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Sad thing is, the actresses were told to slim down for their roles, they´re not naturally that way, and the don´t even want to be.
After making the movie, both of them kept lamenting in interviews how hard and annoying it was to get that skinny, and how much of a relief it was to munch on pasta and stuff afterwards and gain weight back...
Love this movie- makes me so sad that I didn't start ballet when I was younger.
A lot of dancers thought it sort of promoted the stereotype of ballet dancers being these OCD-type, ED-ridden perfectionists. And a lot of people I know in dance were also angry at how Natalie Portman was being praised for her dance skill. I mean, she didn't look perfect, but I give her serious props for being able to dance that convincingly after a year of training.
Weren't there some scandal about some other girl, a real ballet dancer doing the difficult parts, and not Natalie? That dancer supposedly said that it would have been impossible for someone to train just a couple of months and do so good... and that it ruins the work and efforts of other dancers that train all their lives from a very young age to say that it was Natalie that was able to dance like that. Not sure about this though, does anyone knows better about this story??
You're right about the other dancer being upset about not getting credit. In my opinion, it's pretty silly -- Natalie always admitted in interviews that she didn't do the more difficult moves. She was a stunt double, and since when do stunt doubles walk the red carpet and get the same level of recognition as the actors?
On the other hand...not that I dance at all, but I thought Mila's form was a hot mess.