'I find all the romcom roles I've been offered offensive': Natalie Portman reveals why she's steered clear of comedy
1/06/2010 12:53:00 PM
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Natalie Portman says she is finally ready to take on a comic role.
But film directors wanting to take her on will certainly have their work cut out for them trying to find a part that is 'exciting' enough for her.
The 28-year-old actress revealed that she generally finds romantic comedies 'offensive' and not challenging enough.
She told Elle magazine: ‘It wasn’t that I didn’t want to do comedy.
'It’s just that I would only get offered girlfriend parts in guy comedies, which aren’t exciting to me, or those offensive roles in romantic comedies where the woman has to have a job in fashion so that she can have nice clothes, and her goal is always marriage.
'I’m more interested in finding characters that make me laugh.’
Portman recently tackled her first overtly Jewish role, that of a Hasidic bride in New York, I Love You.
But another genre she is not fond of is Holocaust movies.
She added: ‘I’ve always tried to stay away from playing Jews,’ she says. ‘I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. That was the first thing to come my way (New York, I Love You) that really intrigued me.'
The U.S. star can next be seen alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire in the film Brothers, opening in the UK on January 22.
She admitted the film’s grim subject matter - tackling the myriad horrors of war as well as the loneliness and fear experienced by the family members left behind - didn’t exactly make for a party on-set.
‘I would bake on weekends and go have snowball fights with the girls who played my daughters in order to lighten things up,’ she says.
Natalie insists she is not prudish about sex or nudity on screen.
But she said she had deliberately stayed away from developing a 'sex object' status after her Lolita-esque role in Leon, aged 12, prompted a flurry of 'weird' letters from men.
'There was a lot of controversy about the whole Lolita thing. My parents were super-protective about it, but I got a lot of weird letters. It was really upsetting. I didn't want to be seen as a sex object, so I went in the opposite direction.
'I'm definitely not a prude about sex or nudity, I just don't want to do something that will end up as a screen grab on a porn site.'
But film directors wanting to take her on will certainly have their work cut out for them trying to find a part that is 'exciting' enough for her.
The 28-year-old actress revealed that she generally finds romantic comedies 'offensive' and not challenging enough.
She told Elle magazine: ‘It wasn’t that I didn’t want to do comedy.
'It’s just that I would only get offered girlfriend parts in guy comedies, which aren’t exciting to me, or those offensive roles in romantic comedies where the woman has to have a job in fashion so that she can have nice clothes, and her goal is always marriage.
'I’m more interested in finding characters that make me laugh.’
Portman recently tackled her first overtly Jewish role, that of a Hasidic bride in New York, I Love You.
But another genre she is not fond of is Holocaust movies.
She added: ‘I’ve always tried to stay away from playing Jews,’ she says. ‘I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. That was the first thing to come my way (New York, I Love You) that really intrigued me.'
The U.S. star can next be seen alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire in the film Brothers, opening in the UK on January 22.
She admitted the film’s grim subject matter - tackling the myriad horrors of war as well as the loneliness and fear experienced by the family members left behind - didn’t exactly make for a party on-set.
‘I would bake on weekends and go have snowball fights with the girls who played my daughters in order to lighten things up,’ she says.
Natalie insists she is not prudish about sex or nudity on screen.
But she said she had deliberately stayed away from developing a 'sex object' status after her Lolita-esque role in Leon, aged 12, prompted a flurry of 'weird' letters from men.
'There was a lot of controversy about the whole Lolita thing. My parents were super-protective about it, but I got a lot of weird letters. It was really upsetting. I didn't want to be seen as a sex object, so I went in the opposite direction.
'I'm definitely not a prude about sex or nudity, I just don't want to do something that will end up as a screen grab on a porn site.'
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