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Camila Morrone wasn't interested in acting. Now she's being called the next Jennifer Lawrence

As a girl, Camila Morrone didn't think much of actors. From her family's two-bedroom apartment on the last legal block of the 90210 ZIP Code, she watched her parents run lines, cramming for auditions that were rarely successful. Her father, Maximo, had been a famous supermodel in the '90s, posing alongside Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss in Versace and Valentino campaigns. The money he'd made modeling kept the family afloat when he and his wife, Argentine actress Lucila Sola, couldn't find work acting.

"I saw them struggle their whole lives to be financially independent actors, and seeing them go through that, I was kind of turned off to it," Morrone recalled. "There was so much angst around acting, and it was such a topic of conversation - never knowing where your next paycheck is going to come from. I thought: 'I'm going to go to college. I'm going to have a normal 9-to-5 job.' And of

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