2024-01-23 21:15:11
Published23. January 2024, 22:15
Natalie Portman: “In addition to Geneva, I know Gstaad and Verbier well”
The Israeli-American actress plays the darkest character in the film “May December,” which comes out this Wednesday. Encounter.
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Talking to Natalie Portman is something.
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Tortured and ambiguous. This is the personality of Elizabeth Berry, played by Natalie Portman, in “May December”. In theaters this Wednesday in French-speaking Switzerland, the film tells the story of a Hollywood actress responsible for meeting a couple with the aim of making a film about their tumultuous past.
A love triangle will arise between her and the characters of Charles Melton and Julianne Moore, in this fiction strongly resembling the scandal of Mary Kay Letourneau. This American woman who, then a mathematics teacher, had sexual relations with her 12-year-old student and married him after his release from prison.
Revealed in “Léon”, the 42-year-old actress already has a thirty-year career under her belt.
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Stage fright when faced with Julianne
Experienced in the exercise from the top of her (already) thirty-year career, Natalie Portman was nevertheless overcome by apprehension to embody this character, who had to be close to the facial expressions of her partner on screen. “I had very little time to prepare for it. But Julianne Moore, brilliant, accompanied me all the way,” she told us during her visit to the Cannes Film Festival, in May 2023. At her side, Charles Melton, seen in “Riverdale”, which did not hesitate to push his physical limits by wearing a prosthetic penis for nine hours for the purposes of a sex scene that they shared.
Natalie Portman, Charles Melton (33 years old) and Julianne Moore (63 years old), during the presentation of the film at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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“The three of us get along very well,” says Natalie Portman. And what appealed to me about the script was that it was very rich. And Todd (editor’s note: Haynes, also director of the film “Carol”) knew how to keep the tension at its maximum throughout the film. That’s really his strength.” And when asked if she knows Switzerland, Natalie Portman seems to appreciate the highlights of Swiss tourism: “In addition to Geneva, I know Gstaad and Verbier well.” We now know where to try to find it.
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