Fresh off the news that Natalie Portman would deign to play the Notorious RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it seems that Portman is going to play yet another iconic American woman: Jacqueline Kennedy. COME ON. To be fair, the Kennedy women – Jackie in particular – have been portrayed in films and TV projects alike. I actually thought Jill Hennessy came the closest to looking like Jackie (it was a TV movie). I used to have a Jackie obsession and I read a lot of her biographies, and she definitely had a fascinating and film-worthy life. But Natalie Portman? I’m so not feeling it. And the project will reunite Portman with Darren Aronofsky (side-eye).

Natalie Portman will star as Jackie Kennedy in “Jackie,” about the first four days in Jackie Kennedy’s life after the assassination of her husband, President John. F. Kennedy, when she lost the love of her life but won the love of a nation. Darren Aronofsky will produce while Pablo Larrain (“No”) directs.

Juan de Dios Larrain of Chile’s Fabula produces with Aronofsky and his partner Scott Franklin at Protozoa Pictures. “Jackie” goes into production at the end of 2015.

“ ‘Jackie’ talks about the days when Jackie Kennedy becomes an icon but has lost everything,” said Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval, who is overseeing Insiders. Aronofsky, who was president of the Berlin festival jury this year, was highly impressed with Larrain’s Berlinale competition entry “The Club,” which went on to win the fest’s Grand Jury Prize. Portman caught “The Club” in Paris, and loved it. “It’s the ‘Black Swan’ team reunited for Pablo Larrain,” Maraval said.

[From Variety]

“…About the days when Jackie Kennedy becomes an icon but has lost everything…” So it will be about the years immediately following JFK’s assassination? That time has always been difficult for biographers to cover, mostly because it’s widely believed that Jackie was carrying on an affair with Robert Kennedy – they were united in grief and then some. It’s widely believed that RFK did not approve of Aristotle Onassis’s attempts to woo Jackie, and Jackie only decided to marry Onassis after RFK was murdered. As I said, it’s a rich, complicated story with a lot of potential for a filmmaker. But I’m worried that this version with woman-child Portman as Jackie will end up just a Lifetime-esque sob story about a devastated widow.

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