Darren Aronofsky will not be the grasp manipulator he thinks he’s. Within the Black Swan 15-year anniversary dialogue for Vogue, the director reminisced with Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis about how he tried — and failed — to do some Imply Women pot-stirring shit. “I used to be making an attempt to be a sneaky director and make them argue,” he mentioned. Mila and Natalie each realized in a short time what I used to be doing and made enjoyable of me, so it rapidly grew to become a joke that all of us understood. They’re each very intelligent and had been immediately aware of no matter trick I used to be enjoying.”
Aronofsky tried to do some enforced technique performing by beginning a feud between Portman and Kunis. However Portman and Kunis had been already superb buddies. In actual fact, Portman was the one who recommended Kunis for the position of up-and-coming ballerina Lily. “Darren made some remark early on, like, ‘Ya know, Nat, Mila’s dancing so effectively.’” Portman mentioned. “And I used to be like, ‘In fact she is! She’s so fucking proficient and I like her a lot and I’m glad she’s doing an awesome job!’” Kunis recalled that the 2 actresses found out Aronofsky’s ruse by way of textual content: ” Darren would inform me, ‘Nat is working actually, actually laborious. She’s not even taking Saturdays and Sundays off.’ Then I’d textual content Nat and he or she’d be like, ’…No, I’m not?’” The actors mentioned they discovered it humorous how dangerous of a job the director did making an attempt to make them struggle. In order that’s good.