Best Actress Natalie Portman Dishes About Getting Ballerina-Ready

Sure, Natalie Portman may seem like the girl next door but in the psychological thriller, Black Swan, she's anything but sweet. Last night the Golden Globe winner for Best Actress shared a major fashion faux pas on the red carpet as well as how she morphed into a ballerina for the acclaimed role.

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It's hard to believe the 29-year-old was merely a teen when she experienced her very first red carpet ride! She told reporters, "I remember I was 13 years old, the premier of The Professional, and I remember I wore a Betsey Johnson dress that I had worn to a bar mitzvah like two weeks before. My mom bought me — my mom’s right there. She bought me this coat that I thought was really beautiful that was faux fur cow print, and I wore it feeling like the most glamorous person in the world. But it might have been a mistake."

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Former fashion faux pas aside, there's one mistake she's not making right now and that's her work ethic. Natalie told reporters, "I think I learned about how much I could work. I think I learned the extent of my discipline which was put to the test every day by the rigors of the art form that I have so much new respect for because of getting just a glimpse of what that lifestyle is like." In fact, Natalie previously took ballet until she was 12-years-old and then resumed when she took this role. She adds, "So I had a good 15-year break in between."

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So, how does the Golden Globe winner stay in shape? "Well, I usually do some sort of physical something, so that – obviously because the training for this was so rigorous, we trained. And actually, every break we had on the film they would take me through a barre to keep me warm. So we were doing barres all day long staying warm and staying ready to dance so that I wouldn't get injured at all which luckily there were no serious ones."