A few days ago, a number of foreign media reported that Natalie Portman ended her 11-year marriage with her husband Benjamin Miepid.
The reason for the divorce was that Mi Paide cheated in marriage and was photographed entering and leaving the office building with a third party. As soon as the news came out, the whole network was in an uproar.
You must know that as the heroine in "This Killer is Not Too Cold" and the Oscar-winning actress who graduated from Harvard, Portman is the white moonlight in the hearts of many fans, and has maintained a reputation of almost zero negative reviews for many years.
Now that the marriage has ended like this, it can't help but make everyone feel embarrassed:
When she married at the peak of her career, she died for love, but now she regrets it?
In 1994, a miracle year in the history of world cinema, many classic movies such as "The Shawshank Redemption", "Forrest Gump", "Pulp Fiction" and many other classic movies were born, and "My Killer Is Not Too Cold" is also one of the most representative.
In the movie, Portman, who is wearing a green coat and has a bob head, walks up the slope with a flower pot, which is difficult for many people to forget.
She flashed her big eyes and asked the killer, "Is life always so painful, or is it only when I was a child?"
With tears in her eyes, she whispered, "I want to love or die. 」
It seems that it is difficult to find an actor of her age in the history of world film who can interpret innocence and cruelty so well.
Even in front of the veteran actor Jean Reno, she has no stage fright and plays every rival scene with ease.
With this film, Portman came out of nowhere as an actor.
Debut is the pinnacle, and it is both an opportunity and a challenge for her.
In the time that followed, a number of scripts were handed over, but she did not rest on her laurels and rejected most of the similar types of roles.
Even if it means she needs to spend more time waiting for a good script.
But fortunately, fate never disappoints serious people, and in 2009, this movie appeared - "Black Swan".
Stills from the movie "Black Swan".
The film tells the story of a paranoid ballerina, and Portman needs to improve his ballet skills to a professional level in order to play the role.
For this reason, she started taking ballet lessons a year before the start of filming, practicing for two hours a day, and increasing it to six hours a day six months before the start of filming.
Stills from the movie "Black Swan".
In order to maintain the body shape of a ballet dancer, she often eats very little food and does strength training every day.
As you already know, Portman not only completed the ballet practice at a very high level, but also played this role of "no crazy devil can't talk" vividly.
The director praised her unsparingly: "She has self-discipline, talent, beauty, and affinity. 」
With her precise control of this role, she swept the major film awards that year, and won both the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar.
At that time, there was no shortage of voices saying, "God can't bear to let Audrey Hepburn die like this, so Natalie Portman has come to us. 」
Fans all over the world have high hopes for her and are looking forward to her next star journey.
However, it was at this point that Portman decided to get married.
The film "Black Swan" requires a large number of ballet professionals to participate, so the creators specially invited Mi Payde, the principal dancer of the New York City Ballet, to serve as the choreographer.
In getting along day and night, the two fell in love because of the play.
Speaking of which, Sympathe was once praised by the industry as a "tiptoe male god" and has achieved good results in the professional field.
But in the eyes of many fans, compared to Portman's fame and works, this is a mismatched marriage.
What's even more regrettable for the audience is that Portman, who was originally deliberately controlled to be exposed in front of the camera, rarely appeared in public after marriage.
She'd say bluntly, "I wouldn't be interviewed unless I had to. 」
In the years after "Black Swan", she rarely appeared in her masterpieces.
So much so that many fans regretted that she chose to "marry" at the peak of her career, imagining:
If she hadn't gotten married, what would her immeasurable future have?
In fact, Portman is not a person who will regret her wrong choices, and she has a very clear understanding of her life path.
She has loved acting since she was a child and intends to make it her life's work.
When he was 10 years old, he was invited by Revlon's agency to be a model because of his good looks, but Portman refused.
She doesn't want to just show beauty, but also wants to interpret all kinds of different lives, she wants to be an actress.
At the age of 13, "This Killer Is Not Too Cold" recruited actors, and she saw the right time to audition, but was told that she was too young to participate.
She was not discouraged and secretly approached the director, hoping that the director would give her another chance to perform, and with this wonderful performance, Portman successfully won the role.
Later, when director Luc Besson mentioned her, he always admired her for her innocence as a girl and sophistication as an adult.
After the movie exploded, many similar scripts with the Lori label approached her, hoping that she could star in it, but she did not accept it, and even rejected the two classic scripts of "Lolita" and "Romeo and Juliet".
