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Natalie Portman (Practically) Nominates Sean Penn For An Oscar!
Posted on Mon Dec 1, 2008 12:33 PM PDT
Natalie Portman spoke to Variety about Sean Penn's role as Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant's latest flick, "Milk," and the 27-year-old actress had nothing but praise for the Oscar-winning actor. Natalie also mentions California's gay marriage ban, and makes it clear that she's against the passing of Proposition 8.
We already knew she was beautiful, talented and Harvard educated, but after reading Natalie's article, we want to see more of her writing!
Here's what she had to say:
- "They only need to know one of us," Harvey Milk explains to his campaign team in the film "Milk." Sean Penn's performance as Harvey does exactly that: You learn one man's story, and his pains and triumphs become your own. It showed me how a great performance can also be a humanitarian act. When we know one character, one story, we recognize him as being of our own flesh and blood. When we understand his feelings, we put ourselves in his position. Not only is Sean's performance honestly and lovingly humane, but it is also virtuosic -- every note is so subtly tuned that the work behind it is never visible. He infuses Harvey's courage with cowardice and his sexual prowess with hesitation. Sean's Harvey is a cocky and charismatic orator, but always weighted by the foreboding dread of knowing his own tragedy. When the antigay Prop. 6 is unexpectedly voted down, surprise, elation and horror at the very existence of the referendum all rage in the blood beneath his skin. Sean Penn so inhabits Harvey Milk that I left the theater feeling the need to march against our frighteningly similar Prop. 8 to honor this man I now know.
Love her!
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Comments
I will definitely NOT see that fag movie.
Well you don't get oscars unless you junp on the gay and obama band wagon.
Hell the NYT only hires gay activists as writers now.
I suppose that when we get attacked the media will blame it on the past administration and not the weak stutterer.
I hear chavez and castro kill gays.
Chavez will be disappointed.
Natalie, shut your cock hole. You're nothing more than a spoiled little daddy's girl from Long Island. What you do for a living has little relevance on any Global issue. You play dress up and make believe for a living. Remember that, you little turd.
Now you know why she gets such good press and it's not her acting.
right wingnuts and homophobes commenting now. Jeez.