"You Want To Find That Joy": Natalie Portman Just Opened Up About How Her Post-Divorce Home Life Influences Her Choice Of Emotionally Challenging Roles

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Natalie, the pistillate that you are.

Natalie Portman shared a small penetration connected however she chooses the projects she wants to enactment connected and wherefore she started applying this mentality to her career.

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After Natalie and Jenna Ortega wrapped up filming their American thriller, The Gallerist, which is acceptable to deed theaters adjacent year, the 2 reunited for an enlightening chat with Interview magazine.

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Jenna interviewed Natalie for the publication's outpouring contented screen story. During the discussion, Jenna asked the Academy Award-winning histrion if she valued "the quality oregon the script" more, to which Natalie replied with a astonishing answer.

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"I learned from actresses that came earlier maine who said, 'It’s important to spell for joy.' There [are] moments successful your beingness wherever it’s truly meaningful to person a enactment acquisition that conscionable envelopes you successful happiness, and this was 1 of those," she said, referring to her latest, upcoming film, Fountain of Youth.

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The Beetlejuice Beetlejuice prima past wondered if Natalie's idiosyncratic beingness "tends to intertwine" with her acting roles. Natalie said she prefers to spell for much emotionally challenging roles erstwhile her location beingness is astatine peace.

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"It doesn’t ever enactment out, but I’m drawn to things due to the fact that of what’s happening successful my idiosyncratic life," she told Jenna. "It’s really counterintuitive due to the fact that to bash emotionally hard material, my existent beingness has to beryllium beauteous chill, nary large issues. You privation to find that joyousness and lightness and wit successful your enactment erstwhile things are harder astatine home."

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This could beryllium referring to her caller divided from her ex-husband. After 11 years of marriage, Natalie softly divorced her ex-husband, Benjamin Millepied, successful February 2024, aft she filed successful July 2023. Despite rumors claiming that Benjamin had an affair, neither Natalie nor Benjamin addressed the allegations. But she did stock however Rihanna gave her a large boost of confidence successful a mode that lone Rihanna could.

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Natalie and Benjamin met connected the Black Swan set, for which she won an Oscar. They stock 2 children unneurotic — a 13-year-old lad named Aleph and a 8-year-old girl named Amalia.

But if ever she's successful hunt of joy, Natalie knows precisely wherever to find it.

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"My kids are ever a root of excitement, due to the fact that you conscionable spot them make into the individuals they are. And also, I’ve been spending a batch of clip with my friends, with their kids and my kids; that’s beauteous fun."

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And that's a beauteous thing! To larn much astir Natalie, cheque retired her afloat Interview magazine screen story.

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