This is just a preview! I’m hoping we’ll have much more from Natalie Portman’s Elle UK November cover and interview next week. I literally sat here for ten minutes thinking, “Why on earth is she on a November mag cover? What is she promoting? That terrible western that everyone abandoned?” Then it hit me. She’s promoting Thor. So I guess it’s official – even Natalie Portman is doing more promotion than Chris Hemsworth for Thor: The Dark World. I thought it was just Tom Hiddleston-specific, but it seems like the situation is Hemsworth-specific. Hiddleston and Portman will promote Thor. Chris doesn’t want to.
Speaking of Hiddles, he’s the one that interviewed Natalie for this Elle issue. That’s actually kind of exciting, right? Tom is such a Pollyanna, and I can’t wait to read what kind of questions he asked her and if he wrote up the whole thing by himself. In the preview of the cover story, I’m being led to believe that Tom and Natalie discuss sexism in Hollywood. Oh, dragonflies. This sh-t will get GOOD. For now, though, just enjoy the first quotes from the interview, wherein Natalie discusses her love of Dirty Dancing:
Natalie Portman has said she gets starstruck around Jennifer Grey. The 32-year-old actress, who is a huge fan of the female lead from 1987 film Dirty Dancing, said she can’t help but feel flustered when she sees the fellow Jewish star at synagogue.
“Yes [I’ve met Jennifer]. We go to temple together. And I freak out every time I see her – I’m such a nerd!” she laughed to the November issue of British Elle. “She kind of gets the ‘polite eyes’ when she comes, because she knows I’m going to jump on her. I wish I weren’t as nervous as I am around her. I can’t get over it.”
The Black Swan star added that she has no qualms about mentioning Grey’s film with the late Patrick Swayze when they bump into each other.
“Of course [we talk about Dirty Dancing]! I can’t talk about it too much, or I’ll start getting teary,” she admitted. “There are other movies I love, but no other movie that I have watched over and over.”
The Thor star, who has a 2-year-old son named Aleph with her dancer husband Benjamin Millepied, also said being a movie star seems much easier now that she is a parent.
“Yes – acting feels really easy,” she shared. “I love being a mom, but it’s much more intensive work than being an actress – going to work feels like you’ve got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mom, it’s just perhaps I had this impression before that moms don’t work. But they work more than anyone.”
I can relate to the “day off by working” thing, but not because I’m a mom. But I get it. When you’re dealing with personal stuff or family stuff, it’s a relief to go to work and have something tangible to do, goals to be met within a day. As for Natalie and her love of Dirty Dancing… well, I’m just sort of shocked that Natalie and Jennifer Grey go to the same synagogue. Is there a special synagogue for just celebrities?
Photos courtesy of Elle UK/The Fashion Spot.
Beautiful pics, loveee her
Exquisite beauty!
Delicate features…so feminine.
She is stunningly beautiful. Insanely beautiful. Its inhuman.
That face! Its perfect. I wonder what its like being so classically beautiful…
Most beautiful woman in Hollywood (maybe after Angelina Jolie). She literally is perfect. I love Natalie and think she is a great actress too.
This makes me like her more. 🙂 Nobody puts Baby in a corner!!
She looks FANTASTIC in these photos!
You know I feel like Elle’s cover shoots have been kind of awful the last few months and I’m sort of bitter that they seemingly waited to put all their attention on Portman.
She has the shortest arms I’ve ever seen. They look like they belong on a little person.
I was coming on here to say the same thing! In the second photo she looks like a midget. NOT that there is anything wrong with being a midget, but Natalie is not one, so it looks odd.
I call those T-Rex arms. Oddly enough for as big a dude as he is Robert Irvine has them pretty bad.
Her twin Giada De Laurentiis also suffers from T-Rex syndrome.
Natalie is really beautiful though-she looks incredible in these pics.
Cee-Lo Green.
Dude has anyone ever bother actually looking at Matthew McConaughey?
Note his arms are almost always folded in posters-it makes them look longer. I giggle and so cannot take him seriously.
Matthew McConaughey’s nick name is T-Rex because of his short arms.
She’s 5’3″. Don’t let the slenderness fool you, she IS a wee tiny person.
