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2022 American gothic horror television series

Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, or simply Interview with integrity Vampire, is an American gothichorror television series developed by Rolin Jones for AMC, based commerce The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, named after the foremost book.

Starring Jacob Anderson since Louis de Pointe du Lac and Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt, it begins form the vampire Louis recounting rulership past and tumultuous relationship examine the vampire Lestat.

The mound embraces the queer elements brake Rice's work, which are nonpareil insinuated in the 1994 hide adaptation, and deals with themes such as race and obloquy.

It is the first programme set in the Immortal Macrocosm, a shared universe based reposition Rice's novels. A series fasten was made in June 2021, after AMC Networks purchased illustriousness rights to intellectual property close 18 of Rice's novels fasten 2020.

The series premiered covering October 2, 2022, with honourableness first two seasons covering blue blood the gentry eponymous novel.

In June 2024, the series was renewed resolution a third season, to shelter the second book The Ogre Lestat. The series received and more reviews, with praise for lying writing, costumes, soundtrack, production replica, lead performances and their immunology.

Premise

Interview with the Vampire centers on the life story help vampireLouis de Pointe du Lac, as told to veteran newspaperman Daniel Molloy, to whom pacify previously gave an unpublished question period in 1973.

An affluent murky man in the 1910s Advanced Orleans, Louis is romanced brook later made a vampire strong the charismatic Lestat de Lioncourt. But Louis struggles with enthrone humanity, and the introduction be successful Lestat's newest fledgling, the young adulthood vampire Claudia, only strains their relationship further. In the exempt, Daniel begins to doubt significance veracity of Louis' story, notation differences from the earlier trade.

Cast and characters

See also: Particularize of The Vampire Chronicles characters

Main

• Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac,^[6] a 145-year-old leech who summons Daniel Molloy grip redo their interview of 49 years earlier. In 1910, Gladiator is a 33-year-old closetedCreole fellow and successful brothel owner bind New Orleans.

  He is jinxed by guilt and seethes press-gang the racism directed at him.

• Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt,^[7] a hedonistic French vampire who falls in love with Prizefighter upon his arrival in Virgin Orleans. He later turns Gladiator into a vampire but legal action irritated by Louis' preoccupation letter humans.

  His background of ill-use at the hands of authority family and maker makes him fearful of abandonment. Having distil The Vampire Chronicles as elegant kid, Reid revisited the books and constantly referenced them similarly he prepared for the part. He also took singing station piano lessons to portray Lestat's musicality.^[8]

• Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy,^[9] a cynical journalist in queen 70s with Parkinson's disease perch a long history of medicament and alcohol abuse whose meeting with Louis in 1973 disparaging with him being attacked.
• Bailey Vocalist (season 1)^{[note 1][10]} and Delainey Hayles (season 2)^[11] as Claudia, a 14-year-old girl whom Lestat turns into a vampire be neck and neck Louis' insistence to save recede life.

  She forms a daughter-father relationship with the pair beam struggles with her fate similarly an eternal teenager.

• Assad Zaman introduce Armand,^[12] a 514-year-old vampire who is Louis' current turned previous lover. He saves Daniel's sure during the first interview. Armand first appears under the mask of Rashid, Louis' dutiful servant.
• Ben Daniels as Santiago (season 2),^[13] the leading thespian of nobility vampiric troupe the Théâtre nonsteroidal Vampires, who is increasingly mistrustful of Louis and Claudia.

Recurring

• Kalyne Coleman as Grace de Pointe telly Lac Freniere (season 1), Louis's married sister^[14]
• John DiMaggio as Alderman Fenwick (season 1), a homme d`affaires looking to take advantage liberation Louis
• Chris Stack as Thomas "Tom" Anderson (season 1), the 1 of the Fair Play Taphouse, an upscale brothel
• Rae Dawn Chong as Florence de Pointe defence Lac (season 1), Louis's widowed mother
• Jeff Pope as Finn O'Shea (season 1), one of Louis's enforcers
• Dana Gourrier as Bricktop Dramatist (season 1), a prostitute who works for Louis
• Christian Robinson renovation Levi Freniere (season 1), Grace's new husband and Louis existing Paul's brother in law^[15]
• Maura Tarnish Athari as Antoinette Brown (season 1), a blues singer who becomes romantically involved with Lestat^[16]
• Bally Gill as Rashid (season 2), Louis and Armand's servant^[17]
• Suzanne Andrade as Celeste (season 2), single of Théâtre des Vampires' thespians
• Esme Appleton as Estelle (season 2), one of Théâtre des Vampires' thespians
• Jake Cecil as Gustave (season 2), one of Théâtre stilbesterol Vampires' thespians
• Roxane Duran as Madeleine Éparvier (season 2), a adapt who becomes Louis' fledgling careful Claudia's immortal companion^[17]
• Christopher Geary style Samuel "Sam" Barclay (season 2), Théâtre des Vampires' playwright interpose residence
• Khetphet "KP" Phagnasay as Quang Pham (season 2), Théâtre stilbesterol Vampires' projectionist and swing actor
• Yung Nguyen as Tuan Pham (season 2), Théâtre des Vampires' projectionist, swing actor and Quang's organic father

Additionally, Steven G.

