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| | Natalie Portman: Americans are nicer & more hospitable than Parisians | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Natalie Portman outside of ABC Studios yesterday. She appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to promote A Tale of Love and Darkness, which isn?t getting the best reviews. People don?t flat-out hate it, they just think the film is sort of depressing. Still, it?s got a 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is better than I was expecting. Anyway, as we discussed earlier this week, Natalie is back in America, seemingly for good. Her husband left his job in Paris, and I think they?re splitting their time between New York and LA. That?s what Portman discussed with Kimmel last night: what it?s like to come back to America after living abroad for a few years. As we already know, Portman thinks Parisians/French are judgmental (too judgmental) about clothing and fashion. She tells Kimmel that she just thinks Americans are nicer and more hospitable in general too.
She says: ?Everyone smiles a lot here. It’s so nice. They’re more cool in France. I didn’t realize I got used to it until I got here and I was so surprised.? She says she was startled when she arrived back in LA and people would smile at her for no reason, or say something nice about her son. She also says that in Paris, ?I feel there’s a lot of rules of politeness and codes of behavior there you have to follow. It’s a lot looser here?.[in America] You care about making the person next to you comfortable because you want them to feel good.?
She says that there are all of these rules about shopping in the fancy Paris stores too, that you have to say hello to the sales people or they will be rude to you. Which reminded me of that Oprah kerfuffle several years back, when Oprah claimed (and I believed her) that she was mistreated by a clerk in Zurich. People in those fancy boutiques really don?t want Americans to spend money, I guess. Because I don?t give a sh-t if I didn?t say ?hello/bonjour? to a clerk, if I get sh-tty service, I?m not spending the money. Customers are not there to be polite to sales people. Sales people are there to be polite to customers. Is that super-gauche-American of me? Sure. But I?ve worked sales before and I would never be rude to a customer if they didn?t say hello to me, or they just asked for a different size or whatever.
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| | Natalie Portman: French are 'judgmental about how you are & how you look' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Natalie Portman has been shilling for her feature-length directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, for months really. But she?s definitely stepped it up in the past few weeks, doing a full promotional tour in New York and giving interviews to anyone who wants to speak to her. The film is pretty small and it?s not going to make much money, but the reviews are okay/mediocre and most people think that Portman should try her hand at directing again. Anyway, Portman chatted with the Guardian last week about how she?s moved back to America after living in Paris, how she?s still a vegan and more. Some highlights:
Moving back to LA after living in Paris: ?People in LA are just wild. French people are very judgmental, or in Paris at least, about how you are and how you look. You would never wear workout clothes on the street or sandals or shorts or wild colours. It was fun to get back to where everyone?s just being free.?
Vegan food in Paris: ?Actually, Paris has improved a lot for vegans in the past few years. It was a lucky moment to be there as a vegan.?
Whether she reads the reviews: ?No. I avoid it. It?s inhibiting to hear bad things about yourself. It makes you afraid, and you can?t be afraid when you work.
Watching herself onscreen: ?I usually see a movie once when it comes out at the premiere and then never see it again. Usually I cringe through the premiere and hate everything I do. The less I?m in a movie, the more I like it.?
She enjoyed her sober Oscar campaign for ?Black Swan?: ?Being sober the whole time is a trip! I?ll tell you that. I felt unusual being that way relative to the room.?
[From The Guardian]
?You would never wear workout clothes on the street or sandals or shorts or wild colours.? Isn?t it that way in most major European cities? That they look down on you if you wear flip-flops and jeans or sweatpants? I imagine it?s magnified in Paris, a city known for being stylish and chic. Your yoga pants are gauche! Take your flip-flops back to America, you peasant! Considering I live in sweatpants and flip-flops pretty much year-round, I guess Paris would HATE me.
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| | Natelie Portman Braless at A Tale of Love & Darkness Premiere after party | | Added 7 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Here is Natelie Portman posing for photos at New York’s Crosby Street Hotel in a light gown with thin straps and fitted bodice. She kept her accessories simple and paired the a-line dress with strappy metallic heels, both by Dior.
