2009: Portman and Millepied met on the set of 'Black Swan' Not only did she win her first and only Oscar for her role as dancer Nina Sayers, but she also met her future husband while working on the Darren Aronofsky movie, which filmed from late 2009 to 2010.
Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied's Relationship Timeline: From 'Black Swan' to Parenthood. A beautiful love story. Natalie Portman and her husband, Benjamin Millepied, met on the set of her film Black Swan in 2009.
Natalie Portman knew Benjamin Millepied was "the person" for her when they met on the set of Black Swan. Back in 2009, the couple connected when Millepied was recruited to choreograph the film and train Portman in the art of ballet.
How much dancing did Natalie Portman really do in Black Swan?
In a written statement, "Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky said, "Here is the reality. I had my editor count shots. There are 139 dance shots in the film -- 111 are Natalie Portman untouched. Twenty-eight are her dance double Sarah Lane.
Portman and Millepied met on the set of 'Black Swan' in 2009 and love blossomed. In almost a year, they announced their engagement. The estranged couple tied the knot in 2012 in an intimate wedding near Big Sur in California after dating for almost four years.
Natalie Portman recalls meeting her husband during Black Swan
Who left their wife for Natalie Portman?
But it did have one silver lining, if you can call one of the biggest secondhand discomforts of your adult life a silver lining. It reminded me of the time Jonathan Safran Foer left his wife for Natalie Portman.
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Synopsis. The movie opens as Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman), a young ballerina in her mid twenties, is dancing the prologue to Swan Lake. Swan Lake is a ballet in which a princess is turned into the White Swan and can only be turned back if a man swears eternal fidelity to her.
Portman has two of her own children with her husband, Benjamin Millepied; Aleph and Amalia. Natalie Portman doesn't think children should work in Hollywood. "I feel it was almost an accident of luck that I was not harmed, also combined with very overprotective, wonderful parents," Portman explained.
Natalie Portman has been romantically attached to several A-listers over the years. Portman had a brief relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal in 2006, three years before they costarred in the 2009 psychological drama Brothers.
Blake Lively and Eva Green auditioned for the role of Lily before Mila Kunis landed the part. Kunis got the role on Natalie Portman's recommendation, after Portman discovered that Kunis had done ballet as a casual childhood hobby. Darren Aronofsky offered Kunis the role after a short video chat via Skype.
"Natalie tried to forgive Benjamin, to look at all sides of the situation. She considered every way to salvage the marriage, but she realized it would never be the same, because the betrayal was too deep." Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied have been married since 2012.
What happened to Natalie Portman at the end of Black Swan?
It turns out that Nina hallucinated the fight with (and subsequent murder of) Lily, and actually stabbed herself while in the throes of a psychotic episode. But this doesn't stop Nina from performing the role she's worked so hard to attain. Bleeding, she returns to the stage to perform the last act of the show.
She shows elements of an anxiety disorder with obsessive compulsive behaviors. She also manifests self-injurious behavior and some signs of an eating disorder. She dabbles with substance abuse. She has psychotic breaks if not outright psychosis.
Personality… childlike, insecure, and psychologically disturbed. The pressure of being the Swan Queen has been affecting Nina's behavior, and her perfectionism is starting to take a noticeable toll on her mental health.
Thomas notes that Nina clearly came with the intention to change his mind, to try and seduce him, in the mildest sense of the word. Thomas wants Nina to lose herself, that is how she can become the Black Swan. Thomas forcefully kisses Nina and she bits him.
When working on Black Swan, Kunis (who's 5′ 4″) ended up weighing about 95 pounds. She got to this point by eating only 1,200 calories per day and by smoking cigarettes – a diet the actress most-definitely does not recommend for anyone else. “I never watched what I ate [before].
She still made it to America, and eventually had a small pandemic wedding with Mike. However, her married life made Natalie unhappy, which led to "stress eating." Natalie says she is on antidepressants, and gained 30 pounds following her arrival in the U.S.
How many calories did Mila Kunis eat for Black Swan?
Mila Kunis has confessed that her diet was restricted to 1,200 calories per day while filming Black Swan. The actress - who shrunk down to 95lbs for her role as a ballet dancer in the film - revealed that she was in "hell" during filming and only ate foods that fit in her hand, reports the Daily Star.
Natalie Portman has transformed herself for many film roles, but nothing was as grueling as her Black Swan makeover. The actress shed an astonishing 20lbs from her already slight frame to play a ballerina in the 2011 film and admitted it put such a toll on her body that she thought she was going to die.
The 39-year-old actress - who plays the supporting role of ageing ballet dancer Beth MacIntyre in the Darren Aronofsky-directed project - found being nasty to its lead star Natalie Portman tough because she knew how much she had worked to perfect the role of psychologically-troubled Nina.
