He tried to turn them into ugly ducklings.
In a new interview with Vogue magazine, Natalie Portman revealed that “Black Swan” director Darren Aronofsky tried to pit her against co-star Mila Kunis, who played her nemesis in the film.
“He’d say, ‘Oh, Mila is doing really well on her stuff. She’s so much better than you,'” the 35-year-old said of Aronofsky. “Darren would tell us things about each other to try to make us jealous. I think he was trying to create a rivalry in real life between us.”
Portman, who won the best actress for her performance in the 2010 dark drama, and Kunis, 33, starred as two ballet dancers who were competing to play the lead in “Swan Lake.”
Both starlets, who were friends before the movie began, trained rigorously for the movie – sometimes up to 16 hours a day.
“Mila and I had had ‘sweatpants nights’ watching Top Chef,” Portman recalled, “and suddenly we were on set together in tutus, emaciated and tired.”
The “V For Vendetta” actress met her husband, choreographer Benjamin Millepied during filming. They have a son, Aleph, 5.
