Natalie Portman says she doesn’t encourage children at the movies: ‘I was lucky I never got hurt’

Natalie Portman reflected on children in cinema and stated that she considers it “a stroke of luck” not to have suffered any type of abuse as an actress as a child. “I wouldn’t encourage young people to get into it,” she told Variety (via People).

I feel like it was almost a stroke of luck that I never got hurt. At the same time, I had wonderful overprotective parents.

Nina Sayers’ interpreter in Black Swan(2010) debuted in cinema with The professional (1994), in the role of Mathilda — a 12-year-old girl who tries to avenge her parents’ death alongside Léon, played by Jean Reno. In real life, she was just 13 years old, while Reno I was already over 40.

“I’ve heard too many bad stories to believe that children should be part of this,” he said. “That said, I know the conversations we’ve been having over the last few years. It’s made people more alert and careful.” Even so, Natalie argues that children should not work: “They should play and go to school.”

The film’s director, Luc Besson He was accused of rape in 2018, but this year the court declared him innocent. The Belgian-Dutch actress Sand Van Roywho made a complaint, was ordered to pay €2,500.

“It’s complicated for me”, he pondered Portman in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter (via People), when asked about the subject. The controversies surrounding the feature film did not prevent her from admitting that The professional “gave him his career”. “But definitely when you watch it now, there are some strange aspects, to say the least,” he added.