Watch Let the Right One In Series First Trailer
Inspired by the original hit Swedish novel and film, the series centers on Mark (Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor (Baez) whose lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive. With these emotionally charged and terrifying ingredients as a starting point, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN will upend genre expectations, turning a naturalistic lens on human frailty, strength and compassion.
Madison Taylor Baez plays the young vampire, Eleanor Kane, while The Hateful Eight actor Demián Bichir portrays her father, Mark.
“This is the story of a father and his daughter and all the obstacles they have to conquer and overcome in order to keep themselves alive,” says Bichir. “Mark’s daughter has been infected, so to speak, with a very, very strange and terrible virus, disease, however you want to call it. I’m saying [it like] this because, to me, this story goes beyond any vampire story. To me, this is about many other things that we’re actually experiencing. It’s about how difficult it is in any society for anyone to be different and to try to fit in.”
The show’s first episode finds Mark and Eleanor moving into a New York apartment. Their immediate neighbors are a cop named Naomi Cole (Anika Noni Rose) and her son Isaiah (Ian Foreman), who inadvertently risks life and limb (not to mention his neck!) by befriending Eleanor.
“It was important to me to aspire to capture the spirit of the film and for the show to be a love letter to it,” says Hinderaker. “In the film, there is that relationship between the two children that is so pivotal in terms of what makes it iconic, what makes it so beautiful. So, this father and daughter move next door to another 12-year-old child, Isaiah, a boy who is isolated and bullied. Isaiah and Madison, our vampire, form a truly powerful and precarious friendship that’s made all the more precarious because Isaiah’s mother is a homicide detective.”
The show’s filming took place in New York and involved both freezing weather and many night shoots.
“It’s a difficult story, it’s a dark story, we were shooting mostly in the winter, that makes the whole thing very very difficult,” says the Mexico-born Bichir, who is also a producer on the show. “But you know, when you’re an actor in Mexico everything else is like a walk in the park. It’s like driving. If you drive in Mexico City, oh, you’re ready for any city on the planet!”
The cast of Let the Right One In also includes Grace Gummer, Kevin Carroll, Jacob Buster, Nick Stahl, and Željko Ivanek. The show is produced by Tomorrow Studios.
