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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Réponse de lmao7
le 17 février 2017 à 22h26
hard to see Jackie for me...I just see Natalie!
Réponse de SWLinPHX
le 18 février 2017 à 21h09
Yes, I always knew that was her public voice. Not sure why so many are up in arms. They open their mouths about it without even having heard Jackie first.
Réponse de Benedict
le 19 février 2017 à 08h40
But for a certain generation that's unsurprising, right? I mean, I'm 28, there's no reason I would have heard the real Jackie speak, so when I heard Nat Portman's version, I was like - wow, this is a weird weird voice she's putting on, and I found it jarring as hell.
Réponse de SWLinPHX
le 19 février 2017 à 20h03
But on IMDb they were saying "she sounds nothing like that!" without knowing what they were talking about or ever hearing her. Her White House tour is famous and has been shown in many clips as well as other interviews before election. There is also a recording of a message she left on Michael Jackson's answering machine when she was publishing his book at Doubleday. All anyone has to do is search YouTube and if they aren't even willing to do that, then why make statements when they don't know what she sounds like?
Also, the Kennedy administration was before I was born too, but that doesn't mean I haven't heard her or only know things from when I was alive.
Réponse de Sloopydrew
le 21 février 2017 à 18h33
She was spot on. I didn't even realize people were complaining about her accent. The real question is this: Why did Jackie talk that way in the first place? Sort of like a Barbie doll on too much Valium.
Réponse de SWLinPHX
le 21 février 2017 à 23h13
Part was her combo New York / finishing school accent and part was being gentile and ladylike, but even then people thought it a bit odd. She wasn't quite as soft spoken in private. There is a speech she gave to save Grand Central Station and that answering machine message in later years as "Jackie O". Other than that though, she never granted a single interview or spoke publicly, even to her contemporary Barbara Walters.
Réponse de Xcalat3
le 24 février 2017 à 13h31
I also wonder why she spoke like that "Barbie on Valium" sounds about right.
Réponse de Sloopydrew
le 27 février 2017 à 16h38
Well ... apparently the Academy didn't like it. Either that, or they handed out the wrong envelope, more than once.
Réponse de SWLinPHX
le 27 février 2017 à 17h09
I thought it maybe should've been Portman or Streep over Stone. How 'bout you?
Réponse de Benedict
le 27 février 2017 à 17h41
Yeah, definitely. I didn't especially enjoy Jackie, but it was a very proficient performance. Emma Stone's was as well, but I just can't imagine it's particularly taxing to play a girl in love with Ryan Gosling.
Réponse de jenx42
le 27 février 2017 à 19h03
I'm with you there! I wasn't born when JFK was president but I knew what she sounded like before I watched this film. And not because of a particular interest in her. My problem actually was with the guy who played Bobby. He would just go in and out of the Boston accent. Most times out! I thought Portman gave a very heartbreaking performance personally. I didn't know this film was really going to be more of a portrait of grief than anything else and I was really impressed with her.
Réponse de Lilith
le 27 février 2017 à 19h19
Now I feel like a jerk for thinking that was just about the worst acting I ever saw. However I still can't stand the accent.
Réponse de jenx42
le 27 février 2017 à 19h31
Haha, it's understandable! Her voice is grating! I was just able to look past it but it's totally fine that it took you out of the film. It happens. I would say watch it again while repressing your annoyance but I really couldn't tell anyone to watch such a hard movie twice. :P
Réponse de SWLinPHX
le 27 février 2017 à 21h18
I do think it's interesting how such a renowned woman with such mass public interest managed not to give any kind of TV or magazine interview for the next 31 years she lived, despite being in the news a lot.
Did you ever see "A Woman Named Jackie"? It received the Emmy for Best Miniseries in 1991.
Réponse de theburbs
le 27 février 2017 à 21h22
People these days are too lazy to even look up the correct spelling of words, so asking them to hunt for a clip on YouTube just seems like too much to ask. Maybe it's because I went to journalism school, but I've been trained to do my research. Usually all it takes is a couple extra minutes to prevent yourself from looking like a dumbass.
EDIT: Weird, I just watched a few clips of Jackie talking on YouTube, and her voice doesn't seem that unusual to me? Maybe her "accent" was more subtle in real life and Natalie Portman was doing an exaggerated version.