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This film is about the slow downward spiral of John F. Donovan, played by Kit Harington, who is an actor who takes up correspondence with an 11-year-old male fan.
Natalie Portman’s husband Benjamin Milliepied has left the Opera de Paris–the premiere ballet company in Paris, citing “personal reasons” as the catalyst for his resignation.
Milliepied, who also danced for the New York Ballet, starred in The Black Swan alongside Natalie Portman back in 2010. He served as director of dance at the Paris ballet company.
Appearing at a press conference in Paris on Thursday, Benjamin Milliepied hoped to leave the Opera de Paris on good terms.
“I am convinced we’ve opened up things that are really important,” Millepied said. “The future is bright.”
“What’s important for me is to create, to be inspired by the parts. That’s what motivated me in the ballet and today this position (the dance director position) isn’t for me, it doesn’t suit me,” he added.
Benjamin Milliepied and Natalie Portman met wile filming The Black Swan, and wed in 2012. They welcomed son Aleph in 2011.
Star Wars fans are quite familiar with Natalie Portman, who played Padme Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.
But how familiar is Natalie Portman with Star Wars?
Not entirely, apparently. According to Portman herself, she’s yet to see the newest movie in the franchise, The Force Awakens.
“I haven’t been able to see it yet,” said Portman in an interview with Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos. “But I’ve heard it’s amazing and it’s so nice that it’s sort of this continuing part of everyone’s shared cultural knowledge.”
There you have it – Star Wars star Natalie Portman is likely the only person in the country yet to see the biggest movie of the year (decade?).
Of course, Portman is busy. Her new film, Jane Got a Gun, hits theaters this week. She’s also already completed there projects slated to come out in the next two years and is filming Jackie, in which she plays the iconic Jacqueline Kennedy.
She also recently stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to help perform the classic song “Iko Iko” with The Roots and Sia.
Natalie Portman plays Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in a new biopic called Jackie, and she perfectly channels the stylish first lady. The biopic follows Jackie Kennedy’s attempts to pick up the pieces of her life following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
On Wednesday of this week, the first photo of Natalie Portman as Jackie O was released. Jackie Kennedy wore a similar red suit in a photo taken at the White House in 1961.
Natalie Portman follows a long line of actresses who have portrayed Jackie O. Katie Holmes, Minka Kelly, Roma Downey, and Jill Hennessy are just a few of them. None of them have been a dead ringer like Natalie Portman, however.
Jackie is directed by Pablo Larrain. In addition to Natalie Portman it stars Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy. Greta Gerwig plays one of Kennedy’s aides.
Presently filming in Paris, IMDb reports Jackie is scheduled for release some time in 2017.
Do you agree that Natalie Portman is a Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis doppelganger?
The Natalie Portman film Jane Got a Gun had faced numerous issues during the course of its filming, including changes in casts, conflicts among the team and conflicts in release dates. It has been in the works since 2012 but only managed to have a final international release date this year. Now that it is finally here, however, the upcoming French premiere of the film is going to be rescheduled following the gruesome Paris terror attacks.
This means Portman and the rest of the cast will have to wait for another release date again before their film can make it to the theaters. The film had been rescheduled several times before. Jane Got a Gun was supposed to debut on November 25 but Mars Distribution, the company that will be distributing the film in France, announced on Monday that the film will be moved to a later date. Likewise, film screenings and press interviews that were reportedly scheduled on Sunday and Monday were pushed back.
Natalie Portman Plays One Tough Lady In ‘Jane Got A Gun’
The red carpet premiere of the film was scheduled for November 16 but Natalie Portman and the rest of the team had to cancel the event following the series of shootings and bombings in several Parisian establishments, which claimed 129 lives. Jane Got a Gun will hit U.S. theaters in February of next year. Natalie Portman stars alongside Ewan McGregor and Joel Edgerton. The French premiere schedule will be announced soon. Reports claim that cinemas in the City of Lights were closed on Saturday afternoon but have since been reopened.
The French premiere of the Bridge of Spies, which stars actor Tom Hanks was also put off over the weekend according to EW. Several musical acts such as Motorhead, Marilyn Manson, and U2 also canceled their scheduled concerts in Paris.
Natalie Portman was scheduled to promote her upcoming film, Jane Got a Gun, in Paris on Sunday, ahead of its premiere on Monday. In light of the terrorist attacks in that city, both Sunday and Monday’s events have been cancelled. All French television appearances have been called off as well.
