How old is the dancer in black swan

It's that she brought an artistry to it, and Natalie Portman is a dramatic artist, a film artist. But Sarah Lane is a dance artist, and she helped make the movie what it was. It bothered me. I think she should get credit for it. Perron wrote her opinion in a blog that was soon picked up in the national media, and "Black Swan" filmmakers moved swiftly to defend their star.

Portman has continued to decline to comment on the controversy, and told E! News last week, "I had a chance to make something beautiful with this film, and I don't want to give in to the gossip.

For Lane, the silver lining in this controversy may just be that ballet is taking center stage in a national discussion. An unanticipated opportunity to share the commitment and dedication of all ballet dancers. What is not necessarily, really portrayed in the movie, is the beauty that ballet can create. How it can reach across oceans, and how it can bond countries who are completely at war.

We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Portman, of course, wasn't the only already perfectly fit actress in the cast who lost 20 pounds to look more believably like a professional ballet dancer.

Mila Kunis , who played Lily, Nina's rival-frenemy-lover-figment-of-her-imagination, ultimately weighed in at 95 pounds. Talking to Coming Soon mid-production in December , the That '70s Show star admitted, "I'm so hungry all the time. I just want to eat and not work out and not do anything. I plan on doing nothing. I end Black Swan in February and I plan to be a couch potato for about a month.

Aronofsky thought of her for the role after liking what he saw in Forgetting Sarah Marshall , so no audition necessary, but they discussed the character multiple times via Skype before she headed to New York to start filming the movie she called "an anomaly in every aspect of life.

I don't recommend anybody ever doing it. Not being a dancer and having no previous training, "I had to get en pointe [balance in toe shoes] within three months, and so to get en pointe you almost have to fake it," she explained.

And part of faking it was being super-skinny. Like it was one of those things, for the first time in my life, I got a food delivery service," she explained.

It was a 1,or-less calorie diet a day It's awful, 1, calories And then I smoked. Though Barbara Hershey 's Erica, Nina's helicopter mom, isn't exactly a wellspring of emotional support for her daughter, Aronofsky did want them to feel invested in their relationship.

So, Portman told Collider, "he had Barbara write letters to me in character, as Erica to Nina, for the first portion of the film, that he would hand to me on important days of shooting that I should feel my mother. Barbara wrote really gorgeous letters that were in character and really gave a sense of our history, our love and our connection.

Sadly, one of Portman and Kunis' coaches, Georgina Parkinson —a British ballerina who starred in Swan Lake and was later a coach at American Ballet Theatre— died of cancer at the age of 71 two weeks before they started filming.

While in theory Nina may have been getting intimate with herself, onscreen she's succumbing to Lily's headily relaxed charms. And Darren made a very comfortable situation, he made a closed set, he made it as—".

Seemingly she was about to say "as comfortable as possible," but Stern interrupted to ask if she was surprised the movie ended up a huge hit. As for Portman, she told E! News of the scene, "It was awkward and we laughed. It was strange, but it's something you just sort of throw yourself into. Lane said that, after Glamour wrote a profile about her called "The Real Black Swan," a producer on the film called her up and asked if she could not do any more interviews until after the Oscars.

Even with as hard as she worked, it takes so much more. It takes 22 years, it takes 30 years to become a ballerina. That's why they hired me. I had my editor count shots. There are dance shots in the film— are Natalie Portman untouched. Twenty-eight are her dance double Sarah Lane. If you do the math, that's 80 percent Natalie Portman. To which Lane replied, "It's possible if you're counting the close-ups of her face as actual dancing shots.

I don't call close-ups of her face actual dancing. But ultimately, Lane acknowledged, she signed a contract that did not guarantee onscreen credit—and working with Portman was actually very nice. And she was really focused on her character every day. I definitely think she deserves, all the credit that she got with the Oscar. Portman, meanwhile, had told E! Portman was a big fan of designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy , founders of Rodarte, and they were lauded for their work on the ballet costumes.

The actress also accepted her Oscar in Rodarte and wore it on her wedding day. But when award season came around, the Mulleavys weren't eligible for an Oscar because they weren't members of the Costume Guild of America—much to the consternation of the fashion world.

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