Note: Previous guest Alec Baldwin remained on the set during Natalie's segment.

David Letterman: You'll be hearing a lot about our next guest. She starred in the movie "The Professional" and she all but steals the motion picture "Beautiful Girls", a new film which opens February 9th. Please welcome back the lovely Natalie Portman. Natalie, come on out!

[Natalie walks out and sits down]

DL: It's nice to see you. You know, when I heard you were going to be on the program again I got very, very happy.

NP: Really?

DL: Yeah, yeah, I'm very fond of you.

NP: Thank you.

DL: And I saw your movie "Beautiful Girls", it was very cute.

NP: Thank you.

DL: You play...its, uh, a great job. Nice work. You know...have you guys ever worked together?

NP: No, no, Alec...just very nicely...

DL: It's exciting to sit next to Mister Big Shot, isn't it?

Alec Baldwin: You are now.

DL: Why don't you tell the folks a little bit about yourself, a little bit about your life. I know that you're from this area.

NP: Right.

DL: You're still in school obviously. So how old are you like...?

NP: I'm fourteen.

DL: Fourteen years old.

NP: I've figured out that I've been alive as long as your show's been going on.

[Loud applause, Dave puts his hand over his face, Alec chuckles]

NP: Does that trouble you?

DL: Wow! Well, it's nice to know something good has come of this. Uhhh...did you go to school today?

NP: Yeah.

DL: You're not in one of those showbiz/actor schools are you?

NP: No, I go to public school.

DL: That's good. You should stay in the public schools because those showbiz/actor schools, Alec will tell you, they're not what you'd...you know the kids can't even count! I know twenty five year old actors who have been in those schools that can't count.

AB: I can count...I just can't count very high.

NP: Yeah, well true.

[audience laughter]

DL: One million, two million, three million. That's all you need. That's all you need!

[huge laugh/applause]

AB: I can't count to fourteen million, Dave.

[huge moan/applause]

DL: So Natalie, tell us, uh, you were in school today.

NP: Yes.

DL: What grade are you in? What grade is a fourteen year old in?

NP: I'm in 9th grade.

DL: 9th grade. That's, uh, freshman in high school?

NP: Yes.

DL: What did you do today in school?

NP: Well, I was supposed to have a test...

DL: In what class?

NP: English.

DL: English.

NP: We had to read this travel book and we had this essay test, but the teacher wasn't there. But anyway I...

DL: So how come the teacher wasn't there?

NP: I don't know, she was sick or something. And so anyway so I stayed up ALL last night reading my book. I read "On The Road".

DL: "On The Road". Yeah.

NP: Crazy book.

DL: Now is that a good book to be reading when you're in the 9th grade?

NP: It's like...it's like a druggie book. Everything is like all about...in every chapter they do like heroin and coke and then they said they smoked some tea.

DL: Uh huh, smoked a little tea.

NP: And I was like, okay. And then later they explained...

DL: You know the problem with smoking tea, the bag keeps catching on fire.

[huge laugh/applause]

NP: No, then later they explained that, that was marijuana.

DL: Yeah, sure. Well I don't know, is that a good influence? Did you learn anything from the book?

NP: Um, my history teacher recommended it to me and I was like, why did you recommend a druggie book to me? He's kind of a weird guy though.

DL: And what kind of a student are you? Do you get pretty good grades?

NP: Yeah, I'm a straight-A student.

DL: A straight-A student. Well, very nice.

NP: Thank you.

NP: I made...this is...I made honor roll.

DL: You made the honor roll?

NP: Yes.

DL: I should think so with straight A's. Alec, what kind of grades did you get in high school?

[Alec looks around as though he isn't paying attention]

AB: Oh, I'm sorry, did you say something?

DL: And, uh, do you ever get in trouble the way kids do? You must probably have some things that go wrong for you.

NP: Yeah...I don't really get in trouble, but, like, these things always happen, like, me and my friend, me and my two friends...

DL: And what are their names?

NP: Rachael and Lauren.

DL: Are they here tonight?

NP: No, they're not.

DL: Why aren't they here tonight?

NP: They've got homework!

DL: Oh, they've got homework, yeah.

NP: And anyways, God, corrupting the youth of America.

DL: What about you? You got homework?

NP: Yeah, but I was doing it in the green room, between...you know, when Alec was talking.

DL: Oh good, ideal circumstances.

NP: I'm sorry.

AB: I helped her with her homework.

DL: I'm sure, yeah. All right, so you and your friends...

NP: So me and my friends we rented this movie called "Threesome". And, you know, it's appropriately named and whatever, and there's this scene where they...get together. And her mom came in right as that scene came on. So my friend jumped up and she's like, this isn't "Reality Bites"! And she got it out, she's like, damn Blockbuster! God!

DL: Pretty quick. Pretty quick. So who's in "Threesome"?

NP: Lara Flynn Boyle...[to Alec Baldwin]...one of your brothers!

[huge laugh/applause. Natalie laughs hysterically]

NP: And um...

AB: I must say if one of us doesn't get you another one will. [Baldwin quickly tries to explain this strange comment] I mean corrupting you! I mean corrupting you! I was going to say Kerouac and "Threesome" and you're fourteen. Where do you have to go with the next fourteen years, you have nowhere to go.

DL: What do your folks do for a living?

NP: Um...my Dad's a doctor.

DL: Doctor Portman.

NP: And my Mom...

DL: [calling out] Doctor Portman! What kind of a doctor is Doctor Portman?

NP: He's an infertility specialist.

DL: Oh...well, that's very important now, because, you know, there aren't enough people.

[audience laughter]

NP: And my Mom...

DL: What does Mom do?

NP: She...okay, see she always gets mad at me if I say she's, like, a housewife because she says it sounds like...

DL: Well now, there is nothing wrong with being a housewife.

NP: No, but she says it sounds as though she's married to a house.

DL: Oh, I see.

NP: And that doesn't work because, like, that doesn't reflect well on her personality. And so then, I was like, well what should I say. So I started saying, like, she was an artist because that's what she studied in college. So then everyone was asking me, like, oh, what kind of art does she do? And does she paint, what kind of paints?

DL: Uh huh.

NP: And I was like, I don't know!

DL: Yeah.

NP: So then...so then now I just say she's a mom. It works.

DL: Look at those teeth. You have beautiful teeth.

NP: Why, thank you.

[Natalie shows her teeth to the camera]

DL: Holy! Look at those teeth, man is that a set of teeth...The film, it's uh...it's a very nice story. And the scenes that you're in couldn't be sweeter, couldn't be lovelier. You do a wonderful job, as you do in every piece of work you're in. And it opens February 9th.

NP: Yes. Next Friday, guys.

DL: I hope it's a big hit for you, and go back to school now and study and get some more A's.

NP: I will.

DL: Natalie nice to see you, thanks for being here.

NP: Thank you.

DL: Natalie Portman. We'll be right back!