Lestat will be just as feisty and fierce in Interview With The Vampire season 2, promise stars
By Dan Selcke
Interview With The Vampire was one of the best new shows of 2022, a luscious, decadent adaptation of Anne Rice's seminal horror novel that peeled back the emotional core of the melancholic antiheroes in a new way that caught me off guard. I'm eager to see what comes next for bloodsuckers Louis, Lestat and Claudia, and I'll get to in just a couple months.
To hype fans up, lead actors Jacob Anderson (Louis) and Sam Reid (Lestat) answered fan questions in a short video on the AMC YouTube channel. We'll get the important question out of the way first: will Lestat be "just as feisty" in the second season as he was in the first? Reid shared the obvious: “I mean… yeah.” Anderson added that he will be "fierce" as well.
Feisty and fierce. We can only hope.
Memory is still a monster in Interview With The Vampire season 2
A bit more substantively, fans asked if would be getting Lestat's side of the story. "Yes, but not from his point of view," Reid answered cryptically.
Rice's original Interview With the Vampire novel was told entirely from the point of view of Louis, a young man whom Lestat turns into a vampire early in the story. However, as the franchise went on, Rice wrote a great many novels and built out a whole vampire mythos, with books told from the points of view of Lestat, Armand and others. The producers have a huge body of work they can play with, and it sounds like they're going to.
For instance, various fans asked we'll get more of Armand's backstory, whether the show will import bits from other Vampire Chronicles books, and whether we'll get episodes told from points of view other than Louis'. Reid's response to all of these queries? "Yes." Anything could happen.
Reid also responded when a fan asked if there was any line from season 1 that would prove especially important in season 2. "Memory is a monster," he answered.
The first season of Interview With The Vampire did a great job of balancin Louis' blood-drenched life story with scenes set in the modern day, when Louis is being interviewed by a journalist who often catches him in lies, intentional or otherwise. It's a fascinating dynamic that adds a lot to the show, and I'm impressed how the writers maintain a balance between the two timelines. I can't wait to see them do it again when new episodes start dropping on May 12.
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