Local Baltimore 'drug dealers' threatened to 'shoot up' set of Apple TV+ production 'Lady in the Lake', starring Natalie Portman, if they didn't stop filming on their block - and then ordered producers to pay them $50,000

Dailymail.Com ^ | 29 August 2022 | Alex Oliveira

[jdege]

How much is the PD charging for providing security for the filming?

The drug dealers might be cheaper.

[dfwgator]

Ha Ha! Couldn’t happen to nicer bunch of Hollywood idiots.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, that occurred to me too.

They are filming on location in some bad neighborhood? And the reason for that is what exactly? Is this storyline about events in a bad area, so they want to keep it real????

[dfwgator]

Hey didn’t you know that Natalie Portman is quite the rapper...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A0iftflme4

[ecomcon]

Lol

[skeeter]

If you called yourself Emperor because some moistened wench threw a sword at you they’d lock you up and throw away the key

[gundog]

“Dis be a nice lil moobie you gots here. Be a damn shame if sumfin happen to it.”

[Verginius Rufus]

Has the Baltimore Police Department apologized to the drug dealers yet?

[Poison Pill]

Thugs have no paperwork and way quicker turn time.

[COBOL2Java]

They should have got permission from the government of that block. They were costing them a day of dope profits. Very rude.

[bassmaner]

"See the violence inherent in the system!"

"Help! I'm being repressed!"

[SaxxonWoods]

“Has the Baltimore Police Department apologized to the drug dealers yet?”

Police confirmed they are drug dealers which means they know who they are and where they live.

They should be under arrest and released without charges by the end of the day.

[T.B. Yoits]

So now the film crew has to pay the local drug dealers in addition to the grifters in Baltimore city hall?

The production companies are likely already being shaken down by Reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton.

[RummyChick]

Did anyone involved with this project ever watch The Wire??? I mean..come on....straight up you better know how to coax the Ruler in the area.

[M Kehoe]

In the fwiw department I (as CFO) had two properties selected by Hollywood for films. One was “Love Field” and the other, “The Murder of Mary Phagan.”

Anyway, the site selection committee was very thorough in their questioning. A few of the questions were about local crime and who would provide site security.

Maybe this time the site committee didn’t do their job?

5.56mm

[Rummyfan]

Omar never put his gun own on no citizen. A man must have a code.

[fr_freak]

"does this show have something in common with King Arthur and the Excalibur sword?"

200 block of Park Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn

I've got an odd question too: Is there a Brooklyn in Baltimore?

[Kazan]

One of the dozens of issues in this country infinitely more important than a war in Ukraine that has absolutely nothing to do with our national interest.

Thank you for diversifying, Mom.

[cyclotic]

Baltimore has a whole bunch of named neighborhoods, Brooklyn being one of them

[Chewbarkah]

Better add Alec Baldwin to the cast...