W Magazine has always artistically been ahead of the game, and they might have topped themselves with their latest spread. Their Best Performances photos feature Natalie Portman, Andrew Garfield, Jessie Eisenberg and More.
W Magazine boldly declares, ‘The most remarkable moments in film this past year weren’t 3-D action sequences but characters so real they hurt.’ We have a few of the actors who made us believe, but go over to W for the complete list.
Above: NATALIE PORTMAN IN “BLACK SWAN”
“The movie that I watched the most when I was growing up was ‘Dirty Dancing.’ I always loved Penny, probably because I was really like Baby. I was a Jewish girl from a Jewish family, so of course I liked the tall, skinny blond girl.”
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“What if Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker suffered from the same insecurity and fear and paranoia? Mark dealt with those feelings by inventing Facebook. And my character, Sean Parker, invented Sean Parker. He created his own persona.”—Justin Timberlake
“I found The Goonies very inspiring. I identified with every character: Mikey, the leader; Mouth, the trickster; Data, the inventor; and Chunk, this lovely, beautiful, sad, misunderstood, slightly larger kid. The Goonies is boys needing to be boys on their path to manhood. It’s a classic.”—Andrew Garfield
By Lynn HirschbergPhotographs by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh MatadinStyled by Melanie Ward
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“Before Black Swan, I had never danced in my life, and I will never dance again. I lost 20 pounds in three months, danced five hours a day, for seven days a week. I tore a ligament. I dislocated my shoulder. I have two scars on my back. It was worth every minute, but I will never put on toe shoes again.”
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JESSE EISENBERG IN “THE SOCIAL NETWORK”
“I started acting to be included in a group, because I felt excluded in school. The final product was out of my control, so it didn’t really matter to me. I just liked being in a group of people that didn’t kick my shin.”
By Lynn HirschbergPhotographs by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh MatadinStyled by Melanie Ward
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“Acting forces you to look at yourself all the time. You have to move through these ages: You’re a teenager, a daughter, then a mother. You can never get stuck in your own bubble—acting doesn’t allow that.”
