Natalie Portman describes being in awe of Jackie Kennedy

She is famous for jealously guarding her privacy, favouring a small wedding to a lavish celebrity ceremony and taking her grandmother’s maiden name to shield her family from the limelight.

But Natalie Portman said portraying grief-stricken Jacqueline Kennedy had taught her the virtue of celebrities giving more of themselves to the public.

Jackie, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s first English-language feature, is a searing and intimate portrait of the first lady in the week after John F Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.

Portman told journalists at the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest in Los Angeles, how she admired the stoic and dignified face Jackie put on for the public after her tragedy