OlderSat, 24 May 2008 at 1:20 am
The Jury is in For Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman attends the annual Cannes party thrown by designer pair Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana at Baoli, Port Canto during the 2008 Cannes Film Festival on Friday in Cannes, France.
The 26-year-old Cannes jury member wore a cute paillettes-embellished Lanvin shrug over her Balmain LBD and accessorized with a Chanel satin bow bag and Te Casan shoes.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of the pompoms on Natalie’s fuschia shoes — YAY or NAY?
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love her CHANEL pink pumps!! they are so pretty and fun!
I can’t quit lookingg at the silly pompoms. Her dress is adorable though. Then i noticed the tacky shoes. Did she forget to change her shoes? The purse is cute also, as she is. Nat, please double check yourself. You are much too beautiful for odd mistakes.
I’m loving the clothes, especially that white dress. However, I am not feeling any of her shoes.
love it! SO cute
@Sam- You’re a fool. She’s a terrible actress, she has admitted this in the past. She couldn’t find a job until some director basically used his connections to get her a job because Hollywood was afraid she’d ruin every film. READ her interviews! Now, I understand that Hollywood is making pathetic movies with pathetic actors, which might explain why Natalie is still working and why she’s on the Jury, but then again Cannes is about tourism and not film making. Furthermore, despite the fact that she transferred to Harvard from Columbia (thanks to her celebrity), she’s still an airhead. She’s inarticulate in interviews that are not scripted and not smart at all! Maybe she seems smart to morons, but among Ivy league students, she sounds idiotic. And she has had a nose job and lip reduction. That is a fact though her plastic surgeries are very subtle.
@ 26- The best body? Are you mad? She has the worst body in hollywood, so much so that it compromises her look. She looks like a kid, a little boy, esp. in her David Letterman interviews where you see the body within a realistic context. And ballerina? looooooooooooooooool stick to hip hop music or ballroom dancing :) you’ve obviously never seen a Ballerina if you think this little boy has a ballerina’s body. Talk about Hype.
Does Natalie post on this site? People can’t be that stupid. I’m sure they noticed what an awful actress she is and that the Cannes film festival is all hype and mainly about tourism and money rather than acting or film making.
FUG! I come across at least 10 girls every day that look better than this chick and who probably have more substance too.
I think that people who can make negative comments about THE NATALIE PORTMAN in my opinion are simply extremely jealous and bitter because she has got everything and is THE NUMBER ONE ACTRESS in Hollywood today among the young generation. Natalie Portman is in Cannes today because she has a brilliant mind, enormous acting talent, 24 years of acting experience and is the envy of the acting community of her peers.
Anyone who says something negative about Natalie is simply making a fool out him or herself and is regarded as a bitter jealous person by others, who, by the way comprise the majority. Any girl would love to be Natalie Portman and have her looks, substance and success.
@ #59- You sound frightening. You’re extremely misinformed about film, acting, brilliance, beauty etc. Natalie Portman is cute and she tries to be intelligent and smart, and luckily, she’s been fortunate enough to partake in film , to attend big universities, etc. but she’s not worth it. She’s not brilliant, she’s average. She’s not exceptionally beautiful, she’s cute. She’s not a great actress by any means, in fact, she is a bad actress and much too ambitious in most of her roles (british accents) and yet not confident enough to carry them off with verve. I think you’re extremely simple-minded, easily impressed, and also extremely ignorant if you think this is the main actor of our time lol
@60
1. No one who got 1500 on their SATs and graduated from Harvard is average by any means.
2. To you she is cute, to most people she is gorgeous including me.
3.Some one who got an Academy Award nomination at 23 and numerous other awards is not a bad actress but a great actress.
Fact are facts, they are indisputable.
If you are full of hate, make comments about someone admire. I do no care to listen to bitter unreasonable people.
@#59:
As someone who is ambivalent about Natalie, I have a different theory as to why some hate her. Her fans can be excessively annoying with their endless refrain of smartest, most talented. That makes people who don’t find her acting affecting (and there will always be some, even if she was the best actress ever) frustrated, and antagonistic towards her.
@#44:
I’m pretty sure she is represented by a PR firm (the same one as Ellen Page), but that doesn’t mean much. She doesn’t comment on her private life, and doesn’t live in LA. Keira, who seems to get much more criticism, actually doesn’t have a publicist, but she’s the only celeb around that age I’ve heard of who doesn’t.
#61
I believe she’s very smart, but I don’t believe she’s very articulate, which to me is much more important in a celebrity.
And I think most people can name at least one oscar nomination (or even win) that they think is ridiculous. Personally, as I said before, I think she’s good, but not great, and that she was nominated because she was in a good project with a good director, and gave a good performance.
P.S. I don’t think I’m being bitter or unreasonable. It doesn’t bother me if you say she’s your favourite actress, and I don’t think you’re ignorant or shallow for thinking it. However, when people say that she’s the best actress, or a great actress, as if it’s an objective quality, I feel compelled to put my hand up and say “well, not to me”.
she looks ridiculous.
