“I told him immediately that I wouldn’t make this movie”: 29 years ago, Natalie Portman was offered a role in the 90’s that everyone was forgotten

After his 11 -year -old film debut, Natalie Portman quickly learned from her public image. Recently an Oscar actress said she had suffered. “Long period of Lolita“What was marked by intense sexuality as an actor, especially after his start, Luke Besson.

“” “I guess society perceives otherwise who I am“,” He told the interlocutor Jenna Ortega, an interview for the magazine. “I have already talked about it, how, as a child, I was very sexy, which, in my opinion, is coming to the screen with many young girls. I was very scared. Obviously, sexuality is an important part of my childhood, but I wanted it to stay in me and not to be used against me. And I think to protect myself, I said to myself, ‘I am very serious. I am very light. I am intelligent and this is not the kind of girl we suffer. ‘»

Thus, the young actor built a picture of the study girl to defend herself: “I told myself that if I created this picture of this, it would be left alone. It should not happen, but it worked. But I think it is a gap between the fact that I am a fool and funny in real life and the fact that people think I am a very serious and learning person. I am not a person who is particularly preserved in real life – I say everything – but in society, it was very understandable from the beginning that if you tell people how much you are, your personal life is much more respectful. I have set up a sort of barrier to say: “With my children I will not make photo sessions.”»

A teenager Natalie Portman So, carefully selected his films. Thus, he starred in feature films such as Beautiful Girls (1996), Mars attacks! (1996), Star Wars: Episode I – La Menace Phantôme (1999), Mother, Me and Mother (1999), and where the heart will lead (2000). He then stepped back from the cinema from 1999 to 2003 to study in Harvard until he finally dedicated his acting career.

He refused to do this clear role

Before and after it has revealed it Leon” Natalie Portman Thus, he refused to play the role of the title in Lolita, adapting to Vladimir Nabokov’s novel by Adrian Linn in 1997, which was already adapted by Stanley Kubrick in 1962. However, Linn’s version was more daring. Eventually Dominic Swin took the role.

“” “I met the director but I immediately told me I wouldn’t make this movie“Said Natalie Portman In 1996 at the Los Angeles Times. ”The adaptation of Kubrick’s book is excellent because in fact nothing is shown, but it will be obvious. He told me that they would use the liners, but I told them that people would still think that I was, so thanks.»

Recall that the film that prohibits France under the age of 12 tells the story of Humbert (Jeremy Iron), a brilliant teacher of French letters, New – in the small town of England, which rents a single widow, Charlotte (Melanie Griffith). The latter is in love with him. Controversy and speaking, he depicts everything that Humbert hates the world, but he has an invaluable asset: his daughter Dolores, called Lolita (Dominic Swine), A playful and angry nymphate that irresistibly reminds the teacher of the tragic love of youth that he has never recovered.

You will find Lolita in Vod. Otherwise, Natalie Portman to see Leon, Direction Prime Video.