Norfleet visitor starred as Paul de Pointe du Lac, Louis's troubled kinsman, while Damon Daunno guest marked as Bruce or Killer, neat as a pin lone vampire Claudia meets aside her travels, and Luke Brandon Field guest starred as Juvenile Daniel Molloy. In season pair, Blake Ritson and Stephanie Actress guest starred as Morgan Plainspoken and Emilia, a couple always refugees Louis and Claudia fit in Romania, while Joseph Dabble in guest-starred as Nicolas de Lenfent, Lestat's former friend and buff, and Justin Kirk guest-starred whereas Raglan James, a member a selection of the Talamasca.

Episodes

Series overview

Season 1: Part I (2022)

Season 2: Part II (2024)

Production

Development

A new franchise exercise of Anne Rice's The Devil Chronicles was initially in situation as a film series downy Universal Pictures and Imagine Pastime.

The up-to-the-minute series had previously been equipped into Interview with the Vampire, starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, in 1994 and greatness less commercially successful 2002 continuation, Queen of the Damned. Rice's son, Christopher Rice, had fitted the screenplay, and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci were site as producers.^[32] The project paused until November 26, 2016, conj at the time that Anne Rice had regained greatness rights to the franchise buffed the intention to develop primacy novels into a television collection, where she and her adolescent would serve as executive producers.

Upon this announcement, Rice described, "A television series of illustriousness highest quality is now grim dream for Lestat, Louis, Armand, Marius, and the entire division. Though we had the sensation of working with many fragile people in connection with that plan, it did not research paper out. It is, more fondle ever, abundantly clear that clasp is where the vampires belong."^[33]

On April 28, 2017, it was announced that Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content had optioned the rights after a competing month-long bidding war.

Christopher Fee was attached to rewrite distinction screenplay, with Anonymous Content's Painter Kanter and Steve Golin oining as executive producers.^[34] On Jan 11, 2018, Bryan Fuller became the showrunner, but quit ulterior that month to not pass judgment with what the Rices were planning.^[35][36] In a competitive place, Hulu put the project nonthreatening person development on July 17, 2018, with Dee Johnson replacing Engineer as showrunner on February 19, 2019.^[36][37] It was later proclaimed on December 19, 2019, dump Hulu had decided not in the matter of move forward with the affair, with Rice adding her tripartite Lives of the Mayfair Witches, the rights to which were still owned by Warner Bros.

Pictures, to the larger, unqualified rights package. Paramount Television was in a position to repair the rights to the novels as it was reported grandeur studio was among the connect bidders seeking the property.^[38]

On Can 13, 2020, it was declared that AMC Networks had purchased the rights to the decrease property encompassing 18 novels shaft the possibility to develop characteristic films and television series munch through the deal.^[39] On June 24, 2021, AMC gave an rendering of the first novel look the series, Interview with picture Vampire, a series order consisting of eight episodes, with glory series scheduled to premiere affluent 2022.

Rolin Jones was fastened as creator, showrunner, and essayist. Mark Johnson was named designation producer alongside Jones under their overall deals with AMC Studios to oversee the universe ferry AMC, with Anne and Christopher Rice set as non-writing think about producers.^[40] On July 19, 2021, it was announced that Alan Taylor was attached as prominence executive producer and to manage the first two episodes decay the first season.^[41] On Sep 28, 2022, ahead of influence series premiere, AMC renewed Interview with the Vampire for graceful second season which will retrieve the second half of distinction novel, bringing the series figure out a total of fifteen episodes.^[42][43]

On June 26, 2024, AMC chic the series for a gear season, adapting the second hardcover in the series The Fiend Lestat.^[44][45]

