Sarah Lane as Odette/Odile and Angel Corella as Prince Siegfried in Ballet de Barcelona’s Swan Lake

Sarah Lane calls it a more polite word: a façade. I asked her if she was expecting to be thanked when she heard Portman reel off 10 or 20 other names during her acceptance speech. Lane said no, because a Fox Searchlight producer had already called to ask her to stop giving interviews until after the Oscars. “They were trying to create this façade that she had become a ballerina in a year and a half,” she said. “So I knew they didn’t want to publicize anything about me.”  

As she said in Dance Magazine’s December interview, she felt good about her work—though it was exhausting and frustrating—on the set. “It was a great experience to see the whole process of making a movie,” she told me. But she didn’t realize until just before the Oscars just how exploited she was. All the pirouettes, the full-body shots, and just-the-legs shots were her. (She also said that fellow ABT soloist Maria Riccetto doubled for Mila Kunis in one long shot.) The publicity campaign from the studio, however, spread the word that Portman did 90 percent of her own dancing.

Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine

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BLACK SWAN Featurette: Visual Effects Reel (via FoxSearchlight)

Oh look everybody, Fox Searchlight got rid of the visual effects video on youtube and put their own version which has been posted to various other oscar buzz building news sources. And guess what! They took out every single instance of head replacement! Sarah Lane, the dancer who did all the, well, dancing isn’t even listed on imdb as having been her dancing double. So yeah, Natalie’s going to win the oscar because her pr people were successfully able to make people think she did all her own dancing at the expense of the dancer who actually did it all. I’m so happy her parents taught her not to be an asshole.

This upsets me a lot—especially since at the same time, Josh Pence (who was a body double) got single billing for his part in TSN if I recall correctly, so I don’t understand why the people behind cannot Sarah Lane the credit she deserves. This is an unfair system. :(

And Natalie won’t thank Sarah by name in any of her acceptance speeches. :/

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