Last night, after watching (well, mostly watching) the chilling Black Swan, there was one thought that kept nagging at me. For as long as the movie has been out, the media have been raving about the amazing shape that Natalie Portman was in during the shooting of this movie. A recent Today Show segment pegged her body as such and the hosts were seen practicing workouts that would elicit the same kinds of results.
To achieve such shocking results, Portman tells Access Hollywood that she did see a nutritionist and “couldn’t not eat.” So, she wasn’t starving herself. Good, but still, she has the shape of a 12 year old boy in the film!
The people that will be most affected by this, I worry, are under the movie’s 14A rating, and without the crazy ballerina story line that Portman portrays as the decrypted Nina, this body type could seem, with all the attention it is garnering, like a positive decision. The sexual nature of the film and the stars' bodies are all the media is really capturing about this strange and striking movie. Maybe less about inspired workouts and more about the actual film? Thanks, American media.
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