all right our next guest is just 13 years old and currently co-starring in her first
motion picture entitled the professional you know Folks at 13 I still had training wheels
I and when I say that I mean on my bicycle
ladies and Gentlemen please greater Natalie Portman nice to see you I see you I understand
I understand you got out of school a little bit early to come and be on the program yeah
that's great isn't it I miss Tech what is tech technology technology what kind of technology to
make cars out of a piece of wood and I was about to drill a hole in my wood and I was
really scared and I'm holding it and they're like well Natalie Portman please come to the
front office for early dismissal and I'll say yes so now when you say you're making
cars you're making like for the family you're building them a car out of wood no they're like
this big do you like that no no is there any way you could do all kids 13 have to take this
wood car building class really no kidding what's your favorite class um math are you good at math
yeah I guess so do you know anything about like algebra that's what we're taking that's
what you're talking about yeah see I never knew anything about Algebra I just had it just didn't
make any difference I couldn't figure it out look where you are exactly everything pretty well
you know um do you ever get a chance to watch this show do you ever stay up and see this show
um I usually watch on Friday nights because it's a good night to watch yeah we have a lot of fun
on Friday because I can't um you know wake up late for school sure yeah do your folks mind
you staying up to watch yeah they don't like that no are your parents in Show Business no my dad's
an infertility specialist and when I was when I was little they asked you know what do people
giggle about that he's doing he's doing a lot of wonderful work for folks isn't he yeah yeah
he's helping a lot of people but it's pretty funny because when I was in Nursery School the teachers
asked me you know what does your dad do for a living yeah so I said he helps women get pregnant
they call my mom and they're like well what exactly does your husband do
and
and that's why now they've got you building wooden cars exactly
um now what was I was I right when I I said that you got this movie as a result of kind
of a nationwide if not worldwide Talent search yeah I think so this is your first movie yeah
you had never done any acting before this I did like local theater and stuff yeah and how did
you get into acting and what age did that begin um is this like a two-part question
we can have you back in Tech just like that all right how old were you when you started
um well when I was 10 years old I after dance class I went to a pizza parlor and
the guy from Revlon was there any wanted me to model for Revlon so he introduced me to
modeling agents and I told him I don't want to model I want to act so they introduced me
to acting agents oh that's amazing isn't it it's like a dream come true that's like the American
dream uh yeah I mean no no I mean you're very lucky you should never forget how lucky you've
been this turned out very nicely for you okay so then how do you get the part in this film
so then I went you know my first audition and what they have you do at the audition
um well I just walked in I went to the bathroom and I came out yeah it's the strangest audition
I've ever heard of in my entire life to go to the bathroom I had to go to the bathroom oh I see oh
and um when when I came out they're like you're too young go home so I just went
home without reading or anything we were you uh depressed about that were you saddened
not really no not a big deal you got to use the bathroom what do you care
so then they called me back again and I read and then they're coming back and I read on
tape and then they called me back to me look you actually read part of the script yes yeah
how was that did that make you nervous how did that go would you remember the lines you had
to read yeah yeah it was um it was a scene she just comes back from grocery shopping and she's
her parents dead on the floor she's her parents dead on the floor yeah Oh see now I wouldn't let
you do this movie I wouldn't let you do this ah see I think this is bad don't you didn't let me
give you the Willies that kind of thing give you the creeps no cause after you know you see them
lying on the floor with this fake blood all around yeah they get up and they're like hi
laughs so you're okay with that yeah okay uh and then and then you uh you got the part and you do
the movie and now you travel all over the world for the premieres you were the Premiere in Los
Angeles Premiere in Paris how did that go was it fun in Paris um I fell asleep in the movie is this
my is my fifth time seeing it so I'm sitting there sleeping and the director is next to me
and he's looking he's like Natalie wake up and he woke me up and it was just before the movie
was over and so they turned on the lights and he stood us all up and everyone was applauding and I
was going like this because you know I just woke up and um and everyone came up to me and they're
like are you okay and I was like why and I go are you crying and I was like no I just woke up
and did that get you in trouble because people thought you were
sleeping through the movie yeah did the director get upset about that
um uh yeah what did he say uh Natalie stop sleeping during the movie
does he have an accent yeah
what are you gonna do you're gonna stick around in town they'll go out to dinner or anything like
that you got to go right home no I got to go home yeah how are your grades you're doing pretty well
yeah now don't now don't let this acting interfere with your grades all right I won't Dave all right
very bad attitude Natalie Portman ladies ladies and gently congratulations
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