I’ve just spent WAY too much time trying to find photos of Natalie Portman looking stoned. It actually wasn’t that difficult, considering that in many of her pregnant photos, she looks kind of baked, but I debated whether or not that was appropriate. Guess what? It is! And I don’t mean that she looks pregnant-baked in a nasty way – I often think super-pregnant women look baked. It’s the hormones, I guess. They just look kind of out-of-it and blissed-out, which is how they probably look when they’re stoned.
Anyway, Natalie Portman smoked the reefer. Back in the day, when she was in college. She talked about the good ol’ days to Entertainment Weekly:
Black Swan star Natalie Portman makes her first post-Oscar movie appearance this Friday in the stoner comedy Your Highness. She’s also developing Best Buds, a buddy comedy about a marijuana-laced road trip, with her production company Handsomecharlie Films.
But just because Portman is taking the high road in her work doesn’t mean she’s doing so in real life, too.
“I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven’t smoked in years,” Portman told EW in December, a few weeks before announcing her pregnancy. “I’m too old. I wish I was that cool, but I’m like an old lady now. I’m in bed by 10 p.m. I can’t do that anymore.”
Portman explained that her interest in Your Highness was sparked when director David Gordon Green assured her that her role, an arrow-slinging female warrior, wouldn’t just be window dressing.
“When I sat down with David, he was like, ‘The girl’s going to be funny here,’” said Portman. “To have him be able to think of me in that way was so lucky, because [the role] is a real departure from anything I’ve done on film.”
[From Entertainment Weekly]
I have to say, Natalie Portman doesn’t look too annoying in the trailers for Your Highness, but I’m admitting that through my obvious Danny McBride dong haze. So, even though Natalie doesn’t look smug and pretentious in the trailer, and even though she’s probably barely going to promote this movie, she still wants to gift us with one eye-rolling interview. Sure, I believe she smoked pot, and I bet she enjoys stoner comedies too. But she ruins it by reminding us all that she’s an OSCAR-WINNING dramatic actress who gets to pull rank and demand changes to her character. By the way, if Natalie is as funny as she seems to think she is, why don’t we ever see it in her interviews?
UPDATE: I should do another post about this, but whatever. Natalie is so boring and smug. She finally spoke about Sarah Lane, one of her ballerine body-doubles and the controversial comments Lane made about how much dancing Natalie really did in Black Swan. Natalie said: “I know what went on. We had an amazing experience making the movie. I don’t want to tarnish it by entering it into nastiness… I’m really proud of everyone’s work on the movie, my experience. I will have that forever. And it’s nice for me to know about that no matter what kind of nastiness or gossip is going around.” NASTY. She said “nastiness” twice. Sarah Lane = Nasty. Thus spoketh the Portman.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
That Natalie is so edgy. *insert massive eye roll*
I think she is promoting the movie and was at a press junket . I saw an interview on eonline yesterday and the background looked like that kind of set up. In the interview she is trying to adress the “dancing issue” without really addressing it.
*yawn*
She’s kind of being a try-hard here.
I think her character is going to be super annoying in this movie. I hate how they are trying to make her like the main fighter in the film. The super feminist that can kick everyone’s ass even though she’s tiny. So beyond annoying. It’s not like Million Dollar Baby were Hillary Swank looked the part.
Ok she smoked pot in college. So?
i am by no means a natalie supporter, but in her older interviews with david letterman, she actually is kind of cleverly hilarious.
that said, she does give off an annoying smugness as of late.
of course she smoked weed in college. She’s made this duh-obvious little remark to shore up her image with everyone. I still like her….but she is quite the little media gal, isn’t she?
Actually the interview she gave to Letterman during the promotion of I.don’t.remember.what.movie was pretty funny. And it’s the only interview of hers I have ever seen.
I’m still baffled by that movie Your highness, it looks stupid, but maybe it’s good.
WHO DRESSES HER?! ACK!
