Natalie was recognized for her starring role in Jackie, a portrait of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy during the days immediately following her husband's assassination
Filmmakers are "looking backward to discover some of the lessons of the past that are relevant today," said Piers Handling, co-director of Toronto Film Festival
"She's so well-known in terms of what she looks like and what she sounds like and how she moves, so to get that is definitely daunting," Natalie said.
"I felt like it was the most dangerous film I've ever done because everyone knows what Jackie looked like, sounded like, walked like," said Natalie Portman on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival