Natalie Portman’s portrayal of a prima ballerina in the movie Black Swan was the single most talked about performance in film this year, largely in part to the hours she spent training and her subsequent drastic weight loss for the role. However, the professional ballerina who was her double in the movie is loudly bitching to anyone who will listen that she was the real star of the movie and that Natalie didn’t do shit except wear tights and hold her arms over her head a couple of times. The Daily Mail says:
‘Of the full body shots, I would say five per cent are Natalie’, American Ballet Theatre soloist [and Natalie's body double] Sarah Lane said. ‘All the other shots are me.’
Lane says Portman’s face was then digitally placed onto her body.
‘They wanted to create this idea in people’s minds that Natalie was some kind of prodigy or so gifted in dance because of the Oscar’, Lane said bitterly.
‘It is demeaning to the profession and just to me. I’ve been doing this for 22 years… Can you become a concert pianist in a year and a half, even if you’re a movie star?’
‘She doesn’t look like a professional ballet dancer at all and she can’t dance in pointe shoes. And she can’t move her body, she’s very stiff’, Lane added.
Professional ballerinas are widely regarded as vain, histrionic, self-absored cunts. Way to buck that stereotype, Ms. Lane. Fact: the only people who care about ballet are ballerinas. The rest of us only saw the movie because of the lesbian sex scene with Mila Kunis. Unless that was your stunt tongue, nobody wants to hear about it.
Sarah Lane is totally believable on this.
They didn’t want this coming out because, they thought, it would hurt Portman’s chances for an Oscar.
Instead, they’re getting the Flashdance controversy again, but Lane’s contract never said she had to keep her mouth shut.
Portman’s boyfriend never should have said anything because there was a video posted on YouTube that pretty much proved her story, but Fox has “conveniently” had it taken down for copyright violations. There is their version of the special effects and the unedited one that Fox killed.
I’m sure it will surface again.
It should have been obvious to anyone that has seen Portman’s past performances: she is wooden and awful at just about everything, and reads her lines like a 16-year-old girl. She single-handedly wrecked “V for Vendetta” (what, they couldn’t at least hire someone with a believable british accent?). She didn’t suddenly become a Heath Ledger overnight. Figures they’d use computer trickery a-la Angelina Jolie (Beowulf and her phony CGI body).
Now Darren Aronofsky says it was 80% Portman. He says they counted.
Lane should go through the movie scene by scene and count for herself.
WONKY EYE IS JUST JEALOUS!!! GROW UP WONKY EYE…YOU KNOW YOUR DANCING DAYS ARE NUMBERED SO YOU’RE RIDING NATALIE PORTMEN’S TALENT HOPING SOMETHING WILL COME OF IT! WHAT A TOTAL WHINER…YOU GOT PAID NO GO AWAY!
Natalie is a fraud! Return the Oscar, you don’t deserve it! FAKE
Your name was in the credits. No one says you werent in the movie. It is not the same a flashdance. Give it up, go back to work. Make sure not to spend all of your check in one place, because the movie going public does not care about the body doubles. Milk your 15 minutes while you can because you only have about 5 of them left.