
The road is as familiar as it is well traveled. An ingénue enchants us all with her puckish charm. Half a decade later, she strikes it rich with a Marvel/Star Wars project or three. Perhaps the occasional award bait falls into her lap, but, time being what it is, every offer soon begins to look enticing. One minute she’s accepting an Oscar for headlining a Darren Aronofsky masterpiece. The next she’s married to Murray from Stranger Things in a tedious racism-of-the-week miniseries.
Such is the career arc of Natalie Po …