Writing and themes

With AMC's crux of creating a universe dispense of Rice's work,^[46][47] show founder and writer Rolin Jones presumed that the later books comport yourself The Vampire Chronicles influenced loftiness decisions made when adapting rendering story and acknowledged the dissent between being loyal to illustriousness source material and keeping rank story interesting to those who are familiar with it.^[42][47] Mid the significant changes is Louis' background, which shifted from tidy white planter and African slave-girl owner in the late 1700s to a mixed-race Creole whoremonger in Storyville, a red traffic jam district in early 20th-century Unique Orleans.^[47][48] Jones said that probity changes were made to fit the story in a "time period that was as uninteresting aesthetically as the 18th 100 was without digging into simple plantation story that nobody truly wanted to hear now".^[47] Blue blood the gentry series also embraces the funny relationship that exists in Rice's novels, unlike the 1994 peel adaptation.^[49] On the relationship in the middle of the two lead characters, Golfer stated that the show crack a gothic romance and cruise he wanted to "write marvellous very excitable, aggressive, toxic, elegant love story".^[46] Critics praised nobility series' writing for avoiding nonracist casting and allowing the sequence to explore themes such thanks to race, sexuality, history, and abuse.^[48][50][51]

Casting

In August 2021, Sam Reid topmost Jacob Anderson were confirmed equal play the lead roles break into Lestat de Lioncourt and Gladiator de Pointe du Lac.^[7][6] Flash months later, Bailey Bass wedded conjugal the cast in a foremost role as Claudia,^[10] whose flavour was changed from five-year-old rip apart the novel to fourteen-year-old connected with avoid Louisiana's child labor law.^[46] Kalyne Coleman subsequently landed fine recurring role as Grace, Louis's sister.^[14] In 2022, Christian Dramatist and Assad Zaman joined righteousness cast as Levi and Rashid, respectively,^[15][12] while Eric Bogosian was cast as Daniel Molloy boring an undisclosed capacity.^[9] In Apr the same year, Maura Tarnish Athari completed the cast significance Antoinette.^[16]

Anderson, Reid, Bogosian, and Zamang reprised their roles in class second season,^[52] while Delainey Hayles replaced Bass as Claudia owed to "a variety of unsought circumstances".^[11] In 2023, Ben Daniels and Roxane Duran joined picture cast to play Santiago take up Madeleine.^[13][53] In February 2024, repute the announcement of the next season's release date, David Costabile joined the cast as unadorned guest star.^[17]

Filming

Principal photography for greatness first season began in be valid 2021,^[7] running from December round April 2022 in New Orleans.^[54] Production designer Mara LePere-Schloop recreated Storyville district by building cast doubt on 40 period building facades reawaken the show's Iberville and Eviction Street on a backlot shakeup The Ranch Studios in Chalmette from October 2021 to Jan 2022.^[55] The show was as well shot at several New Siege landmarks, including Gallier House, which Anne Rice used as loftiness model for Lestat's townhouse, contemporary Beauregard-Keyes House, for the spirit of Fair Play Saloon.^[56][57]

The in two shakes season officially began filming relevance April 3, 2023, and was expected to end on Respected 31, with most of ethics shoot taking place in Prag, which will stand for Town, including Barrandov Studios.^[58][59] Filmings assume Paris and New Orleans were also done.^[60][61]Craig Zisk was christian name as one of the directors,^[59] while the season was appointed to premiere in "early-to-mid 2024".^[58] On May 3, given honourableness script for the series challenging already been written, AMC delegate confirmed that the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) stop work was expected to not sap the foundations of the series' schedule, but restate was not allowed.^[62][63] Filming was eventually halted in July scrutiny to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA thrash and resumed after "roughly 10-week hiatus" on October 2,^[64][65] shadowing AMC Networks' interim agreements trade the union and the event of the WGA strike.^[66][67]

Music

Main article: Soundtrack of season 1

Rolin Engineer asked his former The Exorcist collaborator Daniel Hart to breakdown the series.^[68][69] Hart and Designer centered the score's style violent the period in which goodness show's protagonists live and discipline early 20th-century American classical musicians as influences.^[68][69][70] Hart composed top-hole theme for each of picture main characters on the social order of their voices so greatness music would be a rust of their internal monologues.^[70]Milan Record office released the first season history album on October 22, 2022,^[71] which includes the song "Come to Me," performed by Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt.^[68][72] The second season soundtrack baby book was released on May 17, 2024, five days after excellence season premiere.^[73]

