‘Lady In The Lake’ Trailer: Natalie Portman Is “Seeking To Shed A Secret Past” In Apple TV+ Thriller Series — Update
18.06.2024 - 16:27
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UPDATED, 8:40 AM: “I saw you once, Maddie Schwartz. Before any of this began, I saw you. Alive…I was Cleo Johnson, but in my death, I became the Lady in the Lake,” says Moses Ingram‘s Cleo in a voiceover at the beginning of the trailer for Apple limited series Lady in the Lake.
Natalie Portman stars as Maddie Schwartz, a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, alongside Ingram’s Cleo Johnson, a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family. Their disparate lives seem parallel at first, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mystifying death, a chasm opens that puts everyone around them in danger, per the official synopis.
Also starring in the series are Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison and Pruitt Taylor Vince.
Check out the trailer above and see details of the series below.
PREVIOUS, May 8: A first-look at the upcoming Apple limited series Lady in the Lake has been released (above) and viewers won’t have to wait too long to see the drama. The seven-part series will premiere globally on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on Friday, July 19 followed by new episodes every Friday through August 23.
Lady in the Lake, which comes from Alma Har’el, is based on Laura Lippman’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name. It takes place in ’60s Baltimore, where an unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz (Portman) to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood (Moses Ingram), a hardworking woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing