Lestat’s (Sam Reid) death was only the beginning. Season 1 ofInterview with the Vampiregave the fans a new and reimagined version of the lateAnne Rice’sclassic 1976 novel of the same name. The final scene of the season finale,The Thing Lay Still, also gives enthusiasts of the source material a new introduction to the vampire Armand (Assad Zaman) as he shows off his power of flight in front of Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). And the first teaser trailer for Season 2 has dropped at the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con.
Check out the first look atInterview with the VampireSeason 2 below:
The new footage reveals fans’ first look at actor Ben Daniels who portrays Santiago. Santiago is featured heavily throughout the new teaser trailer, and he’s first seen sporting a black, leather jacket and mounted on a motorcycle. Later, Santiago introduces the Théâtre des Vampires troupe that plays an integral part in Rice’s original novel. Another new character to the AMC/AMC+ series is Madeleine. She is Claudia’s adoptive mother in the novel and is portrayed on the show by Roxane Duran.
Another thing of note in the trailer is that Claudia (Delainey Hayles) performs in the Théâtre des Vampires, which never happened in the feature film version starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. And, finally, the pièce de resistance: Lestat’s reveal. The actor who portrays Lestat, Sam Reid, doesn’t appear in the teaser, but a portrait of him is revealed by Armand at the end of the footage. “Our co-founder [of the Théâtre des Vampires],” Armand says to Louis and Claudia. “Lestat de Lioncourt.”
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Interview with the Vampire Season 2 trailer also teases Lestat’s return
to escape their lives of servitude to actorSam Reid’s Lestat, Claudia and Louis destroy him in the season finale ofInterview with the VampireSeason 1. But, as fans of the novel already know, Lestat plays a huge part in the time spent across the pond at the Théâtre des Vampires despite his apparent demise. And Reid is ready for fans to discover what Lestat has planned in Season 2.
Reid said in an interview withEntertainment Weeklyprior to the SAG-AFTRA strike:
We have a lot of fun making the show, but Lestat is his own complicated little monster. It’s fun to think about the way he would approach things and how he would see certain things because he’s definitely got his own way of looking at the world.
In the novels, Lestat changes drastically between the first book,Interview with the Vampire(1976) and the second installment,The Vampire Lestat(1985). Whereas the initial tale was told from Louis’ point of view, Lestat takes over as the Brat Prince anti-hero of Anne Rice’sThe Vampire Chroniclesworld.
Reid said in the same interview:
Anne Rice wasn’t afraid to break rules, to push boundaries, and make people unhappy with some of the choices that she made. She’s not always out to give everyone what they want, and it is confronting as a fan of a book to sort of read some of those things. And we honor that in the show. We’re not always making choices that are going to make everyone happy. We’re honoring that kind of anarchic element that Anne Rice had in her writing.
The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strike makes it impossible to be certain, but Interview with the Vampire Season 2 is currently slated to drop on AMC and AMC+ in 2024.
