Why Natalie Portman Prefers Living in Paris Over the U.S.

Natalie Portman She addresses her move to Paris – and why she loves her better than the United States.

“I find that people here are actually friendly incredibly – you just have to know how to interact, so that we are not rude,” said Portman, 43. Net-A-Porter In the cover story released on Monday, May 12. “Now, when I go back to the United States, I like,” Oh, “I will go to a store and do not say hello to everyone there? It is strange.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Portman explained that cultural differences lead to assumptions about rudeness.

“I think we have a assumption that Western cultures are similar – and a kind of all this pop culture that everyone consumes,” the actress explained. “This is not true: it’s very specific here; culture is completely different in deep and superficial ways.”

One thing Portman noticed that the French are better? Borders with celebrities.

“It is very good in privacy here,” it flows. “I feel the biggest courtesy is” Ell Est Très Discorète ” [‘she is very discreet’]”

The actress moved to France with two two children, 13 years old, and Amalia, 8 years old, participating with a former husband Benjamin Milipid. (Portman and Melipid ended their divorce in February 2024. US weekly She confirmed in March that she had moved with the music producer Tanguy Desble))

“All the children who come to my house are, such as” Bonjour Madame ” – and gives me Bise [cheek-to-cheek kiss]. Before they leave, they, like, “Thank you for hosting me” – and if I am not in a place near, they will come and find me to say that.

Portman was more open to discussing her children after her divorce from Millepied.

She said during A Interview magazine A profile was published on April 15. “I spent a lot of time with my friends, with their children and children; this is very fun.”

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During the same interview, Portman presented a hidden signal to her ex -wife after her disintegration. (It was widely rumored that Millepied was unclean, which led to the end of their marriage.)

She said, “Having children, that was not really a incentive,” when I was asked whether the start of a “balance” family between personal and professional life. “I was excited to have children, and with someone I love. But it is really important that there are people in your life that keeps you on Earth.”