The Oscar-winning actress says it would be impossible for her to fully immerse herself within character because the limits imposed by society expect her to fulfil her duties as a wife and a mother.
- Jan 9, 2024
AceShowbiz - Natalie Portman isn't able to practice method acting because she is a woman. The 42-year-old actress, who has Alpeh, 12, and six-year-old Amalia with husband Benjamin Millepied, has carved out a successful career in Hollywood since starting out in showbusiness as a child and has even won an Academy Award but does not feel that as a woman she is able to fully immerse herself within character by actually living as them because of the other duties she is expected to fulfil within life as a wife and a mother.
She told The WSJ, "I've gotten very into roles, but I think it's honestly a luxury that women can't afford. I don't think that children or partners would be very understanding of, you know, me making everyone call me 'Jackie Kennedy' all the time."
The "Black Swan" star added that no matter the class status of a woman, all females are "united" by the notion that they are perpetually "limited" by society when it comes to their destiny and how they can fulfil it, noting that every story about a woman is about her trying to "break free" of that convention.
She said, "No matter the circumstances of a woman's life, whether she's very privileged or underprivileged, the uniting factor is the limits placed by society on what women can be, how they can behave, what they're allowed to say and think and feel and do-so every woman's story is somehow trying to break free of [that]."
Meanwhile, Natalie has lived in Paris for a while now and revealed that her goal this year is to master the French language. She said, "My resolution is to really, actually learn French properly. I've lived in Paris for a year now, and I speak it well enough to get around, but I need proper French. That's my focus this year."
