Natalie Portman: "Torture scenes in 'V for Vendetta' like Holocaust"

[MaryJane]

Natalie Portman has compared the torture scenes in new movie 'V for Vendetta' to the Holocaust.

The Israeli-born actress - who plays freedom fighter Evey in the movie - claims the brutal scenes of concentration camp-style torture made her recall the atrocities inflicted on the Jews, including her grandparents.

She revealed: "Fortunately, my grandparents escaped, but their whole family perished in the Holocaust.

"There were stories in the house of what had happened to them and it wasn't that much talked about. I had to go on a website to read my grandfather's descriptions of what happened to the family, but it is absolutely something I have lived with and have grown up with."

Portman hopes the film can refresh people's memories about the horrors man has committed in times of war so these evil never happens again.

She added to Britain's Independent newspaper: "I loved that this film is an abstract thing because, after the Holocaust, people said it would never happen again but now we have Rwanda and Bosnia.

"Maybe 'V for Vendetta' can remind us to stand up against such despotism."

femalefirst.co.uk

[cocainekate]

She doesn't know what torture is. She's been torturing me with her acting for fucking years.

[AgentOrange]

Hey, give her a break. The girl obviously knows what torture is.

Wonder when her next lecture at harvard is? Education ain't what it used to be.

[ourmaninBusan]

Portman hopes the film can refresh people's memories about the horrors man has committed in times of war so these evil never happens again.

She added to Britain's Independent newspaper: "I loved that this film is an abstract thing because, after the Holocaust, people said it would never happen again but now we have Rwanda and Bosnia.

...and Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and the slaughters in East Timor and
the ethnic clashes in India...

Is it safe to say this pious posturing is a little hollow?

[Bellatheball]

^^ yes, it would be safe.

[snakebread]

Ugh. Absolutely disgusting. First, "I am shocked to be sexy at age 12." Now "I feel like I've been through the holocaust because I've been paid $12 million to shave my head."

This is absolute BS. We should boycott her like we do Cruise.

[MrsMarsters]

that movie sucked anyway

[ourmaninBusan]

All of this is designed to distract audiences from the fact that the
author of this "graphic novel" has publicly asked his name to be
removed from the project because he was so disappointed in how
it turned out.