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Natalie Portman attends AFI FEST 2019. (Jesse Grant\/Getty Images for Audi)<\/p><\/div>\n
By Brian Trusdell | NEWSMAX<\/p>\n
Actress Natalie Portman has rewritten three well-known fairy tales because the stories were too male and reflected \u201cskewed gender assignment,\u201d she told a British-based celebrity magazine.<\/p>\n
Portman, who won a best actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a mentally troubled ballerina in the 2010 film \u201cBlack Swan\u201d but is also known for her roles in the Star Wars series of films, said she published a book of \u201cgender-neutral\u201d stories because she didn\u2019t want to read the male-dominated stories to her children.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found myself changing the pronouns in many of their books because so many of them had overwhelmingly male characters, disproportionate to reality,\u201d\u00a0Portman told Hello magazine<\/a>. \u201cBoys need to see that women have a multitude of opportunities open to them, to consider what they think and feel, and how they experience the world.<\/p>\n \u201cAll books and movies should be reflective of the world, rather than have this kind of skewed gender assignment.\u201d<\/p>\n Portman rewrote the timeless tales \u201cThe Three Little Pigs,\u201d \u201cThe Tortoise and the Hare,\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cThe City Mouse and the Country Mouse,\u201d in her\u00a0\u201cNatalie Portman\u2019s Fables.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c’I wrote it for [my children],\u201d she said, referring to her 9-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter. \u201cThey were the first readers of my work, so I got to test it out on them and see how to keep their attention.\u201d<\/p>\n The 39-year-old Jerusalem-born Portman has been living in Australia, according to the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n Portman, who has been a staunch supporter of Democratic candidates such as John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, also signed a letter last year advocating \u201cdefunding of police.\u201d<\/p>\n