Mike Epps, Byron Bowers, Josiah Cross among five new cast members added to Apple’s Lady In The Lake series

Mike Epps, Byron Bowers, Noah Jupe, Josiah Cross and Pruitt Taylor Vince have been added to the Apple TV+’s limited series Lady In The Lake, starring Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram.

The cast also includes Y’Lan Noel, Mikey Madison and Brett Gelman.

The series, which comes from Alma Har’el, is based on Laura Lippman’s New York Times bestselling novel. It takes place in ’60s Baltimore, where an unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz (Portman) to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood (Ingram), a hardworking woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore’s Black progressive agenda.

The series comes from studio Endeavor Content alongside Crazyrose and Bad Wolf America.

Honey Boy director Har’el writes alongside Sheila Wilson, Zach Shields, Vanessa Baden-Kelley, Briana Belser, Nambi Kelly, Byron Bowers and Boaz Yakin. She also will direct and exec produces alongside producing partner Christopher Leggett through her new production company, Zusa.

Epps is one of the stars of Netflix’s The Upshaws. Bowers is currently starring in HBO’s Irma Vep and featured with Jupe in Honey Boy but is probably best known for his role in Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show. Cross featured in Will Smith movie King Richard and also features in Apple’s Masters of the Air. Taylor Vince has starred in The Mentalist and Netflix movie Bird Box.