{"id":76084,"date":"2025-08-17T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76084\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T09:58:08","slug":"mila-kunis-shares-intense-preparation-for-black-swan-i-somehow-came-out-totally-fine-mila-kunis-movies-just-jared-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76084\/","title":{"rendered":"Mila Kunis Shares Intense Preparation for \u2018Black Swan\u2019: \u2018I Somehow Came Out Totally Fine\u2019 | Mila Kunis, Movies | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/mila-kunis\/\" title=\"Mila Kunis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mila Kunis<\/a> is sharing the hard work she put in to prepare to play a ballerina in the 2010 movie Black Swan.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old actress starred alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/natalie-portman\/\" title=\"Natalie Portman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Portman<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/darren-aronofsky\/\" title=\"Darren Aronofsky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darren Aronofsky<\/a>-directed thriller. The movie follows a ballerina who is sent down a dark spiral after a new dancer joins her company and the two of them are cast opposite each other in Swan Lake.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mila, preparing to play a ballerina on the big screen was just as intense as being an actual ballerina on the stage!<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy prep was a lot of dancing and very little eating \u2014 which I know you\u2019re not supposed to say, but it\u2019s the truth,\u201d Mila said in an interview she did for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/natalie-portman-mila-kunis-and-darren-aronofsky-on-15-years-of-black-swan?_sp=ed1d1ff8-524e-41d0-a585-b3be7b7a51a8.1755353425019\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/natalie-portman-mila-kunis-and-darren-aronofsky-on-15-years-of-black-swan?_sp=ed1d1ff8-524e-41d0-a585-b3be7b7a51a8.1755353425019&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vogue<\/a> alongside Natalie. \u201cI drank a lot of broth and danced for 12 hours a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two initially had three months to prepare for the film, but the timeline was extended to six months as pre-production needed more time to budget for the movie. According to Mila, the extra three months to prepare was helpful, but the intensity of the movie didn\u2019t stop once the cameras started rolling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would shoot those dancing scenes for hours, and I had bruises all over my ribs just from being lifted over and over again,\u201d Mila recalled. <\/p>\n<p>Mila even shared that she had a serious injury on set, but that she was lucky enough not to have any serious issues afterwards. She told the publication, \u201cI also dislocated my shoulder pretty early in the production and thought I was completely screwed, but Darren sent me to an acupuncturist and I somehow came out totally fine.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/05\/21\/austin-butler-zoe-kravitz-heat-up-caught-stealing-trailer-watch-now\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the trailer for the Black Swan director\u2019s newest movie<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mila Kunis is sharing the hard work she put in to prepare to play a ballerina in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-76084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}