Natalie Portman, Edward Norton, and Kevin Costner are some of those who graduated from universities
The acting career is a flip coin. To achieve fame and fortune you need a lot of luck. However, many interpreters wanted to reinforce their future with a university degree, either out of a desire to excel or as insurance if the doors of Hollywood did not open enough for them.
The psychologist Natalie Portman
In 1999, while working on the filming of Star Wars, she entered Harvard University majoring in Psychology, earning her BA in 2003.
In an emotional speech at that house of studies, the actress said that she preferred to be "intelligent" rather than an actress, she spoke of her "dark" past and the prejudices she had to face.
“Today I feel like when I first came to Harvard, in 1999. When I got there I thought I had made a mistake, that I wasn't smart enough to be here… Every time I opened my mouth, I tried to show that I wasn't just a stupid actress She was afraid that people would assume that because she was famous and therefore she was not worthy of the intellectual rigor here, ”said the interpreter and she confessed that, at that time, she was willing to take up the challenge. “I didn't care if college was going to ruin my acting career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star."
Portman also dedicated a few minutes to share with her graduates her "dark years", as she defined them. In this context, she explained how difficult it was for her to adapt to the new and competitive life at Harvard but, at the same time, how exciting she was.
Historian Edward Norton
His maternal grandfather was the famous architect James Wilson Rouse, and his father is the prestigious lawyer Edward Mower Norton, which is why he felt the obligation to finish a university degree, which he did by studying history at Yale University.
He also took courses in astronomy, history of oriental and Japanese philosophy (a language he speaks), and excelled in rowing competitions that the university itself scheduled (1991). He affirmed in an interview that he chose a career in history because it could serve as a reinforcement in the world of cinema.
Gerard Butler attorney
The famous actor of 300 studied Law at the University of Glasgow. During his student days, he became the president of the university's law society.
A year before graduating, he took a gap year and moved to California for a while. However, despite the excesses experienced during his break, Butler returned to Scotland to finish his career. During this time he sang in a rock band called Speed and decided that he wanted to be an actor, but that was after his title.
Biologist Lisa Kudrow
The interpreter of the eccentric "Phoebe" in the series Friends she attended Portola High School in Tarzana, California, and graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, with a degree in biology.
Her father Lee, hers, was a doctor and with him, she worked for eight years on an interesting scientific study on the relationship between left-handedness and cluster headache (a type of headache considered one of the most intense pains).
Rowan Atkinson engineer
The British actor and screenwriter best known for playing the beloved character Mr. Bean and starring in Blackadder and Johnny English studied at Oxford and Newcastle Universities, where he earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and later earned a master's degree from Queen's College, Oxford, the same faculty of which his father was a student and of which he has even been an Honorary Member since 2006.
