HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, who star in the upcoming film, "The Other Boleyn Girl," can certainly laugh about their differences, at least the ones the media likes to run with.
Speaking to her co-star Johansson in the latest issue of W magazine, Portman says, "I get branded a lot as a good girl. I'm, like, the prude, and you're more sexy, more like..."
"A harlot!" Johansson chimes in, laughing.
Portman adds that she often gets branded as "boring."
"I don't think you're boring," Johansson says.
"Thank you," Portman replies, "I appreciate that."
Yes, the young stars, who star as sisters in the new film based on a best-selling novel by Philippa Gregory, have certainly been portrayed very differently over the years. For starters, the outspoken Johansson says the media has enjoyed harping on a few of her comments in the past about relationships.
"I've been battered for saying that I don't believe humans are monogamous by nature," the 23-year-old Johansson says. "The response was, like, 'What a ho-bag!'"
"I didn't mean that I don't practice monogamy in my own life — of course I do! I'm not going to be in some tarty relationship," she continues. "But I stick by what I said. I remember another time, I said I get tested for AIDS twice a year, and again that got spun as me being promiscuous. But I was single at the time, and I think it's important to do that!"
The 26-year-old Portman, meanwhile, is the prim and proper one, with an Ivy League education to her name. But she too has a lot to say on the topic of monogamy.
"I'm into monogamy. But I'm not really into marriage right now," she says. "I sort of hate the legal aspect of it. What does the state have to do with it? Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight — but if you're gay, you can't have that?"
The two young stars, who shot their cover for the March issue of W magazine in Sante Fe, New Mexico, will see their new film hit screens on Feb. 29.
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