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Natalie Portman: Black Swan Shocker at Venice Film Festival

Posted by: Lez Get Real on September 6, 2010.

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A stunning, 5 ft 2 inch Natalie Portman attended the debut showing of the film where she took on the edgy role of a ruthless ballerina desperate to land the lead in Swan Lake.

Critics report that the movie Black Swan which opened this week at the Venice Film Festival played to shocked audiences taken a back by explicit lesbian sex / love? scenes.

Apparently the Darren Aronofsky film, which debuted on the festival’s opening day, included steamy sex scenes, drug-taking and self-harming, and seemingly did not play to a lesbian filled audience who may have found it to be somewhat less shocking than described by critics. Way to go Nat!

Israeli American actress Portman’s steamy lesbian sex scene with fellow actress Mila Kunis, had the Festival a buzz.

Portman said earlier in the year that she wanted to play some edgier roles as a departure from her “cute” parts in films like Where the Heart Is. “I’m trying to find roles that demand more adulthood from me. “The Guardian reported. “Aronofsky was certainly the man to de-cute the pint-sized celebrity, having directed gritty movies The Wrestler and Requiem for a Dream.”