'Black Swan' Blasted for Ballet Cover-Up
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Coinciding perfectly with its Tuesday DVD release, “a major scandal” may leave Black Swan with a black mark on its publicity efforts, and Natalie Portman’s Oscar-winning performance as a prima ballerina in question.
Identified in the movie’s credits only as “Hand Model” and “Lady in the Lane” — and not thanked in Portman’s Best Actress acceptance speech — real-life ballerina Sarah Lane claims she was in fact Portman’s Black Swan dancing double.
“Basically, I did all of the dancing,” Lane told the Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy blog, among others.
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