'active' : ''"> Nothing says a family vacation like an RV, Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old, It's looked — and felt — like a whole different world as we've been social distancing and attempting to keep each other safe, See All the Celebs Taking RV Trips This Summer, The Sweetest Photos of Princes Harry with Diana, From Empty Streets to Virtual Weddings: What Life Has Looked Like During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Natalie Portman plays Nina, a ballerina dancing the roles of both the White Swan and the Black Swan, in Darren Aronofsky's psychological horror film Black Swan. Natalie Portman studied ballet from the ages 4 to 12, at which point she turned her focus to her acting career.

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Newest first, -1) ? I was very passionate and very emotionally aroused from it and then I had to disconnect from it. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post ", Sharing the full story, not just the headlines. He then shaped up to shoot Gladiator. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Racheal Prince, of Ballet British Columbia, said she thought Ms Portman's character was exaggerated. Guidelines. ", In a week when she announced she was pregnant and engaged to marry her Black Swan choreographer, Benjamin Millepied, she told Entertainment Weekly that the film left her physically and emotionally drained: "It was the first time I understood how you could get so wrapped up in a role that it could sort of take you down.

"Real dancers dance with such incredible injuries that you wouldn't even believe.
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Natalie Portman plays Nina, a ballerina dancing the roles of both the White Swan and the Black Swan, in Darren Aronofsky's psychological horror film Black Swan.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. to your comment. Zellweger's fluctuating weight dates from her starring roles in the Bridget Jones films, for which she gained nearly 30lb. “It was just pasta and bread and pizza all the time,” Portman told PEOPLE of her post-Swan diet at the film’s Tuesday premiere at New York’s Ziegfeld Theatre. Please [So] they will dance with a sprained ankle or torn plantar fascia or twisted necks just to make sure they can keep their moment. I barely pay attention anymore — I know it's not necessarily the proudest thing to say, because I know it's important to be engaged — but it can get so hard to feel that emotional about something you have no impact on. Oldest first, -1) ? “It was just smaller portions It was more quantity than a particular thing.”, RELATED: Natalie Portman Generates Oscar Buzz for Racy Role. A year before shooting, she had to undergo extreme ballet, cross-training…

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", On going to Harvard University to major in psychology, "I've been acting since I was 11. Want to discuss real-world problems, be involved in the most engaging discussions and hear from the journalists? Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? Having the opportunity to go to university, ... [I realized that] I wanted to take advantage of everything I could. No matter how hard I worked, I couldn’t do it. Part of the art is hiding all the pain. Natalie Portman's 20-pound weight loss sent alarms, because like "Black Swan" co-star Mila Kunis, she was already thin. 'active' : ''"> Log in to update your newsletter preferences. We moved a lot so I went to different schools in Maryland and then Connecticut and then Long Island, so it was just such a central part of our learning — of everything we learned. By 2008, Crowe had gained 63lb for Body of Lies, then slimmed down in 2010 for Robin Hood.

Her body, she says, paid a price: Her toenails fell off, her feet became calloused and she dislocated a rib during a lift. Astonishingly, he then immediately bulked up to play Batman, reaching 230lb in six months.

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Crowe gained 40lb for his role in The Insider (1999), by eating cheeseburgers and cupcakes. Director Darren Aronofsky insisted he had had equally positive responses.
"You'll see them do incredible stuff and then limp off stage, straight to a bucket of ice. the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. The waif-like 29-year-old lost 20lb for the role, eating little more than carrots and almonds on a punishing diet, and spent eight hours a day in rehearsals. try again, the name must be unique, Please Get push notifications with news, features and more. Natalie Portman had to change her eating habits significantly to play a prima ballerina in Black Swan, but once filming ended, so did all the dieting. "As a child, I idealized [ballet] because, as a little girl, you just think of it as this pretty, light, delicate and feminine thing," she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss By the end, Portman was dancing several hours a day, swimming miles and cross-training, losing almost 20 pounds in the process. try again, the name must be unique, Please "But it wasn't the end of the world," she says. “Working five to eight hours a day for a year it’s what real dancers live through,” she says. As she begins to dance, however, she realizes her understudy (Mila Kunis) may be trying to steal her part — and a dark side of Nina begins to emerge. hide caption. “It was an amazing experience, but definitely a difficult one.”. The most insightful comments on all subjects Most liked, -1) ?

"I'm sure every dancer struggles with little things here and there, but for one girl to struggle with every single problem out there, it just makes us look crazy.". The best in film, music, TV & radio straight to your inbox, Register with your social account or click here to log in.

It was the website I opened to on my computer and would read obsessively. A statement agreed by all schools operating under the Department for Education's Music and Dance Scheme reads: "It is known that, along with many athletes, dancers are at greater risk of developing eating disorders and associated medical problems, than the general population... All dance schools within the MDS scheme are committed to developing, training and nurturing healthy dancers. ", The film, which is due to open in Britain this month, has received mixed reviews from ballerinas.

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