Notice how whenever a celeb admits to drug use, it’s something they USED to do, but no longer do? Yeah right. Come on Natalie, you’re a pothead, ‘fess up!
Good for you, now shut up.
Who cares? What, is she running for Congress?
Wait, are we sure that Natalie actually smoked the weed? Or did she get a “hand model” to do that for her?
Lee @6, “annoying smugness of late”
That’s because she graduated from Harvard AND she did her own dancing in Black Swan.
That fake rap video she did on Saturday Night Live a few years ago was hilarious. I’m not saying she wrote it herself, but she carried it off. The dichotomy of the little pink shirt and the foul language was too funny.
Since I have been reading Celebitchy, I have grown to really not like certain actors/actresses and Natalie Portman and James Franco are two of them. So the thought of having them doing interviews together for the next few weeks, well, it’s gonna be Hell. Hopefully, Natalie will drop the baby so the only press we will get are quotes from her peeps like, “Mom, dad, and baby Willow Acher Portman Millepied are doing splendid, enjoying the light and love of eachother.”
It’s a stoner comedy. Danny McBride is a stoner. He plays a stoner in the movie. The topic of weed is unavoidable. But now we need to bitch because she’s actually talking about it? Good lord!
The Sarah Lane situation is nasty. It’s all nasty. Just a bunch of nastiness.
I think her face is prettier now that’s she’s preggo. Just sayin.
Did she go to college in the 1950s? Otherwise, not that impressed that she “smoked weed” in college.
Natalie is pretty hilarious, the snl rap video, between 2 ferns video and pretty much anytime I’ve seen her interviewed she makes me laugh.
@Snarky_Pup – “Wait, are we sure that Natalie actually smoked the weed? Or did she get a “hand model” to do that for her?”
LOL >=3 You’d better not say that too loud, or Natalie will feel the need to publicly smite you with her superior terminology.
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I don’t know, I kind of want to see this movie… Even if she’s not that great, I’m sure the others will carry it without a problem.
She just couldn’t let the dancing thing go, could she? I can’t stand it when they release bullshit statements as though they’re not actually addressing anything. Bitch, please. At least own it when you’re going to be a bitch.
Ugh..I hate when celebrities answer questions during interviews! How pompous of them. And, how dare an interviewer ask someone who’s promoting a stoner movie if they’ve ever smoked pot. What a stupid question. That Portman girl is such a snot because she answers questions!! *eyeroll*
@SCARLET VIXEN
Thank you! My thoughts exactly.
The only way I can get to bed by 10pm is by being stoned. Only I end up taking half the fridge with me.
Tricky thing, those munchies.
She so badly wants to appear cool at the same time makes it sure to act as if HW is beneath her.
We have here Gwyneth Paltrow #2
How did you get from here
When I sat down with David, he was like, ‘The girl’s going to be funny here,’” said Portman. “To have him be able to think of me in that way was so lucky, because [the role] is a real departure from anything I’ve done on film.”
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To here?
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But she ruins it by reminding us all that she’s an OSCAR-WINNING dramatic actress who gets to pull rank and demand changes to her character.
cosign Scarlet Vixen
I think she is getting a bad rap here. Of course the interviewer brought up the dancing – I guarantee she didn’t. And by what I read, she is trying to take the high road by saying how proud she was of everyone’s work in the movie. That’s being a bitch? Sorry, Kaiser, but she did NOT call Sarah Lane nasty. Ease up
I was thinking the same thing, gloaming. HUGE f*cking leap
You should have kept the quote going to when she says “and” five times in a row. I kind of feel bad for her, she obviously hates being put on the spot and can’t handle it.
This would’ve been an excellent time for her to take the high road (no pun intended, haha) and just say, re: Sarah Lane, that she has excellent memories of working on the movie, is appreciative of everyone else’s contribution to the film no matter what their roles were, and that being a part of it was the hardest and most transformational work she’s ever done and she’s proud of the result. That’s all.
