Being considered a Lolita messed up Natalie Portman’s sexuality
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The actress went on Dax Shepard’s podcast to talk about her childhood, parenthood, and the pitfalls of growing up a star. In it she said that she resents being painted as a “Lolita figure.”
The Israeli star turned 12 on the set of her first big film, “Leon: The Professional,”, and revealed that she “didn’t allow the full expression of who I was at that time.”
“Being sexualized as a child took away from my own sexuality because it made me afraid. So many people had this impression of me that I was super-serious and prude and conservative as I got older, I consciously cultivated that because it was a way to make me feel safe. If someone respects you, they’re not going to objectify you.”
In 1997, Portman was offered the role of Lolita in Adrian Lyne’s film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 book. She turned it down because of the overtly explicit content and because she didn’t want to be seen as a jailbait tease in real life.
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