Black Swan
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V ocabulary:
mesmerize (v.) ballerina (n.) toe (v.) nutcracker (n.) athleticism (n.) clip (n.) discipline (n.)
In her new movie Black Swan, Natalie Portman has pushed herself to the limit. She played a ballerina who suddenly seemed to be crumbling as she pursues the role of lifetime. And critics saw in an article in the world in Natalie’s lifetime her performance could win the Oscar nomination.
Welcome to join us this morning to talk about it.
Thank you for coming this morning I showed it to the whole group of people in the house over thanksgiving and we were all mesmerized.
Thank you.
Could you figure it out to the final few minutes?
It is so real conversation piece, I think. I think it is definitely something that will leave you with a lot to talk about after you see it.
And something you pursued with real intensity for so long more than ten years, in the making, what was about the film and this role?
Well, I really want to work with Darren Aronofsky, the director of the film. I just said admire his works forever So when he approached me about it ten years ago, I was just excited about the prospect for working with him and another thing is I love dance, so I thought it would be such a certain dream come true to get it.
You danced since a young girl, right?
I danced until 12 and stopped until I started training for this film.
You really trained yourself. I read your coach said when you decided to play the ballerina, you had trained like a ballerina
I mean we did a year ahead of time, we were doing like five to eight hours a day, ballet, cross training, swimming, toeing, basically the working out of the day , it gave me complete new respect for the ballet dancer.
You lost 20 pounds. What do you think what you see in film is how, this is the respect from Aronofsky doing the rest, how physically punishing?
I mean I could not believe today I was reading in the New York Times the review of the nutcracker and the reviewer in the review said the ballerina looked fat and I was like in what other field it is acceptable to judge the artist by how big they are and was it amazing all the pressure on dancers to starve them to extreme athleticism.
Physical pressure and psychological pressure. Your character is under great psychological pressure from herself, from her mother, from the ballet master. I want to show a clip that gets the kind manipulation I guess your character was facing.
In four years every time you dance, I see you are obsessed in getting every movement perfectly right, but I never seen you lose yourself. Ever. All the discipline for what?
Just want to be perfect.
You want?
I want to be perfect.
Perfection is not just about control. It’s all sort about letting it go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise your audience, transcendent, very few have in them.
I think I do have …
You bit me?
First you may surprise us. Coming up but he is under something there, isn’t he? Trying too hard to be perfect comes at the cost of beauty
Absolutely. I mean human creation always has to do with imperfection. Beauty is imperfection, what makes each of us unique. He really teaches her to find her own pleasure instead of trying to please everyone around her, which allows her to become a woman and an artist.
We watch her you say to become a woman and that’s actually I guess someone universal about it. It is about dance bit it also a story about a young women growing up from a very closure environment
Exactly, she is really starting out just trying to make everyone around her happy and then she has figured out how to make herself happy and that’s absolutely what everyone going through maturing.
But that could be the hardest thing to do
Absolutely.
Well, it is just a brilliant performance, congratulations. Good luck everything.
Thank you.。