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Natalie Portman Calls Her Oscar Statue a “False Idol,” Does Not Know Where It Is

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Natalie Portman said she has no idea where her Oscar statue (Best Actress for Black Swan) is and went on to even refer to it as "a false idol" in a new interview.

Not for Nat! Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman has no idea where her Oscar statue is — nor does she really care.

The Black Swan star, 33, opened up to The Hollywood Reporter in its new cover story about her life in Paris with her husband Benjamin Millepied and their 3-year-old son Aleph, and why the coveted gold statue just doesn’t matter to her right now.

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“I don’t know where it is,” the Jane Got a Gun star noted of her Oscar, which she received after winning Best Actress at the 2010 Academy Awards. “I think it’s in the safe or something. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it in a while. I mean, Darren [Aronovsky, who directed Black Swan] actually said to me something when we were in that whole thing that resonated so deeply.”

“I was reading the story of Abraham to my child and talking about, like, not worshipping false idols,” she reflected. “And this is literally like gold men. This is literally worshipping gold idols — if you worship it. That’s why it’s not displayed on the wall. It’s a false idol.”

Meanwhile, life in Paris — where the family moved last year because Millipied took over as the director of the Paris Opera Ballet — has been great. “It’s been really interesting,” Portman said of moving from L.A. to France. “I felt [at first] like it’s very similar, and then when you live in a place, you start realizing how culturally different we are, deeply culturally different… in millions of ways.”

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Natalie Portman wins Best Actress at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards

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One example? “I love that people at dinner want to have a serious conversation — and only a serious conversation,” Portman noted of Parisians. “They’ll be upset if you don’t have something interesting happen. I love that my kid wants to go to art museums after school — like, ‘Take me to the Pompidou.’ I love that it’s also not elitist, as it is in New York. You can afford to go to the philharmonic or the opera much more easily because all of it’s subsidized. And there’s a huge culture of cinema there.”

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The Israeli-born former child star also loves the anonymity. “I like being a stranger in a place,” she reflected. “You’re kind of an outsider, and I think that’s what makes you. It’s the only way I’ve ever known.”

As for her nearly three-year marriage? “The disappointments are always in myself,” Portman reflected of her spouse, 37, whom she met on the 2010 set of Black Swan. “And like, when you’re faced day to day with someone looking at you, it’s like a mirror that you have to yourself, and you can see your own good behavior and bad behavior. And it’s a beautiful challenge to be the best person in the mirror that you can be. I mean, I don’t beat myself up over it, but I’m not always as generous as I feel like I could be.”

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