‘Interview With the Vampire’ Teaser: See Louis & Lestat’s Gothic Romance Begin (VIDEO)
It’s been far too long since an adult vampire drama scintillated TV screens. AMC‘s Interview With the Vampire is here to fix that. Premiering October 2 on AMC and AMC+, Anne Rice’s groundbreaking novel is getting a new interpretation with Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones) as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Sam Reid (The Newsreader) as his maker, Lestat de Lioncourt, bringing the genre back to prestige TV dramas after True Blood ended in 2014.
In this TV Insider exclusive clip, above, viewers get an eery look into the vampire lovers’ complicated romance fraught with passion and peril. The video jumps between early 1900s New Orleans decadence and the sleek modernity of Louis’s life in 2022. And the air of danger in the eponymous interview with the journalist in need of a win Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian, Talk Radio, Succession) can be cut with a knife. Above all else, you’ll realize it doesn’t matter how many vampire shows there are: We’ll always be (blood)thirsty for more.
The 1976 novel became a cultural touchstone for LGBTQ+ readers because of its homoerotic nature. AMC’s interpretation of the Rice classic (on which she served as an executive producer until her death in 2021 — her son, Christopher Rice, now carries the mantle) takes that homoerotic subtext from the novel and 1994 film from implicit to explicit in a natural evolution of the source material.
The subtext is clear: Louis and Lestat raise Lestat’s fledgling vampire Claudia (Bailey Bass in AMC’s version) together, they call each other lovers, and the novel is full of men admiring the beauty of other men. What’s more, Rice agreed that Louis and Lestat were, in fact, a same-sex couple.
In a 2012 interview discussing the graphic novel Interview With the Vampire: Claudia’s Story by Ashley Marie Witter, Rice confirmed Louis and Lestat are parents with a child, calling them the “first vampire same-sex parents.” This new drama is just making undeniably clear what was teased in previous versions. But it’s also drawing out the inherent power imbalance between the two men.
In the video, Louis says he did not take to killing easily once turned by Lestat. And yet, in conversation with Daniel, he describes Lestat as his mentor, lover, maker, and equal. Daniel isn’t buying it. “The abused-abuser relationship, but equal in the quiet dark,” he wryly responds as Louis wipes blood from his chin.
Interview With the Vampire Season 1 will consist of seven episodes. It debuts on Sunday, October 2 after the Season 11C premiere of The Walking Dead. (Two episodes will be available on premiere night on AMC+.) The series is the first adaptation of Rice’s novels after AMC acquired the rights to her catalogue in 2020. The next adaptation will be Mayfair Witches, premiering in late 2022.
Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, Series Premiere, Sunday, October 2, 10/9c, AMC & AMC+
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I was very disappointed in the extreme changes made to such an amazing book. No reason to change basically everything, it's not the same story, I disliked it so much I won't watch anymore. The book is amazing, this TV series... Nope. Ruined an amazing opportunity to bring an amazing story to life and ruined it.
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When a book has had a huge impact on your life; when it launches a lifelong love of reading and makes you curious about the world; you are bound to be disappointed with any film adaptation. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise…meh. Stuart Townsend…meh. They never measure up to the visions in your head. Why change the timeframe? Why change character traits? Sorry, I’m not going to like this Anne Rice approved version any better than the 2022 film adaption of Persuasion. Stick to the original please.
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The book was more intense than the movie that I did enjoy curise and Pitt we're absolutely beautiful and loved the whole cast yeah I'm going to check it out looks good.
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Im glad Anne produced, and was satisfied with this retelling of her book.
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A huge disappointment for me
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That was absolutely pathetic. You call that acting? It was disjointed, no chemestry with anyone and presented as something regulated to the subcategories on Plex at 3am. Low-grade recordings of any random episode of Forever Knight was a lot better than that remake disaster. I am not familiar with the guys playing Louis and Lestat (but know the other guys stuff) and I can see I'm not missing much. Hard pass from me.
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Interpretation is subjective to the Reader I guess. To play two homosexual men to a child isn't the theme at all. More like won't find her soul again matches one while how does the other even turn for another brother of the same brood who was chaperoning get along when it was now unavailable when it should be was there. Infuriating. Then they hiarchied it to different characters. Ruined . If I was Anne I'd press a lawsuit. Who sold it?!
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