Natalie Portman

[Yohji]

Porter Magazine #25 Spring 2018 by Cass Bird.

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Natalie Portman: I have '100 stories' of abuse in Hollywood

Natalie Portman has "100 stories" of sexual harassment in Hollywood, she has said.

The 36-year-old Oscar winner told PORTeR magazine that she had experienced manipulative studio executives intimidating and harassing her during her career.

In one case, she said, a producer invited her onto his private plane.

She said: “It was just the two of us, and only one bed was made up. Nothing happened, I was not assaulted.

"I did make a point of saying, ‘This does not make me feel comfortable,’ and that was respected.

"But that was super not OK, you know? That was really unacceptable and manipulative. I was scared."

Ms Portman played her part in the growing outrage over sexism in Hollywood when she took to the stage in January for the Golden Globes. Announcing the category for Best Director, she said: “And here are the all-male nominees".

She said she had come to realise that experiences she "took for granted as like, this is part of the process", were actually instances of harassment and sexism.

"I went from thinking, ‘I don’t have a story’ to ‘Oh, wait, I have 100 stories.’ And I think a lot of people are having these reckonings with themselves," she said.

Ms Portman, an experienced actress whose first film role was as at the age of 12 in Luc Bresson's thriller Léon: The Professional, also paid tribute to those who had come forward to disclose their experiences of sexual abuse.

"First of all, I think it’s really important to recognize all the people who have come forward,” she said. "They have created this cultural shift. A lot of people have been speaking out for a long time and not been heard, particularly women of color, so it’s very important the industry listens."

She has previously spoken about her experiences of "sexual terrorism" following her debut role, revealing at the Women's March in Los Angeles last month that her first fan mail, received when she was 13, had been a r*pe fantasy written by a man.

The Black Swan Oscar winner, who is married to French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, and has a son and a daughter, also challenged the perception that women's careers were damaged because they chose to have children.

“But what’s interesting about this harassment conversation is, maybe it has nothing to do with being a mother," she said.

"Maybe women are dropping out of the workplace because it’s a hostile environment for them and they are choosing not to be a part of that. It’s been proven that once you change the power differential and reach a 50/50 ratio of men and women, you see fewer issues."

Her commitment to the sexual harassment campaign also compelled her to join Instagram, persuaded by the Hollywood-driven Time’s Up campaign, launched earlier this year in response to allegations of sexual harassment against Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein.

Her comments came as fellow Hollywood star Jessica Chastain made her own comments about sexual harassment.

The actress, who co-starred with Portman in upcoming film The Death and Life Of John F. Donovan, commented on Uma Thurman's allegation that she had been sexually assaulted by Weinstein.

"I keep imagining Tarantino spitting in Uma's face and strangling her with a chain for Kill Bill. How many images of women in media do we celebrate that showcase abuse? When did this become normalized 'entertainment'?" she said, adding "When violence against women is used as a plot device to make the characters stronger then we have a problem. It is not empowering to be beaten and raped, yet so many films make it their 'phoenix' moment for women."

In an interview with the New York Times last week Ms Thurman claimed Weinstein had attacked her in a hotel room at the Savoy in London.

In a statement given to the newspaper Weinstein's spokesman said he admitted "making an awkward pass 25 years ago at Ms Thurman in England after misreading her signals" and added "her claims about being physically assaulted are untrue".

To see the full interview, buy the latest issue of PORTeR, on sale globally on Friday 9 February, 2018. Also available as a digital edition.

telegraph.co.uk

 

[carolisque]

Porter #25 Spring 2018 : Natalie Portman By Cass Bird



COVER STORY
"MYSTERIOUS GIRL"

Photographer: Cass Bird
Stylist: Veronique Didry
Hair: Didier Malige
Make-Up: Romy Soleimani

Model/Actress: Natalie Portman

Credit: Porter Digital Edition via Zorka at the Fashion Spot

 

[Hchloe]

Lovely ed

 

[catherine88]

Premiere of Paramount Pictures' 'Annihilation', February 13



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[Yohji]

I love that she wore Valentino and not Dior. She definitely suits Pierpaolo's aesthetic more.

 

[Yohji]

Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson and the sci-fi sisterhood behind 'Annihilation'

Onscreen in the sci-fi odyssey "Annihilation," an expedition ventures deep into a foreboding terrain known only as Area X, carrying guns and harboring mounting suspicions about one another.

These soldiers — a psychologist (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a biologist (Natalie Portman), a paramedic (Gina Rodriguez), a physicist (Tessa Thompson) and an anthropologist (Tuva Novotny) — enter what is about to become a living, breathing nightmare, an environmental disaster zone without scientific explanation, as filtered through the mind of "Ex Machina" director Alex Garland, adapting the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's "Southern Reach" trilogy.

The fact that they're all complex and dimensional female characters is at once trailblazing and, refreshingly, perfectly normalized.

"Each of the women have their own destructive behavior," said Portman, who brings steely intensity to the role of Lena, the biologist with her own reasons for volunteering for the dangerous mission, in the Feb. 23 release. "I find that so beautiful. That's the greatest science fiction, when the psychological becomes externalized.

"And to have five women at the center of this expedition — we're so used to seeing five men going and doing something together, it's not even questioned why it's always all men. To give that same kind of attitude to five women is really unique."

