In 2010, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis rocked the film theaters with their psychological ballet thriller, Black Swan. The movie gained Portman an Oscar for Greatest Actress, and it’s exhausting to consider that 15 years have handed because the ladies stepped into the bodily and mentally difficult roles.
Portman and Kunis at the moment are wanting again on their time engaged on director Darren Aronofsky’s undertaking for Vogue — and naturally, that steamy intercourse scene between them. Portman admitted it was “the one scene that was fairly exhausting to shoot.”
“I discovered that it’s enjoyable to work along with your buddy till you must movie a intercourse scene with them,” recalled Portman. “I bear in mind Darren being like, ‘You guys solely need to do it as soon as and also you gained’t need to do it once more.’”
BLACK SWAN, from left: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, 2010.
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Aronofsky might need made it sound like a stroll within the park, however Portman revealed that they “have been each standing within the room like [heavy, nervous breathing] till Darren yelled motion, and we simply went for it.”
The excellent news is that the director “saved his phrase” and solely made them movie that scene as soon as. Nonetheless, Portman remembered her hesitations, “However that was positively the one scene the place I bear in mind attending to set and considering, ‘I don’t be ok with this.’”
Kunis has a a lot totally different recollection in regards to the intercourse scene, although. “To let you know the reality, I fully forgot about that scene,” she laughed, per Vogue. “I used to be simply shortly considering by way of the film like, ‘Hmm what was exhausting?’ I completely blocked that out.”
The movie was notable to Portman as a result of she additionally met Benjamin Millepied on the set of Black Swan. On the time, he was a principal dancer on the New York Metropolis Ballet when he labored on the film. His relationship with Portman began whereas he was reportedly nonetheless residing with American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Isabella Boylston.
Portman and Millepied married in August 2012 and share two youngsters: son Aleph, 14, and daughter Amalia, 8. The couple divorced in March 2024 after he allegedly started an affair with a local weather activist, who was 21 years youthful than Millepied.
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