The latest cover story in Interview magazine poses an interesting question - between paparazzi photos, celeb gossip and stars' own Twitter updates - do we really know our movie stars, or just know where they drink their coffee? Beautiful actress Natalie Portman has been in the public eye for more than half her life, but as the interview suggests, we know only superficial details about the woman behind the roles in 'Star Wars' and 'Garden State.' To solve this problem, Interview enlisted the help of actor Jake Gyllenhaal, Portman's co-star in the upcoming film 'Brothers.' Read the entire, charmingly candid piece in the new issue of Interview, and check out the highlights and gorgeous photos below:
Natalie Portman reveals her inner self to Interview magazine, admitting, "I'm far from fearless. I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing."
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On her job skills: "I can make chitchat, but not much else. I mean, I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices."
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On the bright side of the recession: "It's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there."
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On what frightens the Harvard grad: "I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs... Because that bad guy, Gargamel, was so terrifying. I was scared of a lot of cartoons. I'm kind of wussy like that. I'm far from fearless. I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
On time travel: "Right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization-like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture-what circumstances created the environment or the need for it. I actually felt like I was in a time machine last week when I went with Jay-Z to the Laserium in Los Angeles... Those kinds of [laser] shows really do take you back to a more innocent time when that stuff was superimpressive . . . Well, not even a more innocent time but maybe a more drugged-out time."
On her favorite music: "Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance. Those are like my two favorite things, so combined . . . I've been listening a lot lately to "Wait (The Whisper Song)" by the Ying Yang Twins, where the lyrics are like, 'Wait 'til you see my d--k'-which is just amazing because it's whispered. [whispers] 'Wait 'til you see my d--k . . . ' [laughs] Crazy. So I just listen to it like I'm a five-year-old, like, 'Oh my god! I can't believe he just said that!'"
On the state of the union: "I think it's kind of an exciting time. I mean, everyone is cutting back. It's happening in every industry-including our own. But I think that's going to translate into a situation where people aren't motivated by money as much as they have been in the recent past. A lot of my friends from college went into fields like banking for financial reasons-obviously people have school loans and things to pay off.
"And now, all of a sudden, they're doing jobs that they hate and they're not making as much money as they thought they would or they've lost their jobs entirely. So I've started to see people looking more toward their own passions and what really excites them. Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there."
On her job skills: "I really wish I could make something. I mean, you're a really good cook, you know how to build things-you can make things with your hands. I can't make anything . . . Well, I can make chitchat, but not much else. I mean, I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices."
Okay, I understand that these are exerpts from the article in "Interview" magazine. But these are deep secrets? Mind you I like a fair amount of her work, but these don't seem like all that deep of secrets. Just superficial replies really. (Then again, the questions shown are fairly basic and superficial too.). I'm not expecting her to say things that are private unless she wants to, but don't hype this as "deep secrets" when it's just replies to basic, everyday questions.
Natalie has always impressed me as a person because she's got common sense, doesn't take herself too seriously, and appears to have a sense of who she is. She looks at life as a human not a star. This is not easy for most in the industry. Whether she puts her talents into acting or chooses another focus I'm pretty sure she will always be a success and a person. If I wasn't old enough to be her Grampa I'd seriously want to date her. No Pedo intended. This interview was pretty superficial though. If she ever visits Belize, I'd like to do a better one.
Going anywhere with Jay-Z won't transport her to an innocent time. Scared of the Smurf's? Gargamel? Cool. How about being scared of the idiots in the world? How about being scared of the world? Of course, she has all the money she'll ever need, so she can be worried and scared about the trifling crap instead. And she can be transfixed with stupid rap lyrics in between making movies. I hate celebrities. I think her head's in the freakin' clouds. She doesn't live on the same planet I do.
Well.of course not. After all,she WAS the QUEEN OF NABOO,and she married a JEDI KNIGHT. Besides,with a snarky attitude like yours,I seriously doubt that I would want to live on the same planet with you ,either. You sound liked a genetic experiment that failed,like many other earthlings.
