‘Lady in the Lake’ Suspends Filming in Baltimore Over Threats

If you’ve seenTheWire‘ or David Simon’s latest production, ‘The City Is Ours’, you’ll know that the underworld of Baltimore give for few jokes. Last weekend they could see it on the set of ‘Lady in the Lake’, the new production of AppleTV+ who had to stop on Friday afternoon after receiving threats on the city’s film set by a group of unidentified people.

According to crew members who reported the incident to the police, a group of locals contacted the show’s producers around 4 p.m. Friday. The group threatened to return that same night and shoot the team members if they did not pay $50,000. to continue production.

The producers decided to report the incident to the police and momentarily stop filming. It is unknown to this day if it has resumed elsewhere in the city.

‘Lady in the Lake’ began shooting in April, and is expected to continue into the fall. The series adapts the novel of the same name by Laura Lippman and is set in 1960s Baltimore, where an unsolved murder pushes Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman), mother and housewife, to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist.

Along with Natalie Portman co-stars Moses Ingramwho was also the target of racist comments and insults after working on the Star Wars series ‘Obi Wan’.

David Simonthe creator of ‘The Wire’ and a journalist of events in Baltimore for a large part of his life, has not hesitated to contribute his opinion on the event on his Twitter account:

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“It’s not my production, I don’t know all the details. But we shot more than 200 hours of television over 2 decades. We communicated where we shot. Always some loudmouths exaggerating, always people from the team (location, security) trained to respond firmly but with respect. baltimore is good people.”