It’s a bloody story as previous as time. Season 2 of <em>Interview with the Vampire</em> brings again two tragic vampire lovers from completely different worlds — one clinging to his former humanity and the different embracing his monstrosity.

Based on Anne Rice’s 1976 novel, the story is a mix of ambition and calamity, following a love story that after appeared promising however feels doomed from the begin. With its contemporary, fashionable retelling transporting audiences to Dubai 2022 and switching between the current and numerous historic durations, the present has gained a following for its progressive strategy whereas staying true to the core of the authentic story.

With Season 2 of Interview with the Vampirenonetheless contemporary in followers’ minds, Perri Nemiroff chatted with the collection showrunner and government producer Rolin Jones and stars Sam Reid, Delainey Hayles, and Assad Zaman at the Collider interview studio at San Diego Comic-Con 2024. Check out our interview with the staff in the video above, or you may learn the full dialog in transcript kind beneath.

Interview with the Vampire

Based on Anne Rice’s iconic novel, observe Louis de Pointe’s epic story of affection, blood and the perils of immortality, as instructed to the journalist Daniel Molloy.

Release Date

2022-00-00

Creator

Rolin Jones

Cast

Sam Reid , Jacob Anderson , Eric Bogosian , Bailey Bass , Assad Zaman

PERRI NEMIROFF:Now that we are able to speak Season 2 spoilers, which scene did you assume was going to be the most troublesome so that you can pull off, and finally, was it, or did a distinct one catch you unexpectedly?

ROLIN JONES: The entirety of Episode 7. It’s not alleged to work. It’s a play; it isn’t alleged to work cinematically. I believe it was simply nice terror proper from the starting after we conceived of it, “Are we gonna be able to pull it off?” That was the factor that was terrifying for me.

DELAINEY HAYLES: I used to be gonna say [Episode] 7, as nicely, however I’m gonna say Episode 4—Baby Lulu. It was attention-grabbing for me as a result of I was having fun with it, however I needed to do not forget that Claudia did not take pleasure in it. There have been numerous components concerned in it and a few rehearsals. To see it come collectively, it was higher than I anticipated it to be. I’m very joyful with that Lulu efficiency.

SAM REID: I used to be going to say Episode 7, however I’ll say as an alternative, Dream Lestat—the dream ghost model that we had. I wasn’t completely bought on his presence. [Laughs] I used to be anxious he was going to be annoying. But as we slowly labored by means of it, I ended up having an actual gentle spot for that model of Lestat and that form of candy, dopey, harmless, naive character. I actually loved him in the finish.

ASSAD ZAMAN: I believe all the French scenes.

HAYLES: Your French is gorgeous.

JONES: You do not converse a lick of it both, proper?

ZAMAN: No, nothing! And I used to be actually, actually terrified. But in the finish, I loved them extra than a few of the different scenes. For some motive, I felt extra like Armand in French. Something about the language is so stunning and form of sensual. It helped me, particularly in Episode 6 with Madeleine. That’s one in every of my favourite scenes that we labored on.

Delainey Hayles Collaborated with Sam Reid for Claudia’s Last Look in ‘Interview with the Vampire’

I’ll get into some specifics now. Delainey, I used to be studying in one other interview that you just and Sam labored laborious collectively to make it possible for Claudia’s final look actually meant one thing and nonetheless reverberated all through the present. Can you speak us by means of the conversations you had and the way it impacted the efficiency?

HAYLES: I had loads of conversations with Emma [Villere] as a result of I knew what it was, however I used to be all the time hesitant about my thought of it. Then we had a dialog with you, [Sam], and Hannah [Moscovitch]. You wished the final look to be like, “Dad, help me,” and I used to be like, “Okay, got it.” I used to be enjoying with present that and the way I assumed it was, after which we met in the center. After I did some takes, Hannah would come as much as me and say, “Yeah, let’s keep doing that,” and I’d be like, “Okay, yeah, good.” It was about experimenting.

Assad and Sam, I’m curious to listen to how your solutions to it will differ. What do you assume attracts your character to Louis most? What explicit high quality makes him the one and nobody else?

REID: Gosh, being a vampire is tough. Picking someone who you are feeling is gonna be capable of stand the take a look at of time and be an excellent vampire, particularly somebody who you imagine is gonna be able to killing each single day and never disappearing or lighting themselves on hearth—Lestat noticed that in Louis in the starting. Louis is a fighter, and he noticed a lot potential. He’s additionally desperately in love with [Louis], with his humanity and his battle. Turns out, that’s not likely what Louis wished. It took them the higher a part of a century for Louis to find his true vampiric self and for Lestat to appreciate there’s extra humanity in him than he realized. I believe that’s why they’re an excellent match. I believe they’re form of soul mates for that motive, as a result of they will study a lot from one another and turn into higher monsters.

Becoming higher monsters, I like that.