Before reading the stupidity this idiot spewed, I thought she was a pretty good actress. Her's is the quality of genious that we hear all of the time from the left wingnuts. All of them are that stupid and all of them want to tell us how to run the country.
Gee Natalie, need some attention? Are the other young starlets getting too much for your comfort? Ever see a movie called "Soapdish"? Sally Field and Whoopee Goldberg deal with this exact problem and it was hilarious. You are on the wrong path Natalie, its not you and it won't get you where you think you want to go. I was sorry to see you so desperate.
What an idiot. People are losing their jobs and their homes and she says it's an "exciting time". This sheds a glaring light on how out of touch celebrities are. What's scary is that people listen to them and are influenced by their social and political views. We wouldn't be stuck with our current president if he wasn't such a rock star among rock stars. Crazy.
I am so IN LOVE WITH JAKE!! OMG!! HE IS SO CUTE! Please let him be as much in love with me as I am with him!! OMG!! Jake I will take you around the WORLD!!
So she thinks it's really great that her friends she went to college are scraping by and unable to pay student loans while she sit's around giggling at obscene rap lyrics and going to show's with another woman's husband???Wow can she be that shallow?? Stop worrying about prehistoric time girl..Your butt is gonna have to answer to God just like everyone else!
Hollywood is so superficial and out of touch with the real world. But yet, the real world strives to emulate this fantasy "crap" that Hollywood so readily pumps.
Natalie, thank God that you lucked out and leave the rest of us alone.....
TO THE OLD KING LESS A HURT MIND GERMAN TOLD AS THEY SO HOPE AS SUCH ARE TRIES A MIND GAMES TO HAVE LIFE SO IF I HEAR OF GERMAN I AM TO NO SAY TO HER NEXT TIME AS I AM A LOST MEMORY AN I JUST TYPED MR M W P MOVIE , SAD LAST TIMES PAST HER WAS 20 YEARS , AS THEY WHOM ARE CRIME GOV TOLD ME SAME PLACE WORD AN WORKS ON WOMAN GET HER SOME MORE WORK AN BETTER FRIENDS AS THEY WHOM ARE CRIME DRUG GOV HAVE A FEW RULES TO LEARN get her better work as i have typed long for no pay an her eyes show white an german us gov persons wanted to place a programm at some one i concern not of battel foe told former longer names then eric as they hosted in germany for our us gov slave ameirca rape of woman on film they been rape tradeing once more as german do, for there ways alast they will be given a roman ends , crimes an hostages for crimes punishments save the gril as white eyes are that of others witch craft , crime i recived of drug users an such ways i rather kill them yet she is a nice gril when i last talk, aol your up an i work not for free yet old ceo never give me beer when bad drug gov ask tells
i need a wife 30 years typeing makeing shows no only soung yet i will no let suffering persons live they hurt me german i will removed them of life told once last eric former war king of pre roman germany as we walk away
a few times they have found me in linderlund germany posion so a few whom were agressive drug users of this gov, is why i tell stories as kill them be to easy an they wimps made it not lawfull, yet there good law men did try an block a few other bullets happen neer me all over then past world, i hated chernobel was a holding pit an chemical harm is current bad of gov way, as they have found ameircan grils an boy is fagget roman german as past we all ready left the dead for the lands when older then roman shown to live in souther europe german is child an worse they bad a few goverment , attacked me an berline was a by head phones word spoken , she was a nice gril 1993 1994 new years yet if they think i am ducth i hate shakespere an worse sinclair is how i mock as some woman rulers exist as god useing men lie as i am current an man placeing mass particule infunaces at war foe of life stile, whom attacked as head phones an worse angels are demon the same as gods own scrools they never kew with out thifes help, she is a nice woman yet shold there been posion i made past an yet flesh scars i have a few other bones to brake an some have lost to me as a child there attacks,
Just to be clear: SONGS have melody as well as lyric. Jay-Z's raps have hood-rat psychobabble, typically delivered over a tune which he has sampled and for which he most likely isn't paying a license. Natalie is a lot more of a moron than I ever thought she was.
