NATALIE PORTMAN CHANNELLING KANYE WEST?
VOX LUX DIRECTOR BRADY COLBERT SAYS NATALIE PORTMAN’S CHARACTER IN THE FILM BLENDS MANY REALLIFE PEOPLE, BUT IS CLOSEST TO RAPPER KANYE WEST
Filmmaker Brady Corbet says actor Natalie Portman’s character in his upcoming directorial Vox Lux identifies closely to rapper Kanye West.
Portman plays Celeste, a pop star, in the musical drama, which also features Jude Law. The actor has been applauded by the critics for her powerful performance in the film.
“I feel like the character’s closest to Kanye West,” Brady Corbet told Vulture at a recent screening of the film. Agreeing to Corbet’s assertion, Portman said, “Oh! That’s a good example! I wasn’t thinking Kanye but now that he said it I totally could see it.”
The filmmaker said he is “sort of fascinated” by West and his persona. “I don’t know what to take seriously or not, to be honest, so I don’t ever find anything he says to be particularly offensive... Hopefully he likes it,” he said.
“The idea was for the character to amalgamate many different real-life personages. There are character traits or parts of the story that evoke real people. You never want the comparison to be taken the wrong way,” he added.
Portman says the character has different sides and shades to her. “I don’t really see it as one (person)... I really see different sides because, you know, the relationship with her sister is different, having a kid and having this period where she’s having troubles with substances, and, like, the desire to shock,” she said. PTI