This made me go look up Natalie Portman. Her first movie at the age of 12 was
Leon, in which Portman plays a child who is in love with an adult (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Portman):
Her parents were reluctant to let her do the part due to the explicit sexual and violent nature of the script, but agreed after Besson took out the nudity and killings committed by Portman's character.... Even so, her mother was displeased with some of the "sexual twists and turns" in the finished film, which were not part of the script... Peter Rainer of Los Angeles Times...criticized Besson's sexualization of [Portman's] character.
So who is Besson? That is Luc Besson, the director (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Besson):
Besson's second wife was actress and director Maïwenn Le Besco, whom he started dating when he was 31 and she was 15. They were married in late 1992 when Le Besco, 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, who was born on 3 January 1993. Le Besco later claimed that their relationship inspired Besson's film Léon (1994), where the 12 plot involved the emotional relationship between an adult man and a 12-year-old girl. Their marriage ended in 1997, when Besson became involved with actress Milla Jovovich during the filming of The Fifth Element (1997). He married the 21-year-old on 14 December 1997, at the age of 38, but they divorced in 1999.
From his second wife Maiwenn's wiki (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%AFwenn):
Maïwenn met film director Luc Besson when she was 12 and he was 29, and they began dating when she was 15. In January 1993, at age 16, she gave birth to their daughter Shanna. On the DVD extras for the 1994 film Léon: The Professional, Maïwenn said the film is based on her relationship with Besson. She was 20 at the beginning of filming (early 1996) for The Fifth Element, during which Besson left her for the film's star, Milla Jovovich.
What the fuck