ZAMAN: [Laughs] I believe that is additionally very, very completely different to Armand’s attraction as a result of there’s one thing actually astute about Lestat. Seeing a future like that and the potential is one thing that Armand did not have. I believe Armand sees Louis as a vessel for a way he can change Armand, and the way he can enrich Armand’s life, reasonably than seeing Louis as his personal particular person and what he is bringing and giving to the world. That’s the tragedy of the romance between them. It’s simply all about himself.

The Lestat/Louis Reunion Scene Wasn’t Working — Here’s How Rolin Jones Fixed It

One explicit scene that I may do hours and hours of interview questions on is the reunion at the finish of the season. Rolin, I used to be studying that your first draft of that scene felt unsatisfying. Can you inform me why it felt that option to you and what you wound up doing to vary that?

JONES: It was a gun to my head. We had a strike, and we needed to chuck out scripts actually, actually rapidly. You’re additionally saving it, proper? I do know that scene, from the starting after we took this on, would ultimately occur. Three years later, we’re capturing it. Generally talking, I had Lestat’s monitor okay. There have been some additions I ended up making. When we have been lastly allowed to return again and begin rewriting, I obtained on the cellphone with each of them to speak about the scene as a result of it was clear. We have been all it, going, “This is not working.” It appears so apparent and dumb and so blatant proper now, however the scene wanted to be about forgiveness and contrition, and it wasn’t popping out of Louis’ mouth the manner it ought to have. I’ve two actually beautiful actors who guided me that manner, and we obtained there collectively.

I’ve one particular writing query for you. What compelled you to script the ultimate second of that scene, “Jacob Anderson as Louis says something to Sam Reid as Lestat that only they will know?” I do know you will not inform us what was mentioned in that second, however why do you know scripting it that manner was greatest?

JONES: Making a TV present and doing artwork with the identical individuals for a piece of your life, like three years, you are compelled household, after which it does start to really feel like household. You have this intimate relationship on a web page with these characters after which you will have the individuals themselves. It was very clear after three years, that they had earned a slice of pie that nobody else ought to learn about and that was simply theirs.

‘Interview with the Vampire’ Season 3 Is in the Works

Can you give us a timeline for whenever you would possibly go into manufacturing on Season 3? Or maybe whenever you hope to launch it?

JONES: We’re working. We’re in work.

I’ll take what I can get in these conditions!

JONES: I carry it with me in every single place I’m going. I sleep with it. I do different issues with it.

The followers recognize it large time.

‘Interview With the Vampire’ Cast Responds to Fan Love

“It doesn’t escape me what the story is that we’re telling.”

One of the best joys of watching a present that touches so many individuals is whenever you come to an occasion like Comic-Con and also you speak about what was significant to you and the way completely different individuals can relate to completely different characters. For every of you, are you able to pinpoint a particular fan response to Season 2 that actually struck a chord with you and let it sink in how particular your work is in the present and the way a lot it means to individuals?

ZAMAN: I instantly considered assembly Rei for the first time on set. That’s when it first hit me how particular this was going to be. That was the first time I’d met somebody who was a lover of the books and a fan of the present. That’s when it hit me.

REID: We have been capturing the scenes from the 1700s that day, and Rei had come all the manner from America. She was there in Prague. I obtained to introduce her to Joseph Potter, who was enjoying Nicky, and no person knew that that character was developing in the scenes. It was an incredible factor. They’ve been so inspirational to us, seeing these movies, and the screaming. You do actually really feel like we’re not making a present only for us, we’re making it for these individuals who have lived with these books and lived with these characters. It’s very humbling. We simply wish to do it proper for them. You simply wish to do it proper.

HAYLES: For me, it was after we did the premiere and we did 92NY, a panel there, and there was a fan who was ready exterior, and she or he had discovered a duplicate of Claudia’s hat in Murder Mansion, the little aspect burrow. It was the very same. The texture was the identical, all the pieces was the identical, the weight was the identical, and she or he was like, “I searched forever for it.” And I used to be like, “Oh, that’s really lovely.” Basically, she DMed me, after which she was like, “I’m not used to seeing people that look like me reflected in this world.” It truly sucks saying this as a result of it is 2024, however we have been given this area, and it does not escape me what the story is that we’re telling. I’m simply joyful to be part of it. Her message was actually candy, and it made me assume lots about all the pieces that I’m doing right here.

JONES: You get somewhat nervous to reply this query as a result of there are such a lot of people who find themselves quote-unquote tremendous followers or actually, actually into this. I’m a infamous Luddite, and I’m not on the web lots, so I do know [gorrei_vc], “no context Lestat,” and Black Girl Talks Fangs. Jacob Anderson despatched me one in every of these response movies to, like, a 30-second business that AMC had reduce, and this younger girl in Colorado talked about this 30-second business and broke it down for like an hour and 20 minutes. It’s like dada! It was the craziest factor I’ve ever seen in my total life. Her identify is Autumn Brown. She’s a brilliant weirdo, and really honest and completely devoted, and that moved me an incredible deal. It simply entertained me. I used to be additionally anxious for her, too.

You can watch Interview with the Vampire Seasons 1 and a couple of on AMC.

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