If all his family and assoc.'s,,didnt want him to run Ewing oil,,in the late 80's,,or before,he should have cashed out,,and started his own operation,,which he did in the end,,,after the gov.,shut Ewing corp. down....J.R.E.Enterprises,,,would have been far more interesting,,,for with a free hand,,you can progress faster,,or fail faster..either way,,no bickering,,at least...
The latest cover story in Interview magazine poses an interesting question - between paparazzi photos, celeb gossip and stars' own Twitter updates - do we really know our movie stars, or just know where they drink their coffee? Beautiful actress Natalie Portman has been in the public eye for more than half her life, but as the interview suggests, we know only superficial details about the woman behind the roles in 'Star Wars' and 'Garden State.' To solve this problem, Interview enlisted the help of actor Jake Gyllenhaal, Portman's co-star in the upcoming film 'Brothers.' Read the entire, charmingly candid piece in the new issue of Interview, and check out the highlights and gorgeous photos below:
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Thursday 27 August
By Tricia
I just think she's so cool.
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Friday 28 August
By arvig
Okay, I understand that these are exerpts from the article in "Interview" magazine. But these are deep secrets? Mind you I like a fair amount of her work, but these don't seem like all that deep of secrets. Just superficial replies really. (Then again, the questions shown are fairly basic and superficial too.). I'm not expecting her to say things that are private unless she wants to, but don't hype this as "deep secrets" when it's just replies to basic, everyday questions.
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Saturday 29 August
By flat top
If you're that easily bored, I feel sorry for you. It's entertainment, not philosophy.
Saturday 29 August
By Jonathan Mullen
Natalie has always impressed me as a person because she's got common sense, doesn't take herself too seriously, and appears to have a sense of who she is. She looks at life as a human not a star. This is not easy for most in the industry. Whether she puts her talents into acting or chooses another focus I'm pretty sure she will always be a success and a person. If I wasn't old enough to be her Grampa I'd seriously want to date her. No Pedo intended. This interview was pretty superficial though. If she ever visits Belize, I'd like to do a better one.
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Saturday 29 August
By the truth
Going anywhere with Jay-Z won't transport her to an innocent time. Scared of the Smurf's? Gargamel? Cool. How about being scared of the idiots in the world? How about being scared of the world? Of course, she has all the money she'll ever need, so she can be worried and scared about the trifling crap instead. And she can be transfixed with stupid rap lyrics in between making movies. I hate celebrities. I think her head's in the freakin' clouds. She doesn't live on the same planet I do.
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Saturday 29 August
By JEREMY
Well.of course not. After all,she WAS the QUEEN OF NABOO,and she married a JEDI KNIGHT. Besides,with a snarky attitude like yours,I seriously doubt that I would want to live on the same planet with you ,either. You sound liked a genetic experiment that failed,like many other earthlings.
Saturday 29 August
By Dave
JAKE YOU BELONG BACK ON THAT MOUNTAIN
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Saturday 29 August
By halhobbs
Before reading the stupidity this idiot spewed, I thought she was a pretty good actress. Her's is the quality of genious that we hear all of the time from the left wingnuts. All of them are that stupid and all of them want to tell us how to run the country.
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Saturday 29 August
By Steve
What a vapid stupid so called "actress"
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Saturday 29 August
By Judy
Gee Natalie, need some attention? Are the other young starlets getting too much for your comfort? Ever see a movie called "Soapdish"? Sally Field and Whoopee Goldberg deal with this exact problem and it was hilarious. You are on the wrong path Natalie, its not you and it won't get you where you think you want to go. I was sorry to see you so desperate.
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Saturday 29 August
By Wendell
Really disappointing. She sounds like she doesn't have a brain in her head.
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Saturday 29 August
By ri's momma
What an idiot. People are losing their jobs and their homes and she says it's an "exciting time". This sheds a glaring light on how out of touch celebrities are. What's scary is that people listen to them and are influenced by their social and political views. We wouldn't be stuck with our current president if he wasn't such a rock star among rock stars. Crazy.
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Saturday 29 August
By LEIGH
I am so IN LOVE WITH JAKE!! OMG!! HE IS SO CUTE!
Please let him be as much in love with me as I am with him!! OMG!! Jake I will take you around the WORLD!!
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Saturday 29 August
By nat
So she thinks it's really great that her friends she went to college are scraping by and unable to pay student loans while she sit's around giggling at obscene rap lyrics and going to show's with another woman's husband???Wow can she be that shallow?? Stop worrying about prehistoric time girl..Your butt is gonna have to answer to God just like everyone else!
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Saturday 29 August
By lsp
Hollywood is so superficial and out of touch with the real world. But yet, the real world strives to emulate this fantasy "crap" that Hollywood so readily pumps.
Natalie, thank God that you lucked out and leave the rest of us alone.....
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Sunday 30 August
By AS CHILD NAME I JUST BEEN TOLD
TO THE OLD KING LESS A HURT MIND GERMAN TOLD AS THEY SO HOPE
AS SUCH ARE TRIES A MIND GAMES TO HAVE LIFE SO IF I HEAR OF GERMAN
I AM TO NO SAY TO HER NEXT TIME AS I AM A LOST MEMORY
AN I JUST TYPED MR M W P MOVIE , SAD
LAST TIMES PAST HER WAS 20 YEARS , AS THEY WHOM ARE CRIME GOV
TOLD ME SAME PLACE WORD AN WORKS ON WOMAN
GET HER SOME MORE WORK AN BETTER FRIENDS AS THEY WHOM ARE
CRIME DRUG GOV HAVE A FEW RULES TO LEARN
get her better work as i have typed long for no pay
an her eyes show white an german us gov persons wanted to place a programm at some one i concern not of battel foe
told former longer names then eric as they hosted in germany
for our us gov slave ameirca rape of woman on film they been rape
tradeing once more as german do, for there ways alast they will be
given a roman ends , crimes an hostages
for crimes punishments save the gril as white eyes are that of others
witch craft , crime i recived of drug users an such ways i rather kill them
yet she is a nice gril when i last talk, aol your up an i work not for free
yet old ceo never give me beer when bad drug gov ask tells
i need a wife 30 years typeing makeing shows no only soung
yet i will no let suffering persons live they hurt me german i will removed
them of life told once last eric former war king of pre roman germany
as we walk away
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Sunday 30 August
By gods dam germans
a few times they have found me in linderlund
germany posion so a few whom were agressive
drug users of this gov, is why i tell stories
as kill them be to easy an they wimps made it not lawfull, yet there good law men did try an block
a few other bullets happen neer me all over then past world, i hated chernobel was a holding pit
an chemical harm is current bad of gov way,
as they have found ameircan grils an boy
is fagget roman german as past we all ready left the dead for the lands when older then roman shown
to live in souther europe german is child
an worse they bad a few goverment , attacked me
an berline was a by head phones word spoken
, she was a nice gril 1993 1994 new years
yet if they think i am ducth i hate shakespere
an worse sinclair is how i mock as some woman rulers exist as god useing men lie as i am
current an man placeing mass particule infunaces
at war foe of life stile, whom attacked
as head phones an worse angels are demon the same
as gods own scrools they never kew with out thifes help, she is a nice woman yet shold there been posion i made past an yet flesh scars i have
a few other bones to brake an some have lost to me
as a child there attacks,
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Sunday 30 August
By rollingfrogmusic
Just to be clear: SONGS have melody as well as lyric. Jay-Z's raps have hood-rat psychobabble, typically delivered over a tune which he has sampled and for which he most likely isn't paying a license. Natalie is a lot more of a moron than I ever thought she was.
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Sunday 30 August
By uncle frank
If all his family and assoc.'s,,didnt want him to run Ewing oil,,in the late 80's,,or before,he should have cashed out,,and started his own operation,,which he did in the end,,,after the gov.,shut Ewing corp. down....J.R.E.Enterprises,,,would have been far more interesting,,,for with a free hand,,you can progress faster,,or fail faster..either way,,no bickering,,at least...
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Sunday 30 August
By RDF
She is a Unitarian.
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