The sisterhood struck on the London set of "Annihilation" is still strong between Portman, Rodriguez and Thompson, reunited in a suite at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel ahead of the film's Los Angeles world premiere. Sitting side by side on a couch with their legs curled up, the camaraderie came flooding back in waves of laughter and mutual admiration.

"I feel like ['Annihilation'] is the kind of movie where if you've seen it only once you haven't seen it," said Thompson. "One of Alex's references for this film was [Andrei Tarkovsky's] 'Stalker,' which I watched a couple times in anticipation of making this movie, trying to figure out what that film is, and means. It felt like being inside of a meditation."

"Ooooh!" gasped Rodriguez. "That's poetic. It's like being inside of a meditation."

"But you know what I mean? It's a very meditative, lyrical film and we don't have a lot of practice as audience members with that kind of content, particularly in American film," Thompson continued.

"I feel like we reject it quickly too, the way they did with Darren Aronofsky's 'mother!,' which I loved," added Rodriguez, gesticulating to the sky. "I thought it was Jennifer [Lawrence]'s best performance. It made me think for hours. Art that moves you in any which way, whether it's positively or negatively — it's working."

Part philosophical sci-fi, part psychedelic-existential fever dream, "Annihilation" pulses with the looming unease of the unknown. That unknown lurks in the darkness of the vast swamplands and marshes of the Southern Reach, marked by the beauty and horrors of nature run amok, and perhaps more disturbingly in the disquiet of confronting those same mysteries within oneself.

Self-destruction is in our DNA, the film posits. Its approach, however, is one of empathy. And the journeys the three stars went on in search of their characters, expanded in collaboration with Garland from the sparsely detailed counterparts in VanderMeer's book, had profound and lasting effects.

Portman, who moved her family near the Pinewood Studios production during filming, responded to the melancholic interrogation Lena embarks on as she pushes farther into Area X while reflecting on a broken marriage (Oscar Isaac, reuniting with "Ex Machina" helmer Garland, plays her husband).

"Alex brought the [idea of] self-destructive behavior, and defining the destruction of a marriage as part of that," she said. "You could call it moralistic, but I found it very moving — that it is destructive, hurting someone that you love very deeply."

The physicality of the shoot demanded Portman know her way around a military-issue machine gun and train with visionary dancer Bobbi Jene, whom Garland hired on Isaac's recommendation to choreograph a memorable third-act sequence of movement.

"She would give me directions like, 'Feel like you're like an octopus stuck to the wall,'" raved Portman. "I wish someone was always giving me that kind of physical imagery. It was really cool."

Thompson found a deep connection to her character Josie's growing link with the mutations the group encounters as they get closer to the inexplicable veil of energy known as "The Shimmer."

"There was something in it that I was really struck by in the destruction of the Earth, of how we treat the other things that are not human — the planet," she said. "At a certain point with the destruction that we do, we will not have the technology to undo it or to even understand it."

More: http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...-rodriguez-tessa-thompson-20180216-story.html

latimes.com

 

[lvstratus]

Her style is rarely on point, but she looks incredible in this Valentino dress.

 

[jexxica]

TimeOff - February 2018

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[Yohji]

On the set of Vox Lux in New York on February 28, 2018.

On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on February 15, 2018.

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[ChrissyM]

Any idea who made the Jimmy Kimmel dress? I'm intrigued by it but not totally loving it.

I do like the shoe she styled it with, though. And I'm glad that she didn't do any sort of severe, slicked back, Asian-inspired hair. That would have been too much with this.

 

[Yohji]

In Los Angeles on March 22, 2018.

Out in Los Angeles on March 8, 2018.

On the set of Vox Lux at Plum Beach on March 5, 2018.

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[dodencebt]

Any idea who made the Jimmy Kimmel dress? I'm intrigued by it but not totally loving it.

It's Attico x Matchesfashion, you can still find it on the website.

 

[puresoul]

Natalie Portman attends the Boston Calling film and music festival, May 25, 2018

Natalie Portman attends the Boston Calling film and music festival, May 26, 2018

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[puresoul]

Natalie Portman attends the Boston Calling film and music festival, May 27, 2018

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[Yohji]

SiriusXM Town Hall with Natalie Portman hosted by Hoda Kotb at SiriusXM Studios on June 15, 2018 in New York City.

Actress Natalie Portman attends 'Eating Animals' New York Screening at IFC Center on June 14, 2018 in New York City.

Natalie Portman leaves 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' at the Ed Sullivan Theater on June 14, 2018 in New York City.

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[Yohji]

Natalie Portman is in a great mood! The 37-year-old Annihilation actress was spotted heading out of Sirius XM studios on Friday (June 15) in New York City.

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[HeatherAnne]

Not great looks. I like the idea of a polka dot dress, but that adornment in the middle is horrid. The lavender blouse is sweet on her.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

agree on the frilly lavendar shirt - very cute

i like her in simple classic looks: like the black turtleneck with camel pants, or the sleek black deep v-neck dress. these really suit and complement her classic beauty, whereas, imo, fussy looks don't.

i like the pale yellow colour of the cheongsam dress she wore to kimmel. i was thinking the other day that people might call such a thing "cultural appropriation" but i hope not! i like to think were more global and accepting than that.

finally, wtf is she doing dressed as a punk? she's the LAST person i'd picture ever playing a punk, ha ha ha.

 

[Yohji]

At LAX Airport on June 17, 2018.

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[puresoul]

Arrived at the Venice Film Festival, September 1, 2018​

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