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do you care if natalie portman didn't dance in black swan?

i never realized they made her out to have danced in black swan. i mean, i know the amount of training involved to become a prima ballerina, and so it would be pretty impossible for her to have done it. but her dancing double is saying that natalie was promoted as having danced the movie and that's why she has gotten so many accolades for her performance. i didn't see the movie, but i don't think i would care one way or another. what do you think?
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Re: do you care if natalie portman didn't dance in black swan?

  • I would assume from the begining that she didn't dance the whole thing. Although, her double should get credit, but maybe she should have realized she wouldn't prior to filming. They must not have paid her enough to keep her quiet.
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  • I haven't seen it yet (waiting for it to become available on Netflix) but I don't think it matters if she didn't do all her own dancing. Her performance is more than just dancing - there was acting involved, and from what I heard, her acting was amazing.
  • I think it should be pretty obvious they have real dancers do a lot of it. That doesn't mean she didn't do anything in the movie or have to train hard to hold herself like a ballerina, etc.
  • she won the oscar for acting, not dancing....I wouldn't expect her to do the dancing w/o years of prior training.....(altho, we haven't seen it yet either, so maybe I shouldn't chime in).  Confused
  • imagebuckeyethor:
    I think it should be pretty obvious they have real dancers do a lot of it. That doesn't mean she didn't do anything in the movie or have to train hard to hold herself like a ballerina, etc.

    This! I thought she was amazing in it! And yeah you knew it wasn't her b/c you never saw her face when she was doing something very techinical.

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  • I also read an article somewhere (maybe people.com or something) that the director came back to the media about this allegation and they took notes that Natalie was in 80 of the 115 +/- shots of the dancing sequences.
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  • Yeah, I heard she did a fair amount of the dancing herself...just not the really technical stuff. 

    I don't really care either way - I give her props for doing the amount of dancing that she did do on camera.

  • She actually danced a good deal in the movie. I mean, she's engaged to her coreogropher! Granted, she didn't do the over-the-top technical things, but she did learn a fair amount of ballet for the role. Her acting was also amazing.

    I was just surprised that they took an actress and made her a dancer, rather than taking a dancer, and maing her an actress.

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