By Sameer Suri For Dailymail.com
Published: 01:31 GMT, 20 March 2019 | Updated: 04:18 GMT, 20 March 2019
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Nico Parker, the 14-year-old child star of Tim Burton's live action remake of Dumbo, has revealed: 'When it came to acting, I didn't really want advice.'
This despite the fact that her mother Thandie Newton is an acclaimed actress and her father Ol Parker directed last year's hit Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
The rising actress told The Hollywood Reporter Thandie 'giving me acting advice is a bit stressful. Because, I don't know if you know but she is better than I am.'
'My own experience': Nico Parker, the 14-year-old child star of Tim Burton's live action remake of Dumbo, has revealed: 'When it came to acting, I didn't really want advice'
'It was very much my own experience,' she said of her work on Dumbo, which Disney is revamping from its own iconic 1941 animated feature of the same name.
Ol did advise her on how to retain her colleagues' names: 'Say the name in your head three times, and trace the way the name is spelt on your leg three times.'
It was Ol who shot her audition tape, and Nico dished: 'The fact that
