In 2010, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis rocked the movie theaters with their psychological ballet thriller, Black Swan. The film won Portman an Oscar for Best Actress, and it’s hard to believe that 15 years have passed since the women stepped into the physically and mentally challenging roles.
Portman and Kunis are now looking back on their time working on director Darren Aronofsky’s project for Vogue — and of course, that steamy sex scene between them. Portman admitted it was “the only scene that was quite hard to shoot.”
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“I learned that it’s fun to work with your friend until you have to film a sex scene with them,” recalled Portman. “I remember Darren being like, ‘You guys only have to do it once and you won’t have to do it again.’”
BLACK SWAN, from left: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, 2010, TM and copyright ©Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved./Courtesy Everett Collection
Aronofsky might have made it sound like a walk in the park, but Portman revealed that they “were both standing in the room like [heavy, nervous breathing] until Darren yelled action, and we just went for it.”
The good news is that the director “kept his word” and only made them film that scene once. Still, Portman remembered her hesitations, “But that was definitely the one scene where I remember getting to set and thinking, ‘I don’t feel good about this.’”
Kunis has a much different recollection about the sex scene, though. “To tell you the truth, I completely forgot about that scene,” she laughed, per Vogue. “I was just quickly thinking through the movie like, ‘Hmm what was hard?’ I totally blocked that out.”
The film was notable to Portman because she also met Benjamin Millepied on the set of Black Swan. At the time, he was a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet when he worked on the movie. His relationship with Portman started while he was reportedly still living with American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Isabella Boylston.
Portman and Millepied married in August 2012 and share two children: son Aleph, 14, and daughter Amalia, 8. The couple divorced in March 2024 after he allegedly began an affair with a climate activist, who was 21 years younger than Millepied.
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