Black Swan actress Natalie Portman has spoken on her lucky escape at the hands of a movie producer who tried to seduce her on a private plane, as the one-time Oscar winner revealed she’s faced “discrimination or harassment on almost everything I’ve ever worked on”.

Portman, 36, laid out her scathing observations of life as an actress at The Vulture Festival LA at The Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. She said she was fortunate enough to have never been sexually assaulted but how a producer invited her on his private plane only for the actress to realise it was only the two of them and one bed.

‘I said: “This doesn’t make me feel comfortable” and that was respected but that was super not okay. That was really unacceptable and manipulative,’” she said, adding how she turned down roles early in her career because of sex scenes through fear of being called a “Lolita”.

The actress, who was commended for her performance in Black Swan among many others, said she had “hundred stories” about how she has been mistreated by men in the industry and also how harassment taken for granted by many actresses as being “part of the process”, until now when the spotlight is on the industry since the disclosures about the Weinsteins and Spaceys.

She had to reconsider her initial thoughts, Portman said, in the wake of the revelations about disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein the past weeks. At first she was only relieved that she wasn’t among the dozens of women who have claimed to have been raped or sexually assaulted, but then considered how she had been an abuse victim for years. “…I was like;

“Okay, I definitely have never been assaulted... definitely never,” but I’ve had discrimination or harassment on almost everything I’ve ever worked on in some way.”