If, like me, you found Natalie Portman's accent as Jackie infuriating and weird - turns out, that's just how she spoke. I found this explainer! http://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/7/14442410/jackie-kennedy-accent-natalie-portman
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Reply by SWLinPHX
on February 27, 2017 at 9:50 PM
It all depends. Which clip did you watch (from when)?
Reply by jenx42
on February 28, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Yeah, it trips me out when someone remains, ostensibly a public figure while not being public at all. I don't think I saw that mini series but I'll look it up. I might have just forgotten. I forgot what I had for lunch yesterday.
Reply by jenx42
on February 28, 2017 at 12:07 AM
I found it on You Tube and it's not even horrible quality! I don't think I've ever seen Roma Downy in anything but Touched By An Angle.
Reply by SWLinPHX
on February 28, 2017 at 12:16 AM
Yeah, out of all the movies made either about her or portraying her it is THE only one to encompass her entire life up to that moment: young girl in dysfunctional household, debutante, young wife, First Lady, grieving widow, jet-setter "Jackie O", rich widow (again), book publisher & NYC socialite and grandma.
I understand why she didn't but I would have loved if she'd given Barbara Walters (a friend and contemporary) an interview. Can you imagine all they could have covered?? Also, she has ordered all her private memoirs to be sealed until 100 years after her death, as well as her famous pink Chanel assassination outfit sealed and preserved until then.
Reply by theburbs
on February 28, 2017 at 10:11 AM
I watched this clip. I listened hard for the "weird accent" but I just couldn't hear it!
Reply by Megumi
on February 28, 2017 at 12:27 PM
The accent may have been similar, but her voice was too nasally. Natalie's timbre was completely different. I found it unwatchable.
Reply by SWLinPHX
on March 1, 2017 at 7:57 AM
Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZdkQWYlew
Reply by jenx42
on March 4, 2017 at 4:03 PM
I agree, would have loved to see that!
Reply by Renovatio
on March 21, 2017 at 8:10 AM
My first instinct when i heard her accent was to be a bit surprised, but i quickly settled in to the fact that I'm watching Jackie and not Natalie Portman... If she had watered down the accent she would have remained Portman in the viewers minds throughout the movie.
I think she deserved the Oscar over Emma Stone. I was expecting a one-note, noble-person-in-grief performance and instead got a nuanced portrait that humanises and makes tangible, what to younger generations, is merely an icon.
Her performance was highly underrated in this film
Reply by Daddie0
on April 1, 2017 at 2:35 AM
I just caught this film and I must say that I think Portman's version of Jackie's accent was more "abrupt" and forced than the limited recordings we have. It boarderlined on being a caricature IMO (kinda like when people do Elvis or Jack Nicholson), but it wasn't a distraction for me. I just sat it aside and enjoyed the complex narrative. She did a great job overall, but had she found that sweet spot between the stilted accent she did and her natural cadence it would have been perfect.
Reply by A-Dubya
on August 4, 2017 at 12:16 PM
Agreed.