*The new season of the critically acclaimed series Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire” premiered May 12 on AMC and AMC+. Series star Eric Bogosian said he did things on the show this season “unlike anything I’ve done before on film or in front of a camera,” the actor shared during the February TCA/CTAM Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, California.
“They took me to places emotionally and acting-wise, just great stuff,” he added.
The series stars Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid as the Vampire Lestat, Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles, and Ben Daniels.
Per the series synopsis: In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson) recounts his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Bogosian). Picking up from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 when Louis and teen fledgling Claudia (Hayles) conspired to kill the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Reid), Louis tells of his adventures in Europe, a quest to discover Old World Vampires and the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris, with Claudia. It is in Paris that Louis first meets the Vampire Armand (Zaman). Their courtship and love affair will prove to have devastating consequences both in the past and in the future, and Molloy will probe to get to the truths buried within the memories.
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The dynamics between vampires and humans are central to this series. We asked the cast during TCA/CTAM to elaborate on how the characters navigate these complex relationships with humans in Season 2.
Reid revealed that there will be fewer humans this season, with the focus primarily on the “vampires eating themselves.”
“I think that’s kind of what’s interesting about Season 1 and Season 2 is that it’s a lot to do with the vampires sort of finding their own world and it’s them against, you know, the rest of the world basically,” he added.
“And obviously, they kind of destroy themselves while they’re doing that. But there is an element of us and them. And then Season 2 is really more about us, or vampires — a very “S-ey” kind of microphone — but, yeah, Season 2 is more about, you know, just vampires and vampires eating themselves.”
Additionally, Reid teased… “There’s a lot less interaction with humanity, which, you know, I think a character like Lestat is always about escaping vampire world because vampires are… complex monsters that have laws and rules and… things that are… quite archaic,” he explained.
“So he was always about trying to start a new life with Louis and then Claudia. And now Season 2, it’s really about going back into that vampire world and so there is less interaction with humanity.”
Anderson added, “But it’s also like it’s the rigidity of vampire world. Like, it’s a very ancient structure. Louis and Claudia have to come up against that,” he said, noting that “the European vampire is a different monster altogether.”
You can watch “Interview With the Vampire” Season 2 online at AMC.com or when new episodes air on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
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