Post by TylerDeneuve on Jun 8, 2024 21:23:24 GMT
Vanity Fair: Inside Natalie Portman’s New Murder Mystery Series, 'Lady in the Lake'
Mikey Madison is also in this! Will you be watching?
It doesn’t take long for Natalie Portman’s character to reach her breaking point in Lady in the Lake, the Apple+ adaptation of Laura Lippman’s best-selling mystery novel. After one domestic indignity too many, and a true-crime event triggering her hidden past, Portman’s Maddie is stirred out of her bored existence as a Jewish housewife and mother in 1965 Baltimore. She packs a suitcase, leaves her husband and the suburbs, and starts anew in the largely Black neighborhood where she can afford to live on her own.
Alit with fresh ambition and excitement over her freedom, she becomes obsessed with the reported mystery around Cleo Johnson, a Black single mother played by Moses Ingram (Queen’s Gambit) who was on her own path before she was found dead in a fountain. As viewers follow Maddie’s investigation, and her tone-deafness to the struggles of her new neighbors, Cleo’s final four weeks play out in storylines that first run parallel to Maddie’s.
Alit with fresh ambition and excitement over her freedom, she becomes obsessed with the reported mystery around Cleo Johnson, a Black single mother played by Moses Ingram (Queen’s Gambit) who was on her own path before she was found dead in a fountain. As viewers follow Maddie’s investigation, and her tone-deafness to the struggles of her new neighbors, Cleo’s final four weeks play out in storylines that first run parallel to Maddie’s.
