Natalie Portman: “I Got Drunk And No One Knew”

Clean cut Natalie Portman has confessed she’s pleased she grew up before social media took over the world so she didn’t have her zany antics plastered all over the internet.

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Oooh, Nat, we didn’t know you had a wild side.

While we can’t imagine her dancing on tables, the former child star admitted to liking the odd glass of shandy back in the day without worrying about some bozo wielding a selfie stick in her direction.

In an interview with Marie Claire, Natalie said: “I was in that lucky window: there was no Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. I went out and got drunk with my friends and no one knew.”

Scoop!

The Black Swan star also opened up about some more serious topics in the September issue of the magazine, speaking about the huge pay gap between men and women in Hollywood, she had this to say: “There is an outrageous discrepancy between men and women in Hollywood. Titanic is a huge hit and Leonardo DiCaprio immediately goes to $20million per movie and Kate Winslet doesn’t. But that feels totally like it’s changing.

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“Young women like Jennifer Lawrence and Kristen Stewart – they’re the stars now. I don’t even know who the guys are who are their age.”

The actor, who has made her directorial debut with A Tale Of Love And Darkness, a film set in Israel based on the memoirs of a Amos Oz, one of the country’s greatest authors, also speaks about her concerns at the rise of anti-Semitism in Paris, where she now lives with husband, French dancer Benjamin Millepied.

She told the magazine: “I think it’s real, it exists. Hatred exists in many forms and in many places and it’s important to be aware of it.

“If you can take something positive from it, it allows us to have more empathy to others who are experiencing it.”

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But despite these concerns, the mother-of-one sounds like she’s found a nice groove to her life in the spotlight and no longer worries if she has a dry work patch (we can’t imagine this happens very often).

She said: ”I don’t get panicky, I know the waves – sometimes it’s quiet, sometimes it’s wild. I feel like I’ve done so much, it allows me to try new things, like directing.”

“I can follow my own curiosity. I’ve been doing this long enough to see that my path is my own. I’m not in a race with anyone.”

That’s the spirit, Nat. Time to kick back with a lager top. We’ll put the selfie stick away.