Natalie Portman: I Have Sex With Myself in 'Black Swan'

Fri, 03 September 2010 03:11:26 ET

At the Venice Film Festival, the Nina depicter in the Darren Aronofsky-directed movie also tells reporters that she has to pass more than one-year extreme ballet regime to get more into the character.

Natalie Portman has teased she will be seen having sex with herself in the highly-anticipated movie "Black Swan". At the Venice Film Festival where she premiered the thriller movie on Wednesday night, September 1, the 29-year-old beauty told reporters what director Darren Aronofsky proposed to her when they first met eight years ago.

"Darren talked to me about this [sex] scene in our first meeting eight years ago," the actress who stars as Nina in the movie spilled. "He described it as: 'You're going to have a sex scene with yourself.' And I thought that was very interesting, because this movie is in so many ways an exploration of an artist's ego and that narcissistic sort of attraction to yourself and also repulsion with yourself."

During a press conference, the Jane Foster of "Thor" additionally revealed she actually had to pass an extreme ballet regime for over a year so she can get into the character. "Physically, I trained starting a year ahead of time," she said. "And then the six months prior to [shooting] the film, went into a sort of hypertraining, where I was doing five hours a day of both ballet and crosstraining with swimming."

"Black Swan" follows Nina, the best ballerina in a New York City ballet company. When the company is producing Swan Lake, artistic director Thomas decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre with her. Yet, she finds a competition in new dancer Lily, who manages to impress Thomas as well. Nina fits the role of the White Swan, while Lily is the guile and sensual Black Swan. As Nina begins exploring her dark side, their rivalry turns into a bizarre friendship.

This supernatural thriller comes from the hand of "The Wrestler" director Darren Aronofsky. Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey and "Gossip Girl" hunk Sebastian Stan are among the cast ensemble. Set to be released in limited U.S. theaters on December 1, it will be screened at the 35th Annual Toronto International Film Festival that runs from September 9 to 19.

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