Natalie Portman has been famous since the age of 12, she looks back on her “different youth” (VIDEO).

Natalie Portman, former child star turned influential Hollywood producer, face of Miss Dior perfume and Oscar-winning actress, Disturbing Stars “May December”, recently acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival. The film marks the first collaboration between Natalie Portman and Todd Haynes, a director known for his expertise in exploring female fate. In the film, Natalie Portman plays a small screen actress who must play a character inspired by a shocking 1990s news story, the love story between Mary Kay Letourneau and a teenager convicted of sexually assaulting a minor.

Natalie Portman had an early start in the film industry. At the age of 12, she was offered the role of Mathilda in “.Leon” by Luc Besson.

If she sometimes criticized the excesses of this media for stealing a part of her childhood and innocence, especially after the publication of “Leon”, she was able to live a slightly different life, thanks to this job, which she does not regret today.

Question asked by Anne-Elizabeth Lemoine in You c On her debut, Natalie Portman responds: “It has given me an extraordinary life. I know this is not an extraordinary life or youth.”

who is now a mother of two, Aleph, 12, and Amalie, 7, adds: “But I was able to travel, see places I’d never seen, I met people I never would have met.”

She adds: “I was able to collaborate with artists who showed me new ways of looking at the world.”

She believes she has “Was very lucky.”

“I was really very lucky that my parents were very protective. So I could do all this without suffering.

She believes.

“But yes it is adolescence, a different youth” Adds her, who, despite her acting career, wanted to continue studying psychology at Harvard and graduated in 2003.