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Natalie Portman

The Oscar-winning actor stars in Jackie, about the emotionally turbulent week Jacqueline Kennedy endured after her husband was assassinated

Jackie returns repeatedly to the image of the First Lady, in shock, holding her dying husband John F. Kennedy. What was it like to film such a traumatic moment? It was the toughest thing to shoot. The actual assassination we’ve seen so many times on tape, but unfortunately for her—and luckily for the rest of the world—she’s the only one who knows how that feels.

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