SNL: Natalie Portman portrays Jackie Kennedy once more to offer Melania Trump advice
The actor previously played the character in Jackie
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Your support makes all the difference.Over the weekend, Natalie Portman returned to Saturday Night Live, having previously hosted the comedy show in 2006.
Among many notable sketches — including another explicit rap, one in which the actor defended the Star Wars prequels — Portman returned to the role of Jackie Kennedy.
Having played the former First Lady in the Oscar-nominated Jackie, the actor seamlessly took on the iconic accent once more, hoping to offer Cecily Strong’s Melania Trump some advice.
“I know how very trying being a First Lady can be,” Portman’s Kennedy tells Trump. “All first ladies have a platform. Yours is bullying. Mine was little hats.”
Kate McKinnon also appeared in the sketch as Hillary Clinton, Aidy Bryant did as Martha Washington, and Leslie Jones as Michelle Obama. Watch below.
Meanwhile, Alec Baldwin returned to SNL for the first time this year, portraying President Donald Trump wearing pyjamas, eating McDonald’s, and getting an intelligence briefing from Fox & Friends. Watch the cold open here. SNL returns following the Winter Olympics.
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