/Film has reported that there are a few new additions to Darren Aronofsky’s supernatural drama Black Swan. Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, and Barbara Hershey join Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman set in the story centered around New York City ballet. Portman stars as Nina, “a veteran ballerina who finds herself locked in to a competitive showdown with a rival dancer named Lilly, played by Kunis. As their big performance heats up Nina is not sure whether Lilly is real, or a apparition. /Film highlights exactly where the rest of the cast falls:

Ryder will play Beth, Nina’s “sorta friend” who has been the school’s running lead in all the productions, but who is nearing the end of her career. All the dancers are aiming to take her place as Odette, the Swan Queen, in the next big ballet: Swan Lake. Cassel will be playing the ”handsome but sinister Yevna,” the director of the new stage production. And Hershey will play Nina’s mother, a role which was at one point Meryl Streep was rumored to be in talks for (my source says that Streep was never offered the role however).

According to the site Fox Searchlight (who was behind the The Wrestler) is close to picking it up with shooting to began in a few weeks. The project certainly piqued my interested when details came out that Kunis and Portman will have ecstasy-induced hungry aggressive angry sex. Aronofsky has never made a bad film and with these great new cast additions I’m definitely looking forward to this.

Are you looking forward to Black Swan? What do you think about the latest cast additions?