Natalie Portman: My Academy Award Is a 'False Idol'

A smart perspective on interviews and Hollywood awards

Stephen Galloway, executive features editor at our sister publication The Hollywood Reporter, describes Natalie Portman as “guarded” during their recent L.A. interview.

But in at least one regard, she did something we think a lot of other celebrities should consider too:

She sits, ramrod straight, plunking her iPhone in the middle of the table and hit­ting “record” before she has said a word, as if challenging me to quote her with razor-sharp accuracy — which, I must admit, casts a pall over our conversation.

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