'The Changeling' EP and director Jonathan van Tulleken previews the haunting parenthood fable at the center of the fantasy horror series, adapted from Victor LaValle's 2017 novel.
and Clark Backo star as Apollo and Emma in the series, a spellbinding parenthood fable that brings ancient folklore and magic to modern day New York. As the title suggests, the series is rooted in European mythology about changelings, described as monstrous offsprings of fairies or elves left in place of human infants stolen by other fairies. | Credit: Apple TV+
Versions of the myth, which first arose during pre-industrial Europe, varied across the continent, but all told the tale of children abducted and replaced with ill-tempered offspring, whether for use of fairy stock, delivering them to the devil, or due to the fairies' admiration of the beauty of the human babies. Across all versions, changelings could easily pass off as their human counterparts — their true likeness only exposed by way of trickery or beatings.
"It was exciting to read something that had expanded and found whole new depths to Victor's work," series executive producer and director Jonathan van Tulleken, a fantasy horror enthusiast who found himself engrossed in LaValle's novel when it first debuted, tells EW of the adaptation over Zoom one late morning. "Often in changeling myths, people have a sense that [the baby] is off but don't know why," he says.
Along with LaValle's novel, the creative team referenced Nordic horror and mythology, as well as gothic children's fairytales and poems about changelings from the late 1800s and early 1900s, including
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