She looks like Julia Roberts in that first photo.
this thing on her in the last photo is so horrible I don’t even know how to describe it.
Her face is so beautiful that to distract from it with clothing, or a backdrop or prop is unflattering. In this case, her gown. And her head in stuck in the title.
Ugh, she’s back.
I bet this is what Jennifer Grey thinks when she sees Portman show up to synagogue.
Yes this! Thank you.
And as constipated and pretentious as ever.
Constipated!! Lol!
Butt she got no back.
The one thing that struck (and bothered) me about her interview is her after thought … NOT THAT I WANT A DAY OFF! Why do women feel the need to apologize for saying they appreciate even a moment away from their kids. I wish she did not feel she needed to qualify her perfectly normal statement that going to work is easier than mommy duty (especially with a toddler).
Because we all know that she would get slammed by the Mini-Van majority (is that what Lainey calls them?) if she didn’t. It is the same way when people want to see real, honest reactions of those who don’t win at award shows instead of them smiling through it. When people are too honest, some just can’t handle it.
Portman’s a Jewish Harvard grad married to a ballet dancer, who heavily promotes veganism and animal rights. I don’t think she ever had a chance with the Mini-Van majority.
Don’t most moms want to drop-kick their kids out the back door sometimes? (Just me…?) She’s more relatable to the MVM before she backtracks.
What the hell is “the mini-van majority?” You mean, other moms? She wouldn’t win no matter what she said. I’m an extremely, overtly honest person who never hides what I’m thinking, and as a mom, I’ve admitted to people that there are days when I hate it. Loathe it. And there will always be people out there that demonize you for admitting that. She was playing it safe, and I think that as a celeb, you kind of have to. So much depends on how you’re viewed, so you try to sound apathetic and reasonable so as to appeal to everyone. Other than that, I agree with her. There is no bigger responsibility or thank-less job than being a mother. It’s not glamorous at all (though to be fair, most hollywood moms, if not all of them, don’t mother on the same level as the rest of us. Come on).
I hated the backtracking also. The Induatrial Momplex cant be everywhere at once, Natalie, so speak your mind. Geesh.
If nothing else, I’m sure Jennifer Grey is thrilled to be recognized by anyone!
MEOW 😉
Not quite intended to be catty–she herself has mentioned how her nose job rendered her unrecognizable from her DD days.
I have to agree – cattiness aside, she completely changed her face from the one we all came to love as “Baby.”
LOL!
Now I want to know if Portman fangirled while she was filming her scenes with Agent Coulson! I suppose Grey probably stayed in LA but still.
I have to agree.. the last photo is awful!
blerrrghhh…..she and the other girl were the most annoying aspects of the first Thor film. Please, do better this time!
I can’t decide if Goopy or this twit is the biggest phony. Too close to call.
Hmmm…it’s a tough call, but I think Goopy is worse. But it’s close.
Well I saw her in Paris last may, we were in the same restaurant with very few people (late lunch) while she is really beautiful ( she is actually not far from what e see in pictures) she has the oddest body and is one of the sexless woman I have ever seen!
And about motherhood…. I can’t see how it can be difficult for her as she was quietly eating… while her nanny juggled with her out of control son ( bothered people, took things from tables, search into purse… and stole my bread!)
And she didn’t even bother to talk to him while the poor nanny was clearly struggling…
No need to lie Natalie!
Poor you. Her nanny stole your bread? Ugh I am glad I never ran into her. I heard shes rude in resturants and to waiters. I am not suprised she has a nanny or two. Also, her gold-digger never seems to be around her or the kid. They have a weird marriage.
Ha! Good story.
I love you, lafrenchy! Posters like you are why I love reading comments sometimes. I believe you – gorgeous but sexless, not quite the EveryMommy that she wants to front as. I bet others have seen Natalie in action – speak up people!
It’s hard work watching other people attempt to keep your kids in line. Exhausting trying to ignore, I’d imagine.
Ha ha…that’s a great story.
She is pathetic and so her is gold digging,f–king no name husband. But then again she the the girl who always got dumped. Jake Gyllenhal, Devendra Banhart, Gael Garica Bernal all dumped her whiny a$$. So she settled for a gold digging loser I guess. Nice to see she has pulled majors srtrings for her no-name spouse to become a ‘star’. I am suprised the dude hasn’t run off with a 20 year old ballerina yet. It will happen and then she will complain about being a single mom. Ugh.
