ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese sat down with Lady in the Lake stars Byron Bowers, Josiah Cross, and Y'lan Noel to talk about the Apple TV+ drama. The trio discussed their characters and working with stars Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram. It's streaming now on Apple TV+.
LADY IN THE LAKE Interview | Josiah Cross, Y'lan Noel & Byron Bowers
"When the disappearance of a young girl shakes the city of Baltimore on Thanksgiving 1966, the lives of two women are set on a fatal collision course. Maddie Schwartz (Natalie Portman) is a Jewish housewife trying to shed a secret past and reinvent herself as an investigative journalist, and Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram) is a mother navigating the political underbelly of Black Baltimore while struggling to provide for her family. Their disparate lives initially seem to run parallel, but when Maddie becomes fixated on Cleo's mysterious death, a rift opens that puts everyone around them in danger," the synopsis reads.
Tyler Treese: Byron, as a comedian yourself, what was the most satisfying thing about playing this juicy, dramatic role with Slappy, but you also get to do stand-up comedy in Lady in the Lake? That seems perfect.
Byron Bowers: Kudos to Alma Har'el for making this possible and creating this character for me. What a genius to take a slice of what life is really like, like most comedians really go through, even in that period where comedians were finding their voice and not telling street jokes anymore, and how they weren't getting work, you know? As a real comedian, I've gone through that in my own career. So we were just able to merge what was happening now with what was happening then in a major way, because those comedians who were breaking through really shaped the work that I'm doing now. So it was a blast to do that, you know?
