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Natalie Portman Says Kids Should Not Work

Actress Natalie Portman doesn바카라™t encourage young people to become child actors. The 'Black Swan' star, 42, launched her career at age 12 when she starred in the action film 'Leon: The Professional' in 1994.

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Actress Natalie Portman doesn바카라™t encourage young people to become child actors. The 'Black Swan' star, 42, launched her career at age 12 when she starred in the action film 'Leon: The Professional' in 1994.

She admitted that it's only down to "luck" and having "overprotective parents" that she wasn't "harmed", reports 바카라˜Female First UK바카라™.

She told Variety: "I would not encourage young people to go into this. 바카라œI don바카라™t mean ever; I mean as children. I feel it was almost an accident of luck that I was not harmed, also combined with very overprotective, wonderful parents.바카라

The 'Thor: Love and Thunder' star is hopeful that the industry is looking after young performers better these days. She said: 바카라œI바카라™ve heard too many bad stories to think that any children should be part of it. Having said that, I know all the conversations that we바카라™ve been having these past few years. It바카라™s made people more aware and careful.바카라

However, she added: 바카라œBut ultimately, I don바카라™t believe that kids should work. 바카라œI think kids should play and go to school.바카라

As per 바카라˜Female First UK바카라™, Natalie - who has son Aleph, 12, and daughter Amalia, six, with husband Benjamin Millepied - didn't come away from being a child actor completely unscathed. Her classmates used to tease her for her career path because they believed she thought she was 바카라œspecial.바카라

Natalie was speaking to Drew Barrymore for the fellow actress바카라™ eponymously titled talk show, in 2020, when Drew - who was also a child actor and starred with Natalie in the 1996 movie 바카라˜Everyone Says I Love You바카라™ - said: 바카라œI read this thing about how you didn바카라™t have an easy time in school because you would go out to movies and then come back and just have an awkward time with the other kids at school 바카라Š I haven바카라™t really read that from a lot of people and that was totally my experience, I really related to that.바카라

Natalie confessed: 바카라œI mean I think people get bullied for all sorts of reasons and that바카라™s a lucky reason to be bullied for because you are doing something that you love, I mean if you are doing something that you love. I do think that that sort of creates your empathy like being on that side of the teasing certainly makes you never want to make anyone feel like that ever again.바카라

The 바카라˜Star Wars바카라™ actress also admitted she found the experience tough, because she felt like she wasn바카라™t able to be 바카라œproud바카라 of her accomplishments.

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