Why is Katie Holmes STILL failing to charm America?

After a string of movie flops, the actress's 役割 as Jackie Kennedy was meant to be the gig of a lifetime. But Katie Holmes' 星／主役にする status has been 刻々と 落ちるing...

By Tom Teodorczuk
Updated: 16:52 BST, 8 April 2011

When Katie Holmes was 選ぶd last summer to play Jacqueline Kennedy in the eight-hour TV 小型の-series The Kennedys, she’d landed the 役割 of a lifetime.

'To say that Katie identifies with Jackie Kennedy is an understatement,' a 商売／仕事 associate of Holmes tells MailOnline speaking on 条件 of anonymity.

'Like Jackie, she married a celebrity 現象 [Tom 巡航する]. Like Jackie, she is a 充てるd mother. She would love 最終的に to be regarded as a style icon on a par with Jackie. It was her dream gig and she fought harder to get that 役割 than for any other part in her career.'

役割 of a lifetime: Katie Holmes plays Jackie Kennedy in The Kennedys - a part that has been 述べるd as her 'dream gig'

That dream didn't 完全に die - as had been 恐れるd at the start of this year - but it has most certainly soured.??

The History Channel, which produced The Kennedys for $25 million, pulled the plug on the show, 報道によれば after 批評 from some of JFK's closest friends, his daughter Caroline Kennedy and his niece, Maria Shriver, over the series' historical 正確 and its 焦点（を合わせる） on the 35th US 大統領's peccadilloes, 顕著に his 姦通.

Style icon: Holmes aspires to be like Jackie Kennedy, and identifies with the former First Lady

The 落ちる-out has continued to ぐずぐず残る with Emmy-winning 24 生産者 Joel Surnow, a rare 保守的な in Hollywood, 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うing his own political affiliations partly lay behind the miniseries' 苦境.

Having been turned 負かす／撃墜する by other US cable 網状組織s, The Kennedys landed on the obscure film channel Reelz, a 網状組織 which Holmes herself hitherto shunned whenever she was on on the red carpet.

Reelz 救助（する）d The Kennedys although ironically The History Channel's UK wing began showing the miniseries on Thursday night.

In a 企て，努力，提案 to maximise the synergy between film and fashion that Holmes has always 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 達成する, her 着せる／賦与するing line Holmes&Yang 最初 looked into the 可能性 of? a Jackie Kennedy-esque line for their 2011 spring collection.

最終的に the 32-year-old 説得するd her の近くに friend Giorgio Armani to design some of her on-審査する 衣装s, 含むing 見解／翻訳／版s of the first lady's 就任（式）／開始 gown and the pink Chanel 控訴 which Jackie O was wearing in November 1963 when JFK was assassinated.

Reviews for Katie Holmes in The Kennedys have been decidedly mixed. Linda Stasi, the New York 地位，任命する critic enthused: 'It takes a while for Holmes to get her Jackie on, but once it's on, you won't believe you aren't watching film clips of the first lady.'

Third 法案ing: Holmes is believed to have been disappointed to be 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d behind both Greg Kinnear (who plays JFK) and Barry Pepper (Robert Kennedy) in the credits

But Nancy Franklin in the New Yorker wrote: 'Holmes hasn't 深くするd as an actress since her not-very-深い days in the teen soap オペラ Dawson's Creek. There's no chemistry between Holmes and Greg Kinnear [the actor who plays JFK]; there's barely even physics - they hardly come into 接触する with each other.'

Roger Friedman,? 退役軍人 celebrity columnist of Showbiz 411, told MailOnline: 'Katie Holmes is not very good as Jackie Kennedy but it's not her fault- the show itself doesn't work at all.'

Katie Holmes had her own 推論する／理由s to be unhappy with The Kennedys.?

'It （機の）カム as a shock to Katie that she had third 法案ing on The Kennedys behind Greg Kinnear [who plays JFK] and Barry Pepper [Robert Kennedy],' the 商売／仕事 associate 明らかにする／漏らすs to MailOnline.

'He r best 役割 to date': Holmes, 32, is probably more famous these days for her husband, Tom 巡航する, and daughter, Suri, than her 事実上の／代理 career

'明白に JFK was going to always going to be the lead but Katie is the show's most 目だつ 星／主役にする. Katie gets on with Barry Pepper just 罰金 but her （軍の）野営地，陣営 was mystified that the 生産者s elected to give her third 法案ing.

'Barry Pepper is a decent actor but when was the last time you saw him on the cover of a magazine?'

The credit 論争 accounts for why Holmes walked away from the red carpet when reporters asked her about The Kennedys at the 首相 of her short film The 決定／判定勝ち（する） in New York a fortnight ago, an ill-received 共同 with? English hairstylist John Frieda.

A-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） status: The couple married in a lavish 儀式 in Italy in 2006

Katie put on a 勇敢に立ち向かう 直面する and …に出席するd The Kennedys 首相 in LA the next week with Tom 巡航する in 牽引する and has subsequently publicised the 小型の-series. But The Kennedys fiasco 示すs the 最新の in a string of career 逆転s for Holmes.

Marrying Tom 巡航する in a 星／主役にする-studded wedding in Italy in 2007, seven months after the birth of their baby girl Suri, was supposed to make her an A-名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） movie 星／主役にする in her o wn 権利.

Instead the 考えられない has happened: her 星／主役にする status has fallen rather than been 高めるd.

