Name: Natalie Portman Breaks Down Her Career, from “Star Wars” to “Vox Lux" | Vanity Fair
Uploaded: 2020-03-26T00:30:53.000Z
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I wish I could say that there was some sort of, like, grand design career, but I've been very instinctive.

I feel like about what feels right for me at the moment and also what's available.

Yeah, what exactly do you do for a living?

The professional, which came out in 1984 was the first film I made.

My first time being on a set and getting toe act with incredible actors like Jean Renault and Gary holds my hand.

And I remember also just being so excited by getting to be in Paris because we found all the interiors in Paris.

And so on the weekends, my mom would take me to like river Dandies, Sam, or there's this place, a quibble of our that I really like.

That was like a fake indoor beach where they had, like, waves and stuff on set to I think I remember like the playing more than anything.

Everything felt like a game to me, and it was a really fun way to get to go into into acting.

I was 14 and Tim Burton was one of my absolute favorite directors.

I mean, I was like, so in tow, Edward Scissorhands.

I was a kid and, of course, to get to work with, you know, Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close and, um Lukas Haas.

And it was just like a dream come true to get to be on.

That said, it was a very short part for me, but I really loved getting to work on it.

I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war.

The store's episode one George Lucas, was incredible to work with.

He's just such a smart person and very kind person.

And it was just interesting to get to spend time with him and, of course, get some insight into his his ability thio invent this world that didn't exist.

That now is like a very big part of the cultural lexicon.

I went to Kabuki theater and when I saw the sort of drawings for Queen Amidala, I was like, Oh, my God, That reminds me of the Kabuki.

And so I tried as a 16 year olds to kind of, like, channel that influence because that it was such a specific style on the slow kind of movement and very kind of dream like, but, I mean, it reads you're paying attention to the spaceships.

We're not gonna make out or anything What, just, like, totally ruined that moment, just like we're not gonna make out.

Okay, I read the script and it was one of those things were like, I read the script and really responded, and everyone around me was like, You don't need to be doing this.

This is some random movie from this random first time director Zack was incredible.

We filmed that in, like, 25 days also, and we had the best time, and it was just really fun.

Kind of like young people making a movie together.

And then it was really exciting when the movie came out and had this kind of like moment where people really responded to it.

Forget I just said that I'm dumb, I think, with this face this vision.

Closer was one of the greatest pieces of writing of I've ever read.

Patrick Marber's just absolutely one of one of our great writers.

I suddenly had this feeling that everything was connected.

We were shooting in Berlin, which was an amazing place, and with the witch House keys, who are interesting, provocative, smart and very kind people on DSO.

It was wonderful to have that combination of, like, really, really challenging, interesting, relevant material.

I really like backed for that part because I was so into the graphic novel.

Yeah, and shaving my head was It was a good experience in life, not just in film.

It's surprising how something so simple can make you feel like what a big deal so many gender expectations are on you and how different people treat you and how different people look at you just from your hair, which is kind of crazy.

I don't see mother off that Jack and I want 20 getting wants for you.

I think the idea for the rope came partly out of me saying Thio only on guys that I really was into Park or rap may were surprised by that.

That just can't be came came out of that conversation.

It was such a dream come true to get to the Saturday Night Live and then more fun and more crazy than I ever imagined, just one of the greatest experiences in my career.

And I remember I made miss really dates me, but it was like kind of the beginning of YouTube.

We kind of like, What is this thing you give your content for free?

That it was like this whole new kind of concept And also, I think I had been really painted is like a It's like good, proper, serious girl like college girl, you know, And it was fun to kind of play with people's expectations of me go against them.

Black Song was on incredible experience for so many reasons.

I had always loved dance so much, and it's kind of the art I most moved by.

It expresses things that I feel I can't be expressed by other media.

It took like 10 years for it to come together.

It was such an incredible opportunity to get to kind of like live out this this fantasy of doing all this dance training and working with an incredible choreographer who became, you know, my my partner and I really feel like it.

It pushed me as an actor and as an artist and Darren.

I felt like Darren genuinely was interested in my point of view and my input, and it really felt like like a partnership.

When I saw the final cut of blacks on, I was completely surprised by what the movie was like.

I thought we were shooting something like almost like documentary style, and I watched.

It was like, Oh, this is like an over the top thriller It was amazing kind of wake up call.

The film is a director's medium, and you kind of as an actor.

I have no idea what is going on and are kind of being lead and shaped on his fill of love and darkness.

It was the first time I really just envisioned a film.

While I was reading the book, I saw it in my mind, and I felt really strongly that I had to do it and I think really changed me as an actor, too, because to watch yourself over and over and over again to learn how to give yourself kind of feedback that makes you change your performance.

It felt very close to parenting to me, like your job is really to try and get the best out of everyone and, like, how can you support and encourage people to get their best contribution?

I believe that the characters we read about it on the page and being more real than the man you stand well, Jackie, which came out in 2016 was very lucky experience because I was terrified of playing a a real life character whose people were so familiar with two.

You know, I had played like in Berlin before, but no one knew what she looked like or walked like her.

I don't think I ever would have done it, except that I was living in Paris and they were shooting in Paris.

Itjust logistically really fit with my life at that time working with the director Pablo Lorraine was just an incredible collaboration, and it's so interesting.

Like the way he works is just different from from the way I had ever worked before and and then the character was unexpectedly so rich and ripe for imagination.

I thought that with someone really that you would be almost constricted by having to be like stick to the facts.

There's so much we don't know, like the more we know, the less we know almost because there are so many gaps in the information and makes you wonder so much.

And she she was really just such an incredible figure.

I was under a lot of stress after my accident, but that's what the show is about.

It's about the box looks which is coming out this year 2018.

The whole film was shot in, I think, 22 days, and it was really fast and I did a lot of prop because the character talks a lot, just like these huge huge monologues and a a Staten Island accent.

So I worked with my dialect coach a lot on the material beforehand and then of course, I also had the prep for the singing and dancing stuff.

I recorded the music before and then learned all the dance routines or to a choreographed by my husband, so that made it a little more fun and easier because it is at home.

 I think what I have taken out of the roles has been more speaking to my personality, or like the experiences and who I've worked with that has been a great collaborator that has drawn things out of me that make me feel more free and more ableto explore things. 