Natalie Portman's Black Swan dancing double has claimed that the actress didn't do most of the dancing seen in the film.
In an interview with Dance magazine, ballerina double Sarah Lane said that the film's producers were "trying to create this facade that [Portman] had become a ballerina in a year and a half".
Lane claims that she herself performed all of the pirouettes, the full-body dancing shots and the leg shots for the film.
"How unfortunate it is that, as professional dancers, we work so hard, but people can actually believe that it's easy enough to do it in a year. That's the thing that bothered me the most," Lane added.
Portman's fiancé Benjamin Millepied, who choreographed the film, has denied Lane's claims and said that Oscar winner Portman did most of the dancing seen on screen.
"There are articles now talking about her dance double that are making it sound like [Lane] did a lot of the work, but really, she just did the footwork, and the fouettés, and one diagonal [phrase] in the studio. Honestly, 85% of that movie is Natalie."
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