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Adjusting Portmans reflection on her early career

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The currently cited article is from 2007 and states the following: "She later bemoaned that her parts in The Professional and Beautiful Girls prompted a series of offers to play a sexualized youngster, adding that it "dictated a lot of my choices afterwards 'cos it scared me ... it made me reluctant to do sexy stuff" which undermines her more recent statements regarding the roles she played and, given the context, could even be seen as an affront to her determination to, not only, escaping the sexualization and threats of (sexual) violence she was confronted with at a young age, but also her critique of the movie industry and it's role in the develepment of young women/girls in terms of finding their own identity and discovering their own sexuality.

A suggestion for an adjustment of this part would be: "She later would reflect on her part in The Professional criticially. Stating that, after receiving rape fantasies in fan mail and having her body and age of consent commented on publicially, "I understood very quickly, even as a thirteen year old, that if I were to express myself sexually, I would feel unsafe and that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort." Adding that she would go on to change both her behaviour and appearance to a more conservative standard, in order to feel safe. She would then also categoricially turn down any offer that resembeled those parts, going as far as rejecting any role that "[..] even had a kissing scene [...]".

Source for these proposed changes is a speech she gave in 2018, which can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWHO14c88c Nahamo (talk) 16:02, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]