[Editor’s note: The following contains some spoilers for Season 2 of Interview with the Vampire.]

In Season 2 of the AMC series Interview with the Vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) continues to recount his vampire journey to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) in 2022. While Molloy continues to dig as deeply into the truth as he can get, which has varying good results when it comes to dealing with rather secretive and guarded vampires, Louis relives life with Claudia (Delainey Hayles) at the Théâtre des Vampires. Being haunted by Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) is contributing to Louis’ spiral in the previous and finding out a lot more about Louis’ connection with Armand (Assad Zaman), how they met, and what is going on in the present is not provided Molloy the clarity that he was hoping for.

When it comes to each Lestat and Armand, Louis has a knack for difficult relationships. However, Anderson is clear in his feeling taht Louis is the difficult a single. During this interview with Collider, co-stars Anderson, Reid and Hayles talked about the distinctive headspace Louis is in with Season 2, understanding Lestat’s behavior, Claudia not accepting how lost she is, what it was like for Hayles to do the scenes in the Théâtre des Vampires in that blue dress, that moment Lestat ate a single of Louis’ photographs, Louis’ connection with Armand compared to the a single he had with Lestat, and how Anderson and Reid really feel about exactly where items are left for them by the finish of Season 2.

Interview with the Vampire

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

Release Date

2022-00-00

Creator

Rolin Jones

Cast

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

Seasons

2

Season 2 of ‘Interview with the Vampire’ is an Exploration of Who Louis Really Is

Collider: Jacob, did it really feel like Louis was in a distinctive spot mentally at every single point in the timeline that you get to discover, or does it really feel really a great deal like an evolution more than time, among his time with Daniel and the previous?

JACOB ANDERSON: Yeah, he’s in a really distinctive space. The dam breaks in episode seven of Season 1, and there’s a level of pretend that he cannot reach any longer. He nevertheless has an innate attachment to modern day-day Louis that is like an alien excellent that comes in and out, but he’s fairly raw at the starting of the season and only gets rawer. So yeah, he’s in very a substantially distinctive spot with Louis’ journey in Europe, as effectively as him obtaining to come to terms with what he’s genuinely about. In Season 1, and it was a major factor in the book, it was about moral versus aesthetic. You genuinely see the completion of that notion in Season 2. What is Louis genuinely about? Is he all about morality, or is there very a considerable aesthetic element to that? He’s a difficult a single with lots of complications.

Sam, how do you even uncover the mindset of a character that is genuinely becoming guided by what an individual else desires him to do and say? How did you even attempt to wrap your head about that for Season 2?

SAM REID: I can inform you that I had a lot of concerns when we began. I did regularly grill Rolin [Jones] about lots of items. But when we worked out that it is Louis, and Louis is putting Lestat in specific moments for distinct factors, it is about why is he remembering Lestat in this distinct way? Why is he not remembering him as this horrendous, violent aggressor who’s there to destroy his life? Why is he remembering him as this sweet, dopey guy who’s prepared to be his pal and confidante at any moment? That’s the a single that Louis desires to overlook or cannot bear in mind. So, there was a fair quantity of investigation in that regard. It was exciting mainly because you get to play about with how they all bear in mind him. Armand remembers Lestat in a really distinctive way from the way that Louis remembers Lestat. That’s a exciting factor to play. We got to lean into that very substantially. You nevertheless haven’t genuinely met him however.

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As the particular person playing Lestat, did it modify your point of view or how you believed about him to see him by means of the distinctive points of view of all these distinctive men and women? Were you shocked, in any way?

REID: No, I wasn’t shocked. I undoubtedly deeply questioned the take that specific characters have on specific events. With these, I was like, “Wow, this is definitely a take that cannot be real.” But then, when you get more than that, you are like, “Great, let’s lean into that and have fun with it.” It’s very a joyous factor to play a thing that does not have to be concrete, but can be mercurial and can modify. That’s the entire show. It’s a really distinctive show this season, and that is so a great deal exciting. As an audience member obtaining to watch that, you are like, “Woah, I never know what I’m gonna get.” That keeps you on your toes a bit. It’s the very same as becoming an actor in it. It keeps you on your toes.

Delainey, exactly where are items at with Claudia? She feels like she knows what she desires, and then she gets what she desires, but it turns out to not be specifically what she wanted it to be. Where does that place her this season?

DELAINEY HAYLES: Claudia is lost, but she’s not accepting that she’s lost. She has this notion of what Paris is. She finds the Théâtre des Vampires and she thinks it is what she’s been seeking for, but she’s going in blind. Things do not go her way and she gets ostracized by the cove, so she’s left to uncover her personal way by means of Paris. That’s very tough for her mainly because of her circumstance.

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Hayles also discusses Claudia’s major stage debut, delivering Episode 2’s most memorable line, and a lot more.

When you play Claudia, are you often considering about the duality of her age on the outdoors versus her age on the inside, or does it rely on who she’s sharing a moment with and how a great deal they could know or not know about her?

