{"id":90687,"date":"2025-08-18T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90687\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:40:10","slug":"natalie-portman-reveals-why-filming-the-black-swan-sex-scene-with-mila-kunis-made-them-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90687\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Portman Reveals Why Filming the \u2018Black Swan\u2019 Sex Scene With Mila Kunis Made Them \u2018Nervous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s hard to believe that 15 years have passed since the women stepped into the physically and mentally challenging roles.<\/a><\/p>\n

Portman and Kunis are now looking back on their time working on director Darren Aronofsky\u2019s project for Vogue<\/a> \u2014\u00a0and of course, that steamy sex scene <\/a>between them. Portman admitted it was \u201cthe only scene that was quite hard to shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI learned that it\u2019s fun to work with your friend until you have to film a sex scene with them,\u201d recalled Portman. \u201cI remember Darren being like, \u2018You guys only have to do it once and you won\u2019t have to do it again.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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BLACK SWAN, from left: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, 2010, TM and copyright \u00a9Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved.\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

Aronofsky might have made it sound like a walk in the park, but Portman revealed that they \u201cwere both standing in the room like [heavy, nervous breathing] until Darren yelled action, and we just went for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The good news is that the director \u201ckept his word\u201d and only made them film that scene once. Still, Portman remembered her hesitations, \u201cBut that was definitely the one scene where I remember getting to set and thinking, \u2018I don\u2019t feel good about this<\/a>.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Kunis has a much different recollection about the sex scene, though. \u201cTo tell you the truth, I completely forgot about that scene,\u201d she laughed, per Vogue. \u201cI was just quickly thinking through the movie like, \u2018Hmm what was hard?\u2019 I totally blocked that out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> with a climate activist, who was 21 years younger than Millepied.<\/p>\n

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