'In the last five years Katie Holmes's career has become bland and boring,' says Friedman. 'Her best 事実上の／代理 役割 has been as Tom 巡航する's wife!'

Holmes rose to fame playing Joey Potter in teen TV series Dawson's Creek. Before she married 巡航する - に引き続いて a whirlwind romance which 頂点（に達する）d with 巡航する jumping up and 負かす／撃墜する on Oprah Winfrey's couch exclaiming: ‘I'm in love! I'm in love!' - her 事実上の／代理 career served as a textbook example for aspiring young Hollywood 星／主役にするs.

She mixed up blockbusters Batman Begins and Phone Booth with edgier indie films Pieces of April and Go!

But in 最近の years the 勢い has 立ち往生させるd. Holmes has appeared in movies spanning a variety of genres. She's been in Mad Money, (caper movie), The Extra Man? (offbeat comedy), and The Romantics (twentysomething 演劇) but each movie has flopped in the US. In the UK Mad Money went straight to DVD, the 残り／休憩（する） remain unreleased.?

Her 最新の film Son of No One, a gritty 警官，（賞などを）獲得する 演劇 in which she appears opposite Al Pacino, received an underwhelming 歓迎会 when it 首相d at the Sundance Film Festival last January.

'The last film featuring Katie Holmes that was 解放（する）d in UK cinemas was Thank You For Smoking in the summer of 2006,' says a UK film (n)役員／(a)執行力のある speaking on 条件 of anonymity. '

Ill-received: Holmes failed to impress in a short film for hairdresser John Frieda

Of course Katie's not wholly to 非難する for this but for a Hollywood 星／主役にする, that is a pitiful statistic. She's tried 演劇, comedy, 罪，犯罪 saga, horror movie, TV biopic but it hasn't worked.

'Katie Holmes might sell celebrity magazine covers but she does not sell films. I looked into buying The Romantics - it's not a bad film - but then a friend in New York told me that he'd …に出席するd a 審査 in downtown Manhattan where Katie did an onstage Q&A and the auditorium was barely more than half 十分な.

'If Katie in person couldn't fill the cinema, what chance is there of attracting an audience to watch her on 審査する? The contrast between her and Tom 巡航する during the 1980s and 1990s could not be greater.'

More successful was Holmes' foray into theatre. She appeared on Broadway in autumn 2008 in a supporting 役割 in a 復活 of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons.

She received good 批判的な notices and director Simon McBurney told me at the time, 'She's not the finished article but goodness she 持つ／拘留するs her own.'

Edgy: 事前の to her marriage, Holmes's career served as a textbook example for aspiring 星／主役にするs. In 2004 indie flick Pieces of April (left) and 1999's Go! (権利)

Holmes had hoped to mix 行う／開催する／段階 and 審査する but enticing 行う／開催する／段階 申し込む／申し出s 港／避難所't materialised.

'Katie would love to do a West End play or musical in the 近づく 未来,' says an 知識. 'She's had dancing and singing lessons for four years.'

Holmes recently took her daughter Suri, who celebrates her 5th birthday on April 18, to a 業績／成果 of How to 後継する in 商売／仕事 Without Really Trying starring Daniel Radcliffe.

'She would have jumped at the chance to have played opposite Daniel as the 女性（の） lead in How to 後継する…', says the source.

TomKat have taken plenty of flak for how they are raising Suri, who is frequently photographed in high heels, with a pacifier in her mouth and a Starbucks cup in 手渡す.

Starting out: Holmes rose to fame as Joey Potter in teen series Dawson's Creek, と一緒に Michelle Williams, James Ven Der Beek and Joshua Jackson

'Katie is 不公平に maligned,' her 知識 says. 'She spends more time out with Suri than any other high-profile actress who has young children.'

Suri was the 支配する of 論争 recently when she was pictured at Serendipity 3 a restaurant famed for its desserts (and also a favourite haunt of Jackie Kennedy).?

Holmes brought Suri to the restaurant at midnight after spending much of the day previewing Holmes&Yang's 落ちる collection.? Embarrassingly for all 関心d, Suri was photographed grabbing 持つ／拘留する of penis-形態／調整d fruit gums.

'Katie 非難するd the restaurant for 在庫／株ing the Penis Gummies but Serendipity 3 is renowned for its kitsch novelty items,' says her 知識.

'She 辞退するd to 受託する any culpability. But why weren't Katie and her 安全 team keeping a closer 注目する，もくろむ on Suri? Why wasn't she in bed at midnight?'

批評: The actress's parenting 技術s have come under 解雇する／砲火／射撃 after her daughter, Suri, 選ぶd up a packet of Penis Gummies as a New York 蓄える／店

Sources say Holmes and 巡航する would love to have a second child. Their union has always been the source of 憶測 and innuendo but lately they have been getting on better than ever.

'Tom relies on Katie more than you might think,' says her 商売／仕事 associate. 'It was she who 勧めるd him to トン 負かす／撃墜する the Scientology in public because it was 害（を与える）ing his career.'

With 巡航する just having 完全にするd filming 使節団: Impossible 4, now it is Holmes who has to worry about her career. The last film she 発射 was a small 役割 in a new comedy する権利を与えるd Jack and Jill with Adam Sandler.

But unlike the real-life Jackie O, who died in 1994, she is yet to 勝利，勝つ over America.