It’s important to know what you don’t want to do 
So how about doing a romantic comedy? Natalie Portman says finds the roles she’s been offered in romantic comedies offensive.
“It wasn’t that I didn’t want to do comedy. It’s just that I would only get offered girlfriend parts in guy comedies, which aren’t exciting to me, or those offensive roles in romantic comedies where the woman has to have a job in fashion so that she can have nice clothes, and her goal is always marriage. I’m more interested in finding characters that make me laugh.”
Natalie also doesn’t want to do Holocaust movies.
“I’ve always tried to stay away from playing Jews,” she says. “I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. That was the first thing to come my way (New York, I Love You) that really intrigued me.”
Something tells me that quote could be interpreted a lot of ways, but I’m guessing Natalie just wants to try different roles as an actress, since she’s Jewish?
Natalie also doesn’t want to be a sex object after “weird letters” she got when she played a “Lolita-esque” role in the movie ‘Leon’ at the age of 12. Creepy! I think that was a wise choice on Natalie’s part.
What do you think of Natalie as an actress?
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She’s beautiful and intelligent. She’s possibly one of the most stunning people in Hollywood, but that said she is really not a great actress. I always find her a little wooden and obviously acting. Too bad, though – she’s miles ahead of her peers on every other point.
I can see overrated and not talented (though disagree), but not pretty? Now that’s just jealousy!
overrated, not pretty, not talented…next!
So you’re saying she doesn’t want to be Kate Hudson?
I have always enjoyed her acting. She was amazing in Leon. To be fair in Star Wars she was supposed to go from being a kick-ass warrior queen, to someone who would up and die for the love of Hayden Christiansen, so I don’t think the character was well written. She was fabulous as the kick ass queen, but not believeable as the love sick puppy. After that experience, maybe that is why she wants to steer clear of romantic roles!
She’s mkultra-ed
I think Natalie is fabu too – glad that there is one more brainiac in a sea of morons in Hollywood. Yet, she stinks as an actress.
i have seen a couple of her movies and she isnt that great. shes almost the same in every movie. yes, she is pretty, but the fact that she thinks shes a better actress than she actually is, is what makes her pretentious.
and romantic comedies do NOT portray women in a bad way. there really are a lot women out there that are stressed to get married because “their clock is ticking” and not all romantic comedies show that type of woman. romantic comedies basically show people falling in love and the last time i checked, people still do that. how is it offensive when those things really do happen and people really act that way.
She bugs…
Ms. Portman’s disdain of romantic comedies seems to be because they are not feminist enough — a little hypocritical in light of her support of the Free Polanski campaign. (http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/39618660.html)
I like her even though she’s vegan…
She didn’t slam all romantic comedies – re-read the quote. You’re making an assumption. Being picky about roles doesn’t mean she thinks she’s a better actress than she is, it means she has some integrity and wants to believe in what she’s working on. BIG DIFFERENCE.
I agree with her. What bothers me about rom-coms is that a lot of them push the idea that women aren’t complete if they aren’t in love or have children. Which is total crap. Yes people fall in love, and yes they feel their biological clocks ticking. But the way that some women are potrayed, that the characters go to ridiculous, humiliating lengths to “complete” themselves is definately offensive. There are moments that I know I am supposed to laugh, but I wince because it’s painful seeing that on screen.
you summed it up perfectly.
so pretty, so pretentious, so overrated.
She’s very beautiful but she can’t act. She was absolutely dreadful in Star Wars.
Education and intelligence are certainly not the same thing. Assuming that someone who is articulate and intelligent is pretentious is a HUGE leap – I get what Amy74 was saying about that. Just because it doesn’t always happen doesn’t make it a myth that intelligence is mistaken for being pretentious. Being articulate and having high standards for yourself doesn’t automatically equal pretension. I’ve never gotten the impression that Natalie Portman is snooty. To me, pretentious equates more with insecurity which I certainly don’t see in her.
i’m not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with amy74. perhaps you meant to say that it is a myth that intelligent people are pretentious? (… as for the notion that education level is synonymous with intelligence, that’s a whole other matter…)
N.P. IS pretentious. N.P., Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltrow are only a few actresses who should form some sort of a support group for people who should be seen, but not heard uttering words other then written by professional script writers. Even then, they are just barely acceptable…
excuse me, but I am a Ph.D. student, my parents are both professors and most of my friends are extremely well educated (much more so than Ms. Portman), and NONE of the people in my life are pretentious! it is a myth that intelligence is mistaken for pretension. A rose is a rose….
really?
I love that intelligence is consistently being mistaken for pretension. Says more about the person judging than anything else.
I think natalie is fabulous!
joking, right?
I agree with Amy74 – she’s pretty pretentious and arrogant. There are very very few actresses whose roles are that influential. Get over yourself Natalie.
Wow, you totally did not get what Amy74 said, did you? She was saying that people are mistaking NP’s intelligence for pretentiousness, and you said the total opposite!
plus they’re totally predictable, it’s the same plot line over and over again
I love her and totally agree with what she is saying. I really hate romantic comedies because for the most part, they portray women in a negative way, desperate to get married or stuck in a relationship with a loser.
So pretty, so intelligent, so confident, so much jealously and envy among her peers–love it.
Well it’s good to know what you don’t want to do because that narrows things down!
i’ve seen maybe about five of her films and in all of them, her acting was just average. i want to like her but… i am looking forward to the black swan though.