Black Swan: Where the Backstory is More Interesting than the Actual Movie

 

We've been resisting to post about Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, a forthcoming psychological thriller flick about the uber-competitive world of NYC ballerinas clawing their way to the top of Swan Lake's Odette -- where the supernatural plot doesn't really even matter because in the end, the screenplay boasts an angsty lesbian secks scene between the two star ballerinas, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis (and also a rape -- Vincent Cassel's "Yevna" gets his rape on with Portman's "Nina" -- the two of them pictured above) (and also Winona Ryder as a washed-up ballerina). Currently being shot in and around Lincoln Center, Portman and Kunis even showed-up for the American Ballet Theatre Fall Gala back in October.

But while we find the plot totally uninteresting, the behind-the-scenes action could make its own screenplay:

French dancer and choreographyer Benjamin Millepied, who calls NYC his home as a New York City Ballet principal, and was brought on by director Aronofsky to supervise the choreography, has been liberally pilfering from the set. It seems in the months together coaching lead Natalie Portman, the two have grown fond of each other, enough that Millepied kicked his former live-in girlfriend of three years, American Ballet Theatre ballerina, Isabella Boylston, to the curb:

Is Natalie Portman a home wrecker? The notoriously private actress has reportedly been dating Benjamin Millepied, 32, the New York City Ballet dancer who's choreographing her new movie, "The Black Swan." "They've been dating since the fall, although she told friends that she hasn't gone public with it because she was waiting to see if things got serious," a source tells Page Six. "But the real reason she was quiet about things is that Ben had a live-in girlfriend of three years when they met. She was a ballerina at the American Ballet Theater. She had been talking about marrying him and was blindsided by the split. She moved out right after New Year's Eve." 

 

You can find a clip of Isabella dancing on Millepied's YouTube account here (and the [formerly happy] couple above). We just hope Millepied knows that he's dating Devendra Banhart's leftovers (see below)...

Comments

[Josquin]

Yikes! I think I just got whiplash! I was thrown backwards off my chair by the excruciating beauty of Mr. Millepied, only to be thrown laughing the other way by the the remarkable appearance of Mr. Banhart, (Cousin Itt's long lost twin?)
I enjoy your blog a lot.

[Manou]

Millepied..... perfect name for a ballet dancer.

[vale]

Oh dear, ballet gossip. Always so dramatic!

[Luke]

"gets his rape on"?

are you serious?

[Paolo Fabretti]

Devendra Banhart is brilliant.

[nick]

With a name like Devandra can you go wrong?

[Sim]

Portman's got a thing for weird men. She's always dated the wacky hipster type or the funny looking older intellect. It's just sad that his old girlfriend had to compete with Portman. How do you even do that? I say "What goes around comes around."

Banhart is disgusting! I can almost smell him from the picture alone!