The actress Natalie Portman43, a movie star for over 30 years, Don’t think the public knows her as well as she thinks.
In a new conversation with Jenna Ortega published in this interview magazine, she said that when she was a child actress, she was “very sexualized”, which made her feel “very scared.” This led her to develop an external as a strategy for protecting herself.
“And I felt that my way of protecting me was to be the like, ‘I’m very serious. I’m very studious. I’m smart, and that’s not the kind of girl you attack.’ I thought: If I create this image of myself, they will leave me alone, ”she said.
The Oscar winner added that at the time she thought, “If I create this image of myself, they will leave me alone. It shouldn’t be like that, but it worked.”
Portman said this perception of her ended up generating a “mismatch” with whom she really is: “kind of silly and fun in real life, while people think I’m a super serious and intellectual person.”
She even told Ortega that, in personal life, “I’m not a particularly reserved person,” and added, “I tell you anything.” In the public space, however, “it was very clear early on that if you tell people that is very reserved, your privacy is more respected.”
Ortega admitted, “I’m not sure this limit is. I think I’m still finding out.”
Portman’s career took off when she starred in “the professional” (by Luc Besson) at 13. She played a tough orphan in New York who becomes the target of gangsters and is protected by an Italian rental killer (Jean Reno).
Portman’s next role will be in “The Source of Youth,” a movie that opens on AppleTV+ next month. She will also play with Ortega in the movie “The Gallerist.”
Watch the trailer for “The Source of Youth”
