New York City Ballet dancer Aesha Ash was named for her work doubling for actress Zoe Saldana (who had ballet training) during a short classical ballet scene. Things had changed by 2000, when Center Stage lodged itself in the hearts of dance fans. Actress Jennifer Beals not only had an uncredited dance double, Marine Jahan, but two additional performers for the wow-factor tricks in the famous audition scene: A gymnast flew through the air in that perfect leap, and a young male dancer dressed up in tights, leotard, and wig for the breakdance spin on the floor. In dance, perhaps the most famous-and egregious-case was Flashdance in 1983.
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Producers of classic movie musicals routinely used vocal doubles: The soprano Marni Nixon was the unheralded star who provided a charming singing voice for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Deborah Kerr in The King and I. These sleights of hand are minor compared to the practice of subbing in highly skilled artists that has happened for decades, often unbeknownst to audiences. When Penelope Cruz was pregnant during Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, her sister stood in for her sword fighting scenes. In Battle of the Sexes, tennis players were brought in for Emma Stone and Steve Carell, and the doubles had to replicate the style of tennis played in the 1970s. Kevin Costner wanted a double for his skinny-dipping scenes in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (fear of catching hypothermia, according to the DVD commentary).Īction shots often require actors who have the right range of motion.
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Then there’s Keira Knightley, who admitted on a British TV show that she asked for a butt-double for a striptease scene in Domino. And the ads for The Graduate feature Dustin Hoffman gazing at one lithe leg that belongs not to Anne Bancroft but Linda Gray, whose nipple also makes an appearance in the film. Julia Roberts has long legs, but the ones on the poster of Pretty Woman aren’t hers.
Movie posters have often employed leg doubles. Director Lars von Trier openly disclosed that for Nymphomaniac, a Danish actress stood in for Stacy Martin and Charlotte Gainsbourg during the sexy scenes. Janet Leigh famously had a body double, a Playboy cover girl in fact, for the body close-ups in Psycho.
Did you know Vera Farmiga was pregnant during Up In The Air, so director Jason Reitman used a double for her sex scene with George Clooney? But stand-ins for sex or nude scenes don’t create controversy: They’re the stuff of celebrity trivia and clickbait slideshows. To some degree, body doubles are just part of Hollywood’s bag of tricks. But after the controversy of Black Swan, in which star Natalie Portman’s level of dancing was questioned, issues of authenticity are now scrutinized: No artist who spends two decades training wants to go uncredited-and audiences don’t want to be duped.
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