Moses Ingram (Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Queen’s Gambit) will act next door Natalie Portman in the Apple TV + limited series Lady in the lake. Ingram replaces Lupita Nyong’owho left the project after filming began, and will play Cleo Sherwood in the story.
The series is an adaptation of Laura LippmanThe novel of the same name. The story takes place in 1960s Baltimore, “where an unsolved murder prompts housewife and mother, Maddie Schwartz (Portman), to reinvent her life as an investigative reporter and put her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood (Ingram), a hardworking woman juggling motherhood, lots of jobs, and a passionate commitment to pushing Baltimore’s black progressive agenda forward.
The series was created by Alma Har’el who is also directing, and Ingram and Portman are joined in the series by Y’Lan Noel, Mikey Madison And Brett Gelman.
I love a good murder mystery and this series looks like it’s going to be good. Here is a more detailed description of the story:
In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know, everyone except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. Last year she was a happy and even spoiled housewife. This year, she ran away from her nearly 20-year-old marriage, determined to fulfill her youthful ambitions to live a passionate and meaningful life.
Maddie wants to be important, to make her mark in a rapidly changing world. Drawing on her own secrets, she helps the Baltimore police find a murdered girl, an assistance that leads to a job at the city’s afternoon newspaper, the Star. Working at the newspaper gives Maddie the opportunity to make a name for herself, and she found her own story to do it: Cleo Sherwood, a missing woman whose body was discovered in a city park lake fountain.
If Cleo were white, every Baltimore reporter would be begging to tell her story. Instead, her mysterious death receives only a cursory mention in the daily newspapers, and no one cares when Maddie starts snooping around the life of a young black woman, except for Cleo’s ghost, who is determined to keep her secrets and her own. dignity. Cleo scolds the ambitious Maddie: she You care about my death, not my life. They are not the same thing.
Maddie’s investigation puts her in touch with people who were once on the fringes of her life: a jewelry store clerk, a waitress, a rising star on the Baltimore Orioles, a patrolling policewoman, a hardened reporter, a lonely man in a movie Theater. But despite all her ambition and drive, Maddie often fails to see people right in front of her. Failure to look beyond her own needs will lead to tragedy and unrest for all kinds of people, including Ferdie, the man who shares her bed, a police officer who is risking far more than Maddie realizes.
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by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
