Natalie Portman apparently lives locked in a beautiful ivory Harvard tower, far far away from things like debt collectors and foreclosure. Otherwise I can’t explain why she voiced this completely insouciant view of the economic climate:
“I think it’s kind of an exciting time. I mean, everyone is cutting back. It’s happening in every industry – including our own. All of a sudden, people are doing jobs that they hate and they’re not making as much money as they thought they would or they’ve lost their jobs entirely. I’ve started to see people looking more toward their own passions and what really excites them.”
It’s totally exciting to go without your medications because you can no longer afford them, right? You never know what might happen!
Unfortunately for Natalie, she doesn’t have such excitement in her life. Her fortunes are just fine, as evidenced by her purchase of a $3 million castle in a gated Los Angeles community last week.
And what housing bust? Her luxury Manhattan condo — complete with infinity lap pool and 32-foot balcony — sold for $6.5 million last November.
I don’t begrudge her enjoyment of the spoils of her success. But don’t tell the plebes that they are just so lucky to do without when you don’t have to so much as cancel your cable.
(Hat tip: Tara Lynn Thompson)
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excitement in seeing people doing jobs that they hate? Wow. She is so far out there, she gives GOOP a good name.
Soooo, people doing jobs they hate = people tapping into their inner passions? What? I thought NP was supposed to be smart!
Maybe my pleb mind just doesn’t get her superior Hollywood intelligence.
Just remember folks, this dingbat is supposed to be one of the *smart* ones in Hollywood because she went to Harvard.
How smart can she be if she dates skeevy guys like Moby and Devendra Banhart?
Right, because I can afford to hold out for a job/career that I am passionate about when I have to take a job that I hate in order to feed/clothe/shelter myself? Does she listen to herself? That has got to be one of the most nonsensical things I have ever read. Apparently, Natalie is living in Wonderland.
Maybe she finds her “downgrade” from $6.5 million condo to $3 million castle exciting, and assumes that other people are having the same sort of experience. Must be nice to live in a fairytale…
And I used to think she was so hot…this just goes to show that life is one disappointment after another.
Just like Episode I.
She was evidently smoking something to make such idiotic comments as thinking a recession is exciting. Joyfully deliriously feeding a family of 4 on a McD’s paycheck because you had to take a job you hate since you lost yours? Downgrade to choosing between buying food or meds? Happy ’cause you lost your house due to losing your job? Ya’ll know anyone who is EXCITED about doing any of that? They should be over the moon happy since then “they can find their inner passion”.
Please. This is bad advertising for a Harvard education.
I wonder how excited Nat’s gonna be when the proletariat decides not to waste their meager wages on Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium II.
Remember, even at Harvard, 50% of the people graduate at the BOTTOM of their class. And, generally, those “inner passion”-type jobs are the first to evaporate during a recession. The only things left are jobs where you are doing the workload of 2-3 laid off workers.
Didn’t Obama also go to Harvard? Hmmm, there seems to be a pattern here.
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/obama_harvard_/2008/09/23/133199.html
TheIrish wins the thread. Hee.
Yeah, the landed gentry thinks it’s so cute when the peasants are forced to cut back and get inventive on which of their kids is allowed to eat today. Natalie Portman should be fed to someone’s dogs.
It is the same kind of excitement the Romans got from watching gladiators fight to the death.
By the way, I still think she is hot, she is just more proof that people attractive on the outside can still be ugly on the inside.
Exciting (pr: ek -si – ting) adj; ” . . . . everyone is cutting back. . . . people are doing jobs that they hate and they’re not making as much money as they thought they would or . . . . lost their jobs entirely”
Not my definition of exciting that’s for sure.
Moron.
Apparently Ms. Portman didn’t realize that “may you live in interesting times” was actually a curse. She must’ve skipped class that day.
She is a rich girl with a rich girls perception of the world. The same way Ted Kennedy was one of the richest families in America but some how he was a champion of the poor and understood how the under privilage felt.
Exhibit #234 for showing why actors need to keep their mouths shut.
Jar-Jar Binks made more intelligent comments.
TheIrish: She is hot. Just no brain to go w/ that great body.
….and my father wonders why I refused to go to Harvard.
Let them eat cake, right Natalie?
I so wish that I could remove her face and fake British accent from my “V For Vendetta” DVD.
More hypocrisy…how does she reconcile her Jewish faith with her support for Obama when only 4% of Jews believe Obama is Pro-Israel?
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/08/28/1007507/percent-of-jewish-israelis-that-see-obama-as-pro-israel-continues-to-decline
How does she reconcile her Jewish faith with her unwavering support for Obama when only 4% of Jews see Obama as pro-Israel?
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/08/28/1007507/percent-of-jewish-israelis-that-see-obama-as-pro-israel-continues-to-decline
Obviously, she understands what it means to be “Jewish” about as much as she understands what it means to be “normal person living in this craptacular economy.”
pfttt. what a complete tool.
“I’ve started to see people looking more toward their own passions and what really excites them.”
I don’t know what planet she is from, but it’s hard to pursue your passions when you don’t have any damn money to spend on them.
I have a passion for feeding, clothing and putting a roof over my families head. I just get so excited when many many hours of work pay off and I can see the things I have such passion for right in front of my eyes.
Enjoy that while it lasts, Ln. I don’t know about you, but my husband works many, many hours of OT just so we’ll have what we need after paying obscenely high taxes to keep the local crack thugs and welfare hos in plasma screens and manicures. And if things get even MORE “exciting”, we’ll be paying for their abortions as well.
Oh look, another Ivy League elitist who knows better than you how you should live. Can we just kick the northeast out already?
I’m thinking that Truman Capote was right when he said that the better an actor is the stupider they are.
I keep hoping that what she said isn’t what she meant, but I fear tht she really is that clueless.
What a tard.
Please don’t boot us, Kristine! Not all us New Englanders are such morons.
She lives in wonderland, what a total moron. I’ll be EXCITING to keep the money I’d have wasted in the past to watch her be wooden on-screen.
Whoaaa girl, that’s a good one. Portman, your acting is just as fake as your nose.