Natalie Portman Has a Dark Secret in ‘Lady in the Lake’ Trailer
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There’s a mystery at the heart of Natalie Portman’s new Apple TV+ series Lady in the Lake. In a new trailer for the limited series, which premieres July 19, Portman embodies a Sixties housewife on the trail of a dead woman, played by Moses Ingram.
Ingram’s character Cleo narrates the trailer, saying of Portman’s character, “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. 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?”
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The period drama series is based on Laura Lippman’s novel of the same name, and was created and directed by filmmaker Alma Har’el. It also stars Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison, and Pruitt Taylor Vince.
The official synopsis reads: “When the disappearance of a young girl grips the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women converge on a fatal collision course. Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) is a Jewish housewife seeking to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram) is 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. From visionary director Alma Har’el, Lady in the Lake emerges as a feverish noir thriller and an unexpected tale of the price women pay for their dreams.”
Portman last starred in Todd Haynes’ May December alongside Julianne Moore. Ingram, meanwhile, earned an Emmy nod for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for The Queen’s Gambit. She went on to co-star in 2022’s Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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