Jane Got a Gun is scheduled to open in France–ahead of the rest of the world–on November 25. It’s uncertain at this point if that date may now change.
Natalie Portman previously shared her fear about living in Paris following January’s terror attacks at the Charlie Hebdo offices. She told The Hollywood Reporter she was frightened about being Jewish living in Paris.
Natalie Portman and husband Benjamin Millepied moved to Paris earlier in 2015, as he took over the top position at the Paris Opera Ballet.
Jane Got a Gun is just one of several premieres and performances planned for Paris that have been cancelled. The French premiere of Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks was cancelled, as were concerts by U2 and the Foo Fighters.
Natalie Portman finally debuted in the first trailer for her role in Jane Got a Gun, which tells the story of a pioneer woman who resorts to seeking the help of her ex-lover to defend her home and family from a gang of bounty hunters.
A troubled production, Jane Got a Gun was originally touted as a Blacklist script from Insurgent writer Brian Duffield to be directed by We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay and starring Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender and Joel Edgerton. That didn’t last long. Fassbender soon left because of reported schedule conflicts, and Ramsay left the production soon after. And then, Warrior director Gavin O’Connor quickly replaced Ramsay and hired Anthony Tambakis to rewrite the script.
Natalie Portman is obviously enjoying life in Paris with her husband, Benjamin Millepied, and their four-year-old son, Aleph.
For Natalie Portman, transitioning from life in America was likely an interesting experiment, but she has clearly benefitted.
For one thing, Natalie Portman feels very sexy in being a woman from Paris.
Natalie Portman told French magazine Gala, “I confess, I feel more sexy. It’s so amazing to me that I feel [like] another person.”
She added, “In Paris, everything seems easier. We can afford not to do much in beauty and still have the beautiful air. The French are more natural than Americans, that’s obvious…I spend my time observing to try to imitate them.”
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I’m fairly certain that most cultures in the world are more natural than Americans, but who’s keeping track? Natalie Portman certainly has the natural beauty to pull off life in Paris if that is the case.
Natalie Portman may be getting comfortable in her more natural, French-inspired beauty, but she is still a mom and that means insecurity in her mothering abilities. Just like it does for the rest of us.
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For example, it has been asserted that the French don’t coddle their children, and Natalie Portman has experienced that already.
She said, “…And there’s stuff you don’t know you’ll miss until you’re away. Like indoor gyms where kids can just run around and jump. They don’t have those there. [In Paris], if you’re running around on the playground chasing your kid and playing a game, people think you’re nuts.”
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To help with her feelings of parental inadequacies, Natalie Portman did what we all do at some point. She asked her friend.
Natalie Portman turned to Cate Blanchett when questions of balancing working and being a mom.
She said, “Very early on, I asked [Cate Blanchett] about being a parent. I said, ‘How do you do it? You’re a mom. You’re the best at what you do.’ She said, ‘You just do. Stressing about it doesn’t help.’”
Not very specific, but it works. Right?
What do you think about the advice Natalie Portman received from Cate Blanchett?
Natalie Portman is Jewish. She was born in Israel. Her father is Israeli and her mother is American. They moved to the U.S. when Natalie was three years old. Now Portman lives in Paris.
Portman directed the film A Tale of Love and Darkness, which debuted at Cannes in May. The film is set in Israel and is entirely in Hebrew.
“I’m very much against Netanyahu. Against. I am very, very upset and disappointed that he was re-elected. I find his racist comments horrific. However, I don’t — what I want to make sure is, I don’t want to use my platform [the wrong way]. I feel like there’s some people who become prominent, and then it’s out in the foreign press. You know, shit on Israel. I do not. I don’t want to do that.”
Netanyahu should get a Nobel Prize for how he's getting the world to wake up to the occupation
Comments like these have resulted in her being asked lots of questions about foreign policy.
“I get asked so many questions about the Middle East,” she told Harper’s Bazaar recently, “and I’m like ‘Can you please just ask me about my dress? Let’s just talk about the dress!’”
