Natalie Portman glides onto the cover of Vogue for January 2011. The Black Swan star’s latest cover is very similar (and inferior) to her first US Vogue cover in 2002 (see the original and the critique here.) For the first issue of 2011, Portman talks about her eating habits and how we need more females who are responsible for how women are seen in movies and art:
Living up to her own standards: “I swear, I eat . . . I consume my own weight in hummus every day. I cook a lot, and I even do vegan baking. I like pleasure, I like joy. I’d never get to the point where I would starve or injure myself like Nina does. I’m the opposite—when I’m hungry, I eat, and I always make sure I’m eating something delicious. I’m tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that’s also part of my pleasure: knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.”
Objects versus subjects: “”We’re [her production company] very into female comedies; there just aren’t enough. We’re trying to go for that guy-movie tone, like Judd Apatow’s movies, or The Hangover but with women—who are generally not allowed to be beautiful and funny, and certainly not vulgar. There’s a difference between being in a bra and underpants as an object on a men’s-magazine cover and playing yourself—a woman with desires and needs who loves and laughs with her friends—in a bra and underpants. You become an object if you simply put it out there. Most movies are made by men, it’s totally natural that they’re going to present their worldview, so we’re trying to find more women who are writers and directors who are expressing their worldview. Did you see Tiny Furniture? Lena Dunham wrote, directed, and starred in it; she’s 23, and it is just amazing. She walks around in her underwear for the whole movie; it’s harsh. She’s the subject, she’s not the object, and it’s beautiful—that’s the kind of thing we need more of.”
Portman just nabbed a Golden Globe Award nomination and one for the SAG awards as well in the Best Female Drama categories for her role in Black Swan. An Oscar nod could be next. It’s a great start for 2011.
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