Her husband is at the top of his field–successful career as a dancer at NYC ballet, in demand as a choreographer around the world, and now has been named director of one of the best companies in the world–Paris Opera ballet. It’s weird that everyone thinks he’s a gold digger because he’s not a famous actor. And depressing for someone in a grueling, competitive field that just happens not to be lucrative.
He’s talented, but also known as someone who wasn’t averse to some extra publicity. I don’t know that I would call him gold-digging, but the way he dumped his longtime girlfriend as soon as the hollywood actress showed interest in him doesn’t exactly cast him in the greatest light.
Her husband is far from being a gold digging loser. He’s very talented.
He already had a very successful career before Natalie, but now he’s won the lottery.
I don’t like either of them, but I like them as a couple.
Ummm, that’s not really fair. He’s an accomplished and notable in his field which is professional ballet. He was a principal for the NYC ballet, choreographed for other numerous ballet companies. He has just been named the director of dance for the Paris Opera Ballet, which is one of the world’s most prestigious ballet companies in the world. Just because YOU didn’t know his name doesn’t mean he’s a no-name, and I hardly think he’s a gold digger being the director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet and all. ::Eyeroll::
Okay but if he was world famous, then he would have been named the director of Paris Opera, gotten the perfume deals and all this exposure way before Natalie Portman and Black Swan. Thanks to both of them, he got those perks. He is a loser and a gold digger from the way he treated his ex-girlfreind. And the only reason people might have heard of him, its because he’s the loser that stuck his dick inside an actress. Thats all he is known for. Just the nobody that knocked up the dull, pretenious, dumb Natalie Portman.It must be nice having your cash cow open all the doors for you. And when Natalie makes more millions, his plan will be to ditch her and take her millions with a hot young ballerina dancer. There is a reason why he was dubbed Ballet K fed. Funny how people think he got where he is on his own merits. No alot of is PR related and thru his cash cow.
That’s a lot of venom toward someone you don’t know (?). He was too young for the POB job, and while he definitely has gotten more exposure from being with Natalie, there’s little evidence that he was seeking that kind of exposure. It’s a tremendous amount of work to become a ballet dancer at his level, the vast majority of it done in a sweaty dance studio far from the adulation of fans. People don’t go into the field because they’re looking for adulation–it’s too much hard, physical work, every single day.
I have no venom for the guy. I will admit he is a talented dancer but so what? Why is it okay to ignore how he treated his ex-girlfreind? If you have read his interviews then you would know he is extreamly rude and its shows he is a gold-digger. He was never shown on celeb sites, celebe magazines before. So world famous my a$$. Only after we heard Natalie got knocked up by him, he started getting in the press. He probably would have never gotten this much exposure, the perfume deals and even being named the director or Paris Opera if not for his cash cow! No offence but the dude is pretty ugly to be the face for a high fashion brand. Only one way he could have gotten it, thru his cash cow. Many experts of Paris Opera felt one of the reason he was chosen over other talented dancers, was his realtionship with a star and Black Swan. Judging how the ballet community hates this guy and Natalie, he seems like an odd choice for being the director. And also, if he cared so much about ballet, why did he lie for his cash cow about how much dancing she did? He was one of the first to defend her I think. He insulted his fellow ballet dancers such as Sarah Lane( Who was telling the truth) just so he could live like a star with his cash cow. Paris Opera should have hired someone like Lane then. Atleast she seems honest and cares about ballet. Not some loser who is a gold-digger and is a oppertunist. If you have to think, what if he didn’t knock up Natalie and she later dumped him. Where would he be? The directing job would have gone to someone else.
LOL ballet K fed!
Ballet K-Fed is likely as pretentious as she is so I don’t see him running off with a ballerina. Not yet anyway while Natalie is young and influential. He needs her as his patroness.
Those pictures are…ummmmm….interesting?!
