But she thinks its “sexist” to criticize power-hungry Hillary Clinton.

ELLE: Your recent film, The Other Boleyn Girl, strikes me as a classic cautionary tale about female ambition. Your character, the notorious Anne, is punished with rape, humiliation, exile, and ultimately execution for being cunning and opportunistic. Her “golden sister” Mary [played by Scarlett Johansson] wants nothing more than a simple country life and is content to accept whatever fate her father, husband, uncle, and king devise for her—and she gets to live happily ever after.

NATALIE PORTMAN: That’s so interesting, because I really saw it as a cautionary tale about capitalism. All of the characters who subscribe to these values of rising up and gaining power and who will step on anyone to get there are punished. Anne is certainly the most forward about it, but she is following her family’s values. She wants to impress her father even though he betrays her, whereas Mary thinks there’s something sick about this world and removes herself from it. I think it’s very different to be ambitious and to be ruthlessly ambitious, which Anne certainly is in the movie. In reality, an argument can be made that Anne Boleyn was witch-hunted because she had so much power.

ELLE: Do you see any of these dynamics at play in the way Americans have responded to Hillary Clinton’s campaign? She’s a woman with boundless aspirations who is clearly and necessarily calculating in her pursuit of her agenda, and I think we’re still extremely uncomfortable with that kind of overt female striving.

NP: A lot of the stuff people say about her, I hear it and my stomach falls because it’s so sexist.

So Natalie Portman, who makes millions off of her acting roles, is wary of capitalism.  Where does she think the money comes from?  Contributions made by appreciators of her art for “the greater good?” Surely a Harvard graduate isn’t that dumb.

In fact, it would seem as though capitalism is a boon for art.  American movies, music and books are distributed all over the world thanks to our capitalist system that rewards good art.  Albeit imperfectly given the subjective nature of art.  But what great art came as a result of the Soviet Union?  Or North Korea?  Or Mao’s regime in China?  After all, if Natalie worked in China instead of America she might be banned from making any more movies for that naked scene she did recently much like Chinese actress Tang Wei has been banned.

Much as with any industry, capitalism allows creative and innovative people to be rewarded for their work unlike socialism which makes such things the property of the collective.

And by the way, there’s nothing “sexist” about noting that Hillary is a step-on-their-heads sort of power-hungry politician.  The truth is the truth, regardless of her sex.