WASHINGTON [US]: Actor Natalie Portman has a bit of recommendation for youths who’re keen to enter the leisure business. She mentioned she would “not encourage” younger folks to enter the glam world, reported People. During an episode of Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast, the Oscar winner, 42, advised the outlet that it was “an accident of luck” that she was not harmed as a younger actress, including that she wouldn’t advise youngsters to enter the business.

“I would not encourage young people to go into this,” Portman, who shares two youngsters — son Aleph, 12, and daughter Amalia, 6 — with husband Benjamin Millepied, advised Variety, earlier than clarifying: “I don’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,” she added. Portman, who made debut with ‘Leon: The Professional’ on the age of 13 advised Variety, “You don’t like it when you’re a kid, and you’re grateful for it when you’re an adult.”

“I’ve heard too many bad stories to think that any children should be part of it,” she spoke concerning the youngsters within the leisure business. “Having said that, I know all the conversations that we’ve been having these past few years. It’s made people more aware and careful.” “But ultimately, I don’t believe that kids should work,” she mentioned. “I think kids should play and go to school.”

Portman commented on her look in ‘Leon: The Professional’ in May, telling The Hollywood Reporter that she has “complicated” sentiments concerning her breakout 1994 movie. (Its director, Luc Besson, has since been charged and cleared by many ladies of sexual assault.)

Oscar winner featured as Mathilda, a younger lady who varieties a mentor-mentee reference to a hitman (Jean Reno) after her household is slain within the thriller Leon. When questioned concerning the image, Portman advised THR, “It’s a movie that’s still beloved, and people come up to me about it more than almost anything I’ve ever made.” “And it gave me my career,” she continued.

“But it is definitely, when you watch it now, it definitely has some cringey, to say the least, aspects to it.” “So, yes, it’s complicated for me,” she added, reported People.