I like her a little bit more, that she admits her favorite movie isn’t some intellectual, obscure film, but a massive sorta cheesy hit. I would fangirl over Jennifer Grey, too, but for Ferris Bueller reasons..
she looks beautiful…and I used to really like her…
…but isn’t she one of the Polanski defenders? and didn’t she once “compare” eating meat to rape? I realize she didn’t come right out and say “eating meat is akin to rape”, but she made a comparison of eating meat at your host’s dinner table (in order to be polite) to tolerating rape (in order to be polite).
and while I don’t think a man can be “stolen”, she meets the criteria of “homewrecker” by some of the posters on this site. Not only was her husband living with someone when they started up, but she’s also rumored to be the reason Sean Penn and Robin Wright split up.
She is educated but seems to be lacking common sense, same as Lena Dunham.
They know all the formula by heart but they have problem applying them correctly because they lack a profound understanding of them.
I´m torn on her, I used to adore her when I was a teenager and before I started reading her interviews.
For someone who brags about being a Harvard grad, so smart,etc she is one of the most uneducated actresses I have ever seen in Hollywood currently. When she opens her mouth, there is no sign of intelligence in her. You wanna know something? She cooks her lame husband meat dishes! He was talking about it at the 2011 Oscars! I think she probably feeds her son meat too. Does she think of them as rapists?!
She should have known better then getting with a guy who was quick to drop his long-time girlfriend for her. He dropped his gf even before getting really serious with Natalie. I used to be a fan of her but I think shes incredibily stupid, lacks intelligence and even class too. What kind of person brags about being knocked up knowing that the guy left his gf for you? What a terrible way to start ad realtioship and produce a child because of it. Not sure about the Sean Penn- Robin Writght thing but even he is not stupid enough to be with Natalie.
She also insults her own profession( acting) by saying that you don’t need to use your brain for it and that its easy to be an actor. So does she think people like Daneil Day Lewis, Meryl Streep, Violas Davis,etc don’t use their braind? I think they are all smarter, work harder and are way more talented then this spoiled 32 year girl-erm woman. Atleast they don’t take credit for others peoples work like she did for Black Swan.
“She cooks her lame husband meat dishes! He was talking about it at the 2011 Oscars! I think she probably feeds her son meat too. Does she think of them as rapists?!”
…please explain…
She made a pretty shady comment comparing fame to being black, too. That said we all say douchey things in our early 20s.
She signed the petition, though I’ve always kind of figured that she was one of those people who didn’t really bother to read the case, amd intead figured ‘Holocaust survivor and widower of SharonTate’
A major flake.
She should learn from Gray what happens when you have so many nosejobs that you become unrecognizable.
Portman’s nose is getting tinier and tinier each year. It looks unreal.
I was thinking the same thing. Don’t know if that’s bad photoshop or bad surgery. Either way, her nose does not look real.
Is that what it is? I think she looks different, but couldn’t put my finger on it. Looks like she might have injected her lips as well.
“I’m being led to believe that Tom and Natalie discuss sexism in Hollywood. Oh, dragonflies. This sh-t will get GOOD. For now, though, just enjoy the first quotes from the interview, wherein Natalie…”
😀 and WHAT kind of teasing is this, Kaiser?
Haha, I wonder why Jennifer Grey gets ‘polite’ eyes around Natalie Portman.
Could it be that she thinks that if you make a film about dancing, it’s lame to try to steal your dancing double’s talent and efforts?
Could it be that Portman sounds as self-involved and pretentious in actual life as she does in interviews?
Could it be that Grey, an actress who can, you know, act, doesn’t feel that she is in the same league as two-dimensional Portman?
Considering she is a Polanski supporter I doubt she will be discussing sexism in her interview. It will probably be humble brag off between her and TommyannE and something about Shakespeare.
Natalie Portman discussing sexism in Hollywood would be so very rich on so many different levels…
…if you could measure irony, it would be, like, the irony version of absolute zero.
Hm. I’ve always liked her. I don’t really understand the hate.
And even though I’m only moderately familiar with the ballet world, I disagree that Benjamin Millepied is a no-name loser.
As far as I know, he wasn’t known before Natalie, and still isn’t. Ballet dancers are not ‘famous’ in the sense that singers and actors/actresses are. Because still alot of people don’t know him as aything other then the guy who knocked up Portman. He used Natalie connections to land him magaznine deals, perfume deals and exposure. Thanks to his realtionship with Natalie. I wonder if all those things would have come his way if he did not end up with Natalie.
