Natalie Portman commands the screen in powerful new trailer for ‘Jackie’
The Harvard graduate captures the former first lady’s struggle to shape her husband’s legacy in the aftermath of his assassination.
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“People like to believe in fairy tales.”
Those are the first words uttered by Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Onassis in the newest trailer for Jackie.
“I believe that the characters we read about on the page end up being more real than the men who stand beside us,” the former first lady tells Life magazine writer Theodore H. White (Billy Crudup) during an interview in Hyannis Port.
Like the first trailer for Jackie released in October, the new footage shows Onassis’s struggle to control her late husband President John F. Kennedy’s legacy following his assassination.
After prize-winning screenings at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, Fox Searchlight quickly purchased the rights to Jackie in September and fast-tracked it for a late 2016 release, in time for awards season consideration. Critics have hailed Portman’s performance as Oscar-worthy.
In addition to Portman and Crudup, the film stars Greta Gerwig, Peter Sarsgaard, and John Hurt, and is scheduled for a limited release December 9.
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