Natalie Portman Ain't Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Natalie Portman is giving interviews to promote "Lucy in the Sky," and she spoke to Elle magazine for its most recent issue.
She is against manic pixie dream girl roles:
“It certainly is stifling to be the one who’s enacting someone else’s idea of how a young woman should behave."
"I’ve seen a real change [in the industry] since I was 20. But not a total change; you still see those roles of just being a dream girl or whatever some person wants you to enact.”
She feels more comfortable in Hollywood:
“When I went to the Oscars in 2009, I was just standing there, and felt totally scared and intimidated and lonely by the whole experience. And then going to the Golden Globes in 2018, it felt like going to a party with friends. We were all like, ‘Oh, this is what it feels like; this is why it’s fun for other people.’”
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