MUMBAI: Most likely Mila Kunis will essay the role of Jacqueline Kennedy in a new film. She is in talks to feature as the wife of former US president John F Kennedy in the film to be directed by Lee Daniels. If Kunis signs on, she will become the latest actress to portray Jackie Kennedy.

Daniels has written a new screenplay called The Butler, about a staffer Eugene Allen, who served in the White House for 34 years serving eight different presidents from 1952, it is understood.

Also linked to the project are Hugh Jackman, John Cusack and Oprah Winfrey.

Earlier, Katie Holmes played US’s first lady in The Kennedys, the History Channel mini-series.