She may have been hairless for most of 2005 but that still hasn't stopped the spunk-a-meter from picking up Natalie Portman's signal. Hair, no hair, gunk-filled zit on her schnoz, or even with a grocery bag over her fine face - and Miss P would still oooze sex appeal. And for what it's worth - she's more talented than fifteen Willie Aames' combined.

The one-time ruler of the Galaxy - at least one where Ewan McGregor is given a mighty big rod to man - is about to dirty up her acting chops for something that's going to take more than a couple of rigid stares behind a blue screen.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Portman's been faxed the script for Milos Forman's biopic on Spanish grand master Francisco de Goya, and apparently - she's keener than a fat kid at a candy store to do it.

Focusing on one of Spain's most bloody chapters, the Inquisition, "Goya's Ghosts" will co-star Javier Bardem and Stellan Skarsgard.

The trade says the film tells of the last years of the Spanish Inquisition, when the Church tortured and executed suspected Jews, as told by the painter, played by Stellan Skarsgard.

Portman plays Goya's muse Ines, falsely accused of heresy, while Bardem plays a sinister monk, Brother Lorenzo, the film production company said Wednesday.

The film is Forman's first directing project since 1999's "Man on the Moon". The helmer's probably hopins Portman does come to set believing she is the muse Ines.

Next up for Portman, "V for Vendetta", which has just been - that's right, the editor has taken a very inopportunite trip to Fiji - postponed until next year.