{"id":23758,"date":"2015-05-11T17:01:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=23758"},"modified":"2015-05-11T17:01:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T23:01:21","slug":"natalie-portman-raps-bibi-hearts-alan-dershowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/natalie-portman-raps-bibi-hearts-alan-dershowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Portman raps Bibi, hearts Alan Dershowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JULIE WIENER<\/p>\n

(JTA) \u2014 Hollywood Reporter\u2019s new cover story interviewwith actress Natalie Portman may be one of the most heavily Jewish-themed articles the magazine has ever published.<\/p>\n

In it, the Israel-born Portman, who\u2019s preparing for the May 18 debut of her film adaptation of Israeli author Amos Oz\u2019s \u201cA Tale of Love and Darkness,\u201d which was shot in Jerusalem, talks about everything from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (she\u2019s not a fan) to anti-Semitism in Paris, where she now lives, to reading Bible stories with her 3 \u00bd-year-old son, Aleph.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s some highlights from the interview with the 33-year-old star, director and screenplay writer:<\/p>\n

On Netanyahu<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019m very much against Netanyahu. Against. I am very, very upset and disappointed that he was re-elected. I find his racist comments horrific. However, I don\u2019t \u2014 what I want to make sure is, I don\u2019t want to use my platform [the wrong way]. I feel like there\u2019s some people who become prominent, and then it\u2019s out in the foreign press. You know, shit on Israel. I do not. I don\u2019t want to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

On whether she\u2019s nervous about being Jewish in Paris<\/strong> (she moved there because hubby Benjamin Millepied is French) after the Hyper Cacher attack<\/strong>: \u201cYes, but I\u2019d feel nervous being a black man in this country. I\u2019d feel nervous being a Muslim in many places.\u201d<\/p>\n

On why she decided to option Oz\u2019s memoir and film it in Hebrew<\/strong>: \u201cThe language was really what [drew me], his obsession with words and the way words are connected in Hebrew, which has this incredible poetry and magic. It\u2019s obviously almost impossible to translate, but there\u2019s just incredible beauty to that. [Jews are] a people built of words, people built of books, and it\u2019s quite beautiful to see that, which is a strange thing to start for a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

On why she doesn\u2019t display her Oscar<\/strong> (for Best Actress in \u201cBlack Swan\u201d): \u201cI 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 lit\u00ader\u00adally worshipping gold idols \u2014 if you worship it. That\u2019s why it\u2019s not displayed on the wall. It\u2019s a false idol.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Harvard Law professor and Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz, for whom she worked while an undergrad at the Ivy League school<\/strong>: \u201cHe has quite different politics than I do, but I really, really like him. He\u2019s a very good friend. We just have different opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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