Natalie Portman could also be an outspoken feminist and co-founder of a female-driven soccer membership (Angel Metropolis FC), however she isn’t a believer within the so-called “feminine gaze.”
In an interview with Vainness Honest France for the journal’s 10-year anniversary concern, performed previous to the SAG-AFTRA strike, Portman argued that “to say {that a} feminine director has a selected gaze is reductive of ladies’s individuality and factors of view.”
The Harvard-educated actor additionally mentioned that gender isn’t an element when she chooses tasks. “Feminine administrators ought to have the identical alternatives as their male counterparts. However the expertise of working with a director has to do with the person and it doesn’t relate to gender,” Portman mentioned.
Portman, who just lately relocated to Paris together with her husband Benjamin Millepied and their two youngsters, additionally mentioned her upcoming venture “Could December,” directed by Todd Haynes.
In “Could December” (which she co-produced through her banner MountainA), Portman performs Elizabeth Berry, a well-known actress making ready for a job who travels to Savannah to satisfy Gracie (Julianne Moore), a personality loosely impressed by Mary Kay Letourneau. Throughout her keep, Elizabeth develops ambivalent emotions in the direction of Gracie and her 30-something husband Joe, with whom she began having an illegal relationship when he was 13.
Talking of Haynes’ non-judgmental strategy to the movie’s polemical topic, Portman mentioned he “has an in-depth understanding of human habits. His feminine characters are complicated and multidimensional.”
Portman was additionally questioned by Vainness Honest France about her expertise making her movie debut on the age of 11 in Luc Besson’s “Leon: The Skilled.” Within the thriller, she performs Mathilda, a 12-year-old orphan, who develops a romantic bond with a hitman (Jean Reno). Whereas she was quoted in The Hollywood Reporter in Could saying that there have been “some cringey, to say the least, points” to the film, she informed the French magazine that she has completely satisfied reminiscences of the shoot. “Everybody handled me like a child and took care of me. On a regular basis was like my birthday,” Portman mentioned. “Leon: The Skilled,” nevertheless, didn’t make the minimize as a part of the tribute to Portman on the Deauville Movie Pageant final weekend.
Headed by Olivier Bouchara since Sept. 2021, Vainness Honest France has established a powerful footprint and DNA within the native media panorama with a mixture of superstar interviews akin to Portman, Cate Blanchett, Scarlet Johansson, Michael Douglas and Omar Sy, together with award-winning investigative tales. A few of their current long-form options embrace the inside story of Moderna, the once-thriving biotech startup which had promised to ship its COVID-19 vaccine earlier than the primary lockdown in March 2020.
Bouchara beforehand headed the investigative unit of the Conde Nast journal and secured interviews with controversial figures embroiled in scandals, together with Vjeran Tomic, a bulgar nicknamed Spider-Man who was jailed for stealing 5 Twentieth-century masterpieces from the Museum of Trendy Artwork in Paris. He’s additionally behind a collection of bombshell articles in regards to the flamboyant scammers who conned the EU carbon quota system and swindled the French state of not less than $1.7 billion. After his investigative collection went viral, Bouchara went on to write down “Lords of Rip-off,” one in all Netflix’s greatest French documentary hits so far.
Right here’s the 10-year anniversary cowl of Vainness Honest France, that includes Natalie Portman photographed on the Bristol Resort in Paris:
