Natalie Portman Doesn't Know Where Her Oscar Is
The actress explained why she didn't put it on her mantel.
— -- In 2011, Natalie Portman won an Oscar for her role in "Black Swan."
However, just four years later, she has no idea where the statuette is.
"I think it’s in the safe or something. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it in a while," she told The Hollywood Reporter, recalling a conversation with director Darren Aronofsky.
"I mean, Darren actually said to me something when we were in that whole thing that resonated so deeply," she said. "I was reading the story of Abraham to my child and talking about, like, not worshipping false idols. And this is literally like gold men. This is literally worshipping gold idols -- if you worship it. That’s why it’s not displayed on the wall. It’s a false idol."
Portman, 33, is now living in Paris with her husband, dancer Benjamin Millepied, 37, and their son Aleph, 3. Setting up a home in Europe has made her feel like "an outsider" in a positive way, she said.
“It’s been really interesting,” she explained. “I’ve been to Paris so much in my life that I felt [at first] like it’s very similar, and then when you live in a place, you start realizing how culturally different we are, deeply culturally different ... in millions of ways. I feel like this country has a lot of religion and a lot of freedom around that; and there, the religion is almost like love. Love and intellectualism is their sort of way.”
There's also more of a focus on culture, she said, which has been a refreshing change.
"I love that people at dinner want to have a serious conversation -- and only a serious conversation,” she said. “They’ll be upset if you don’t have something interesting happen. I love that my kid wants to go to art museums after school -- like, ‘Take me to the Pompidou.’ I love that it’s also not elitist, as it is in New York. You can afford to go to the philharmonic or the opera much more easily because all of it’s subsidized. And there’s a huge culture of cinema there.”
