Thursday, 28 August 2008

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Uma Thurman: I tried to be smart like my monk dad

Actress found her adolescence difficult

Uma Thurman had very intelligent conversations with her parents at dinner

Uma Thurman says she wasn't allowed to engage in small talk as a teen.

The actress' Buddhist monk dad wanted her to have meaningful discussions at the dinner table.

'I had wonderful parents, but my adolescence was difficult because I felt an obligation that I had to live up to this impossibly high intellectual and academic standard set by my parents,' she says.

'They never really pressured me. Other than the fact that dinner table conversations had to be of a certain intellectual standard and we were expected to defend our ideas and arguments.'

Uma, 38, is engaged to businessman Arpad Busson.