I have 100 stories: Natalie Portman on sexual harassment

Los Angeles Nov 21 (IANS) Actress Natalie Portman says she has "100 stories" of sexual misconduct and harassment against her in Hollywood.

"When I heard everything coming out I was like wow I m so lucky that I haven t had this. And then on reflection I was like okay definitely never been assaulted definitely not but I ve had discrimination or harassment on almost everything I ve ever worked on in some way " Portman said at an event here reports nydailynews.com.

"I went from thinking I don t have a story to thinking ‘Oh wait I have 100 stories . And I think a lot of people are having these reckonings with themselves of things that we just took for granted as like this is part of the process " she added.

Portman recounted one time when she was invited on a plane with a producer only to find he had made a bed.

"Nothing happened. I was not assaulted. I said This doesn t make me comfortable and that was respected but was super not okay. That was really unacceptable and manipulative. I was scared " Portman said.

The 36-year-old said she used to avoid taking on roles with sexual scenes.

"There was definitely a period where I was reluctant to do any kind of kissing scenes sexual scenes. Because for my first roles the reaction people would give in reviews was to call me a Lolita and things like that and I got so scared by it " she said.

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