Shooting a TV show in Baltimore- what a great idea!
Natalie Portman’s ‘Lady in the Lake’ Stops Baltimore Production After Gun Violence Threats, Extortion Attempt


The Baltimore Police Department has now released more information disputing initial extortion reports. Per the Baltimore Banner, the BPD located the 43-year-old street vendor who said he talked to the “Lady in the Lake” production team at approximately 6 a.m. ET on August 26 to appeal for compensation due to his business being blocked. His official statement does not mention a gun or threat of gun violence.

The location supervisor for “Lady in the Lake” who submitted the initial report has since “retracted his original statement of seeing the gun and advised he did not see a gun but that one of the drivers [had] seen the gun,” but adding that he did witness “a large amount of marijuana” on the street vendor. The vendor was later arrested on a drug charge. The police were called to the set later that afternoon at 4:45 p.m. ET in response to a separate report of people causing disruption. An officer spoke to a man who “was being argumentative” but denied threatening the production crew.


A supervisor for a security firm working on set claimed people were asking first for $4,000, and later then $50,000 for the crew to film and had threatened to shoot in the air. However, per the report, “She did not have any knowledge of who made the threats or request for money.”
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/08/na...on-1234756102/