Lady In The Lake trailer: Natalie Portman is an obsessed 1960s housewife on the run from a ‘secret life’ in the Apple TV+ series

Natalie Portman delves into a mysterious world in 1966 Baltimore in the upcoming Apple TV+ series Lady In The Lake.

The action centers on the mysterious disappearance of a young black woman on Thanksgiving Day, which grips Baltimore and sends the lives of two women “on a fatal collision course,” according to the AppleTV+ synopsis.

Portman – who has recently appeared alongside Paul Mescal – plays Jewish housewife Maddie Schwartz who becomes obsessed with the disappearance of Cleo Johnson.

She tries to reinvent herself as an investigative journalist so that she can put her secret past behind her.

“I saw you once, Maddie Schwartz,” Cleo says in the trailer. “Before all this started, I saw you. Alive I was Cleo Johnson.

‘But my death made me the lady in the lake. Your writing dreams have ruined your life. Now you wanted to rewrite those same dreams. But why did you have to drag my corpse in?’

The action centers on the mysterious disappearance of a young Black woman on Thanksgiving Day, which “holds Baltimore in its grip” and causes the lives of two women to “converge on a fatal collision course,” according to the Apple TV+ synopsis.

Moses Ingram plays Cleo, a mother who “navigates the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family.”

“Their disparate lives initially seem parallel, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mysterious death, a rift opens that endangers everyone around them,” the synopsis adds, describing it as an “unexpected story about the price women pay for their dreams. .’

The Lady In The Lake also stars Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison and Pruitt Taylor Vince.

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It starts with Maddie doing housework before breaking a plate and shouting that she “can’t just be someone’s wife.”

She packs a suitcase and leaves her house and stands in the middle of a floor covered in newspaper clippings as Cleo’s voiceover continues.

“You wanted to tell everyone’s story but your own,” Cleo says as scenes from both their lives appear on screen.

At the end of the trailer, Maggie takes a photo of herself from the pile of newspaper clippings.

“Every time someone is found dead in the lake, it seems like it leads back to you,” a voice says.

Portman plays Jewish housewife Maddie Schwartz who becomes obsessed with the disappearance of Cleo Johnson and tries to reinvent herself as an investigative journalist so she can put her secret past behind her.

“I saw you once, Maddie Schwartz,” Cleo says in the trailer. “Before all this started, I saw you. Alive I was Cleo Johnson

‘But my death made me the lady in the lake. Your writing dreams have ruined your life. Now you wanted to rewrite those same dreams. But why did you have to drag my body in?’

Moses Ingram plays Cleo, a mother who “navigates the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family”

“Their disparate lives initially seem parallel, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo’s mysterious death, a rift opens that endangers everyone around them,” the synopsis adds, describing it as an “unexpected story about the price women pay for their dreams. ‘

The Lady In The Lake also stars Y’lan Noel, Brett Gelman, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross, Mikey Madison and Pruitt Taylor Vince

The upcoming limited series is based on the novel of the same name by Laura Lippman. The series will premiere with two episodes on July 19

Portman, 43, told why the Lady In The Lake ‘appealed’ to her People, saying, “I think the foundation is just a woman wanting to be free. I think this is a theme that is interesting to me.

“Another is just being a Jewish woman in Baltimore in the 1960s.

“My grandmother was from Baltimore, so I had a lot of imagination about what that time was like.

“And another thing that was interesting to me was exploring how someone who is oppressed can also be an oppressor,” she added.

The upcoming limited series is based on the novel of the same name by Laura Lippman. The series will premiere with two episodes on July 19.