My Black Swan Star Turn

by John Epperson

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-19/my-black-swan-star-turn/

John Epperson, known as the fabulous drag performer Lypsinka, played the "Jaded Piano Player" in Black Swan. He writes of the freezing set and being told, "You're hot!" by Darren Aronofsky.

The New York Times has written at least three critics' pieces about Black Swan. And there has been still no mention of the Jaded Piano Player.

That is how my role in Black Swan is, unfortunately, described in the film's final credits. I had nailed this job at an audition for Darren Aronofsky, the film's director. Suspecting he didn't know what I had achieved professionally, I plopped down in front of him the full page spread that New York magazine had run of "The Personification of Pizzazz," as Lypsinka insists on being called.