{"id":59194,"date":"2022-08-28T23:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T23:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lady-in-the-lake-stops-production-after-violent-threats-extortion\/"},"modified":"2022-08-28T23:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T23:49:57","slug":"lady-in-the-lake-stops-production-after-violent-threats-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lady-in-the-lake-stops-production-after-violent-threats-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lady in the Lake&#8217; Stops Production After Violent Threats, Extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articlebody\">\n<p><em>Lady in the Lake<\/em>an upcoming Apple TV+ series starring Natalie Portman, has stopped production after several Baltimore locals threatened producers and tried to extort them.<span id=\"more-1234865587\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The crew was filming in downtown Baltimore around 4 pm Friday when they were approached by several people.  The group made multiple threats, and said they would return and shoot someone if the production didn&#8217;t stop filming, a police spokesperson told The Baltimore Banner.<\/p>\n<p>The perpetrators said nothing would happen as long as they were paid.  According to The Banner, drug dealers then attempted to extort $50,000 from the production, which producers declined to pay.  Instead, it was decided that filming would be halted until a new location was found.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, it&#8217;s unknown when the series might resume filming.<\/p>\n<p>Directed and co-written by Alma Har&#8217;el, the limited series takes place in 1960s Baltimore, where an unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz (played by Portman) to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood, a hard-working woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore&#8217;s Black progressive agenda.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lady in the Lake<\/em>&#8216;s ensemble cast includes Y&#8217;Lan Noel (<em>insecure<\/em>), Mikey Madison (<em>Better Things<\/em>) and Brett Gelman (<em>Stranger Things<\/em>).  In June, Moses Ingram stepped in to replace Lupita Nyong&#8217;o in the role of Cleo.<\/p>\n<p>Portman and Har&#8217;el serve as executive producers along with Dre Ryan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=228932107161302\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady in the Lakean upcoming Apple TV+ series starring Natalie Portman, has stopped production after several Baltimore locals threatened producers and tried to extort them. The crew was filming in downtown Baltimore around 4 pm Friday when they were approached by several people. The group made multiple threats, and said they would return and shoot &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lady-in-the-lake-stops-production-after-violent-threats-extortion\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Lady in the Lake&#8217; Stops Production After Violent Threats, Extortion<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59155,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/lady-in-the-lake-series-halts-production-after-extortion-threats-deadline\/","url_meta":{"origin":59194,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Lady In The Lake&#8217; Series Halts Production After Extortion Threats \u2013 Deadline","date":"August 28, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"An Apple TV+ series filming in Baltimore stopped production Friday after several people threatened the producers and tried to extort money from them, Baltimore police said. 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