Oscars: Natalie Portman on pregnancy, baby names and life changes (and her movie)
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Natalie Portman may have just won her first Oscar, but most reporters who had the chance to interview her had one subject on their minds: her pregnancy.
Journalists lobbed numerous questions at the ‘Black Swan’ actress about said life change when she came backstage after her lead actress win.
One reporter started out by asking if she and fiance Benjamin Millipied would name their baby Oscar. ‘That’s probably — definitely — out of the question,’ Portman responded.
Then, to ‘what was the baby doing during the show?’ the actress said, ‘The baby was definitely kicking during the song portion of the show. A little dancer.’
And on how her imminent motherhood might change the roles she’d take, Portman said, ‘I have no idea. One of the exciting things about becoming pregnant is that I’m expecting a complete unknown, a complete miracle.’
Portman did make the rare move of interpreting her film, particularly its (spoiler alert) ambiguous ending, in which Portman’s Nina Sayers appears to kill herself.
‘I don’t necessarily see it as a death at the end as many people do,’ she said. ‘I really see it as this young woman’s coming of age that she becomes a woman. She starts out a girl and becomes a woman by killing the child version of herself.’
— Steven Zeitchik
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