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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Was Naomi Watts going for a parody of Jackie O? She gave one of the worst performances I’ve seen. I wanted to fast forward all the scenes with her as she was so awful. Meryl’s daughter is a plank of wood as well. [/quote]

She’s just playing Babe Paley all over again [/quote]

Agreed that this just feels like her Babe Paley performance but with Jackie's voice layered on top. I actually thought she was good as Babe Paley. But that performance felt more natural because she was focused on just playing the scenes -- responding to the other actors and expressing emotion in a natural way though her physical embodiment of Babe.

But in these scenes with Jackie, her performance feels totally divorced from what anyone else is doing. She's just "doing Jackie" and it's like her mannerisms and vocal tics are planned out in advance independent of what is happening in the scene.

It probably doesn't help that in Swans, Watts was doing most of her scenes with similarly experienced actresses turning in mostly strong performances. And in this show, almost all of her scenes are with a kind of novice actor playing John. The one scene she had with just Grace Gummer where they talk about John's relationship issues and then also how Jackie responded to Ed Schlossberger and then later accepted him into the family, was probably the best Jackie scene in the show. Gummer is not a virtuoso like her mom, but my sense is she's just a better scene partner and was probably giving Watts more to work with, so that scene felt more natural and real.[/quote]

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