The cast and showrunner of the series formerly known as Interview With The Vampire held a press conference at New York Comic Con on Friday afternoon to discuss season three, now based on Anne Rice’s second book in her Vampire Chronicles series, The Vampire Lestat.
Producer Hannah Moscovitch discussed how the loss of the story device of the interview and the recollections of the not-always-reliable narrator, Louie, has changed the show. Lestat remembers everything, and if anyone was going to interview him, it would be himself. But this season is about Lestat’s wrestling with how his experiences have psychologically scarred him.
“What do you get when you put a vampire who takes himself very, very seriously in a position that is not really taken very seriously in the year 2025, when we are dealing with kind of everything shocking at any given moment?” Sam Reid said of character Lestat. “We’re watching the most deadly things on the news on a daily basis. What value is a supernatural being who kind of dances around in leather pants? So I think his ego is, like, super present.”
“The thing to remember, that to be turned later in life means you’re going to carry more of what you were into this other thing, which is not human. You’re a vampire. You’re something else. It’s another dimension,” Eric Bogosian said of his character, Daniel Molloy, the interviewer of the first two seasons. “The story of this season, a big part of it for me, is Daniel wrestling with the endless contradictions of being suddenly immortal.”
“And I put in one little extra thing from me just to play the character. For a man who spent his life being an investigative journalist and thinks very logically, the world of vampires is not logical. These guys don’t do logical things. So it really bends his mind and creates a lot of stress in this third season. It’s hard for him.”
“Louie remembered a few things that Lestat didn’t necessarily enjoy him delving too deeply into his human past. Armond remembered Lestat very clearly, saying love human beings, be with human beings, be amongst humans. I wouldn’t say it’s accurate to say Lestat doesn’t like humans; he probably likes them more than vampires.”
Jacob Anderson struggled to talk about his character this season without giving too much away. “It’s very difficult to talk about Louie’s journey in Season three because it’s the invention of Rolin (Jones) and Hannah, and the writers. There’s some really fun stuff,” he said.
“His daughter is dead, and his relationship of 77 years has ended,” Hannah Moscovitch added. “And he has to figure out a whole pile of shit now. His entire life has been broken open.”
“Quite often people are like, my leg is fixed,” Anderson said of Louie. “I found this, and found that, and I’m doing this, I’m doing this thing now. Those people quite often crash out. There comes a point where, you know, you suddenly lose energy, and the truth comes to light again. Comes to get you.”
Season three is expected to debut in 2026.
