Natalie Portman admitted that he hid different parts of his personality to protect himself after being sexualized as a young actress.
The “Black Swan” star, 43, joined Jenna Ortega about her experiences that grew up in Hollywood in a conversation published by the interview magazine on Wednesday.
Portman, who got his first important role in “Léon: The Professional” at age 12, said that being a child actor is “an unusual and unusual experience that many people do not share.”
At first, he learned that he needed to place walls as a way of protecting himself from unwanted and unappelated care.
“I think there is a public understanding of me that is different from what I am. I have spoken a little earlier, when I was a child, I was really sexualized, which I think for many young girls is.
“And I felt that my way of protecting myself was to say,” I say so serious. I am so studious. I am intelligent, and that is not the son of the girl you attack, “he explained.” I thought, if I believe this image of myself, I will stay alone. “
Although “it should not” have been something that he had to think briefly, Portman admitted that “it worked.”
However, he also biased the way people saw her as she grew.
“But I think that is the disconnection between my stupid and silly bee in real life, and the people who think that I am a really serious book person,” he continued, pointing out that she “is not a particularly private person in real life.”
“But in public, it was very clear from the beginning that if you tell people how private you are, your privacy is much more,” he added.
Portman said the industry has changed a little since it was a adolescence, with more and more women working behind the scene.
“It is still so masculine, but the conversation around [gender equality] He has definitely helped a lot. I feel that hair and makeup were always the female space. It’s quite stereotypical, but it’s true, “he said.
“So there was always this pocket in the set where, when I was a child, I felt safe and surrounded by women, and as I want, it only becomes increasingly important for me to work with women.”
However, Portman said that there is still a margin of improvement, pointing out the different types of roles that have offered him the duration at each stage of his career.
“There are definitely tropes, and I think that in each phase of my career, there was a different one that I thought,” Oh, I have to avoid this, “he explained.
“Obviously there was a long phase of Lolita,” he continued, referring to the infamous novel of the 1950s about the obsession of an older man with a young woman.
After that period, Portman said he was in a “long” girl who helps the guy to realize his emotional thing “for approximately a decade.”
Currently, the star of the “May December” has found itself for roles about mothers with problems.
“So yes, there are many of the same tropes, but they are always useful to identify when something really special appears,” he said. “It really stands out when you get something complex, beautiful and original.”
Portman has opened navigating his first years in the public eye in the past, previously revealing that the first fans mail he received was “a fantasy of rape” written by an adult man. She was 13 years old.
Duration 2018 In the march of women in Los Angeles, Portman remembered the film reviewers that mentioned their “Blue Breasts” in the reviews.
He also reflected on the spooky countdown created by a local radio program before his 18th birthday, “the date on which that [she] It would be legal to sleep. “
“I understood very quickly, even when I was 13 years old, that if I expressed sexually, I would feel insecure and that men would feel the right to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort,” he told the crowd.
“I felt the need to cover my body and inhibit my expression and my work to send my own message to the world that I am a security and respect.”
Almost at the same time, Portman told people that he had accepted the fact that none of that was his fault.
“I know I was sexualized in the way I was photographed or portrayed, and that was not my job,” he said.