at this point I am wondering if Natalie Portman was actually in any movies over the past year or if they were all body doubles with her voice superimposed. Kind of like all those Kung-Fu movies way back in the day when the dubbing would never quite match. I understand the body double necessity for Black Swan. It was some tough dancing. I also believe the body double did way more than Natalie did, despite the claims to the contrary. What I have never really understood is having a body double for different parts of an actor's body. If you do not want to go topless or bottomless or show your leg because you think it looks funny, then don't. Why put someone in who you are pretending is you. When you get a performance from an actor it should be their performance. Part of their performance is what they can do with their body. If you don't want to show your body, I don't care, just don't pretend the body is yours if it is not. Natalie is in a new movie called Your Highness and apparently the half naked woman you see diving into a lake is not really Natalie Portman but someone else. Natalie did not want to do the scene. Wasn't this scene like a big deal in the previews? Now it turns out it was not even Natalie who did it.
uh-huh, cause she is much too dignified to shoot this scene...
ReplyDeleteSick of her. Next story please.
ReplyDeleteUgh, who cares? It's like people are *just discovering* there's such a thing as body doubles and stunt men!
ReplyDeleteYou knew she was a Prima Donna
ReplyDeleteyears ago in your blinds Enty,
the one about bad apartment hallway behavior?
I'm more concerned that the filmmakers are not even bothering with historical accuracy. That girl is shaved. :-)
ReplyDelete@Paisley, LOL
ReplyDeletemeh, don't care. it was up to the director who could have cut the scene out.
ReplyDeletePeople have had body doubles before and they will again. At least there's look more then some( Johnathon Brandis in the LadyBugs)
ReplyDeleteSeriously, is anyone even going to watch this movie? To me Danny McBride is just Jack Black's afterbirth.
ReplyDeleteI could use a body double today.
ReplyDeleteInteresting...there are very few actress who have won "early Oscar's" who have gone on to do really good work...
ReplyDeleteLook at the crap Reese makes, Halle, Charlize the list goes on and on...
most of them have peaked and are just trying to hold on...
Those big paydays don't go on forever....
For Natalie the tide has turned earlier than most..
I would use a butt double too and I would pick the very nicest one to be filmed and then everyone would think it was my gorgeous ass and they would love me more than all the other movie starlets. The End.
ReplyDeleteI wanna be an Ass Double!!
ReplyDeleteEasiest. Job. Ever. And it would look awesome on a passport.
Oh, and what Simone said.
ReplyDeleteSimone, I remember actually at least one very famous actress mentioning she had 'double choice' in her contract at that point, because she was pretty famous & powerful. I'm thinking it was donkey Julia, but I can't remember. The actress anyway was proud to say she picked the best butt to represent hers.
ReplyDeleteI also remember some actor talking about selecting a double himself as well.
So I think that's common if you're famous enough and care to choose, maybe.
When I saw the previews, I thought to myself that Nat's ass was much better than I imagined hers. NOw I wonder if she used a body double in Closer where she played a stripper.
ReplyDeleteDon't tell me that Natalie didn't do those stripping Scenes in "Closer."
ReplyDeleteNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Libby, it's well known that the butt at the beginning of "Pretty Woman" wasn't Julia. Neither was the woman zipping up the latex boots in the next shot.
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't even Julia on the now famous poster. It was a double with Julia's face imposed in it. Just like Richard Gere's hair is brown on the poster but grey in the movie.
whoever's butt that is, it is NICE.
ReplyDeletemaybe it's not even about the butt since she still wore the costume anyway. maybe she can't dive.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, but if an actor/actress doesn't want to do the scene, they can't just have it cut can they? I thought it was up to the director?
ReplyDeleteAll this speculation really tarnishes her winning the Oscar. I wonder if things like this come out purposefully for that reason (ex. the Jesse James + Multiple Whores Debacle)?
@Nate F. - I did NOT know that about Pretty Woman. Wow.
Whoever she is, after all her years of struggling, she's finally been able to crack her way into show business!
ReplyDeleteDo you think she'll invite her family to the big opening?
{Paraphrased from Friends, The One With The Butt}
Yeah, Premiere Magazine even interviewd the woman he doubled as Julia's butt about 20 years ago.
ReplyDeleteWhatever. She bores me whatever she's in. She has the same monotonous voice and bland facial expressions in everything. I don't think of her as acting in different role, it's always just Natalie Portman in different outfits, imo.
ReplyDeleteWell, Natalie was naked in Hotel Chevalier (short related to Darjeeling Limited) so I'm assuming she's one of those "Nudity when in is art" types. She had a really boylike figure and even had cellulite on her legs. This movie is more like stoners and hot chicks, so I'm not sure they would have even let her do her own nudity without a model bod.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this tarnishes her Oscar. Her jumping in the lake took what? One second? Two? So what? And she did the acting in Black Swan. I think people just want to hate her. She's not very likable but I don't have to spend time with her so what do I care.
ReplyDeleteMeh, that's too much labia for me on a Monday.
ReplyDeleteYears ago Mandy Moore did a movie where she needed a naked butt double. I don't remember which movie it was, I just remember her giving an interview and talking about how funny it was that the director sent her some photos and asked her to help pick the double.
Hey guys, Julia's double in Pretty Woman was Shelly Michelle, as I recall. I know all about that.
ReplyDeleteBut at that time, Julia didn't have 'say' in who they hired. At the time of the interview (a few years ago), she did. That's why I thought it might have been her, because I think she commented that Pretty Woman bugged her because it was not the double she would have chosen.
Sorry if I wasn't clear earlier.
Libby--
ReplyDeleteYour remarks about Julia Roberts are very similar to a conversation she has in the movie "Notting Hill." Her character, Anna Scott, is the most famous movie star on the planet, and she explains these silly little things in actors' contracts about body doubles (e.g., "Mel [Gibson] does his own ass work") to her nice, normal, non-movie star boyfriend played by Hugh Grant.
Of course, the stuff about the body double for "Pretty Woman" is also true, but "Notting Hill" is what I thought of when you mentioned her. :)
Oh please. This is controversy? Did she also fail to thank her butt-double? Because Your Highness is such an Oscar contender. By the way, that's not Miley's armpit i today's Random Photos, it's mine. Miley stole my armpit, and I want credit.
ReplyDeleteforgot to add: portman already admitted this in her junket interviews for Your Highness. Heh.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw this scene, I knew there was no way it was her - that was the body of someone in their early 20s at the latest. But she did look damn gorgeous in plenty of other scenes, so she has nothing to be ashamed of.
ReplyDeleteI guess I should come clean here-- I am not actually doing the posting today, instead it is my witty post-double, Go Pile Ass Gong who is responsible for all these gems you are seeing.
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