United Kingdom, Jan. 8 -- Natalie Portman isn't able to practice method acting because she is a woman.

The 42-year-old actress - who has Alpeh, 12, and six-year-old Amalia with husband Benjamin Millepied - has carved out a successful career in Hollywood since starting out in showbusiness as a child and has even won an Academy Award but does not feel that as a woman she is able to fully immerse herself within character by actually living as them because of the other duties she is expected to fulfil within life as a wife and a mother.

She told The WSJ: "I've gotten very into roles, but I think it's honestly a luxury that women can't afford. I don't think that children or partners would be very understanding of, you know, me making everyon...