In Black Swan, Natalie Portman delivers a tour de force performance as a psychologically unstable ballerina and dances with frightening intensity on the fine line between delusion and reality.

How difficult was the preparation for this role?
Nina was definitely by far the most physically challenging role I’ve ever played. I actually started my ballet training one year before production, and all throughout shooting I had to keep on training to maintain that professional level. Exercising on the barre after a 16-hour workday, that was really extreme.

She is sublime in the movie of the beginning of the year “Black Swan”, she expects her first child and she embodies the lovely muse of the new perfume Miss Dior Chérie in front of Sofia Coppola’s camera. Natalie Portman, more radiant than ever, tells us her engaged eco-freak’s beauty routine.

After the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, she could well win her first Oscar in Hollywood. And she is expecting, sublimely fulfilled (*almost “in full bloom”, it clearly refers to her baby bump), her first child with her fiancé, the French choreographer Benjamin Millepied. In spring, she will be the new muse of Miss Dior Chérie campaign. Natalie is already THE woman of the year : the revelation of “Black Swan”- Darren Aronofsky ultra-black masterpiece in which she plays a double ballerina haunted by the demons of perfection – and the quintessence of elegance for Dior : she embodies the Parisian chic and romanticism.