
Natalie Portman, who stars in the upcoming film version of Alan Moore's V for Vendetta graphic novel, said the movie made her think about why people might turn to violence to achieve political ends. "I think it's made me think a lot about how we all sort of have our thresholds for what ... we would allow to justify violence," Portman said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego. "I think most people in a room would say that they would commit violence to save their child, but then if you extend that to a leader of a country and say he feels like all the people in a country are children and he will commit violence on their behalf to protect them, it just changes. And you realize, you can understand that everyone has their own sort of limit for what would cause them to become violent."