‘The Changeling’: Adina Porter & Clark Backo To Star Opposite LaKeith Stanfield In Apple TV+ Drama Series
deadline.comEmmy nominee Adina Porter (Underground) and Clark Backo (Letterkenny) are set as leads opposite LaKeith Stanfield in The Changeling, Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series based on Victor LaValle’s bestselling book of the same name.The Changeling, from Annapurna and Apple Studios, is a fairytale for grown-ups.
A horror story, a parenthood fable and a perilous odyssey through a New York City you didn’t know existed.Porter will play Lillian, the mother of Apollo, played by Stanfield.
Backo is Emmy, Apollo’s wife.In LaValle’s book, when Apollo and Emma have their baby, Brian, it feels like both a reward and a challenge for the new dad.
Apollo, the son of a single mother, had been scraping by as a bookseller who hunts estate and garage sales for rare first editions, so even the unusual circumstance of Brian’s birth (on a stalled subway train) seems like a blessing, as does the way Apollo stumbles across a first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird (inscribed by Harper Lee to Truman Capote, no less) shortly thereafter.
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