Natalie Portman isn’t interested in talking about certain men’s careers being over as a result of the #MeToo movement.
In an interview this week at BuzzFeed, the “Annihilation” star was asked about whether “time may be up” for director Woody Allen, who has been accused by daughter Dylan Farrow of sexually molesting her as a child, but Portman wanted to look beyond Allen himself.
“I don’t think that’s what the conversation should be about,” the 36-year-old actress said. “I think it should be about: Why didn’t Elaine May make a movie every year? Why didn’t Nora Ephron make a movie every year? Where’s the female version of Bill Cosby? Why don’t we see any Asian women in films?”
“Let’s not talk about what man’s career is over,” Portman continued. “Let’s talk about the vast art trove we’ve lost by not giving women, people of colour, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ community opportunities — let’s talk about that loss for all of us in art. Let’s talk about that huge hole in our culture.”
She added: “I don’t want talk about ‘Isn’t it sad that this person who’s made 500 movies can’t make movies anymore?’ That’s not for me to decide. And it’s also not what I’m upset about.”
Portman also addressed her comment while presenting the Best Director prize at the recent Golden Globes in which she called out the “all-male nominees,” noting that she got the idea from a female colleague.
“That’s part of what we’re here to do,” she said of the discomfort her comment created at the ceremony. “We have to make it weird for people to walk in a room where everyone’s not in the room. If you look around a room and everyone looks like you, get out of that room. Or change that room.”
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The actress also agreed her role as a 13-year-old in the Harvey Weinstein-produced “Beautiful Girls”, in which Timothy Hutton’s character, in his twenties in the film, falls in love with her, may have been problematic.
“Yeah. And in retrospect it’s weird because so many of the stories around the Weinstein case involve people from ‘Beautiful Girls’,” Portman said, referring to Weinstein accusers Mira Sorvino, Uma Thurman and Lauren Holly. “I didn’t know that all the adult women I was working with who I was admiring so much and felt so cool to get to be in a movie with them were being harassed at the same time. I was, like, the cute little kid on set everyone was treating totally respectfully and kindly.”
