She was the darling of French New Wave cinema and starred alongside Clint Eastwood and Sean Connery. She was also the target of a covert FBI operation that would lead to her being wiretapped and intimidated. Ultimately – it is claimed in the new film Seberg – it led to her demise.
Kristen Stewart in the title role of new film Seberg
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Jean Seberg, played by Kristen Stewart, was just a teenager when, in 1958, she was plucked from obscurity in an acting contest in Iowa. She hit the big time as the seductive star of Jean-Luc Godard’s À Bout de Souffle. But Seberg was politically radical and became a donor and public supporter of the Black Panther movement, closely befriending Malcolm X’s cousin Hakim Jamal. She would soon find herself the subject of