She and her instructor, former New York City Ballet dancer Mary Helen Bowers , "would do two hours a day for the first six months, and that was really just strengthening and getting me ready to do more, so that I wouldn't get injured," the actress told Collider. We added in swimming, so I was swimming a mile a day, toning and then doing three hours of ballet class a day.
And then, two months before, we added the choreography, so we were doing probably eight hours a day. Portman continued, "The physical discipline of it really helped for the emotional side of the character because you get the sense of the monastic lifestyle of only working out, that is a ballet dancer's life. You don't drink, you don't go out with your friends, you don't have much food and you are constantly putting your body through extreme pain, so you get that understanding of the self-flagellation of a ballet dancer.
However, she told Vanity Fair , "it was very intense but really fun, too. Bowers said in a making-of featurette for Searchlight Pictures, "The idea is, if you're going to play a ballerina, you're going to have to train like one. After admittedly subsisting on very little for the duration of the shoot to keep her weight hovering around 98, a pound drop from her already petite frame, Portman's first meal after they wrapped was pasta, "for breakfast, lunch and dinner," she told Collider.
Aronofsky noted that, it being a small i. I actually don't mind pushing because it means I get an extra two or three weeks to get my s--t together, but I only found out recently that Natalie would just be screaming at her manager that she had to live on carrots and almonds for another three weeks. She was the one who suffered the most from not eating. And yes, toenails were lost in the making of this movie.
It's a nightmare for them to be replaced once they've made it to the top and they get these roles. And in response to the "but dancers do eat though, don't they? And I think a lot of them do, a lot of them are healthy. I'm not making a blanket statement at all. But there are a lot of eating disorders. I don't know if it's more prevalent in certain companies, but when I talked to the women, they said pretty much every dancer in the company has had some bout of eating disorder. There are certainly cases of people who are healthy through and through, but, look, I did ballet for a year and just by the ballet you don't get skinny.
You get fit, but there's effort required to look emaciated. Moreover, Portman continued, "It's a very obsessive-compulsive art.
There's so much ritual in it: doing the barre every day, prepping the shoes. There are so many compulsive behaviors which lead to virtuosity. I think you would see it in violinists or computer programmers, or anyone who's really wonderful at something—this obsessive repetition until you get something right.
But then there are the negative manifestations, like eating disorders, which are totally connected to that. After dominating the big screen in the s and s, Winona Ryder hadn't starred in a movie for awhile when she showed up in the small but poignant role of Beth "a wonderful little juicy hamburger of a role," she said on the U.
So yes, not entirely unlike Ryder herself making way for then-newcomers like Portman as her own career hit that Hollywood gray area though without the bitter cocktail party confrontations.
And now I'm I remember when I was younger, I couldn't wait to be older, because I was always the kid on the set, I was always younger than everyone else.
And now I'm older than a lot of the people I work with. I've been doing this for 25 years, which is so strange. Ryder, a deeply emotive, sensitive actor, got so into her part as the spiteful ex-star that she actually felt guilty after her 10 days on set were over—and sent Portman an apology!
She also recalled, "The scene where I trash my dressing room was my last scene. I remember my first boyfriend used to smash everything—at 18 everything is dramatic. So I took an Evian bottle and tried to break it really meekly. I couldn't do it and then he made fun of me. And even in that dressing room scene I was like, 'Sorry! Meanwhile, a quick glance at the encyclopedia of pop culture infamy reminds us that Ryder was 17 when she started dating Johnny Depp , which she has called her " first real relationship.
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. While she had no plans on taking the method acting approach for the film, it happened organically. According to NPR , not only did she dislocate a rib in the filming process, but her toenails fell off.
So they will dance with a sprained ankle or torn plantar fascia or twisted necks just to make sure they can keep their moment. Not only did she have to workout before and after work, but she was dancing for hours during the day amid her injuries. But because her injury was so intense, she was willing to give up her trailer in order to get help for her physical well being.
However, the latter is when Nina actually appears to stab herself. Nina's performance of "Swan Lake" is also filled with more hallucinations, so some believe that it might not have happened as we see it or at all. Nina might have never left her house in reality or stabbed herself. There's even the chance that doctors were nearby and they managed to save her life. Much like Aronofsky's prior film The Wrestler , the ending of Black Swan is left open to each viewer's interpretation.
Most of the evidence in the movie suggests that Nina did die after the final performance and that, even with the hallucinations, Nina and viewers see the truth of the events by the end. While the rationale behind the theories that she's still alive does make sense, Black Swan 's story and themes do not support Nina surviving.
Cooper Hood is a news and feature writer for Screen Rant. Every year Cooper looks forward to seeing the latest blockbusters from the likes of Marvel, DC, and Star Wars, but also loves the rush to catch up on Oscar films near the end of the year.
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