“It’s a very strange place to be from,” she says of Israel. “If you say, ‘I’m from Sweden,’ everyone says, ‘Cool.’ When you say, ‘I’m from Israel!’ everyone wants to have a 10-hour political conversation. Everyone has a very strong, very passionate opinion about it. But I’m grateful for it. I had so many friends who asked, when we were younger, ‘Who am I? What’s my identity?’ I never questioned my identity.”
Natalie Portman wants to be asked about her clothes on the red carpet, not the Middle East. http://t.co/AasQwig2Eu
Natalie Portman, mother of 4-year-old Aleph Portman-Millepied, discusses balancing motherhood and a career Harper’s Bazaar’s August issue. The actress also talks about embracing French culture, saying, “It’s magical!”
“But the cultures are different in ways you don’t even realize. And there’s stuff you don’t know you’ll miss until you’re away,” the Black Swan star continues. “Like indoor gyms where kids can just run around and jump. They don’t have those there.”
“[In Paris], if you’re running around on the playground chasing your kid and playing a game, people think you’re nuts.”
Portman, 34, made her debut as a director for the drama film A Tale of Love and Darkness which was released earlier this year.
She will also be starring in the upcoming action-western movie Jane Got a Gun to be released this September.
Juggling a busy career and a growing toddler can be very hard for a mother. In fact, she admitted to have taken Parenting 101 from a fellow Academy Award winner, Cate Blanchett.
Portman tells Harper’s Bazaar, “Very early on, I asked [Cate Blanchett] about being a parent. I said, ‘How do you do it? You’re a mom. You’re the best at what you do.’”
“She said, ‘You just do. Stressing about it doesn’t help.’”
Apparently, Portman’s husband, Benjamin Millepied, whom she co-starred with in Black Swan, admitted to feeling the same as his wife, saying, “Most men I know are dealing with the same issues. They say they feel like if they work too hard they won’t have enough time with their families.
“Maybe those questions need to be asked of men, too. Maybe the men need better questions,” the 38-year-old French choreographer added.
Natalie Portman has revealed that when she began her Harvard College career in 1999, she was determined to prove that she “wasn’t just a dumb actress.”
On Wednesday, Natalie Portman provided the keynote speaker at Harvard College’s Class Day ceremony, an honor she referred to as “one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do.”
“When I came in as a freshman in 1999, I felt like there had been some mistake” and “that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company,” said Natalie Portman of her alma mater.
Natalie Portman told graduating seniors that while in high school, classmates weren’t all that interested in her acting career.
“I went to a public high school on Long Island. The girls I went to school with had Prada bags and flat-ironed hair. People didn’t pay much attention to the fact that I was an actress. I was known for having a backpack bigger than I was, and always having whiteout on my hands,” said Natalie Portman.
The pressure was great when she arrived at Harvard to begin her studies.
“When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I feared people would assume I had gotten in just for being famous, and not worthy of the intellectual rigor here,” said Natalie Portman.
— Glamour Magazine UK (@GlamourMagUK) May 28, 2015
Like any other college student, Natalie Portman faced challenges while studying psychology.
“It’s easy to romanticize my time here, but I had some difficult times here,” said Natalie Portman. “Being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control that’s now off the market due to its depressive side effects….”
After graduating in 2003, Natalie Portman came to realize how important her chosen career is to her.
“I admitted to myself I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films,” said Natalie Portman. “I had reclaimed my reason.”
Natalie Portman’s latest movie was shot entirely in Hebrew. Even though Portman herself is Jewish, shooting A Tale of Love and Darkness was a challenge. To be up to that challenge, which she calls “the deepest and the most meaningful” experience of her career, called for some training and background that doing films like Star Wars: Episode 1 could not give her.
Natalie Portman says she found that depth and belief in herself, not on the set of her early films, but at Harvard.
The actress was asked to address the graduating class at Harvard this year, delivering the keynote address. She calls that opportunity “one of the most exciting things I’ve ever been asked to do.”
Portman admits that she was a bit overwhelmed when she came to Harvard after doing Star Wars.
“When I came in as a freshman in 1999, I felt like there had been some mistake” and “that I wasn’t smart enough to be in this company,” she admitted to the assembled students.
“When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars: Episode 1, I feared people would assume I had gotten in just for being famous, and not worthy of the intellectual rigor here,” she said.
Natalie Portman said she came to Harvard determined to prove that she “wasn’t just a dumb actress.”
