Natalie Portman Regrets Supporting Roman Polanski: ‘It Was a Mistake. My Eyes Were Not Open’

After Roman Polanski’s 2009 arrest in Switzerland for the 1977 rape of a 13-year-old girl, more than 100 actors and directors united to release a petition urging for his release.

Included among signees like Darren Aronofsky, Tilda Swinton, and David Lynch was none other than Natalie Portman.

The actress, who has been at the forefront of the Time’s Up anti-harassment campaign this year, now tells Buzzfeed she regrets signing the petition.“I very much regret it,” Portman said.

“I take responsibility for not thinking about it enough.

Someone I respected gave it to me, and said, ‘I signed this.

Will you too?’ And I was like, sure.

It was a mistake.”“The thing I feel like I gained from it is empathy towards people who have made mistakes,” she continued.

“We lived in a different world, and that doesn’t excuse anything.

But you can have your eyes opened and completely

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