Natalie Portman Shaves her Head

[dancingellecat]

FromTIME.com: No, It Wasn't A Bad Perm -- May. 16, 2005



Level-headed young NATALIE PORTMAN is anticipating a range of responses to her spare new hairdo. "Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi," the Garden State star suspects, "or that I have cancer or I'm a lesbian." We would also like to warn her of a probable "Hey, Sinéad!" faction. You see, this isn't like Britney Spears going brunet. Portman, the exotically coiffed Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, allowed her petite pate to be shaved on camera in Berlin last week, a process she describes as "really exciting." The 23-year-old's shoulder-length chestnut locks were sheared for a prison scene in this fall's futuristic drama V for Vendetta. In this next film from the makers of the Matrix trilogy, Portman plays a suspected terrorist in a totalitarian state. Days after the shoot, she says, "I can't stop rubbing my head. It's so soft, I might keep it for a while." Hmm, a hot new bald star with action-adventure experience? Somewhere Vin Diesel's agent is quietly freaking out.


No pictures yet....!

 

[MulletProof]

typical. 'i'll shave my head and i'll feel the character'. bah.

 

[Curious]

Wow!! I'm sure she'll still be beautiful. Lucky bi-atch

 

[dancingellecat]

...I'm thinking she's thinking it's OSCAR worthy...changing appearance.

With her bone structure she'll be able to pull it off. Oh wait - you can't!

 

[jssy4eva]

i love her..i wish that she had won an oscar for closer...she rocks....

 

[Curious]

^ I love her, too. I think she's destined for an Oscar. Head shaven or not (although making yourself "ugly" does seem to speed up the process...)

 

[morgan38]

Bald head or not...I'm sure she'll still be very beautiful. I can actually completely picture her with a saved head.

 

[MissAnia]

who cares ! shaved head or not - she looks good all the time

 

[lostgirl]

I wait for pictures before I judge. But I'm not reaching for the razor anytime soon!

 

[Misako]

typical. 'i'll shave my head and i'll feel the character'. bah.

Er...she did it for the role...I think you're reading too much into it.

Anyway, I'd love to see pictures of her with her newly bald head - I'm curious to see how she looks!

 

[Kimkhuu]

"Some people will think I'm a neo-Nazi," the Garden State star suspects, "or that I have cancer or I'm a lesbian."

How ignorant is that kind of comment?!!!!!!!! Is she that fearful of the image she'll be projecting? Then don't shave your head poor innocent girl..... Because if you do then we'll all think she's supposedly lesbian or that she has cancer. How lame is that. Her comment is doing the reverse effect. By saying something like that, she wants to make sure we don't mistake her for a lesbian, a neo Nazi or a cancer patient.

Hello!?

 

[kimair]

here's a pic

 

[kimair]

How ignorant is that kind of comment?!!!!!!!! Is she that fearful of the image she'll be projecting? Then don't shave your head poor innocent girl..... Because if you do then we'll all think she's supposedly lesbian or that she has cancer. How lame is that. Her comment is doing the reverse effect. By saying something like that, she wants to make sure we don't mistake her for a lesbian, a neo Nazi or a cancer patient.

Hello!?

sometimes she says the weirdest stuff...remember in allure when she said she knew what it felt like to be black??

 

[Misako]

^ she wrote in and corrected how they had mis-quoted her. That wasn't what she'd said. It's all about condensing quotes into small managable pieces in articles these days - don't take what people say at face value.

...and I was just about to post that picture - I rather like it! I couldn't do that - I love my hair too much.

 

[Misako]

How ignorant is that kind of comment?!!!!!!!! Is she that fearful of the image she'll be projecting? Then don't shave your head poor innocent girl..... Because if you do then we'll all think she's supposedly lesbian or that she has cancer. How lame is that. Her comment is doing the reverse effect. By saying something like that, she wants to make sure we don't mistake her for a lesbian, a neo Nazi or a cancer patient.

Hello!?

I really don't see that as an ignorant comment - it's how she thinks that people might perceive her. She has a point - there are some people in this world that don't follow celebrity news that closely that might think that if they saw her on the street one day and just recognized her. People can come up with some pretty ODD conclusions, and she's just saying that she thinks that some people might think that, which is true, some people inevitably will. Ultimately, she doesn't seem fearful at all, but rather speculative.

 

[Kimkhuu]

^ She's fast on jumping to conclusions. Looks like she cares too much about how people are going to perceive her and judge her.

It's like the kid who's X and always reminding people that he really is X. How lame is that.

 

[Spike413]

Hmm, G.I. Jane redux.

 

[*Princesse*]

My grandfather had a quote: A truly beautiful person will still look beautiful even if you shave their head. I think she can pull it off. It must feel so weird, though!

And about her assumptions: I don't think it was immature at all! I know too many people who would automattically assume one or more of those things about her, if they didn't know it was for a movie. She wasn't jumping to conclusions, IMO.

 

[dancingellecat]

THANKS, Kimair!

She's also going to be losing weight for the role, so expect "Is Natalie Gay - AND Anorexic?" headlines.

 

[Misako]

^ She's fast on jumping to conclusions. Looks like she cares too much about how people are going to perceive her and judge her.

It's like the kid who's X and always reminding people that he really is X. How lame is that.

I think most people do care, and it's even more prevalent in the movie industry, where your looks and your actions are constantly scrutinized. She has a good point to be wondering right away what people might think.

I don't think it's lame, it's just what humans do. If you're constantly under close scrutiny, and did something like this, you'd wonder what other people would ultimately think, not just your friends or family. The average person's appearence isn't speculated upon and dissected half as much as a celebrity's appearence is on a daily basis by so many people, that I think she's fully justified to have a slightly different viewpoint than most of us.