HAYLES: I consider it is often on her thoughts. It’s the key factor that holds her back. She tries to push by means of life accepting it, but it is a thing that she cannot accept mainly because it impacts her a lot. It puts her in danger. She’s not as sturdy as she must be. She has all these targets that she’s attempting to reach, but the circumstance that holds her back is her physique. In every single predicament, she has to issue that in mainly because she essentially has to shield herself. Sadly, it bothers her a lot.

We know how she feels about obtaining to retain undertaking the very same show in theThéâtre des Vampires when wearing that very same outfit and becoming forced to reside in that dress, and I would consider it almost certainly gets a tiny old to put on the very same costume. What was it like for you to discover that, as an actor? As tragic as all that is for Claudia, is that just exciting to play?

HAYLES: It was so a great deal exciting. I’d like to do it all more than once again. We had 5 rehearsals. Shirley Temple was our reference, playing really cutesy stuff. I had the time of my life filming it, but it was a thing that Claudia undoubtedly genuinely, genuinely hates. The costume was genuinely awesome. I had six infant blue dresses in total. The costume was great. I took a single household and place my sister in it, just to see.

REID: You place your sister in it?

HAYLES: The costume was ridiculous. It’s what tends to make it. When I place it on, I was like, “Oh, yeah.” I had to bear in mind that it is a thing that Claudia despises. It was exciting experimenting with that.

What Were Louis’ Photos Made Out of, and What Was it Like for Sam Reid to Eat So Many?

Sam, the scene with Lestat consuming a single of Louis’ images is a single of my favored scenes of this show.

REID: What was that about? I know what that is about. It took me a extended time to function out what that was about, but I know what it is about. It’s mad. And I ate so quite a few of these images.

ANDERSON: Nice.

REID: They have been produced of rice paper, so they stuck to the roof of my mouth. There have been a couple of exactly where I just shoved the entire photo into my mouth, but that didn’t function, so I had to consume it. It was like consuming a sweet cake. They have been stuck to the roof of my mouth and I couldn’t retain speaking.

That moment just produced me laugh out loud mainly because it was so surprising.

REID: They’re saying imply items about Louis’ images, so he’s going, “Fuck you! You took a beautiful photograph. Don’t listen to that guy. I’ll eat it.”

ANDERSON: I loved it so a great deal.

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How did author Anne Rice bring the characters with each other?

Jacob, how do you view the distinction among the connection with Louis and Lestat, and the a single with Louis and Armand? Does Louis just like difficult males&gt?

ANDERSON: Louis is the difficult man.

REID: Louis is really the difficulty.

ANDERSON: They’re so distinctive. They’re really distinctive. I consider you genuinely get it at the finish of the book when Louis is like, “And this guy is okay. We settled down and traveled the world, and we were okay and it was fine. The end.” There is an inevitability about Armand for Louis. It’s like, “He’s nice to me.” Obviously, there are a lot of other items going on that are revealed in the present, but as Louis sees it, Armand is not with out complication, but is nowhere close to as messy as Lestat. Lestat and Louis will just explode. When you place these two components with each other, there’s gonna be a fire. Whereas with Armand, it is a lot more like, “We can coexist nicely and I care about you.” There’s an argument that Louis and Armand have, later in the season, exactly where you genuinely get a sense for how Louis feels about that connection and how he has for very a extended time. Lestat is his good like. I consider he does like Armand, but in a distinctive way. My factor with like and Louis is that the final particular person that Louis told that he loves, walked off a roof, promptly soon after. So, saying, “I love you,” is a genuinely major deal for him. It’s not just about withholding. The most meaningful moment in Louis’ human existence was what occurred to Paul, or what Paul did. What preceded that was, “I love you.” He feels it, but he does not necessarily say it.

REID: You have to bear in mind that the good conceit of what Rolin has designed is that memory is the monster. The way items are remembered or told, or the way that we interpret our feelings in a previous approach, is often gonna be distinctive from the reality. Because we’re in a 1st-particular person narration style story, there’s often gonna be space for conflict, and the a lot more narrators you are bringing in, the a lot more conflict is designed. That’s genuinely exciting. It also creates a lot of tension for the audience mainly because they’re like, “Who do I pick to believe?” You do will need to adhere to an individual and think them, but what takes place when the rug is ripped out from underneath and you do not trust this particular person. That’s intriguing.

ANDERSON: All these distinctive truths inform a single story.

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid Both Feel Satisfied By the End of ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Season 2

How do you really feel then about exactly where items are left at the finish of the season? What was it like to leave them exactly where you leave them?

REID: Pretty very good. It’s sad, but I consider it is a really, really satisfying conclusion.

ANDERSON: That’s a very good way to place it. I really feel really happy.

Interview with the Vampire airs on AMC and is readily available to stream on AMC+. Check out the Season 2 trailer:

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