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Natalie Portman Explains Why She Thinks Her Real Personality Is Totally Misunderstood · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Natalie Portman's best known for her dramatic film work, with
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Speaker 2: starring roles in Black Swan, Jackie, and Closer. She often
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Speaker 2: opts for dark, serious material. She also devotes much of
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Speaker 2: her personal time to cause this close to her heart,
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Speaker 2: including animal rights, environmentalism, and global poverty issues that are
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Speaker 2: also no laughing matter, and she tells the Hollywood Reporter,
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Speaker 2: all that can add up to confusion when someone meets
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Speaker 2: her for the first time and discovers her actual personality type.
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Speaker 2: It's she says. Goofball says. People often tell me the
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Speaker 2: surprise that I'm silly, but most people who know me
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Speaker 2: well know I'm a pretty goofy person. Some people are
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Speaker 2: surprised that I'll be joking around before doing a very
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Speaker 2: serious scene, but that's part of how I function well.
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Speaker 2: I need to leave the drama for the screen. There's
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Speaker 2: still a serious approach and intense focus to the work,
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Speaker 2: but silliness helps the flow and feeling a safety and
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Speaker 2: comfort that allows me to be bare when I need it.
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Speaker 2: Natalie's new movie May December. They've used it the can
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Speaker 2: Film Festival in May twenty that's
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