“It’s easy to romanticize my time here, but I had some difficult times here,” she said. “Being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control that’s now off the market due to its depressive side effects….”
But her time there made her realize that she had more and deeper work to do in film than she had realized.
“I admitted to myself I couldn’t wait to go back and make more films,” said Portman. “I had reclaimed my reason.”
Speaking of how her time at Harvard had steeled her for her future work, including that challenging film in Israel, she said, “All of these are challenges [in shooting the film] I should have been terrified of, as I was completely unprepared. But once there, I had to figure it all out, and my belief that I could handle these things was half the battle.”
Natalie Portman had her first directorial debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
While the film, A Tale of Love and Darkness, received mixed reviews, Natalie Portman is still proud that she has accomplished what many actors only dream of.
Natalie Portman’s movie is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Amos Oz. The novel details his childhood during the period surrounding the formation of the Israeli state in 1948. It focuses on his relationship with his mother, Fania, who committed suicide when Oz was 12.
Natalie Portman, herself, played Fania.
Of her filming experience, Natalie Portman said it was quite a challenge, but those surrounding her made it easier.
Natalie Portman said, “It’s been really challenging but I think that every challenge has helped me grow more and luckily I’ve had many people around me – my family, my friends and my crew who helped me so much throughout that I felt so well supported that it was never an existential crisis during it.”
When Natalie Portman was asked why she wanted to direct the film, she said, “The way to feel alive is to change and to try new things, to stimulate yourself, to be afraid, do things you’re afraid of.”
In a different interview, Natalie Portman expanded on why it was such a challenge for her. She admitted that films directed by women are still sometimes assumed to be “vanity projects” in a “completely imbalanced” industry.
When Natalie Portman began the project, she didn’t realize how difficult it would really be.
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She said, “To take on a great challenge you have to have a great deal of ignorance and naivete.”
However, Natalie Portman knew that making a movie and putting herself in a starring role might look like a form of vanity. She recalled an example from her childhood.
She said, “I remember as a kid when Barbra Streisand would make movies that she was in and people would say, ‘Oh it’s vanity, it’s a vanity thing.’”
She continued, “I think there was a shyness about being a woman and putting myself in it (the film) that it would come off that way.”
What do you think about Natalie Portman directing and starring in A Tale of Love and Darkness?
Natalie Portman is more known for going for classic silhouettes when on the red carpet. But the actress shook things up a bit when she appeared in Cannes wearing a sheer black number.
The Rodarte dress was reminiscent of Portman’s Black Swan costume and featured a beaded V-neck and a sheer, paneled skirt that revealed her bum in black underwear.
But this was no wardrobe malfunction and the 33-year-old thespian managed to flash her skivvies while still appearing classy.
She completed her look with strappy heels, a simple bun and minimal make-up.
The Star Wars queen was on the red carpet for a photo call for her directorial debutA Tale of Love and Darkness and was joined by her co-stars, Amir Tessler and Gilad Kahana.
A Tale of Love and Darkness is a reworking of Israeli writer Amos Oz’ memoir, and tells his tale of growing up in Israel and how his life changed after World War Two.
The film is done entirely in Hebrew and is a very personal project for the V for Vendetta star who was born in Israel and who lived there until her family moved to the US when she was 3 years old.
Portman’s film has been getting mixed reviews. Some papers, like The Guardian, sang praises for Portman’s “assured, heartfelt debut” while others had a more difficult time with the fact that the film was in Hebrew.
With her film shown successfully in this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Portman can now focus on her next project, the biopic Jackie where she’s set to portray America’s beloved first lady.
And if Portman’s fashion choices at Cannes prove anything, it’s that she’s so appropriate for the role of Jackie. After all, the former first lady is a known fashion icon, something that Portman is also turning out to be.
Aside from her stint playing Jane Foster in the last Thor movie, Natalie Portman has been pretty low-key the past few years. But that’s set to change as the actress has signed on to portray Jackie Kennedy.
Reports coming out of the Cannes Film Festival say that the Oscar winning actress will star as the titular Jackie.
The film revolves around the four days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy and shows the impact it had on his wife.
“Jackie talks about the days when Jackie Kennedy becomes an icon but has lost everything,” said Vincent Maraval of French film distribution company Wild Bunch.