The actress, who sat in the director’s chair for the movie based on Amos Oz’s autobiographical book, A Tale of Love and Darkness, wore two white dresses, one for the premiere and one for the after party.
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| | Natalie Portman Stunning at A Tale of Love & Darkness Premiere in NY | | Added 7 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Here is Natalie Portman attending at the red carpet premiere of A Tale Of Love & Darkness in New York City
First, Portman posed for photos at New York’s Crosby Street Hotel in a light gown with thin straps and fitted bodice. She kept her accessories simple and paired the a-line dress with strappy metallic heels, both by Dior.
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| | Natalie Portman claims she's 'just basically your average everyday Jewish mother' | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some assorted photos of Natalie Portman last week, in Paris and New York. In Paris (the black dress photos), she premiered Jane Got a Gun, the clusterwhoops film which Portman stars in and produced. In New York (the red coat-dress photos), she premiered A Tale of Love and Darkness, the film which she directed, produced and stars in. Both looks in these photos ? the coat and the black gown ? are Dior. I love the black gown (truly, it?s stunning) but I can?t stand the red coat. The red is too orange-y and the scalloped hem is twee.
Anyway, Portman has been making the media rounds to promote her two movies, neither or which will make any money at all. JGAG actually opened this weekend and it made? $803,000. While the release wasn?t, like, Star Wars-level, it still opened in more than 1200 theaters. But very few people saw it. Because no one really cared about seeing Natalie Portman pretend to be a Wild West gunslinger in a film that had one of the most traumatized productions in the past decade. So? should we give her credit for trying? Meh. I give her some credit for going out there and shilling her movie, even though she knew it was going to bomb. She shilled so hard, she even spoke to Page Six about how she?s an ?average everyday Jewish mother.?
How she prepared to play a Wild West gunslinger: ?I knew nothing. I was sent a script. I?d never read anything like this feminist story about a woman in those old days, making her way in the unforgiving, tough Wild West. Toting a rifle, husband riddled with bullets, shooting bad guys, baking bread, washing children, surviving. I did research. I took a crash course. I studied books. Read diaries. But there were so many obstacles. We lost the director early on. Actors changed. We suffered financial and legal challenges. We endured so many replacements. There were delays. The weather was unforgiving. Sandstorms. Rains in April. That?s why I, just basically your average everyday Jewish mother, would go around asking everyone, ?You OK? .?.?. You all right?? I have a child. I know what it?s like to care for a baby. But to do that with the civilization?s surrounding toughness, to make that journey and survive it. That?s the story.?
[From Page Six]
I chuckled at ?rains in April.? Like, OMG, who would have ever thought that it would rain in APRIL in the Northern Hemisphere? What is this? SPRING?! Next she?ll say that it snowed in January! I felt the same way about Leonardo DiCaprio?s conversation about the conditions while shooting The Revenant ? like, he was shocked that there was a spring thaw and that it started getting warmer in April/May.
As for Portman? well, I hope she learned a lot from this process. I kind of think they should have just called it a day with Jane Got a Gun when directors and actors were fleeing the production. Just write it off and call it a day. And I still don?t know why Portman forced the issue and why she was so hellbent on making the film. If Angelina Jolie had made these moves, people would be using words like ?ego bath? and ?narcissism.?
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| | Natalie Portman wears Lanvin, Dior at TIFF, discusses Manic Pixie Dream Girls | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Natalie Portman has been in Toronto for the past few days for the opening of TIFF. On Wednesday night, she sat down for a conversation about her life and career, and then on Thursday night, she premiered her passion project, A Tale of Love and Darkness. For the conversation on Wednesday, Portman wore the sparkly Dior dress with sleeves. For the premiere, she wore a pale blushy beige Lanvin gown with a big star-brooch on one side.
I?m not incredibly fond of either look, to be honest. A lot of people criticized Natalie?s Cannes Film Festival fashions, but it seemed like she was having more fun then. Natalie has the coloring to really pull off some beautiful, rich colors, so I don?t know why she chose the Lanvin gown in particular ? it really washes her out. The Dior look, while twee as hell, at least flatters her coloring and it?s an interesting design.