Among them, "Romeo and Juliet" was a collaboration with Leonardo, who was a smash hit at the time, and she refused to participate as always.
The reason is very simple, after the movie became popular, Portman often received all kinds of "sexually suggestive" emails, and when he appeared on variety shows, he was always asked strange questions such as whether there would be boys doing anything to her at school.
She also recalled that a producer invited her to his private jet, and Portman thought it was to discuss the script or something, but she saw a bed on the plane, which scared her and ran away.
So she decided:
Before the age of 20, I rejected all the characters with Lori colors, because I really didn't want to be the object of my weird uncle's sexual fantasies.
At the age of 18, with an accurate understanding of his role positioning, Portman participated in "Star Wars Prequel", and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for the first time for his wonderful performance, which is undoubtedly another strong proof of his ability.
Seeing that her career was going well, as long as she followed this path, she could become a successful enough actor, but Portman reversed course again and decided to go to school.
The world is a big one, and there's a lot more to do and see.
I don't let making movies limit my life.
Perhaps because he has always been plagued by the label of "Lori" since his debut, or because his image in the public has always been forcibly carried by the "male gaze", Portman has always emphasized that he is a nerd and is determined on the road of reading.
I don't care if it ruins my career, I want to be smart more than a movie star.
When she was in middle school, she excelled in her homework, published papers in professional scientific journals, and was a semi-finalist for the Intel Science Award, which shows her intelligence and hard work.
After graduating, she was admitted to Yale University and Harvard University, two of the world's top universities, and finally chose to study psychology at Harvard University because she "can better understand the psychology of characters when acting".
During her studies at Harvard, she not only completed all her major courses with honors, wrote for the Harvard Student Newspaper, but also learned and became proficient in six Chinese including Hebrew, Arabic, and German.
There's a line from the movie "The Social Network": "Harvard has produced 15 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 Olympians, and 1 movie star. 」
The movie star is Portman, which shows her representation in the public mind.
After graduating from Harvard, she was not in a hurry to get rid of her student status, but entered the Hebrew University for graduate studies.
Throughout her growth, she not only has a clear plan for what she should do and what is suitable for her, but also can adjust it in a timely manner.
She obviously knows how to go her own way, and how she can be easily "destroyed" by a marriage.
As she later said when she returned to Harvard as an alumnus to give a lecture:
Success is always wonderful, but you have to know what you're doing.
If you don't know, success can turn into a terrible trap.
has been immersed in the glitzy vanity fair since she was a child, and it has not affected her, let alone divorce, a stage event in her life.
Many people feel sorry for Portman because they think she is unladylike and has delayed her career.
But I still remember that in 2018, Portman and Middleside ushered in their second collaboration in the movie "The Sound of Light".
They had been married for many years, and the two were still as close as if they had just started to get married, and Portman was excited to work with her husband again.
Earlier, she openly expressed her love for Millepide to the media: "I think for me, the whole thing [in love with Millepide] is as wonderful as a dream. 」
Even the fact that Mipaed taught her to dance was considered by her to be the most romantic.
The two had a son and a daughter after marriage, and the marriage was a perfect marriage at that time.
But in the face of betrayal, she can also be decisive enough to say goodbye to the relationship.
In the report, Portman filed for divorce in July last year, and it was reported that Mipayer also tried to redeem it, and assured Portman that the ambiguity was over, but Portman had made up his mind.
Whether she chose to get married at her peak, or divorced firmly when she was cheated on, it was her own inner choice.
Perhaps we should not look at the choices of the past in the present way, and we should not dismiss everything we started because of the seemingly failed results.
I remember that when Portman was young, he deliberately set up the image of a nerd in order to protect himself, and did not want to be doubted by others about his gold content in being admitted to Harvard, and even took neurobiology and advanced Hebrew for this purpose.
But then she can admit that the lessons have worked hard for her, realizing that "seriousness for the sake of seriousness is in itself a vanity, an ambiguity, a gesture to rebel against my imaginary self." 」
People always have to grow through experiences in order to better understand themselves, and Portman is no different.
Her life has already completed the determination of meaning in the transformation of different identities, and she does not need marriage to define value.
Look at Portman's years of discussing social issues with students at Columbia University;
The film "A Story of Love and Darkness", which he wrote, directed and acted in, was shortlisted for Cannes;
Doing public welfare activities in poor areas of Africa, and promoting the power of women at the American Women's March.
She has already lived a colorful life, and a broader picture of life is slowly unfolding to her.