Everyone has been saying that Natalie Portman did a good job of pretending to be a ballerina in the film Black Swan. No, not that she’s an amazing ballerina – that she is good at pretending to be one, okay?
With that, the most pointless argument in Hollywood’s largely pointless history has kicked off, with dithering shovel brained people all cooing and spitting about just how much dancing Portman did in the Oscar winning flick.
Again. We’d just like to point out that Black Swan is a movie, not a documentary.
Movie fans are up-in-arms about the whole thing, presumably still angry about the fact Christopher Reeve couldn’t really fly despite making those Superman films (his inability to fly was cruelly underlined that time he fell neck first off a super horse), or indeed, furious that there’s a chance that ET wasn’t actually the drunk lodger of some kid.
Yet, bafflingly, director Darren Aronofsky and star Mila Kunis have been called upon to leap, pirouette and thrust their cod-pieces to the defence of Portman after her dancing body double came out and said that she’d done some of the routines for the actress. Like a stuntman in tights.
This double is called Sarah Lane and no-one really ought to care whether she did all Portman’s routines or 2% of them. That’s because Black Swan is a work of fiction. Okay? Just stating the insultingly obvious again.
Aronofsky however, has shrieked that Portman performed 80 to 90% of the routines seen in the final cut of his film. He says:
“Here is the reality- I had my editor count shots. There are 139 dance shots in the film. 111 are Natalie Portman untouched. 28 are her dance double Sarah Lane. If you do the math, that’s 80% Natalie Portman.”
Got that? Don’t care? Neither should anyone else.
Mila Kunis, Portman’s co-star in the film, also defended the actress before worrying that she may have to make claims that she was going to have to prove that she did actually lick out the glistening vagina of Natalie because, obviously, everything in films is supposed to be real.
That said, if there is footage of her really doing it [That’s enough of that – Site Admin]
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james owens says
What is all this bull $hit? More than half of the male actors in Hollywood use doubles for a variety of reasons. The young woman won the Oscar for Best Actress and the little piglet that stood in for Natalie is attempting to bring attention to herself. All actors in Hollywood films are provided a copy of the story line along with a complete synopsis of his/her role. Have the piglet continue her dance classes.