‘Lady in the Lake’ Trailer Wraps Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram Into a Menacing Mystery
Apple TV+ released a trailer for “Lady in the Lake,” the upcoming limited series based on Laura Lippman’s novel of the same name.
The thriller series follows the convergence of two women’s lives after the Thanksgiving 1996 disappearance of a young girl in Baltimore. Jewish housewife Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) seeks to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist while Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram), a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family. When Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mystifying death, everyone around them is suddenly put in danger. The cast also includes Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Dylan Arnold.
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“I saw you once, Maddie Schwartz,” Ingram’s Cleo narrates in the trailer. “Before any of this began, I saw you. Alive, I was Cleo Johnson. But in my death, I became the lady in the lake. Your writing dreams ruined your life. Now, you wanted those same dreams to rewrite it. But why did you need to drag my dead body into it?”
Hailing from Fifth Season, and produced by Crazyrose and Bad Wolf America, “Lady in the Lake” is created and directed by Alma Har’el. Executive producers include Har’el alongside producing partner Christopher Leggett; Portman with producing partner Sophie Mas; Lippman; Nathan Ross and the late Jean-Marc Vallée for Crazyrose; Julie Gardner for Bad Wolf America; Layne Eskridge; Amy Kaufman; and Boaz Yakin. The soundtrack was composed by Marcus Norris with live performances composed and produced by Bekon.
The series premieres with two episodes on July 19.
See the trailer below.
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