Shapeshifting is made more complex by teenagers in BTS video for The Innocents

Do you think you had a difficult adolescence? At least you were not a shapeshifter. In the next original Netflix series, The Innocents a teenager named June is facing this particular problem.

June and her boyfriend Harry are fleeing home to be together, but on the way they discover June's supernatural. secret: that she can become other people. According to executive producer Elaine Pyke, the first person she becomes is a bearded Norwegian of six feet four inches, in this new behind-the-scenes promotional video of the series.

At the weekend's Television Critics Association event, executive producer Hania Elkington explained what makes the series' metamorphosis work: "You have to make sure you're really wrong, really scary. . They've always seen these shifts and how they behaved like triptychs of characters, so you'd have the couple, June and Harry, and then that third person and I think that's keeping June's character in that mix and keeping the relationship between her and Harry still in play, reminds you what the emotional repercussions of the change are. "

Shapeshifting tropes are common in the stories of passage into adulthood (see also: Ginger Snaps Teeth and to a lesser extent, Jennifer & # 39; s Body ) Changes in your body, new strange feelings, hairs appearing in new places: so many signs of adolescence and metamorphosis.This seems to be a trope that The Innocents plays in the guard, as evidenced by the video.

The Innocents stars Sorcha Groundsell, Percelle Ascott ( The Coroner, Casualty ), and Guy Pearce ( Memento, LA Confidential ) .Farren Blackburn executive produced the show as well as directed six of the eight episodes of season 1. Previous credits include Defenders, Iron Fist, Daredevil, and Doctor Who .

All episodes of [1945] 9004] The Innocents will be available for broadcast on Netflix on August 24.

Let us know in the comments below who is your favorite metamorph?