Who should play Jackie?
My answer would be Rachel Weisz!!!
shareWinona Ryder would be amazing!
shareBoth of the actresses you guys mentioned are already in their 40's. Portman makes more sense since she can play her in her 20's and all the way up into her 40's. With makeup it's easier to make someone look older then it is to make them look younger.
shareI know that it sis a little over a year after you posted this reply, but from the plot of this movie is taken place after the assignation of John F Kennedy. I don't know if they open the movie on the day of November 22nd, 1963 where we will see any of the events of that day, or where they end the movie either. She was born in 1929, and at the time of her Kennedy's death they had been married for 10 years. If she was in her 20's it would be her very late 20's at the time of John's death.
shareWeitz? Ryder? Portman?
I didn't know Jackie Bouvier Kennedy was Jewish.
It's called acting and of these 3 actresses how many of their roles are them playing jewish characters?
shareI just think it's odd that of all the actresses chosen to play Jacqueline Kennedy, the only names being cited are those of Jewish actresses. And in most instances the racial/ethnic identity of the characters these actresses play is not stated, but just because we don't see them observing Shabbat it doesn't mean that the characters they're playing aren't Jewish, something the staunchly Catholic and Anglo-French-Irish, and practically WASP, Jacqueline Kennedy, certainly was not.
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Aronofsky first proposed this project years ago, when he was living with Rachel Weisz. She was his announced choice for the role. They broke up shortly after and there went that.
Now, years later, no one seems quite right to me. Jackie was a unique combination of steeliness and frailty. Katie Holmes does seem the best of the candidates. Angelina Jolie would be the most dynamic choice, but her own celebrity would probably work against her.
Blair Brown was the best screen Jackie in the miniseries "Kennedy," but I can't think of anyone who would be quite that right today.
I think Jacqueline Bisset played an older version of Jackie in a recent TV film, and physically her and Jacqueline Smith, who has also played the part, seem to resemble her, even if they aren't the best actresses. Likewise, Katie Holmes seems to embody similar qualities to Jackie Kennedy, but is not perhaps the best actress.
Weitz and Portman are, by contrast, excellent actresses but don't project the right feminine poise and demureness for the part, and surely Angelina Jolie would be even worse in that respect.
Jews created Hollywood and brought motion pictures to the masses. Christians are constantly trying to destroy cinema. I vote for the Jew
shareI had no idea that Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith (United Artists founders in 1919) were Jewish! Douglas Fairbanks (married to Mary, 1920-1936,) and the fourth member in starting UA, was Jewish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists
Katie wud be purdy enuf 2 play her
Werd 2 ur mudda, bruddafckka
So you don't think that someone can play another person of a different religion? What makes it more difficult than an actor playing an alien or someone of a different profession or even someone of a different species? Do you think that they should only have auditioned actual bears to play Baloo in Jungle Book? Leonard Nimoy I don't think was whatever religion Spock was in Star Trek. Do you think maybe they should only have hired actual Vulcans? Do you think that Liam Neeson was unqualified to play Oscar Schindler? What do you actually think the job of an actor is because I have a sneaking suspicion that you don't actually understand it. Either that or you just don't like jews.
shareI don't mind Jews, especially Shebrews like Jami Gertz, Andrea Martin, Amy Irving, Carly Simon. I don't have much use for male Jews, but I like Paul Simon.
No use for these 'brews:
Irving Thalberg
Jack Warner
Joseph Schenk
Adolph Zukor
Carl Laemmle
T.C. Fox
Sol Teanz
David Selznick
Leo Z. Lyon
Cecil Beany DeMille
Art Metro
Samuel Goldwyn
Louis B. Mayer
Georges Melies
Louis and Auguste Lumiere
Charles Pathelogical
Edwin S. Porter
Thomas Edison
Jakov Jakovich
I think Marion Cotillard would have been perfect to play Jackie. I was 8 years old when Kennedy was shot, everyone loved the Kennedy's, women mimicked Jackies style, her makeup, her hair and so much else, she was royalty in America!
Jackie Kennedy Onassis had a chic foreign polished air around her one that Portman could never create because she's rather wooden, not enough emotion in her to be the very real Jackie Kennedy.
Exactly, in fact why does it even have to be a white women or a women for that matter. Ashton Kutcher would have been perfect for the role IMO.
Oh and as for the guy who shot her husband not only should he be played by a Brit, but the story itself has to be changed so that the assassin himself was in fact a Brit.
1950's/60's England and Manchester United soccaaar player Bobby Charlton would fit the bill nicely.
Anne Hathaway, maybe? I saw a clip of 'Jackie,' yesterday, and Natalie Portman was talking in that whispery voice that Jackie used publicly (especially in the tour of the WH special)that by all accounts, she didn't use privately. I hope she isn't using that way of speaking throughout the whole movie.
shareShe doesn't.
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