But no. She’s got to vaguely insinuate that everyone who says she may not have represented herself well while earning her Oscar is “nasty.” Wow. The entitlement is STRONG in this one. It bothers me to no end when celebrities (not just NP) can’t just acknowledge others and say thank you. It prevents so many other issues in the long-run.
However, about the stoner comments, she’s just answering questions that are actually related to the film she’s promoting, so I don’t see what’s so bad about pointing out that she’s done it before.
Wow! That was so ungracious of her! Until now I’ve been neutral about her, but no more.
What a cow.
Well, wasn’t Sarah Lane nasty anyway? In any case Natalie said that the whole fuss was nasty and that she doesn’t want to add nastiness to nastiness. I don’t see her calling S. Lane nasty.
I get you hate her, but it’s not fun reading these obvious and intentional misquotings just to make her look nasty.
Ps: that yellow dress is nasty.
I like her, she’s funny. I suppose you can spin what she’s saying a few ways, but there were definitely some big leaps in Kaiser’s commentary.
Natalie Raps on SNL was totally hilarious. When she breaks that bottle over her head? OMG. Going to watch it right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8e6-IeQ0aw
Natalie ‘Sniveling White Bread’ Portman.
You guys really are reading what you want to believe. Not sure how she can “vaguely insinuate” something but her sense of entitlement is STRONG ? She said she didn’t want to “enter into the nastiness” – she didn’t call anyone nasty. It’s obvious some of you don’t like this girl (to each his own), but you really are stretching things here. She was wrong for not speaking about it before now and now when she does, every word is being picked apart to say what you want it to say. The whole thing is simply ridiculous. She didn’t win the Oscar for f*cking dancing. She NEVER said she was an expert ballerina in a year and a half. She has never said she did all the dancing herself. She has mentioned Sarah Lane before. She didn’t have to thank her in her Oscar speech (do actors thank their stunt doubles every time – no!). Enough already!
And she WAS f*cking hilarious in that SNL short. I would f*cking KILL for her career. And give me a break – she’s being knocked because she went to Harvard? REALLY?
@scarletvixon, @nikki. Exactly. In an interview, questions are asked and answered. If Natalie had dodged questions about Sarah Lane or smoking the pakalolo, everyone would make a big deal about that. She did an hour-long Inside the Actor’s Studio, and she was relaxed, articulate and quite funny. She just always seems very uncomfortable on the red carpet and in promotional interviews.
And yet Miss Harvard Educated gets knocked up by a man named Millipede; who is going to milk her financially once the shotgun wedding is over. Didn’t they cover birth control at Harvard? She has admitted the baby was a “surprise”. The Millipede hit the motherload! Go slimy creature, go!
But no she is not Goop2, Goop doesn’t care about being seen as a cool, edgy artiste. Goop is all about her superiority. This one wants to have it both ways.
@Fire – “She has mentioned Sarah Lane before. She didn’t have to thank her in her Oscar speech (do actors thank their stunt doubles every time – no!). Enough already!”
There is a slight difference between this case, & a ‘stunt double’ they use just to set on fire or crash through a wall. The dancing was so incredibly central to the story, & especially to Natalie’s character. Being able to project that *did* depend on the dancing, as did the story. I do think that while she may not have outright said she’d done ‘most of it’, it’s sort of like ‘lying by ommission’.
When Sarah made a comment about it, wanting some credit for the hard work she put into making Natalie’s character look good, I think she was entitled to it. Natalie should’ve responded right away, owning up to the fact that she did contribute a great deal to the success of the movie. But that’s just my opinion. It didn’t come off very well for Natalie to simply ignore it.
Can’t say I care if she confesses to smoking crack, she still isn’t remotely interesting.
I’d argue this news is getting out now as a tangential apologia for her recent movie choices.
The most interest she’s going to generate over the next few months is going to be centred on her baby and explaining how she lost the baby weight so fast when it eventually happens.
I’m calling “uncle.” Not budging but not arguing about it any more.
has anyone seen that SNL (at least I think it’s SNL) skit where she’s rapping? LOL every time. just google “natalie portman raps”.