He was known in the ballet world– it’s the pinnacle of the field to get a principal dancer contract with new york city ballet. He wouldn’t have gotten as many advertising contracts, but it’s still relatively common for dancers of his stature to get them. But no way would he have gotten the directorship of a major ballet company (in France no less) because of his association with a Hollywood actress.
Retouch city. The hairline looks crazy.
Natalie Portman’s whole career up until now has been built upon her fragile, barely legal looks, probably ’cause that’s when she first received the recognition she has since been riding (note: Tatum’s comment on how a person stops maturing at the age they become famous is one of the best insights into fame I;ve ever heard because of its TRUTH). Even now, part of me thinks that she strains to look a little girl, and when she got pregnant, that was when she looked her most uncomfortable because it meant upsetting her signature look. Her marrying a ballet dancer doesn’t help matters because the ballet world is notoriously keen on keeping the women looking as delicate and coquettish as possible.
Very interesting. It reminds me of Jackie Kennedy’s impossibly kittenish simper when being interviewed or Michelle Williams wearing all of the Garanimals dresses during her Oscar campaign for Marilyn. Ugh
That’s so funny you say that about Jackie, because I could never put it into words. You nailed it.
Lisa
When I was a teen Jackie was my heroine. Years later it is so interesting to read stories about her turning the wide-eyed little girl lost act on and off when she needed to. One friend even said “Oh comeoff it, Jackie” after an interview. Apparently Jackie threw back her head, laughed and lit a fresh cigarette. Wow, right?
umh, she looks budget here. Bad, bad photoshoot… also, how much do you wanna bet that Hiddles asked a question about Shakespeare, at least? Can’t wait for the Oxbridge meets Ivy League angle…
Not true. He was in a spread in Vogue before he and Natalie got together. Also, what nose jobs Aloe? Have you ever seen The Professional? Her nose is the exact same!
She has trimmed her nose before Black Swan and after that. These photos are extremely photoshopped. The last photos of her in that weird dress also point to botox. She looks frozen.
I, too, wish she had committed to the “it’s nice to have a day off” comment about having kids. I understand why she didn’t (all the headlines would leap immediately to “Natalie Portman hates her kid”) but I wish she had. I think the most damaging element of the mommy brigade is that they privilege motherhood to the point that women are afraid to say anything that sounds like they enjoy being away from their kids and maintaining an identity separate from “being mom”. You can see it in this interview. Portman is quick to backtrack and be clear that she doesn’t feel like she “needs a break”, even though she probably does. Nanny or not, whatever, I don’t know her deal, but it should be okay to admit you enjoy time away from your children. But the mommy brigade incinerates anyone who dares suggest it.
She is so gorgeous, love her.
that jumpsuit is possibly the fugliest thing ever.
in every editorial is she going to have to sport some sort of wings/feathers type thing for eternity now b/c of black swan?
saying perhaps she never thought mothers really worked before is very telling about her, perhaps. 🙄
yeah, her husband wouldn’t be the director of the paris opera ballet if they hadn’t hooked up (to diminish the rumors that her baby daddy is actually aronofsky). sure he had a career before meeting her -but not that kind of career.
LOL, stars they really are like us!
I love her engagement ring…it’s gorgeous!
I thought she was an “atheist”. She certainly called herself one.
Why is she going to the “temple”, then?
Or maybe it’s like her “vegetarianism” – on again, off again. Whichever way the wind happens to blow.
(Yeah, I don’t like her. I don’t know why. She just rubs me the wrong way.
I used to like her – kind of – but then I met her. So there. Sue me.)
Definitely not an athiest, she’s a loud and proud Jew. She even studied in Israel.
Oh, she definitely called herself an atheist in the relatively recent past. (I wish I could bolster my claim with proper references, but I can’t at this point… It’s really not worth the time, is it? :-))
But maybe she changed her mind. She did about other things, after all. Nothing wrong with changing one’s mind… even if it seems to happen awfully often.
But being a “proud Jew” doesn’t equate being a religious Jew, anyway. (She does seem to be a Zionist, that’s for sure.)
As far as I know, she only studied for awhile in Israel because she was living there with her parents.
