
Poor thing. Natalie Portman just can’t decide what she wants.
Back in 2007, she said this to Reuters as to why she bared all in Hotel Chevalier:
“I don’t know why, exactly. Sometimes you make rules for yourself and sometimes those rules are made to be broken. You have to test things out and see what works for you, and this felt right.”
A very short time later in Parade:
“I’m really sorry I didn’t listen to my intuition. [...] From now on, I’m going to trust my gut more. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is to say no.”
Before that, she had had the decency to make someone else get naked on her behalf, according to reports:
“Portman, who requested director Mike Nichols to cut the nudity from “Closer” and used a body double for “Goya’s Ghosts’, said that she felt it was right to do bare scenes in the latest film.”
Then came Hotel Chevalier, the nude scene, and the vow to never get naked on camera again.
Fast forward two years, and Ms. Portman seems to have gotten over her standards. (They must be financially artistically restricting.) According to the Daily Mail, Ms. Portman will bare all again in Darren Aronofsky’s next film, Black Swan. Her excuse cop-out reason is that even though it is “a pretty serious sex scene, and a lesbian one at that,” she insists that “it’s not raunchy — it’s extreme.” She concludes by claiming that nudity is “always a big dilemma for me.”
Yeah, always kinda sounded more like a personal standard thing, than a big “dilemma’ thing. And I wanna know if I can dress like a whore-cat everyday and say that I am not being raunchy. I am being extreme. For some reason I don’t think my mom, boss, friends anyone would buy that.