A 'Black Swan' injury

0:06 During the filming of Black Swan,

0:09 an actress regularly sustained injuries while playing her character.

0:13 This happened so often that the crew coined a highly appropriate word for it.

0:18 What was that word?

0:19 I'll say that again.

0:20 During the filming of Black Swan,

0:22 an actress regularly sustained injuries while playing her character.

0:25 This happened so often that the crew coined a highly appropriate word for it.

0:30 What was that word?

0:32 I've seen Black Swan.

0:33 You haven't just read the script.

0:35 (Dani and Sarah laugh) This was before I found that out,

0:38 and I've since found out that everyone does list Black Swan as a horror movie.

0:42 That was news to me at the time.

0:44 I believe I have— may have read the script and not watched it actually.

0:47 (group laughing) Well I've done neither, but here I am with the correct answer.

0:52 The phrase was: 'No-toe-lie Portman', and she had no toes,

0:56 and that's what they said about her.

0:58 Look, it's not impossible that you're basically there.

1:01 She had to stand on pointe in her ballet shoes.

1:05 Then her toes fell off.

1:07 So they called her 'No-toe-lie Portman'.

1:08 You're joking.

1:09 You— I don't know how you were so confident

1:11 to be able to say that out loud this quickly.

1:14 Because you could be right!

1:16 It's No-to-lie Portman.

1:19 You could be right!

1:20 It is Natalie Portman– lead actress in Black Swan.

1:25 But it's not No-toe.

1:26 It is her toe, which was repeatedly injured.

1:28 (laughs) It is not...

1:30 'No-toe-lie'.

1:31 'No-toe-lie' Portman.

1:33 (laughs) I was...

1:34 So close, you have all the ingredients,

1:36 but there is an even more appropriate joke than that.

1:41 Okay, now, I was going to say, I thought— I know— There's a lot of body

1:44 horror and sorts of things in that movie,

1:47 pretty light compared to something like The Substance.

1:50 But I did wonder, is she 'Toenail-ie Portman'?

1:53 Does her toenails fall off?

1:55 Ooh.

1:56 I mean, is that something that would ha— I'm assuming

1:58 that would probably trim her toenails if she's gonna be on pointe.

2:01 but definitely like breaking her toe, or black— Black Swan, black bruises.

2:06 Black toe.

2:07 Is there anything we can do with 'Portman'?

2:08 We focused very heavily on 'Natalie' here.

2:11 Hurtman...

2:12 Port...

2:14 'Natalie Por-toe'.

2:16 Natalie Por-toe...man.

2:21 (giggles) (giggles washily) Sorry...

2:22 I'm keeping my mouth shut.

2:24 'Cause at some point, you're gonna put the syllables in the right order.

2:28 (laughs heartily) Nata-limp-ortman.

2:34 (others laughing) Nata-limp-ortman.

2:36 This just feels mean at this point.

2:38 I know!

2:39 It does, but you are so close!

2:41 I mean, Sarah, you could just say some words, and you will stumble across it.

2:44 I need to map this out on Post-it notes.

2:48 That's what I'm gonna do.

2:49 Please do, please do.

2:50 I'm gonna write out all the letters and do a scramble, but you said syllables.

2:54 We're gonna keep them in syllables.

2:55 Yeah.

2:56 Por-nail-ie Turt-man.

2:58 Natalie Bunions.

3:00 No, no.

3:01 There are no new words required here.

3:03 You have literally all the syllables.

3:06 And at some point, something is gonna clunk in someone's head,

3:10 and you're gonna yell a really appropriate word.

3:13 How rearranged is this?

3:15 Man-por-toenail-ie.

3:17 Really not rearranged at all.

3:18 Okay.

3:19 Are we going 'Port', or are we going 'Por'?

3:22 'Port', 'Port'.

3:22 Cut it at 'Port'.

3:23 Port, okay.

3:24 Port.

3:24 Alright.

3:24 What have we got here?

3:25 We got 'Port'...

3:26 'Man'.

3:27 We got 'Lee', 'Lie'.

3:29 She's lying down.

3:31 Port-li-a-man-at.

3:31 I'm just putting these in a...

3:34 Oh my god!

3:35 Tom's face.

3:36 Port...

3:37 Portlie...

3:38 You've missed a syllable there.

3:40 You've missed a key syllable.

3:41 You've got 'Nat', 'A', 'Lie', 'Port'...

3:45 And you— 'Man'.

3:47 And also— We need the 'Toe' part.

3:49 You need the 'Toe'.

3:49 You don't need all those syllables.

3:51 You need another one.

3:52 You need 'Toe' on that list you've got.

3:53 Okay, so 'A' is not 'Nat-a-lie'.

3:55 It's 'Na-toe-lie'.

3:57 Por-toe-na-lie-man.

4:01 Oh my god!

4:02 (guests laugh heartily) Poor-toe.

4:04 Porto.

4:05 Oh my god!

4:06 You're so close!

4:07 (giggles profusely) Port toe...

4:10 Portmantoe.

4:11 It's a portmanteau.

4:12 Portman toe!

4:13 (snorts) (giggles) Why is that so appropriate?

4:16 Because in Black Swan, they take Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis,

4:19 and they stick her together.

4:21 Like a portmanteau...

4:22 of a dancer.

4:24 Her toes got stuck together.

4:26 The portmanteau is when you put two words together, right?

4:28 And what have they done?

4:29 Put her two names together.

4:31 They've put two words together!

4:33 Yeah.

4:33 It is a portmanteau...

4:37 It was right here.

4:37 of Portman and toe— it was right there!

4:40 I'm sorry!

4:41 The number of times you said— You said 'Toe Portman'.

4:45 You said 'Port Toeman'.

4:47 You said every possible arrangement of those syllables other than Port-man-toe.

4:51 It's her fault for having the word toe in her name!

4:54 I'm still going to call her 'Toenail-ie Portman' from now on.

4:59 It's 'Toenail-ie Portman'.

4:59 We all know it.

5:00 (group giggling) The history— just— I'll give you the details.

5:05 This was Natalie Portman in Black Swan, which is, yes, about a ballet dancer.

5:09 She injured herself so regularly that the downtime

5:11 became known as the 'Natalie Portman's Left Toe Delay'.

5:16 That was shortened to 'Portman-toe',

5:19 which is a portmanteau of 'Portman' and 'toe'.

5:23 (breathes sharply) That's it.

5:25 (giggles) Well, when you say it like that, it makes perfect sense.

5:28 Like we're laughing about this.

5:29 She also had a dislocated rib.

5:31 Oh yeah.

5:31 I knew that it was terrible.

5:33 The production didn't have the money to hire a medic.

5:35 So she gave up her trailer, so they could afford to hire a medic.

5:38 We're laughing about this.

5:39 She had a terrible time.

5:40 Wow.

5:40 That's horrible.

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