I agree with every interviewer who commented that Natalie is uniquely interesting, well read and intelligent.
I agree with every director who casted her and commented that she is very beautiful.
I agree with every critic who said that she did a very good job in her films and nominated her for awards.
AND I DO NOT AGREE with mara 64
@61
1. natalie is very articulate and all her statements are very meaningful, she never says anything dumb
I agree that she never says anything dumb, but she hardly ever says anything interesting either. I’m probably being unfair when I say she’s inarticulate. Compared to the average actress, she’s articulate. But from someone who is both a Harvard grad (therefore intelligent) and an A-list actress (therefore presumeably charismatic) I expect more. I find Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, keira knightley, Robert Downey Jr, Emma Thompson and many others more engaging interveiwees and speakers (based on watching video interviews of all of them). Maybe I expect too much, or maybe she just rubs me the wrong way. I just always get the impression she dumbs herself down and giggles alot in an attempt to be more likable.
@67
I do not understand why you would say something like that, when not one of these actors is able to address students at Columbia or Yale or Stanford on other issues than acting as Portman had done in the past and recently. Not one of these actors wrote a science paper or did research for Harvard professors. Intellectually Portman is much more versatile on complex issues. Every interview she says something that can be quoted.
Sorry but she got to do all of that because of her name, heritage and celebrity.
@ Hazel- On the contrary, she tries to come across as smarter than she actually is. She never tries to dumb herself down. If one watches her interviews, and if one reasonably assumes that like all actors, she probably prepares certain answers in advance (or at least has become familiar with the q’s), one will notice just how inarticulate she is. Considering the many opportunities she’s enjoyed- ivy league education, quite possibly the best prep school/tutors, working with some very interesting directors and actors, meeting all sorts of fascinating people in all walks of life-it becomes obvious that Natalie is just a cute face without much substance. She simply doesn’t have what it takes. She is also NOT EXCEPTIONALLY BEAUTIFUL.
@alison:
Could you give an example of a quote you really like? I remember one of the first interviews I saw of her was with Letterman when she was in her first year at college. He asked what she did in Chemistry and she became giggly and said something along the lines of “experiments and stuff”. It’s things like that which grate on me.
Emma Thompson, Ian Mckellen and Hugh Laurie all graduated from Cambridge, Hugh Grant from Oxford. Gerard Butler was a qualified lawyer before becoming an actor. A large portion of academics are highly fluent in another language and/or really good at a musical instrument. People who are moderately proficient in a number of fields aren’t unusual. To me what makes someone remarkable is being extrodinary at something, rather than quite good at many things. Natalie just isn’t that to me.
@69: You sound like a conspiracy theorist to me. Unless you think she’s lying, she got A’s at Harvard and very high marks on her SATs. That doesn’t make her Einstien, but it does make her smart. I’m sure any A-list actor would be welcome to speak anywhere, and it’s possible her celeb status got her the research assistant position (although it’s rude of you to assume that without evidence), but doing these things indicate that she was committed to her studies and to learning in general.
The organisations she promotes and supports, and the way she handles her fame suggests that she has substance as well as being pretty. You don’t seem to have any evidence except that she doesn’t handle interviews well. And that’s no evidence at all.
@70
I also saw the Letterman interview you are referring to and I find she was simply being modest and did not want to brag, rather wished to discuss the film she was in instead of her intelligence which Letterman was stressing on.
Further, I think that some one who excelled to the degree Natalie Portman excelled in academics and other fields and is so selective in her projects since yearly childhood when she was offered to be a model for Revlon and she pursued acting instead is truly extraordinary.
99.9% of girls would have jumped at the opportunities Natalie walked away from. She has a lot character. It’s been said at one point in her carrier that Portman is more known by the projects she rejected than did.
She is looking really thin these days!!!
@71
I also got the impression her response was motivated by modesty, but it had the unfortunate (and no doubt unintended) side affect of insulting chemistry and the people who study it. I think there are much better ways to respond.
I certainly like her more for the things she rejected than the things she did. I think she’s a person of great integrity, but I don’t think she’s a great actor, or a great conversationalist. I’ll stop arguing now, because it’s not really productive, but I just thought people should hear a view of her that isn’t either saying she’s the most wonderful thing ever or insane anti-semitic ranting because there are some of us who are just in between.
Thanks for not flaming me!
Dear Hazel,
I am sure Natalie responded honestly, due to the fact that this was her first semester, I am sure in order to keep students interested the professor periodically introduced the class to some interesting combinations of chemicals that cause an explosive reaction, so I think her response was very appropriate.
That is what I like about Natalie, she is very smart and clear and honest.
You may think she is a good actor not a great actor, but the reason I and many other think she is a great actor is because of her unique approach which transcends her intellectuality.
I think that antisemitism for Hollywood community is for the stupid, considering how many Jews are talented in the field of arts.
i like the shoes but it doesn’t go with the dress
natalie is always lovely though
:)
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