00:00For me, you know, turning 40 while I was playing a superhero was pretty,
00:04a pretty magnificent way to mark the milestone.
00:12I came from a family of academics and was very concerned with being taken seriously.
00:30I was so excited at 13 when the film was released and my work and my art would have a human response.
00:40I excitedly opened my first fan mail to read a rape fantasy that a man had written me.
00:46A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday,
00:50euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with.
00:53Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews.
01:03I rejected any role that even had a kissing scene and talked about that choice deliberately
01:08in interviews. I emphasized how bookish I was and how serious I was and I cultivated
01:14an elegant way of dressing.
01:23When I got to Harvard just after the release of Star Wars Episode I, I knew I would be starting
01:34over in terms of how people viewed me. I feared people would assume I had gotten in just for
01:39being famous. I felt like there had been some mistake, that I wasn't smart enough to be in
01:44this company and that every time I opened my mouth, I would have to prove I wasn't just a dumb actress.
01:53I really see it as this young woman's
02:11coming of age and that she becomes a woman. She starts out a girl and becomes a woman
02:17by finding her own artistic voice and sort of killing the child's version of herself.
02:33It's so special to get to go to the premiere and see the passion that people have for these
02:38movies and to see people dressed up in character and just caring so much about it is so rare and
02:45so unique. I've been a vegetarian since I was nine and I became vegan almost eight years ago.
02:58I learned that the biggest thing I could do to have an impact on the planet's health
03:03was to become vegan.
03:26You are representative for your people whether you want to or not.
03:30You are asked a lot of things all the time just by virtue of being
03:35Israeli and even by virtue of being Jewish.
04:00You know it's something I think women are a lot of really uncomfortable talking about
04:05and it's really important to make sure that you do talk about it because that's how we
04:10we all get to where we where we should be.
04:21We've been living in a system and all have been complicit in a system and accepting a system that
04:27is harassing and abusing and causing so much pain for so many marginalized people and
04:36it's time to change it.
04:40So
04:53when I was reading the books I was struck by how the classic stories had overwhelmingly
05:00male characters and thinking what am I telling my kids both my son and my daughter
05:06about who's in whose stories are important to tell.
05:25It was such a cool opportunity to get to play a superhero especially the mighty Thor is so
05:32incredible and then to have her also have this human side that has weaknesses that has
05:38vulnerabilities that has fears you know was an incredible like I felt like it was something
05:45that I could relate to more than someone who's just tough and badass all the time.
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