Natalie Portman says her Oscar statue is a 'false idol'

LOS ANGELES, May 6 (UPI) -- Natalie Portman considers her Oscar statue a false idol.

The 33-year-old declared as much in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday. Portman won Best Actress for Black Swan at the 2011 Academy Awards, but said she purposely doesn't keep the statuette close.

"I don't know where it is," she confessed. "I think it's in the safe or something. I don't know. I haven't seen it in a while. I mean, [Black Swan director] Darren [Aronofsky] actually said something when we were in that whole thing that resonated so deeply."

"I was reading the story of Abraham to my child and talking about, like, not worshipping false idols," she recalled. "And this is literally like gold men. This is literally worshipping gold idols -- if you worship it. That's why it's not displayed on the wall. It's a false idol."

Previous to her win, Portman was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Closer at the 2005 Academy Awards. The actress last appeared as Jane Foster in Thor: The Dark World (2013), and is scheduled for new Terrence Malick film Knight of Cups with Christian Bale.