The movie will have Chilean director Pablo Larrain at the helm. The director’s newest film, The Club, won the Grand Jury Prize at The Berlin International Film Festival and prompted Portman to hop on board the Jackie project.
The project will also reunite Portman with her Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, who’s coming in as producer.
It has taken a very long time for project to see the light of day. It was originally conceived to be a project of Aronofsky and then-fiancee Rachel Weisz in 2010. But the end of the relationship also meant the end of the project.
Luckily, Fox Searchlight was able to resurrect it and secure another notable director to lead it.
It’s been a big week for the Star Wars queen. Aside from nabbing the role of Jackie Kennedy, the 33-year-old actress is also set to star as Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Those roles are sure to add to Portman’s already full plate this year. She’s just completed her directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness which is being screened at this year’s Cannes.
The new mother also has the movies Jane Got a Gun, Terence Malick’s Weightless and Planetarium in the works.
Natalie Portman has been making headlines lately for a new film that she is in with Johnny Depp’s daughter, Lily Rose. That film is called Planetarium and is actually a French film. Natalie Portman and her husband live in France, and this is not her first French film.
That film is set in the 1930sm and is directed by French director Rebecca Zlotowski.
But Natalie Portman is quietly rumored to be looking down the barrel — or hammer handle — of another possible role in the future.
What Marvel announced back in October that it was rolling out a female Thor, fans lit up. It has been eight issues now, and fans were not disappointed.
And now the big secret is out that the female Thor is none other than Jane Foster.
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“I mean, it was never just about the surprise or the mystery. Clearly I’ve had fun playing with that part of it over the course of these eight issues [since we introduced the new Thor]. But that’s really all just setup for the real story. And Jane was the one I had a story with, whose story I wanted to tell,” writer Jason Aaron told Vulture. “She’s grown and changed and evolved a lot over the years, become a doctor in her own right. So this to me is not just the next step for her character, but really the next evolution of the core promise that has always been at the heart of Thor’s mythology.”
And, in case you haven’t put two and two together on this, Jane Foster is the character played by Natalie Portman in the currently running Marvel series of films.
Does that mean that Natalie Portman might be suiting up and swinging a hammer sometime soon? Time will tell.
So now we need a standalone Thor movie with Natalie Portman as Thor
It’s been more than two decades since Natalie Portman last starred in a French film, but it shouldn’t take her long to prepare for Planetarium. After all, she has been living in Paris since last year after moving there with French hubby, choreographer Benjamin Millepied.
Natalie Portman will star with Lily Rose Depp in Planetarium, which is a 1930’s set drama by French director Rebecca Zlotowski, according to Variety.
The last time Natalie Portman starred in a film by a French director was 1994s Leon, which was directed by Luc Besson.
Planetarium chronicles the story of “two sisters believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts.”
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Natalie Portman will appear at the Cannes Film Festival opening on the French riviera Wednesday, with her directorial debut of A Tale of Love and Darkness.
Natalie Portman, who was born in Israel, won a best actress Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress for 2010’s Black Swan, which is where she met Millepied.
Natalie Portman will reportedly team up with Johnny Depp’s daughter, Lily Rose, for her next film.
The actress has signed on to play a woman with the ability to communicate with the dead in the drama Planetarium, which takes place in the ’30s and follows Portman’s character and her sister–played by Depp–as they use their talents in Paris. The movie will be helmed by French director Rebecca Zlotowski and features a character heavily inspired by Jewish producer Bernard Natan, who, according to Variety, was “one of the biggest French film industry figures of the ’20s and ’30s, who eventually died in Auschwitz.”
Portman has been a busy lady recently, tackling several projects at once. Aside from Planetarium, she’s also reportedly signed on to play Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On The Basis Of Sex, a biopic about Ginsburg’s battle for equal rights, and will see her directorial debut later this month at Cannes with A Tale Of Love And Darkness. The film is based on a memoir by Amos Oz, and Portman also stars.
As for Lily Rose, she made her modeling debut earlier this year and has since taken the fashion world by storm. The 15-year old stunned in photos for Oyster, in which she looks much older than she actually is.
“The daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, Lily-Rose Depp, has the face of an angel and a magnetic presence beyond her young years,” the magazine read.
Depp also had a small part in Kevin Smith’s film Tusk, and will star in his next film, Yoga Hosers, with her dad. The film is set for release this summer.
