We spoke w/ MayfairWitches showrunner Esta Spalding and producer Michelle Ashford on filming the series in New Orleans and having witch consultants on set.
Executive produced by Michelle Ashford and showrunner Esta Spalding, who wrote the series premiere together, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, the second series in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe at AMC, follows Dr. Rowan Fielding , a young neurosurgeon discovering newfound powers that could have very dangerous consequences. As she tries to comes to terms with who she really is and learns what it means to be the heir to the Mayfair family of witches, a mysterious presence complicates everything.
MICHELLE ASHFORD: We feel in great hands with Mark. It’s been a super easy collaboration, and a happy one. We love the fact that we’re one part of a big universe. It’s really cool. We think it’s fun. SPALDING: When we first started talking about it, Mark came to Michelle first, and then she brought me in, and we started talking about, “Would we wanna do this?” The thing that we were so compelled by was that the lead character’s a doctor, and Anne Rice had drawn on the history of midwives and healers who were persecuted and massacred in the Middle Ages in Europe, put to death by the church and called witches because they had extraordinary powers.
SPALDING: Probably. Our very early research and consultants were in surgery. We had to really find out what surgery would really be like, and what some cases would be. And then, we had to pivot from that to somebody who’s telling us how to cast a good spell in a couple of episodes. That’s the arc of the show, really.
SPALDING: I would say that we have asked a lot of Jack Huston, and he is delivering. He is terrifying in places. You feel that he is utterly demonic and manipulative and scary, and then, in other places, he feels totally seductive. It feels like he’s the one who’s being used by the witches. He’s the instrument for them. He’s playing it back and forth, both ways.
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