Natalie Portman’s Wild ‘Lady in the Lake’ Accent Is Making Everyone Think of ‘Jackie’

If you are wondering if 2016 is somehow repeating itself, then look—and listen—no further than Natalie Portman’s turn as Maddie Schwartz in the new Apple TV+ period crime drama Lady in the Lake.

Early in the first episode, wearing a blood-stained skirt suit and a pillbox hat, her perfectly coiffed flipped bob framing her face, Portman’s Maddie delivers 1960s (and 2016) déjà vu. The moment Portman opens her mouth...