Natalie Portman wows on the April cover of Vogue Australia, on newsstands April 1.
Here’s what the 37-year-old Oscar-winning actress shared with the magazine:
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On taking her family to Australia for the shoot: “My family does not want to leave: they just love it here. This country is a dream. The people are so warm, so friendly, the food is unbelievable, the nature is astonishing. The culture’s incredible … I’m very admiring of this nation. And it’s so cool that there are women’s [football] teams. So cool. They were saying that it’s made the men’s and the women’s leagues more popular. They’ve gotten more female fans and more male fans, which is so great. I wish we had that [in the US].”
On the Times Up Movement: “It’s been really an incredible learning process, and a lot of new friendships and support systems have formed, and a network that we had never had. It was really surprising and amazing to me. I think I was also surprised by how much I had accepted that was not okay, because of course it was a surprise to realise how many women had been affected by this, by many different perpetrators, and to many different extents, and how with all of it there is a spectrum of things that are not okay that we put up with on a regular basis. I think one thing that was so interesting … [was] I would hear people say: ‘Well, that’s not really harassment, that’s like a bad date, or we’ve all had that.’ Because we’ve all had that doesn’t mean it’s okay, it means it’s ubiquitous … that was really a revelation to me: that it’s not just a bad date or a bad boyfriend, that it is abusive and sexist, and we’ve been living in it, and not only that, but also the [iniquity of] hiring practices and pay.”
On her career – past, present, and future: “I feel like I’m getting to live out my childhood dreams through my roles: ballerina, singer, astronaut…It’s going to be my criteria now for choosing movies that I’m going to be playing – next I’ll be like a mermaid and a fire woman!”
For more from Natalie, head to Vogue.com.au.
FYI: Natalie is wearing a Dior dress on the cover.
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