Apple TV+ has a new series titled ‘The Lady in The Lake’ that premiered on 19 July. The series also stars Natalie Portman, Moses Ingram, Y’lan Noel, Mikey Madison, Sean Ringgold, Brett Gelman and many more. With just two episodes released, viewers are pretty excited about the series.
The series follows Natalie Portman’s Maddie Schwartz, an investigative journalist working on an unsolved murder. However, her life gets tangled up with a woman fighting for Black rights. So today we will be discussing if this story is based on true events.
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The Real Story Behind ‘The Lady in The Lake’
The new Apple TV+ series is based on Laura Lippman’s novel of the same name. The book is inspired by two real-life cases. The book’s character Maddie has parallels with author Lippman, who is also a former journalist.
Lippman was also reportedly inspired to write the best-seller after reading about a real-life murder in a local paper, The Evening Sun. The article detailed the disappearance of Shirley Lee Parker in 1969, bartender and window model. Another case that inspired the story was the case of missing 11-year-old Esther Lebowitz.
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Author Laura Lippman’s Take On The Series
Laura Lippman has herself said that although the cases are based on true stories the novel and the subsequent TV adaptation are not a retelling of these crimes. “It’s like, this is the story I want to tell,” she told NPR, adding, “I can’t be weighed down by what’s true.” Instead, Lippman says that The Lady In the Lake explores ‘thematic possibility’.
In another interview with The Post, she also talked about the protagonist of the book Maddie. “Maddie is the person I fear becoming—the person who’s only interested in the story she wants to tell and sometimes forgets about the humanity of the people around her, because she’s so focused on her life and herself,” Lippman said.
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