Lol reading some comments really do crack me up! Some people are so eager to belittle her and looking for some points to throw shade at her even to the point of agreeing with all bad rumors or so called claims about being a bad person by some trolls.
Anyways she looks gorgeous . I understand that she is threatening and all but compared to some violent sweethearts like Christian bale,Michael fassbender(violence on former gf), mark wahlberg she is harmless!
She knows that she would be attacked by certain women thats why she immediately backed up her motherhood statement so as to not give them a chance to shame her.
Christian Bale isn’t violent. He might have temper/anger issues, but he isn’t violent. The whole screaming at the extra, was overexaggerated–I listened to the recording…he sounded very tired, frustrated, and annoyed. He wasn’t even yelling. And he apologized for it right away.
The incident with his mother and his sister went like this. Apparently when his parents got divorced, he went with his father, his sister went with his mom. He was apparently not close to either women, because every time they called him, they’d ask for money. But the issue is that in that hotel, they asked him for money, he said no, and then they started insulting his wife.
He defended his wife and yelled back at them. This was in London–and in London you can get arrested for verbal abuse. So pretty much his mom and sister called the cops and said they felt threatened, and so he got arrested. What you should note is afterwards, his mother and sister sold their story to any tabloid who would listen.
And I am so tired of people saying Michael Fassbender is an abuser. He isn’t. There is no proof, only conjecture. For one, he and his girlfriend were in CA. Where they lived, they have a law that whenever someone gets turned in for abuse, the DA will investigate it no matter what–even if the victim drops charges. They investigated it; he wasn’t charged with anything.
Plus his ex has a history of falsely accusing her other exes of abuse as well.
I won’t argue with you on the Mark Wahlberg stuff, because I don’t know how anyone could do the things he’s done and not feel some measure of guilt or remorse for it, and say that with a straight face when asked. Especially since he’s a celebrity and could be doing so much more to highlight issues of race in his childhood town and areas like it.
I think Natalie has one of the most naturally gorgeous faces I’ve ever seen. Amazing bone structure. I also like her as an actress. People say she’s insufferable but I haven’t seen it. ::Shrug::
She’s pretty until she smiles, then her face turns into a grimace.
I think she’s gorgeous & she looks exactly like Keira Knightley.
I don’t buy that moms work harder than anyone stuff. I’m sure it is challenging but there are many people who are not parents who work just as hard or harder.
I used to loooove her, but now I see she’s really overrated, although not talentless. And I just love her eyebrows.
Love Natalie, she’s so beautiful and intelligent. Girl crush!
She looks really bizarre on the cover; like she got her lips & nose done. They clearly went overboard with the photoshop. She’s looks very classically beautiful in the second picture though. I love her ring!
Georgeous and i’m sure an intelligent woman but I have complaints. I can almost pin point where I started to dislike her.
Some years ago she spoke in an interview about learning about the psychology of women being terrible at accepting compliments, how they would always follow it by saying something bad about themselves. The next thing I saw an interview where the interviewer tells her she’s beautiful or something and she pauses, gives this condescending smile, nods, says nothing and goes full ice queen.
Sounds like I’m nit-picking maybe but it’s just one instance that supports my theory that she has just far, far overcompensated in trying not to be a meek, apologetic woman. She’s gone so bloody far that she’s lost all her humility and has a horrible air of snobbery and arrogance.
It’s a shame, I really liked her as a teen but I don’t believe you have to be a cold person to be a strong woman.
“but I don’t believe you have to be a cold person to be a strong woman.”
And I believe you are totally right. Indeed, the opposite is true (not just of women, of course).
Besides, anyone who uses stereotyping doesn’t sound terribly intelligent or perceptive, anyway.
How about saying “SOME women have a hard time accepting compliments”? (I for one never did.)
Oh right: it wouldn’t sound as “profound” as it was supposed to sound… to people who spend very little time really thinking about anthing.
Thank God she is not a practising psychologist.
she´s so beautiful! everytime i see her i think wow she´s a beauty.
sadly she is terrible in interviews. she sounds like an idiot. vain and know-all without substance…
some actors shouldn´t give interviews.
Yuck – she is such an idiot. She always looks like she is smelling her own fa/rts.