “just basically your average everyday Jewish mother.”

Now to clarify.

The interview followed the premiere of Portman’s latest film, Wild West epic “Jane Got a Gun,” about a woman (Portman) who must defend her family from a vengeful outlaw (Ewan McGregor) and his gang in the Old West.

The film was released in American theaters at the end of January.

Portman told Adams that she knew little about the period before she began making the feminist western, and had to learn how to carry a rifle, shoot bad guys, bake bread and survive.

But even after doing her own research, there were obstacles in making the film. Those involved lost their initial distributor as well as a director, changed leading actors several times, suffered financial and legal challenges, and filmed in particularly unforgiving weather.

So she, Portman, a mom to toddler son Aleph, would go around asking the cast and crew if they were all right.

“I have a child. I know what it’s like to care for a baby,” she told Adams. “But to do that with the civilization’s surrounding toughness, to make that journey and survive it. That’s the story.”

It isn’t the first time Portman, an actress since her teens, played a mother onscreen. Most recently, she played a depressed mother in her adaptation and directorial debut of Amos Oz’s semi-autobiographical book “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” released in 2015 and filmed in Israel.