Natalie Portman has said she tries to “stay away from playing Jews” after her latest role as a Chasidic wife.
The 28-year-old actress told Elle magazine: “I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month but I hate the genre”.
In her new film New York, I Love You, out later this year, she plays strictly Orthodox diamond buyer, Rifka Malone.
The film has already caused some controversy after Abe Karpen, a Chassidic actor from Brooklyn who was to partner Ms Portman in the film, dropped out of shooting after being pressured by an outraged response from the New York community.
