'Black Swan' Dance Double Speaks Out

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  @SabrinaGasulla · 12 years ago

  I get it. She's not trying to put down Natalie or take her Oscar away. She's protecting her livelihood by pointing out that it's not as easy as we were led to believe during Natalie's Oscar campaign.

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• RE

  @rebbit_rebbitt · 9 years ago

  i mean did anyone actually think Natalie was doing all of the dancing en pointe?

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• WY

  @wynonaryder · 11 years ago

  I think it's crazy Natalie thanked hair and makeup and everyone else but not the actual dancer! Wow!!

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  @Reeniepie · 10 years ago

  It's not the fact that she didn't give the double praise. It's the fact that she didn't mention that she had one which lead people to believe that she'd done something extraordinary. The woman even said that she still thought Natalie deserved her Oscar as they are for acting not dancing and Natalie sis a superb job. It's just really disrespectful to the professional ballet dancers that put hours a day into the art form for someone to imply that they could do it all in a year and a half.

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• ZZ

  @Zzzk23 · 9 years ago

  Why is everyone hating on this girl? She said herself that Natalie deserved to win, but she just wanted some recognition after they completely lied and said that Natalie did 90% of her dancing when she only did half,

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• AM

  @ambitiouslyahraea · 11 years ago

  I think people are misinterpreting Sarah's point. She knew that she wouldn't get much credit for her role as a double, and she already got paid for this. The thing that bothers her is that people assumed that Natalie danced 90% of the film, and how people were acknowledging how Natalie became such an amazing ballerina just after a year when it degrades other ballet dancers who trained for 20+years. Natalie is a great dancer, she's been dancing for 6 years when she was a kid, however she doesn't deserve the recognition as an "outstanding ballerina" when she didn't go through half the training of an actual ballet dancer.

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• CO

  @corneliaomir · 12 years ago

  Oh wow, she is so sweet! She doesn't actually tells anything bad about Natalie. She's just trying to clear up that ballet is way harder than that, and as difficult to master as any art form.

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• SH

  @shelaghmckenna2667 · 11 years ago

  Lane was satisfied with the credit she received as a stunt double, and knew the movie was a drama with an actress as the star. What she minded was the claim that Portman did 90% of the dancing simply because she was in 90% of the dancing shots. If the movie had been about a tightrope walker, and 90% of the tightrope walking shots had been of the starring actress on a plank seen from the waist up, no one would claim that the actress had done 90% of the stunt work. Some people in the producer's PR office deserve to lose their jobs over this. It must have been very unpleasant for Portman as well as for Lane.

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• EL

  @elodie_camcorder · 7 years ago

  She's so sweet and humble, it's disappointing that she wasn't given credit for a fantastic performance.

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• AN

  @annabethsmith-kingsley2079 · 2 years ago

  it's embarrassing of her to have thanked the gaffer and the best boy and the key grip and the first AD and not her dance double.  for shame

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• AW

  @awfullyhotllama · 11 years ago

  She's speaking out because the claim that Natalie danced 90% of the scenes is preposterous and diminishing to the skill of professional ballerinas and to the art that is ballet as a whole. It was a film that could have educated people about ballet, instead it did the exact opposite.

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• SS

  @ssalaam5536 · 10 years ago

  I knew there had to be a dance double. never once did I think Natalie did all that dancing herself and she should have given credit to miss Lane.

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