"Cinderella" offensive: Natalie Portman rewrote classic fairy tales for children

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Natalie Portman has released his own book for children. She decided to adapt a long-known classic for the modern realities. Rethinking fairy tales was decided to call "Basni Natalie Portman", the announcement of the book was held back in September last year.

Appearing on The Project, the actress explained that it was inspired to write her a book. It turned out that her three-year-old daughter Amalia became the main reason. When Natalie began to read her fairy tales, I realized that they did not at all reflect the real picture of the world. But at the same time she really wanted to acquaint her daughter with works of classical literature.

"I began to notice that the characters of all these classic stories were mainly men. I also wanted stories to remain clear and "alive" for her, "said Portman.

The book will learn three stories to the new way: "Three pigs", "Turtle and hare" and "Mouse Rustic and Mouse Urban". At the same time Natalie noted that he sees a lot of problems in fairy tales about the princesses. Special misunderstanding of her is the story about Cinderella.

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"The prince does not even remember the face of the girl with whom danced. Like, it does not make sense. What is it, if not an insult? "- the clever actress was indignant.

Natalie Portman told that he had already read fairy tales to their children. Now she is looking forward to feedback from other readers.

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