Natalie Portman went to the Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival last month to support a few different projects. By far, the most well-received film for Portman was Jackie, the film where she plays Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of JFK’s assassination in 1963. We had heard about this film for a while, and some people had strong feelings about Portman being cast as Jacqueline, who is just such an incredibly iconic figure in the history of America. As it turns out, the reviews for Jackie were pretty great across the board, and Portman exited Venice and TIFF with a lot of Oscar buzz. Many critics were even calling her a sure-thing for an Oscar nomination. Well, now we have our first trailer for Jackie:
… And I don’t mind it? This doesn’t scream “OSCAR!” to me, but it looks much, much better than I was expecting. Of course, my expectation was that this was going to be a cheesy, overwrought Lifetime movie. So it helps when your expectations are low, I guess. While this doesn’t reveal all about Portman’s performance, I will say that the film LOOKS expensive. It looks like a 1963 Life Magazine editorial come to life. I also wouldn’t be surprised at all if Portman does get an Oscar nomination out of this, just because of the subject matter. And because she’s forever-pregnant during Oscar campaigns!
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Dear God no.
She’s one of those actresses that I cannot stand, for no good reason. Her face makes me angry. Not very mature I know – but no one’s perfect right?
You’re not alone! Except that there are plenty of reasons why I can’t stand her.
This trailer doesn’t look good to me. She only ever plays one of two roles: ‘Natalie Portman is distraught’, or, ‘Natalie Portman is fragile’.
“I accept this award for all un-chic sweatpant-wearers out there, may you never have to travel to France, you uncultured L.A swine.”
Sorry but I cannot stand this wacko. She’s so ostentatious, movingto Paris it was all the rage how she loved it and returning to the Us, its all about how horrible the french were. This from a woman who claims she learned to be a prima bballerina in 6 months give or take,lol. No Oscar for you!!!
I don´t like her in most of her films. She can be acceptable when she performs with a very good director who doesn’t allow her to make “faces”. She wasn’t good at all in the ballerina movie and won an Oscar. I hope they won’t give her a second one.
She’s going to get one. But I find it disappointing that in all the talk about diversity, still this year’s Oscar frontrunners are pretty standard Oscar fare (Manchester By The Sea, I’m looking at you too!)
+1 on all counts. But her performance is getting raves, and that is a challenging role to get right!
It happens every single year, too. Critics and Academy prognosticators fall in love with a movie in something of a vacuum – they love it love it love it and get caught up in that whirlwind, and don’t seem to have the capacity to take a step back and see if it’s legitimately that good and really is the best that is out there, or if they’re just in the middle of another one of their hype-machines. And it happens just about every year. For a supposed group of taste makers, the Academy is really susceptible to the hype machine.
I don’t know….still seems like Natalie Portman playing herself (despite the accent work). The movie itself doesn’t look cheesy, but her facial expressions are usually the same in every movie that all I can see is Natalie Portman trying to do a Jackie impersonation.
The Diana movie starring Naomi Watts was so bad, I suspect this looks good by comparison.
That’s how I feel about her too, along with Kristen Stewart and Jennifer Anniston. Is the accent good? I’m not that familiar with Jackie’s voice.
I’m not sure. Jackie did have an unusual accent (and voice) by today’s standards. But sometimes I can hear Natalie Portman’s Long Island accent creeping in. Natalie’s voice sounds harder than Jackie’s — Jackie’s voce was kind of weird, but it did have a certain softness to it which I don’t necessarily think Natalie effectively captured. But on a superficial level, I guess others would say she does sound like Jackie? Honestly, I’m confused, because Natalie always seems like Natalie in every role to me. And here she sounds like she has smoker’s voice or something.
Jackie smoked regularly but insisted on never being photo’d with a cigarette. Easier to manage in pre-cell phone days.
That accent: figuratively like nails on a chalkboard. It was tortuous during the trailer. After about 5 minutes my ears would be bleeding, assuming I haven’t left the theater….
Abomination. Another nail in the coffin of this horrible year.
I saw this at TIFF. It isn’t a lifetime movie because the director goes for arty and the timeline jumps back and forth. The movie succeeds or fails on whether or not you buy Portman’s performance. I didn’t mind the movie and Portman was good, but I also happened to see Loving and Ruth Negga is amazing in that movie.
And of course Emma Stone has a real shot at winning with LaLa Land.
I normally don’t think she’s a very convincing actress, but I think that when she gets it right she gets it really right (like Black Swan) so I’m curious about this.
Surely she won’t campaign after her ‘false idol’ comments though? I think she might conveniently forget about that. Viola Davis in Fences will hopefully be right up there.
I bet the studio will push Viola Davis for Supporting to increase her chances.
I find her playing a version of herself rather than really getting into character. Kind of like Julia Roberts in her heyday. It was Julia pretending to be the character but 9 times out of 10, she was mostly herself..
Oscars should be going to actors who completely disappear into the character and you almost can’t match their real life persona to the role they are playing.
I’ll still go see it but she bugs.
I love biography films, particularly this era of the 60’s, I think Nathalie looks really good in this and I love the style of the film they seem to have captured that era well with the fashion etc, I would definetely want to watch this film, the only thing I dont like is her accent it seems a bit off.
I don’t care if she gets a nomination but the reviews I’ve seen have me intrigued to see the movie.
And why do people get upset when the actor doesn’t sound exactly like the historical figure? If that was a requirement, every biopic would star Rich Little.
If the actor goes for direct imitation I think that’s when the voice or whatever else gets critiqued. I don’t necessarily think it’s always an issue (for instance, if the actor is trying to capture the inner life of a historical figure). But if the imitation is glaring, sometimes to the point of distraction, it will be remarked upon.
But but but she’s so not interested in that race, right. She’s surely so above the chase after a false idol…
Looks pretentious AF.
Don’t know about Natalie but I love Pablo Larraín- No was incredible
I saw a different trailer some weeks ago. I was 12 years old when JFK was assassinated. I watched her White House tour on CBS. Jacqueline Kennedy’s voice was deeper and breathy. Some bios say in real life she did the breathy voice so people especially men would lean closer to her. Natalie Portman looks more like the sister, Lee Radizwell.
She does look like Lee Radziwill, now that you mention it.
Given her last Oscar campaign, this woman is capabe of anything to get a nomination/award.
You guys thought Anne Hathaway’s campaign was so over the top, so in the face and super, mega contrived, to the point some of us felt second had embarrassment for her?
Portman’s campaign for Black Duck was much much much worse. She looked like she could stab her competitors.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo, for everything’s that is holy for everyone here, please don’t let this woman get her claws at another Oscar.
Did she do something to her nose?
I don’t care for her, but I’ll probably check it out. I think what’s distracting to me is that she doesn’t look a thing like Jackie.