Directed by Alma Har'el, an Israeli-American director, The lady in the lake is a television series set in Baltimore in the 1960s and tells the story of Maddie Schwartz, a Jewish housewife who became an investigative journalist.
The actress chosen to play the leading role is Israeli actress Natalie Portman, who said in a recent interview published on Friday that Baltimore is also the city where her great-grandparents lived.
Portman explained that “it is a topic that interests me a lot, how oppressed people can in turn oppress others. Sometimes we seek our own freedom without realizing that we are affecting the lives of others.” The story told in the film is set at a time when many members of the Jewish community marched with the civil rights movement, but others continued to perpetuate the exclusion of the black population from various institutions.
In this sense, the actress said that for her “it is fascinating to explore that combination of collaboration and adversary relationship: two minority groups that face discrimination and who obviously found some unity to face similar problems, but who also had differences because the Jews could try to assimilate. to whiteness, which many of them did as a method of survival, which made them part of a group that discriminated against others.”