‘The Changeling’ Production Designer Breaks Down His Favorite Easter Eggs and How He Built the Elk Hotel
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This contains spoilers from “The Changeling”, now streaming on AppleTV+ “The Changeling’s” latest episode steps back in time to New York — in 1982, to be precise.
For production designer Lester Cohen, he needed to find a place where he could build his red-light area and seedy hotel. The episode begins with Lillian (Adina Porter) walking through the red-light district in New York where peep shows cost 25 cents.
She is still trying to get hold of Apollo (LaKeith Stanfield), leaving him messages. It has been three weeks since he went missing.
She enters the Elk Hotel, a seedy joint. Narrator Victor LaValle, who also penned the book of the same name, describes it as “the shittiest hotel in the world.” As it turns out, the hotel is 100 years old.
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