Natalie Portman hired in a person to be her dance double in Black Swan. Before, it was assumed that Natalie did all of her own dance moves, since she said how hard the training was. Now, we learn she didn’t do them all. Would that information have affected her Oscar award?
Natalie did a lot of the moves, but there was still a professional that stood in for the more complicated moves. Her fiance is defending her:
“It was so believable, it was fantastic, that beautiful movement quality, ” he says. “There are articles now talking about her dance double [American Ballet Theatre dancer Sarah Lane] that are making it sound like [Lane] did a lot of the work, but really, she just did the footwork, and the fouettés, and one diagonal [phrase] in the studio. Honestly, 85% of that movie is Natalie.”
Interesting. No one else from the movie has spoken up, what do you think they think? How much did Natalie really do? Do they think she wasn’t deserving of the award?
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