Apple+ adds All-Star lineup to its limited series adaptation of Laura Lippman’s book Lady In The Lake
Lupita Nyong’o and Natalie Portman signed onto the Apple+ limited series Lady In The Lake, which will be directed by Honey Boy director Alma Har’el.
The show is set in 1960s Baltimore and centered around an unsolved murder that prompts housewife and mother, Maddie Schwartz, played by Portman, to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist. Portman’s character’s story is set to intertwine Nyong’o who will play Cleo Sherwood, a hard-working woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a commitment to advancing Baltimore’s Black progressive agenda.
According to the book’s author, Laura Lippman the setting of the story required race to be a focal point.
“I couldn’t write about Baltimore and not write about race, that would be insane. That would be not about Baltimore,” Lippman said in an interview with NPR in July 2019.
Lippman adds that two Baltimore cases inspired the book — the disappearances of an 11-year-old girl named Esther Lebowitz and Shirley Parker whose body was found in a fountain at a zoo’s lake.
Both Nyong’o and Portman will join the executive production team to bring the book alive.
Source: Lupita Nyong’o to star in Apple+ show ‘Lady in the Lake’ Alongside Natalie Portman
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