Natalie Portman: ‘Jackie’ Kennedy fashion in upcoming Pablo Larraín movie
Notwithstanding the box office-friendly Thor movies, which revolve around Chris Hemsworth in the title role, Natalie Portman has yet to have a star vehicle as impactful as Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, which earned her the Best Actress Academy Award nearly five years ago. Who knows, perhaps Pablo Larraín’s Jackie will be one such vehicle.
Following U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy a.k.a. Jackie Kennedy in the days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the biopic is slated for a 2017 release. The image above is the film’s official “first look,” initially posted at Deadline.com.
‘Jackie’ movie cast and director
Besides Natalie Portman, the Jackie film cast includes:
Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy.
Max Casella. Beth Grant. Greta Gerwig.
Jackie is to become Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín’s first English-language feature. Larraín, whose The Club is Chile’s submission for the 2016 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, has another movie coming out prior to Jackie: Neruda, starring Gael García Bernal and Luis Gnecco (as Pablo Neruda).
Darren Aronofsky and Juan de Dios Larraín are the two credited producers, while Noah Oppenheim (The Maze Runner, The Divergent Series: Allegiant) is the credited screenwriter.
Jacqueline Kennedy movies
Prior to Natalie Portman, actresses who have portrayed (the adult) Jackie Kennedy in the big or small screen include the following:
- Jacqueline Bisset, as a fictionalized version of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in J. Lee Thompson’s The Greek Tycoon (1978), and then again as the real Jacqueline Kennedy in Eric Laneuville’s TV movie America’s Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (2003).
- Jaclyn Smith in Steve Gethers’ TV movie Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1982).
- Jodie Farber in Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991).
- Jeanne Tripplehorn in Michael Sucsy’s TV movie Grey Gardens (2009).
- Katie Holmes in Jon Cassar’s TV miniseries The Kennedys (2011).
- Minka Kelly in Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013).
- Ginnifer Goodwin in Nelson McCormick’s TV movie Killing Kennedy (2013).
Besides Jackie, upcoming Natalie Portman movies – and movie projects – include Gavin O’Connor’s Jane Got a Gun, costarring Ewan McGregor and Rodrigo Santoro; and an untitled Terrence Malick project (for the time being) to costar Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, and Ryan Gosling.
notes
Natalie Portman Jackie Kennedy image: Fabula | Protozoa Pictures.