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Life lessons from Natalie Portman

October 29, 2007
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Natalie Portman is ready to give you some life lessons in the Parade Magazine. Natalie shared a few of the life lessons she has learned in her wise, wise 26 years.

On growing up famous: “The summer after seventh grade, I shot my first movie, The Professional. Looking back, I realize that I might not have been that sensitive when I told people about it, and it came off as bragging. I was going to a small private school, and the other kids completely turned against me. No one would talk to me. I was so miserable that I had to change schools. But it made me think about how what I say affects other people, and I corrected my bravado.”

And about the famous nude scenes in the short film Hotel Chevalier, Portman regrets because she did not think twice before shooting them. Hotel Chevalier is a 2007 short film by director Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, the film acts as a prologue to Anderson's 2007 feature The Darjeeling Limited. Her fans like a lot that short film with naked Portman, and they may say that this was not a mistake on her career.


On trusting her decisions, and that regret: “I’ve always been something of a pleaser: I want to make other people happy. That’s not the worst thing. I mean, the fact that you like people and want them to like you is great—as long as you’re not sacrificing who you are. I’m not someone who has a lot of regrets, but last year I did something that I wasn’t comfortable with, and I’m really sorry I didn’t listen to my intuition. There was a scene in a movie that felt inappropriate for me, but I didn’t want to make waves. So I let myself get talked into it, even though it shook me up. From now on, I’m going to trust my gut more. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is say “no.” No matter how much you plan and how hard you try, you can’t predict the outcome of things.”

The actor job means to do more that get naked in a scene. And if that happed is not because the actor did not think twice about it, it’s a job. And if she did not like the way she played it’s probably her fault.

 

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