You can read some highlights from Portman?s TIFF conversation here. She talked about working on Garden State and how she realizes now that she was playing the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope. That part was interesting:
She?s also had some hindsight about becoming part of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl phenomenon. At the time she signed on for Garden State, she said, all she was thinking about was how the character of Sam, an adorable pathological liar with epilepsy, was unlike anything she?d ever been offered.
?When I read it I was like, ?Oh, this is a character that?s wacky and interesting, and no one?s ever given me a chance to play something like this. It?s this sort of unusual girl,?? Portman said. ?So that was my incentive to make it. But of course I see that trope and I think it?s a good thing to recognize the way those female characters are used. I mean, I appreciate that people are writing characters that are interesting and unusual, rather than some bland female character as the girlfriend in a movie, but when the point of the character in this movie is to, like, help the guy have his arc, that?s sort of the problem, and that?s why it?s good that they?re talking about it, because it certainly is a troubling trope.?
[From Vulture]
I actually don?t think of Natalie when I think of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I think about actresses like Zooey Deschanel. I also think the Cool Girl has overtaken the MPDG, and when I think of Cool Girls, I think of Emily Ratajkowski, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson and the like. Portman is right ? the MPDG is a troubling trope, as is the Cool Girl.
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| | Natalie Portman Tells Marie Claire: 'I Was Lucky' There Was No Social Media During My Wild Phase | | Added 8 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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These days all it takes is a camera phone and an Instagram account to cause all kinds of problems for out-of-control celebrities, and Natalie Portman says she?s glad that wasn?t the case when she was a more rebellious starlet.
In her interview with Marie Claire UK magazine, the ?Garden State? gal confesses, ?I was in that lucky window: there was no Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. I went out and got drunk with my friends and no one knew.?
As for her own career, Portman adds, ?I don?t get panicky, I know the waves ? sometimes it?s quiet, sometimes it?s wild. I feel like I?ve done so much, it allows me to try new things, like directing. I can follow my own curiosity. I?ve been doing this long enough to see that my path is my own. I?m not in a race with anyone.?
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| | Natalie Portman misses some stuff about America, like kid-friendly gyms | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Natalie Portman covers the new issue (the August issue) of Harper?s Bazaar. She?s promoting Jane Got a Gun and A Tale of Love of Darkness (which she adapted and directed). The photoshoot is sort of Grace Kelly-ish, mostly because the vibe is very South of France, a la To Catch a Thief. That being said, I don?t think Natalie was served well by the editorial ? she?s a beautiful woman and some of these photos are just not that great. The cover is especially awkward. The interview is decent ? Natalie does tend to come across as somewhat smug and condescending in many interviews, but I enjoyed this piece ? you can read it here. Some highlights:
Life in Paris: “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. Like indoor gyms where kids can just run 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.”
French people have better conversations: “This French friend of ours just told me that being in Los Angeles, he missed having serious conversations at dinner. In Paris, if you’re at dinner and there isn’t a debate, you leave and think, Well, that wasn’t a very good party. But no one ever does that here. And I thought, I like just having happy talk! My French is okay, but when my friends are talking about books and philosophy, that’s a level of conversation I’m just not ready for linguistically. And maybe intellectually.”
Making the clusterwhoops of ?Jane Got a Gun?: “It’s a testament to how amazing it is in New Mexico that I still love it there, because that movie was really challenging. It’s a miracle it came out so well.”
A Tale of Love and Darkness: “The power of words is at the center of Judaism, and the creating of a people through storytelling. So I wanted to show the birth of this writer as he relates to his mother.”
Her Israeli roots: “It’s a very strange place to be from. When you say, ‘I’m for Israel,’ everyone wants to have a 10-hour political conversation. Everyone has a very strong, 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.”
The red carpet questions: “I get asked so many questions about the Middle East, and I’m like ‘Can you please just ask me about my dress? Let’s just talk about the dress!’”
