She started acting very early. And his first role was in a French action movie Leonsince 1994, Luc Besson. Natalie Portman she was 11 at the time and played a little girl who befriends a professional assassin. She began dancing and acting at the age of seven, as well as modeling.
“However, unlike many other actors, I did not abandon my studies, I wanted to get an education. I knew it was going to be important in life, and to be honest, I wasn’t sure then that I could do it, and I wanted to make sure I had some kind of security,” she openly admits.
Thus, Natalie turned down many film roles to study acting and psychology at Harvard University. He returned to the cinema then for Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace George Lucas, he was also in the second film of the saga and has always made the right choice ever since. Black Swanwhich allowed her to win an Oscar, become the main character of Marvel films, such as several films Thor AND Avengers: Endgame.
Natalie is alone good business womanfounded his own production company, MountainAin 2021 when he signed his first contract with Apple TV+.
She has recently dedicated herself to the sports business. In 2022, she co-founded the Angel City FC women’s soccer team in Los Angeles.
Within a few years, I realized that the sports environment was becoming more and more important and I wanted to invest in the women’s sector, which is fully emerging. Thus, for investments, I relied on very good venture capitalists who immediately believed in my project, as well as other celebrities, actresses and athletes such as Serena Williams, Eva Longoria, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Chastain.
In a more frivolous world like the world of cinema, I wanted to have a more consistent and solid business. I know that this new venture will occupy me for a long time and will give me great satisfaction.
He is also said to have revolutionized the world of football by creating a new business model.
I want to change the world of football, I want women’s football to be valued in the same way as men’s football. We have raised capital as if we were a start-up, with less initial funding raising more, aimed at empowering women.
We sold 16,000 season tickets, we guaranteed the players an economic fund, their safety and fair treatment. And with the profits we make, we help the local community by donating 10% of the sponsors’ income. We also planted gardens at local elementary schools and delivered thousands of meals to the poor.
How did he come up with this idea? His sports club reportedly earned over $35 million from advertising in a short time.
I was at a SWNT game with some other actress friends as I support Time’s Up and also strive for equal pay. And I realized how much my son admired players like Megan Rapino and Alex Morgan as much as Karim Benzema and Lionel Messi.
Who were among the first investors?
I spoke with Kara Northman, a financial manager in Los Angeles. He turned to others like Abby Wambach and Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and husband of Serena Williams, who were early investors. Julie Urman, head of technology, became co-founder and president of the team. There are currently 60 co-owners in total, and most of them are women.
You just presented at the Cannes Film Festival May Decemberwritten by Todd Haynes, another all-female project where she is also an executive producer.
I play a successful actress who temporarily moves into the home of the woman she is supposed to impersonate in the film. In the past, a woman has made headlines because of her affair with a boy who is much younger than her. As an ideal wife and mother in a small town in the southern United States, at the age of 36, she had an extramarital affair with a thirteen-year-old teenager.
She then left her husband and son and married a boy, with whom she had three children. Now, twenty years later, the two are preparing to send their kids to college, and the arrival of my protagonist will reveal the hidden mechanisms of manipulation. The woman is played by actress Julianne Moore.
How did you decide to get into acting?
I am Jewish, born in Jerusalem. I moved with my parents to the United States when I was three years old, first to Washington DC and then to Connecticut and Long Island near New York. When you are an immigrant, you are always an outsider and it is never easy because you come with nothing, without support and accompaniment: you have to do everything yourself. I started working very early because then I already had a strong work ethic, like many immigrants. I was a very busy and serious child, I always felt the weight of my Jewish roots and our past.
I was ambitious, but it was more of a deep commitment that always gave me the energy to prove myself. I was more mature than other American kids who attended my school… I wanted to work. Theater and acting, dancing – that’s what I excelled at. Although I was very good at math, I soon had opportunities in the arts. And my parents supported me. At the same time, I had an incredible sense of justice that motivated me to fight against any abuse.
She has always been known in Hollywood, even as a great activist.
My parents, my doctor father, and my mother, who even became my agent and followed me into the profession of actress, passed on strong values to me from childhood, primarily helping the community, but also gender. equality, race and ideology, freedom and respect.
And then I have always been committed to protecting the rights of women, given that, unfortunately, even if the situation has improved, full equality still does not exist.
Is that why with your production company MountainA you decided to dedicate yourself mainly to women’s stories?
Many films with conscious female characters a few years ago would not have found investors and would not have aroused interest. Thankfully things have changed in Hollywood and there is more interest in women’s stories now.
When Sophie Mas and I started our production company, we signed a deal with Apple TV+ for a series. Lady in the lake. It follows an investigative journalist who investigates the plight of an African American in Baltimore. I also enjoy dealing with what is considered a lost cause, such as the so-called invisible people.
She said that since becoming a mother, she has felt this responsibility even more. She has two children with French choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied, 12-year-old Aleph and 6-year-old Amalia.
Of course, especially for my daughter. I want to fight to live in a better world where there is true equality between men and women. Ever since I was a girl, I have aspired to make as much money in Hollywood as my fellow males. Work should be a place where people feel respected and valued, thus increasing productivity.
She is also the heroine of the Marvel films that have made her one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood (as of March 2023, it was valued at over $90 million a year, ed.).
I’ve been in this blockbuster universe since I was 18 when I was in Star Wars. I have experience with both Marvel and Disney. Of course, the budgets are very high, and this is a great opportunity for my career, because these films are very popular.
Such a large income allows me to rotate independent films such as Tale of love and darkness, written and directed by me, and other experimental projects that are a moment of growth for me. Because, after all, I am a perfectionist.
In your opinion, what is the secret of success?
Giving meaning to your life and, therefore, your profession. If you choose a job that you do with passion and dedication, you will have a better chance of success. If you fail, there will always be something left, that hope, that will push you to throw yourself into a new project with the same commitment. And maybe this time I’ll win.
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