This whole thing reeks of personal spite and bitterness towards her because she won. It is nasty.
After watching the film, it seems obvious that Natalie did a lot of the top half, while the complicated foot work was Sarah Lane and the other double. I wasn’t fooled and it amazes me that people were fooled by it.
Even so, Natalie won for her performance–period. No one gets an Academy award for dancing. If that were the case, John Travolta would have two Oscars for Saturday Night Fever and Grease, because that guy can dance. Natalie won the award because she convincingly portrayed a mentally-ill ballerina and her doppelganger. She put in a decent performance. Even if Natalie could have danced 32 fouettes in a row like some amazing prima ballerina, if her overall acting wasn’t convincing, no one would have cared.
Why are people so sure that Natalie didn’t do any of the dancing? I don’t follow her but she doen’t strike as the type to take credit for someone else’s work. I can’t believe that people are so angry about her comment about Sarah. If somebody called me a liar and fake I don’t think I would limit my comment to I don’t want to get involved in the nastiness. It’s obvious that no matter what she said, she would have been attacked.
she’s harmless enough, to be honest, i really don’t know that much about Natalie, so i can’t speak much about her intentions, but i agree on how she handle that FAME SEEKING LANE person, she was answering a question regarding her up coming movie, so it would make sense to speak on a past experience to identify with such subject, no?
Wow she didn’t even aknowledge the woman by name nor did she state how much dancing she did…haha just that it’s ‘nastiness’
@Kira – “Even if Natalie could have danced 32 fouettes in a row like some amazing prima ballerina, if her overall acting wasn’t convincing, no one would have cared.”
Yes, Natalie’s performance as an actress is why she received the Academy Award. But part of being a talented actress is showing devotion to the part you’re playing. Talking about training for so long gave the impression that a large part of the dancing the audience got to see was the *direct* result of said training… which can be taken as her ‘devotion’ to the part.
Knowing this, it’s not incomprehensible that the dancing did affect the view people had of her performance/work, thus helped her to win the Academy Award.
I’m just saying I feel that everyone who worked so hard should be recognized for it. Both Sarah *&* the other body double. Natalie gets on my nerves, yes. But I’d feel this way about the situation no matter who it was, Sandra Bullock, Reese Witherspoon, ect.
Um, the news would be that SHE DIDN’T smoke pot in college.
My viewpoint on the Sarah Lane “controversy” is that Ms Lane was hired to do a job. She did it. She was paid. Generating crap about how much she appeared onscreen was not necessary. She was not hired with the caveat that she would have ANY kind of screen credit whatsoever, according to insiders that I trust. If she had that in her contract, she would have gotten the credit (she got a credit, but not as a a dancer, apparently). Who CARES how much dancing she did? I don’t. I don’t care anymore than I care how much dancing Jennifer Beals in Flashdance, how much pottery Demi Moore did in Ghost, how much actual flying the GMD did in Top Gun. And do we really believe that the actors in Apollo 13 were real astronauts? It’s a FILM. One should be able to suspend reality for 97 minutes and just enjoy the storyline.
I personally didn’t like Black Swan. But I appreciated the work the actors did in bringing the characters to life.
(God, I am tired of moderation…)
I think we are all a little natalie-d out.
I think I agree with Liana on this one and that includes not liking it all that much. I think I enjoyed it more than she did, I don’t feel like my ticket admission was a waste, but this is just one of those things that everyone seems to like much, much more than I did. I saw the movie at the top of a high-rise cinema, and trying to get to the subway level on all those stairs and escalators after the flicker onslaught from the last part of film was, interesting.
