Mila Kunis Says What She's 'Not Supposed To Say' About Preparing For 'Black Swan'

LOADINGERROR LOADINGMila Kunis knows what you’re not supposed to say about preparing for a movie, but she’s going to say it anyway.The actor opened up to Vogue magazine about the intense time she spent training for the Darren Aronofsky film, “Black Swan,” for a retrospective piece in honor of the 15th anniversary of the movie.Advertisement “My prep was a lot of dancing and very little eating — which I know you’re not supposed to say, but it’s the truth.

I drank a lot of broth and danced for 12 hours a day,” Kunis told Vogue.“We were only supposed to have three months of prep before filming started, but we lost some financing, so that got extended to six months while Darren tried to find money,” she added.“It sucked for Darren, but Nat and I were so happy because we had three extra months to dance.”Natalie Portman, who played the lead in “Black Swan,” previously opened up about her rigorous preparation in an interview with Vogue back in 2010, the same year the film was released.

Advertisement The New York Premiere of "Black Swan" on Nov.30, 2010, in New York City.Jim Spellman via Getty Images“The dance training for ‘Black Swan’ started a year before the film, with two hours a day,” she said at the time.

“Six months later we ramped it up to five hours a day, and the last two months it was eight hours a day, because we added choreography and cross training, so I was also swimming a mile a day.” “The discipline was good for the part — it hurt a lot; your body is in constant pain,” Portman said, as the magazine added that the actor, “like most dancers, she survived on coffee and ibuprofen, and slept five hours a night.” Advertisement While both Portman and Kunis were exerting themselves physically to the extreme, Aronofsky was also trying ― unsuccessfully ― to play mind games with the two.“My take is that I was trying to be a sneaky director and make them argue,” the director shared with Vogue...