Paris is the city of love, Natalie Portman is well placed to know it. Married for eleven years to French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, she moved to Paris for him in 2016, then again in 2023. The couple announced their divorce almost a month ago. In an interview with
Gala
magazine , she answers the famous question, the slogan of the Miss Dior perfume of which she is the muse. And you, what would you do for love? “Well, I’ve changed countries a few times. It’s rather a great proof of love, isn’t it?”
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His French habit
Francophile and French at heart, the actress confides to the magazine that she noticed, then completely adopted, a very French habit, far from her American routine. “In France, particularly in Paris, people do their shopping on a day-to-day basis. In the United States, we tend to fill a huge shopping cart with groceries for the week and store it all in a huge refrigerator... On this point, I think I have become very French or at least Parisian..." She says she goes shopping. almost every day, to consume seasonal products. A little air of
Emily in Paris
.
Natalie Portman's radical style change
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“I come from a long line of Francophiles”
10 years ago, on October 24, 2013, Natalie Portman already confided to Gilles Bouleau during an interview for 8 p.m. on TF1, how attached she was to France, even before knowing the man who is today her ex-husband. The actress said that her first name was inspired by the song “Nathalie” by Gilbert Bécaud, one of the songs that her father sang a lot. “I come from a long line of Francophiles (…) By giving me this name, he directed me a little towards my future”.