2024-07-15 03:01:00
An uncomfortable reflection. This is the first meeting between the protagonists of Lady in the Lake (premiering next Friday on Apple TV+) during that Thanksgiving Day in Baltimore in 1966. From the street side, the housewife observes the suit that inside the window dresses a living mannequin. Jackie Kennedy Jewish comes troubled by several mandates, the other is a black mother who lives her own personal ordeal. “She is worried about her own struggle, her own pain, and she has this horrible blood stain on her dress. It is very metaphorical. So when you see this woman in the window, you only see her in that dress. It is very symbolic of what her journey is going to be from then on,” he assures her. Natalie Portman a Page 12star and producer of the seven-episode series created by Alma Har’el.
The woman the title refers to is Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram) and the other is Maddie Schwartz (Portman). Existences examined in parallel and/or contrast, when the second abandons her place as a good wife and resumes her maiden name and career as a investigative journalist. Your interest? A series of femicides that plague the city of Maryland. “You said you knew who killed me, Maddie Morgenstern. You said no one cared until you showed up. The truth is, you showed up at the end of my story, and you made it the beginning of yours,” says the voiceover of the deceased with a particular recriminatory tone towards the reporter. This is how Lady in the Lake goes from intimate drama to whodunnitand social denunciation. “I think that between the two there is an obvious strain; Although they have never met in person, or anything like that, their lives were very close and now they cross paths within this great metaphor that the series explores,” Ingram describes.
Based on the novel by Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake offers an unusual crossover of genres and a lavish display of symbolism from its prodigious staging and soundtrack. At the center is Maddie’s personal quest, which contrasts with Cleo’s life. Somewhat like The mystery of Soho (Edgar Wright; 2021) with the castling of the Swinging London through mid-60s Baltimore. Here’s how Religion, segregation, misogyny and the American dream operate as a backdrop to this “subversive black thriller,” as defined by the miniseries’ showrunner. In a disturbing way –and outside of political correctness-, The work shows how class differences can lead to the “oppressor also being the oppressed,” say those involved. “This is very different from a typical murder mystery and goes into a psychological drama “deep,” Portman said at a press conference attended by this newspaper.
-How was it to create these characters that seem like two sides of the same coin?
Natalie Portman: -We have seven hours, which is great to be able to explore in depth the different roles that these women had. Maddie and Cleo are very different in how they juggled their roles as mothers, workers, daughters, wives and lovers. And here you see all those shades.
-Where do the dream sequences and musical segments come from? What do these moments mean?
Alma Har’el: -It’s true that there are numerous dance scenes and dream sequences, but at the center are Maddie and Cleo. I would say that those sequences came to me. They are like an exploration of their psyches. They are the shadows and nightmares charged with meaning. It was a bit like creating the dream and being the psychologist who interprets them at the same time.
Moses Ingram: -Making them was like being in a wild dream. So many colors and brightnesses that came to you. Images intersect, it’s a world that operates outside of what happens in narrative terms.
N. P.: -I love what Alma achieved in these scenes because it incorporates what happens to the characters, it adds mysteryand what we as actresses experienced with them. She was like a dream coach and it was amazing. It was like negotiating with your own subconscious of what you are experiencing.
-Cleo and Maddie are like outsiders in their own lives, what or who are they really?
M. I.: -Cleo is a little tired of being the girl that other people dream of or help. This is something that any woman can relate to. That box that they are placed in beforehand.
N. P.: – They have fulfilled the needs of others, but never their own. And they are looked down upon for that very reason. Cleo and Maddie are exploring the same thing, even though their paths are very different. What they both share is a truth.
Scheduled
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* Paramount+ announced the arrival of Landman for next November. This is a new incursion of Taylor Sheridan in the modern western, this time with the oil business in the background. It is based on a podcast and will follow the story of wild billionaires who drive a boom so big that it is changing the environment, the economy and power. The cast includes names of the likes of Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, Jon Hamm y Andy Garcia.
* Sony Channel comes recharged with premieres about public servants. Today will be the turn of the sixth season of The Good Doctor (10 pm) and the second of Fire Country (11pm). Tomorrow, the twentieth season of Grey’s Anatomy (10 pm) and the last of Station 19 (11pm). Let the siren sound.
* Time Banditsserial remake of the Monty Pythonesque The adventurers of time, will arrive on Apple TV+ on July 24. It has the touch of Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and Taika Waititi (Reservation Dogs) and follows an eleven-year-old boy on a journey through space-time alongside a group of tireless scoundrels. Who is in charge of the team? None other than Lisa “Phoebe” Kudrow.
Character
Johnny Lawrence of Cobra Kai (William Zabka). Season 6 finds the quintessential bully at the end of his redemption. The fights with Daniel LaRusso are in the past and the world karate championship is on the horizon. How to improve his students? “Training in the style of Rocky IV”, It promises to be a success. It will be available to watch from next Thursday.