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Natalie Portman has played a slew of roles over the course of her career – a stripper in “Closer,” a pathological liar in “Garden State,” a train stewardess in “The Darjeeling Limited” and a queen in “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.”
But the 29-year-old, Jerusalem-born actress told British Elle that there are three kinds of roles she absolutely refuses to play.
One is the typical girl romantic-comedy lead. “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,” says Nat.
There’s also the Holocaust survivor role. “I’ve always tried to stay away from playing Jews,” she said. “I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.” (FYI, Portman’s first explicitly Jewish role was in the 2009 flick “New York, I Love You.”)
And then there’s – what else?—the sex object.
“There was a lot of controversy about the whole Lolita thing,” she said of playing a gun-toting nymphet in 1994’s “The Professional.” “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.”