Natalie Portman Cut School To Be On The Show | Letterman

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