Natalie Portman doesn’t seem all that in to her Oscar.
The Star Wars actress told The Hollywood Reporter that not only is she not that concerned about winning her first and only Oscar for Black Swan in 2011, Natalie Portman doesn’t even know where she put the coveted prize.
“I don’t know where it is,” Natalie Portman said. “I think it’s in the safe or something. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it in a while.”
In fact, Natalie Portman considers the Oscar a “false idol.”
“I was reading the story of Abraham to my child and talking about, like, not worshipping false idols,” the 33-year-old actress said. “And this is literally like gold men. This is literally worshipping gold idols — if you worship it. That’s why it’s not displayed on the wall. It’s a false idol.”
— Adriana Michelle Inc (@Miss_LosAngeles) May 7, 2015
But that doesn’t mean Natalie Portman doesn’t like the finer side of life. She has been living in Paris with her husband, ballet dancer Benjamin Millepied, and loves the city of lights.
“I love that people at dinner want to have a serious conversation — and only a serious conversation,” Natalie Portman told The Hollywood Reporter. “They’ll be upset if you don’t have something interesting happen. I love that my [3-year-old son Aleph] wants to go to art museums after school — like, ‘Take me to the Pompidou.’ I love that it’s also not elitist, as it is in New York. You can afford to go to the philharmonic or the opera much more easily because all of it’s subsidized. And there’s a huge culture of cinema there.”
Natalie Portman is Jewish. She was born in Israel. her father is Israeli and her mother is American. They moved to the U.S. when she ws three years old.
The beliefs and stories of her heritage help form her life even today. For example, Natalie Portman recently famously claimed that she did not know where her Oscar statuette is. When asked about that, she cited the Hebrew story of Abraham.
“I don’t know where it is,” she says. “I think it’s in the safe or something. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it in a while. I was reading the story of Abraham to my child and talking about, like, not worshipping idols. And this is literally like gold men. This is literally worshipping gold idols — if you worship it. That’s why it’s not displayed on the wall. It’s an idol.”
But her heritage as a Jew does not mean that Natalie Portman follows all Israeli sentiment.
“I’m very much against Netanyahu. Against. I am very, very upset and disappointed that he was re-elected. I find his racist comments horrific. However, I don’t — what I want to make sure is, I don’t want to use my platform [the wrong way]. I feel like there’s some people who become prominent, and then it’s out in the foreign press. You know, shit on Israel. I do not. I don’t want to do that.”
When she was asked about how she feels about former Dior fashion designer John Galliano, who was quoted as saying, “I like Hitler” and using anti-Semitic comments toward a Jewish couple, she chooses forgiveness.
“I don’t see why not to be forgiving to someone who is, I mean, someone who’s trying to change,” she says. “However, I don’t think those comments are ever OK. I don’t forgive the comments, but … we’ve all done things that we regret.”
Natalie Portman lives in Paris, which has seen an upswing in anti-Semitic activity. Is she nervous living there? She takes a cosmopolitan view of the situation.
“Yes,” she says, “but I’d feel nervous being a black man in this country. I’d feel nervous being a Muslim in many places.”
Anne Hathaway received an apology from Keira Knightley over the weekend after the Pirates of the Caribbean star was mistaken for her apparent doppelgänger, Hathaway.
Knightley, 29, told the Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph that a fan, believing she was Anne Hathaway, asked for and was denied a photo with Anne/Keira. The fan then accused Knightley of being rude.
“I think I have to apologize to Anne Hathaway because the woman [at the airport] thought I was being really rude as Anne Hathaway not giving her a picture as Anne Hathaway, but I was really only saying that I promised I wasn’t Anne Hathaway, which I am not,” she said.
The mama-to-be said she is often confused for other A-list actresses.
“Actually it’s the first Anne Hathaway I have had,” Knightley said. “Generally, I get [mistaken] a lot [for] Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman.”
Meanwhile, Knightley, who is expecting her first child this spring, told Vogue in 2012 that being a stay-at-home mom will notnecessarily be a part of her future when the baby arrives.
“I’m glad that the subject is coming up again,” she said at the time, referring to the debate of whether women can successfully balance career with motherhood. “I remember doing interviews, and people would ask, as if it was a joke, ‘So you mean you are a feminist?’ As though feminism couldn’t be discussed unless we were making fun of it. I don’t want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.”