Do I find NP irritating (outside of ‘Natalie Raps’ which was long before she started to annoy me), yeah, I’ll admit it, but you know who else bugs me? Sarah Lane. I don’t think it’s professional to assume that your employers and co-workers owe you more than what has already been settled. Would it have been nice if there were some (more) recognition? I guess (but I don’t care). But, if Ms. Lane wants Oscar adoration, she should win an Oscar, because at this point it has turned into ‘Kunis, Hershey, Cassel Ryder, who?’ Given, I thought NP was far and way the least interesting thing about that movie and doesn’t even think that I don’t think she was good, by doesn’t the dancer have some dancing to do months and months after the fact?
In another shocker I heard Woody Harrelson has smoked weed too.
@ Hakura. “Talking about training for so long gave the impression that a large part of the dancing the audience got to see was the *direct* result of said training… Knowing this, it’s not incomprehensible that the dancing thus helped her to win the Academy Award.”
It’s definitely possible, but this is speculation. Nobody knows what they were thinking when they voted for Natalie. I would have voted for Bening myself, but I’m not a voter.
I’ve worked on films before, and I wasn’t fooled at all. There were too many close-up/top half, body shots. That’s a dead giveaway. I also think most film professionals wouldn’t be fooled, but who knows?
Devotion to a part only goes so far. You will not turn into a prima ballerina overnight. She mentioned the double twice in two different interviews. So, it’s only a surprise to people who weren’t paying attention in the first place.
It’s funny because Adrien Brody talked about all his training on the piano NEVER once mentioning his piano double, the music over-dubbing, etc. Nobody criticized him, or said let’s take away his award, etc. The point is you can’t fault actors for presenting an illusion because that’s their job.
I know if I worked hard at something, & someone else was given credit for it, I’d be pretty upset.
They didn’t have to give her an Oscar, just a little acknowledgment.
Hakura, I appreciate your position, but she did a job and got paid. She was not promised riches, recognition, and attention. She was promised a paycheck, which she received. I’ve worked on films where I worked my ass off and ended up left out of the credits because I was an assistant on a second or additional second unit and fell through the cracks. I got my money (thank God), but you know what? I didn’t really care about the lack of “recognition.” It’s Hollywood, where bullshit rules. Maybe I’m just jaded now and overly accustomed to the thankless pit that the industry is.
I thought Barbara Hershey was so damned good in that film.
No matter what the situation, NP always comes off as pretentious to me. I’m sure this was just an honest comment, but she still manages to annoy me with it. I enjoy watching her act, but when she’s not acting she’s being a self important ass.
Wow . She took a page from Tom Cruise on this one. Remember he had the same high road, “Nic knows what happened.” hahahaha. Jesus.
@Jenn – “Wow . She took a page from Tom Cruise on this one. Remember he had the same high road, “Nic knows what happened.” hahahaha. Jesus.”
Yeah, that “This is beneathe me. I’m too superior to dignify it with a response.” -_-
Ugh please, she’s a bit off her rocker, and has always been loco, i think that’s why she preformed so well as a youngster in the Professional (because she wasn’t acting)!
What is she wearing in that photo a lampshade sewn to curtains? Ugh… she looks horrible (per usual).
LMAO!!!! Oh man! Once again, I’m late. I posted about her rapping on SNL and I did it w/out reading the above comments. I was probably the 3rd person to bring it up. Sorry for my ass, peeps! It’s dragging behind, apparently.
Why didn’t we see the smug and nasty NP before the oscars, I paid my 10.00 to see Black Swan, this actress is worse than Megan Fox.
This is ridiculous. She doesn’t owe that ballerina anything, so many actors use doubles. She didn’t get the Oscar for being a ballerina, duh. Or maybe the ballerina had to get the Oscar since NP is not worthy of it? Enough already.
You know what? I am starting to like her. BECAUSE of the bitchy ballerina and all the hate.
And I like that she didn’t address it directly or go off kissing the ballerinas ass just because of the story’s hype. She did nothing wrong and does not need to apologise.
But she looks terrible in that yellow. All white people do, IMO.
Dear members of the Academy:
I wish to draw your attention to a short fall of recognition in regards to stunt doubles, stand ins and voice over thespians. Please remedy this before next year’s award season.