Natalie Portman has a unique connection to Britney Spears as she revealed this week that they share the same first acting job.

The Oscar-winner, 42, and the pop superstar, 42, both worked as understudies for child star Laura Bell Bundy in the Off-Broadway musical Ruthless back in 1992.

‘Britney was [Laura’s first] understudy and then when Britney left to do the Mickey Mouse Club or whatever, I was the understudy,’ she explained on LIVE with Kelly and Mark.

Though Natalie took over the role from the Toxic hitmaker, they never actually crossed paths.

‘So we actually didn’t meet but we, like, knew of each other. Like I knew I was taking over for her.’

They were 10-years-old when the all-female stage show premiered in New York City. It ran from March 1992 to January 1993.

Though she’s known as the bonafide ‘Princes Of Pop,’ it was Britney’s two season stint on the Mickey Mouse Club that helped make her a household name.

She starred on the Disney series with fellow future A-listers Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling and Christina Aguilera from 1993 to 1994.

Meanwhile, Natalie gained critical acclaim at age 13 for her riveting performance in the action-thriller Léon (1994).

She has since starred in over 70 films and has won an Academy Award and two Golden Globes over the span of her over 30-year career.

Natalie appeared on Thursday’s episode of LIVE to promote her latest film May December in which she plays the role of actress Elizabeth Berry, who researches sex offender-turned-baker Gracie Atherton-Yoo, played by Julianne, in order to more authentically play her in an indie film.

The woman is infamous for her 23-year-old relationship with her husband Joe, played by Charles, whom she first met as a minor.

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, the married couple buckles under pressure when the actress arrives to do research.

Julianne’s character is a thinly-veiled version of Mary Kay Letourneau, who served six years in prison for felony second-degree rape of her 12-year-old student Vili Fualaau, who she later married and welcomed two children with. They split in 2019.

The film premiered in theaters in November and it is now available to stream on Netflix.

Eagle-eyed fans noticed that Natalie wasn’t wearing her wedding ring as she spoke to co-hosts Mark Conseulos and Kelly Ripa.

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It comes amid rumors that she split from her longtime husband Benjamin Millepied over allegations of cheating.

In June, the couple’s marriage was rocked by a report in a French magazine Voici, which claimed that Millepied, 46, had cheated on his wife of 11 years with a 25-year-old climate activist named Camille Etienne.

In August, Us Weekly claimed the couple had gone their separate ways following the affair reports.

The outlet claimed that the couple had separated after they attempted to repair their relationship following claims Millepied had been unfaithful.

However, a source close to the actress told DailyMail at the time that the reports of separation are just ‘rumours’ and ‘speculation’ and there has been no firm decision made.

‘After news of his affair came out, they’ve been trying to work on their marriage but are currently on the outs,’ a source told Us Weekly.

However, People reported that an insider claimed the alleged affair with Étienne was ‘short-lived’ and is now ‘over.’

She was seen wearing her wedding ring shortly after the infidelity news broke, but has been seen without the ring in recent outings.

According to Page Six, Portman learned of her husband’s cheating in early March, and that the couple had separated last year but were able to work through their relationship problems.

After this alleged transgression, they had been taking steps to do what they could to save the marriage.

A source previously confirmed to DailyMail.com that the couple were still together after the affair claims emerged.

‘He knows he made an enormous mistake and he is doing all he can to get Natalie to forgive him and keep their family together,’ a source revealed to People.

‘Natalie is incredibly private and has no intention of playing this out in the media. Her biggest priority is protecting her children and their privacy.’

Despite the rumors of a separation, the couple have been spotted out together in the last few months as they parent their two kids. During a sighting in September, they were not wearing their wedding rings.

A source close to the actress previously shut down rumors they had separated when speaking to DailyMail.com, insisting she still ‘doesn’t know’ if she will walk away from her marriage, despite feeling ‘powerless’ as a result of the infidelity.

‘[Natalie] hates that [Benjamin’s] infidelity has made her feel powerless,’ the insider told DailyMail.com. ‘She doesn’t know if she can regain her power by staying with him or leaving him.

‘It is really a struggle to have to continue to deal with it.’

But, the source insisted that ‘deep down’, Portman and Millepied are still ‘really in love’ and are trying to work out what went wrong in their marriage.

‘They are really taking it day by day because deep down they are really in love, and they are trying to figure out what has caused the distance between them,’ the source continued. ‘She wants to stay with him, and he really wants to be with her.

‘They both know that breaking up and staying together forever are still on the table and only time will tell what direction they will actually take.’

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In June, the couple’s marriage was rocked by a report in a French magazine Voici, which claimed that Millepied, 46, had cheated on his wife of 11 years with a 25-year-old climate activist named Camille Etienne; the couple seen in 2022

Portman, a native of Jerusalem, Israel, and Millepied, who’s from Bordeaux, France, share two children together: son Aleph, 12, and daughter Amalia, six.

They met back in 2009 on the set of her psychological horror film Black Swan, for which he did the choreography, that resulted in her winning the Best Actress Oscar for her riveting performance.

The lovebirds got engaged in 2010 and were married in 2012 at Big Sur, California.

Millepied again worked on choreography for Portman’s dark musical drama film Vox Lux in 2018, in which she played a woman who survives a school shooting, only to become a pop star.