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Sarah Lane calls it a more polite word: a façade. I asked her if she was expecting to be thanked when she heard Portman reel off 10 or 20 other names during her acceptance speech. Lane said no, because a Fox Searchlight producer had already called to ask her to stop giving interviews until after the Oscars. “They were trying to create this façade that she had become a ballerina in a year and a half,” she said. “So I knew they didn’t want to publicize anything about me.”
As she said in Dance Magazine’s December interview, she felt good about her work—though it was exhausting and frustrating—on the set. “It was a great experience to see the whole process of making a movie,” she told me. But she didn’t realize until just before the Oscars just how exploited she was. All the pirouettes, the full-body shots, and just-the-legs shots were her. (She also said that fellow ABT soloist Maria Riccetto doubled for Mila Kunis in one long shot.) The publicity campaign from the studio, however, spread the word that Portman did 90 percent of her own dancing.
Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine
The thing is that people believe this as if one year of dancing can even equate to this woman’s whole entire life and her hard work. Lol it’s pathetic, really.
Bolding is mine. Wow, how classy of everyone involved in this pos movie.
#she who shall not be named is just a bad person #how to win an oscar when you’re not that good at acting
what does choreography have to do with acting?
i’m sorry, i understand the bullshit that the studio pulled with not giving the ballet soloists due credit for their hard work, but that wasn’t the fault of natalie or mila and it didn’t take away from their performances as actresses. calling natalie a ‘bad person’ and saying she’s not good at acting is a little uncalled for. i respect your opinion but if you’re going to say she’s not a good actress, don’t blame it on the fact that the studio used doubles for an extremely ballet-oriented film and then - as always - controlled a misleading publicity campaign.
I’m going to reply to this even if those tags weren’t my captions, I just kept them on because I don’t think it’s polite to delete captions. But re: “what does choreography have to do with acting” - there is no way Portman would’ve gotten the acclaim she got for this role if not for people believing that she actually did all of her dancing. I mean, all we heard from her campaign was that - she trained so hard, lost all that weight so she can do 90% to 99% of her dancing! In her speeches - she didn’t thank her body double too - so it means to me that she was complicit in hiding the body double from the public eye so that makes her not a great person in my book. I do not think she’s an absolutely bad person, but I have some real problems with her personality.
I gotta respectfully disagree here. while some of the acclaim, yes, came from the ballet dancing. the bulk of it had to do with the non-ballet portion of the film. her face for fuck’s sake, her face. she did A LOT with just her eyes expressing emotions. there’s a reason the clips they showed at the awards shows were dramatic scenes and not the dance scenes.
that’s not to say that what the studio pulled was shitty and that perhaps some thanks to the body doubles should have been more public. but the bulk of what was impressive about Natalie’s performance came from the psychological aspects of the film, not the dancing.
There are so many people forgotten in speeches. As a tech person, I can’t tell you how many times I have been ignored.