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| | Natalie Portman does Harvard's Class Day commencement: annoying or fine' | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Is Natalie Portman giving anyone else pregnant vibes in these photos? I think it may be the print on the dress, plus the way she?s standing in some of these photos. Natalie was the keynote speaker at Harvard?s Class Day ceremony yesterday. Harvard is her alma mater (she?s a 2003 graduate), and this is the first time she?s been invited back to speak at Class Day. In case you?re wondering, this is just a fancy way of saying Natalie was the commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2015. Update: Okay, so commencement is something different, but the Class Day speech is still about the graduating class. Here?s her speech.
She comes across pretty well here. It looks like a nice graduation ceremony, right? Mine was chaos. It was unseasonably hot and humid and of course my graduation took place outside in the sunniest field on campus. I walked the wrong way off the podium too and it was SO embarrassing. Ugh. Anyway, in case you don?t feel like watching the video, here are some highlighted quotes:
Worrying about being accepted at Harvard: “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? 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??
The challenges: “It’s easy to romanticize my time here, but I had some difficult times here. Being 19, dealing with my first heartbreak, taking birth control that’s now off the market due to its depressive side effects?.”
She says she was “woefully unprepared” for Black Swan: “The point is, if I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk. And the risk led to one of my greatest personal and professional achievements?.Make use of the fact that you don’t doubt yourself too much right now because, as we get older, we get more realistic. Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.”
[From People & E! News]
I know what she?s trying to say about being ?woefully unprepared? for Black Swan, like she?s using it as an example of throwing yourself into a challenge without thinking about how you could fail in a big way, but all she did was remind me of how she took credit for other dancers? work and built her Oscar campaign around the idea that she had become a prima ballerina-level dancer in less than a year. Woefully unprepared indeed.
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| | Natalie Portman signs on play Jacqueline Kennedy in new bio-pic: yay or nay? | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Fresh off the news that Natalie Portman would deign to play the Notorious RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it seems that Portman is going to play yet another iconic American woman: Jacqueline Kennedy. COME ON. To be fair, the Kennedy women ? Jackie in particular ? have been portrayed in films and TV projects alike. I actually thought Jill Hennessy came the closest to looking like Jackie (it was a TV movie). I used to have a Jackie obsession and I read a lot of her biographies, and she definitely had a fascinating and film-worthy life. But Natalie Portman? I?m so not feeling it. And the project will reunite Portman with Darren Aronofsky (side-eye).
Natalie Portman will star as Jackie Kennedy in ?Jackie,? about the first four days in Jackie Kennedy?s life after the assassination of her husband, President John. F. Kennedy, when she lost the love of her life but won the love of a nation. Darren Aronofsky will produce while Pablo Larrain (?No?) directs.
Juan de Dios Larrain of Chile?s Fabula produces with Aronofsky and his partner Scott Franklin at Protozoa Pictures. ?Jackie? goes into production at the end of 2015.
? ?Jackie? talks about the days when Jackie Kennedy becomes an icon but has lost everything,? said Wild Bunch?s Vincent Maraval, who is overseeing Insiders. Aronofsky, who was president of the Berlin festival jury this year, was highly impressed with Larrain?s Berlinale competition entry ?The Club,? which went on to win the fest?s Grand Jury Prize. Portman caught ?The Club? in Paris, and loved it. ?It?s the ?Black Swan? team reunited for Pablo Larrain,? Maraval said.
[From Variety]
??About the days when Jackie Kennedy becomes an icon but has lost everything?? So it will be about the years days immediately following JFK?s assassination. That’s sort of interesting. The years following the assassination have always been difficult for biographers to cover, mostly because it?s widely believed that Jackie was carrying on an affair with Robert Kennedy ? they were united in grief and then some. It?s widely believed that RFK did not approve of Aristotle Onassis?s attempts to woo Jackie, and Jackie only decided to marry Onassis after RFK was murdered. As I said, it?s a rich, complicated story with a lot of potential for a filmmaker. But I?m worried that this version with woman-child Portman as Jackie will end up just a Lifetime-esque sob story about a devastated widow struggling through shock.
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