Who Is the Real Black Swan (Portman Did 5% of the Dancing?)

Someone should cut you.

 

Mila Kunis defends Natalie Portman
Tuesday, March 29 2011, 4:44pm EDT
By Mike Moody, Entertainment Reporter Mila Kunis has defended her Black Swan co-star Natalie Portman against recent allegations tied to the film.

Dancer Sarah Lane, Portman's dancing double for the film, recently suggested that Portman only did around five percent of the full-body shots included in the final movie.

Lane claimed that she herself performed all of the pirouettes, the full-body dancing shots and the leg shots for the Oscar-winning film.

Kunis has now spoken out on behalf of Portman, saying that "Natalie danced her ass off" for Black Swan.

"I think it's unfortunate that this is coming out and taking attention away from [the praise] Natalie deserved and got," Kunis said, according to Popeater.

She added: "[Lane] wasn't used for everything. It was more like a safety net. If Nat wasn't able to do something, you'd have a safety net. The same thing that I had - I had a double as a safety net. We all did. No-one ever denied it."

http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a311775/mila-kunis-defends-natalie-portman.html

 

i haven't felt this dismayed over a dancing-double deception since the great jennifer beals/'flashdance' controversy....

what a buchacrap out of the 'whogivesaratsbutt?' book. hey, listen up, tabloidnation: am i supposed to care whether natalie did 5, 10,, 20, 40, 80 or 100 percent of the dancing in the role that earned her an OSCAR for ACTING? i don't think so. wake me up when another ACTRESS claims she, not natalie, recited 95 percent of her lines.

cripes... jane fonda won a well-deserved oscar playing a prostitute in 'klute;' if it had been revealed later her bedroom scenes were performed by a pro, why would/should it matter to me?

sounds to me like everyone conspired to get this "story" out there in time to boost dvd sales, so filmfreaks can slow it down and carefully dissect it, frame by frame, to get to the bottom of 'swangate.'

 

Pliegate!

 

Well, although it is an acting award and I think Portman was deserving, they did make a very big deal, as part of the marketing for the film and her performance, about the rigorous preparation and training she ednured because she was dancing the part.
It was part of the marketing and her award push. I think that makes it fair game for criticism.

 

They also made it clear there was a double for the difficult bits.

 

Understood, and I think she was deserving of the award even if she only appeared in 5 percent of the dance scenes.
However, if you play up her dancing the way they did, you open yourself to criticism if it turns out you were misrepresenting the amount of dancing she did.

 

Fair enough.

 

We know there wasn't a stunt cock involved