Jackie beyond the icon

In an Oscar-nominated performance, Natalie Portman reveals the private side of the former First Lady. She talks to Tom Brook about how she approached the role.

Six years after she won an Oscar for her role as a ballerina in Black Swan, Natalie Portman is up for the best actress award again – this time, for her performance as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie.

“When you make something, you’re starting a dialogue that needs to be finished by the audience, so when people respond in a positive, enthusiastic way it’s very exciting,” she tells Tom Brook.

The film looks beyond what she represented to the public. “Her image has become so iconic – the Andy Warhol silkscreen version of her that we hold in our minds as the one-time queen of our country – this tells her as a human being, and her interior life.”

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