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  • Natalie Portman Perfectly Channels Jackie O in New Biopic

    Natalie Portman plays Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in a new biopic called Jackie, and she perfectly channels the stylish first lady. The biopic follows Jackie Kennedy’s attempts to pick up the pieces of her life following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

    On Wednesday of this week, the first photo of Natalie Portman as Jackie O was released. Jackie Kennedy wore a similar red suit in a photo taken at the White House in 1961.

    Natalie Portman follows a long line of actresses who have portrayed Jackie O. Katie Holmes, Minka Kelly, Roma Downey, and Jill Hennessy are just a few of them. None of them have been a dead ringer like Natalie Portman, however.

    Jackie is directed by Pablo Larrain. In addition to Natalie Portman it stars Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy. Greta Gerwig plays one of Kennedy’s aides.

    Presently filming in Paris, IMDb reports Jackie is scheduled for release some time in 2017.

    Do you agree that Natalie Portman is a Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis doppelganger?

  • Natalie Portman Stars As ‘Jackie,’ Movie Revolves Around JFK Assassination

    Aside from her stint playing Jane Foster in the last Thor movie, Natalie Portman has been pretty low-key the past few years. But that’s set to change as the actress has signed on to portray Jackie Kennedy.

    Reports coming out of the Cannes Film Festival say that the Oscar winning actress will star as the titular Jackie.

    The film revolves around the four days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy and shows the impact it had on his wife.

    “Jackie talks about the days when Jackie Kennedy becomes an icon but has lost everything,” said Vincent Maraval of French film distribution company Wild Bunch.

    The movie will have Chilean director Pablo Larrain at the helm. The director’s newest film, The Club, won the Grand Jury Prize at The Berlin International Film Festival and prompted Portman to hop on board the Jackie project.

    The project will also reunite Portman with her Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky, who’s coming in as producer.

    It has taken a very long time for project to see the light of day. It was originally conceived to be a project of Aronofsky and then-fiancee Rachel Weisz in 2010. But the end of the relationship also meant the end of the project.

    Luckily, Fox Searchlight was able to resurrect it and secure another notable director to lead it.

    It’s been a big week for the Star Wars queen. Aside from nabbing the role of Jackie Kennedy, the 33-year-old actress is also set to star as Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    Those roles are sure to add to Portman’s already full plate this year. She’s just completed her directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness which is being screened at this year’s Cannes.

    The new mother also has the movies Jane Got a Gun, Terence Malick’s Weightless and Planetarium in the works.

  • Katie Holmes Stars In New Film And Olay Ad Campaign

    Katie Holmes is incredibly busy right now.

    The Dawson’s Creek alum has been working on her directorial debut of All We Had, a book-to-movie adaptation that looks really promising.

    In addition to that, Katie Holmes will reprise her role as an uncanny Jackie Kennedy in The Kennedys sequel, The Kennedys-After Camelot.

    “The Kennedys was a brilliant execution of storytelling based on the lives of one of the world’s best known families,” Reelz CEO Stan E. Hubbard said in a statement.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuNTLRhIvac

    He added, “Katie elegantly portrayed Jackie Kennedy in the first miniseries and now will continue the role as Jackie grows into the Jackie O that the world knows best. Katie is brave, committed and perfect for this role. She is a strong, talented woman who understands how special and respected Jackie Kennedy, and then Jackie Onassis was, as an international icon.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgizXCtsnkQ

    Katie Holmes will also be helping as an executive producer for The Kennedys-After Camelot and will direct one of the episodes in the four-hour miniseries.

    But, that’s not all on Katie Holmes’ plate!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkOqcfTFj44

    Holmes will begin a new role as Olay’s Global Brand Ambassador and star in a new ad campaign for the skin care company.

    “We’re thrilled to have Katie Holmes help us inspire women to realize their best beautiful in the new creative,” says Leigh Radford, Vice President Global Skincare and Olay Franchise Leader.

    “Katie – a confident, modern woman – represents Olay and the voice of women worldwide who never settle in skincare.”

    Never settle seems to be the theme for Olay’s campaign with Katie Holmes.

    Olay recently revealed a survery that discovered that a majority of women feel like it’s never okay to settle.

    In the ad campaign, Katie Holmes encourages women around the world to be their best beautiful, whether that is in their lives or their skincare. The campaign will feature Olay’s Regenerist line and other Olay products.

    How does Katie Holmes do it all?

  • Jackie Kennedy’s Pink Suit, Unveiled in 2103

    “I want them to see what they have done.”

    The blood-stained pink suit of Jackie Kennedy, worn on November 22, 1963, has been locked away since the day of her husband’s assassination. The public has not seen it and will not see it until 2103. With this understanding, Caroline Kennedy gave the suit as a gift to the people of the United States, stating that the Kennedy family will still have to be consulted before it is revealed 90 years from today.

    According to CNN News, Mrs. Kennedy was still wearing the blood-stained suit when she got to the White House in the early-morning hours after her husband was shot, refusing to take it off at the hospital, the flight back to Washington with her husband’s body, or the emergency swearing in of Lyndon Johnson.

    When White House aides suggested she change her clothes, she refused.

    “Her remark, I think she made it more than once is, ‘No, I’m going to leave these clothes on. I want them to see what they have done,’” said Philip Shenon, author of A Cruel and Shocking Act. “That whole scene is obviously just surreal. She arrives in the cabin in Air Force One in these clothes, covered with the President’s blood, and she’s expected to stand there and witness the swearing in of her husband’s successor.”

    The suit was a knockoff Coco Chanel, made in the United States.

    She looked “smashing” in the suit, according to President Kennedy, who asked Jackie to wear the outfit to Dallas on November 22, 1963. In fact, that very morning he had joked about her impeccable fashion sense. “Two years ago, I introduced myself in Paris by saying that I was the man who had accompanied Mrs. Kennedy to Paris,” he said. “I am getting somewhat that same sensation as I travel around Texas. Nobody wonders what Lyndon and I wear.”

    The location of the pink pillbox hat Mrs. Kennedy wore that fateful day is still a mystery.

    “The hat apparently goes to the Secret Service initially and the Secret Service turns it over to Mrs. Kennedy’s private secretary, and then it disappears. It has not been seen since,” Shenon said.

    Today, the suit is stored in the National Archives building in Maryland in an acid free container, where the temperature is kept between 65 and 68 degrees to properly maintain the wool and cloth.

    It has never been cleaned.

    Image via: Wikimedia Commons