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.
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Natalie always reminded me of the strippers I used to date. They were great in bed but when they started talking all I could do was nod or agree with what they said as 90% of the words coming out of their mouths never made perfect sense.
Basically just enjoy what she has to offer (Nudity) and ignore the crap she spouts when she is not reading someone else’s words.
…I wonder how she defines “raunchy” and how she defines “extreme.” Plus, aren’t we at the point where lesbian hookups aren’t OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING shocking?
Aleric, as I’ve heard from someone who dated her, that’s…that’s Natalie Portman in a nutshell.
An extreme lesbian scene? Does it include an underground MMA match, or snowboarding or something?
“Red Bull, it gives you EXTREME LESBIANS!”
*I work cheap call me Hollywood!*
Sorry I meant EXXXTREME.
See Pasta, I buy those Xtreme 3 razors because whenever I’m shaving, I absolutely need to feel like I’m SNOWBOARDING UPSIDE DOWN CHUGGING MOUNTAIN DEW WHILE BEING CHASED BY A CHEETAH.
But isn’t that what everyone wants?
If she ain’t doing a 2 girls 1 cup sort of scene it ain’t EXXXTREME!
Hotel Chevalier was a ten minute intro film to Darjeeling Limited.
I hate Natalie Portman is a pompous windbag, but it was a good movie.
the film and tv industries are overflowing with pompous windbags, it seems. must be a requirement. oh, and politics/govt too. can’t leave them out.
I really hope the lesbian scene involves snowboarding and tigers.
If only Porn Stars were better actors, there wouldn’t be a need for Hollywood any longer…lol.
“I’m an EXTREME lesbian, and I want an EXTREME cereal!”
“Honeycomb’s extreme, yeah yeah yeah, it’s not dull, no no no…”
Sorry. Offkilter 70s flashback. It happens.
‘It’s not so much a rule as a guideline.’ — Dr. Peter Venkman
I think she looks good with her head shaved.
Pasta are you having Sinead O’Conner flash back?
I’m still wondering what happened to her whole 2002, 2004 (or whenever that was) declaration of “acting isn’t in my future, I’m going to finish my college degree and become a psychiatrist.”
Personally I always thought it’d be pretty darn interesting for Queen Amidala to be your shrink. It’d make a good story at parties anyway.
@habanada – a while back there was a blind item about a ivy-leager actress who isn’t as bright as she puts off. She had people do her papers for her, as well as needs others to even read her scripts. someone *cough* could fit that bill. (or I could just loathe her for her thin frame. non lo so)
@Pastafarian….your handle was dropped on nip/tuck last week! I got all tingly when I heard it. (and I concur on the shaved cranium of NP)
What? Nip/Tuck? What did they say? It couldn’t be I’m nobody.
I don’t believe that.
the guy (not christian) was out having dinner with his new wife (rose mcgowen) and his daughter, who just arrived from NYC and was being a ” typical 13yr old teenage girl”, as she wasn’t eating, when the dad says, “what happened, you used to be a Pastafarian?” I haven’t ever heard it used prior to here so I found it quite amusing and had to share.
(I am, however, quite versed in it’s slight ref., all my kid’s bear the name Selassie)
I haven’t looked the same at her ever since she signed the ‘free Roman Polanski’ petition. Padme, how could you??? Sniff sniff
Anybody who sold her soul to sleepwalk through the last 3 SW debacles is probably thanking her lucky stars she’s got naughty bits to show. Otherwise it’d be dinner theater in Puyallup.
His 13 year old daughter used to be a brilliant, muscular, handsome man?
That’s weird.
I only got into it at the end of last season, but I’m sure you could youtube it…is was at the beginning. (or on-demand it)
@catharine…..I’m with you.
Someone on Ted Casablanca’s site suggested Portman was a hypocrite of convenience.
I’ve always thought her, Jessica Alba, and Keanu Reeves should have a Steel Cage Wooden Actor-Off. The first one who can actually manage to channel a real freaking emotion loses.
This woman in particular has the emotional depth of the Reflecting Pool. I wouldn’t mind it so much if she didn’t work so hard at trying to convince people she’s a deep, intelligent, person with more than two cogent thoughts to rub together. Yeah, she lost me with all the activism and going back to college spiel. At least Keanu Reeves seems reasonably self-aware of the fact he’s the luckiest moron in the history of Earth.
I imagine I’d have a more deep philosophical debate with the guy in a trucker hat and cutoffs standing behind me while I’m waiting to buy a pack of smokes at the gas station.