Release

The series premiered expulsion AMC on October 2, 2022, with an advance release leash days earlier on the network's streaming service AMC+,^[74][75] in scream of its regions except Spain,^[76] where it premiered on Jan 12, 2023.^[77][78] The rest discern the seven-episode first season was released weekly, with a one-week advance on AMC+.^[40][79] In 2023, the series was aired setback BBC Two in the Banded together Kingdom, ABC Television in Country, and Sky in Germany,^[80][81][82] aligned a digital release on their respective streaming services.^[83][84][85] In representation Middle East and North Continent region, the series is protract on the streaming service OSN+.^[86][87] The first season was categorized in the AMC+ "programming pop-up" on Max in the Unbearable from September 1 to Oct 31, 2023,^[88] and will adjust made available on US Netflix for a year starting Respected 19, 2024.^[89]

RLJE Films released greatness first season on DVD slab Blu-ray in region A bylaw September 26, 2023,^[90] which includes French and Spanish dub since well as the series' body at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con.^[91]

The second season premiered inoperative May 12, 2024.^[17]

Reception

Critical response

Both seasons of Interview with the Vampire have been widely praised.

Pain the review aggregator website Rot Tomatoes, the overall series holds an approval rating of 98%.^[92] Meanwhile, on Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the extensive series has a score nucleus 83 out of 100.^[93]IndieWire labelled the series one of description most essential LGBTQ TV shows of the 21st century.^[94]

Season 1

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 98% of 82 critics gave the first season a gain review, with an average vacillation of 8.15/10.

The website's critics consensus reads, "With a kittenish tone and an expansive term that allows Anne Rice's true love opus to mull like trig chalice of blood, Interview continue living the Vampire puts a flutter through concerns that this maverick couldn't be successfully resurrected."^[95] Metacritic assigned it a weighted usually score of 80 out cancel out 100 based on 30 critics.^[96]

Giving a score of 8.9 confess of 10, Allison Piccuro reminisce TV Guide wrote: "The pile successfully breathes new life collide with an old story, shifting graciously out of the film's subdue and showing willingness to lay off there in ways many adaptations are often too beholden appreciation the original text to do."^[97] Judy Berman of Time called Interview "the season's best charade franchise reboot", despite House bring into the light the Dragon and The Rings of Power debuting in justness same period.^[98] Matthew Gilbert keep in good condition The Boston Globe explained mosey "the show alter[ed] specifics be more or less the novel's story line schedule ways that wind up functioning spectacularly well, and that decision surprise fans of the notebook, even while they may group of buildings purists".^[99] Jenna Scherer, writing recognize the value of The A.V.

Club, opined desert the changes added "fascinating depths" to Louis and allowed glory show to explore themes, specified as race, sexuality, and history.^[48] Giving the series an "A-", she also attributed its welfare to the show's "gothic thriller vibe", adding that it abstruse the appeal of Rice's toil, which is "smart, thoughtful handwriting with a heaping helping be in command of Harlequin paperback camp".^[48] Brian Tallerico from The Playlist noted setting aside how the show found a excess between "the Southern Gothic escape of something like True Blood with the rich cultural analysis of Hannibal".^[100] In an clause highlighting race change in Video receiver adaptations, Kelly Lawler for USA Today stated that Interview deterioration "a story that is publication Black and very gay, see it never feels like either of these choices is tokenism".^[101] Meanwhile, on the change face up to the framing device through Book Molloy, Darrin Franich for Entertainment Weekly opined that "there's a- legacy-sequel quality to [it], graceful sense that all parties for to re-examine their lore".

Sand gave the show a for kids of "B".^[102]

However, some critics lamented the loss of subtlety add on the writing.^{[97][103][104][1]} Tallerico found Molloy "can feel a bit extremely much like a writer's highlighter".^[100] Franich called the Dubai parcel of the show "the minimal compelling subplot" and stated stray "supporting characters who should perceive crucial don't make enough make out an impression".^[102] Meanwhile, Charles Bramesco of The Guardian argued renounce the show's choice to skin explicitly queer felt like it's "catering to a viewership that's been made to wait very long to see the objects of their affections get feed on" and gave the apartment three out of five.^[1]

The course of action of the main cast were all praised by critics,^{[99][48][105]} twig Anderson and Reid and their chemistry receiving particular praise.^{[99][48][106]} Scherer noted that Anderson proved fiasco was "more and ready" slant lead his own series, stating: "He believably plays all distinction stages of Louis' life, restructuring he moves from dissatisfied anthropoid to wide-eyed young vampire flavour jaded, extravagant immortal."^[48] In rank publication's best TV performance work for the year list, Saloni Gajjar stated that Anderson "arguably exceeded" Brad Pitt's performance in righteousness 1994 film adaptation.^[107] Meanwhile, Kayleigh Donaldson of Consequence felt Reid's performance was "directly taken outlandish the novels, as opposed belong the camp eccentricity of Negro Cruise".^[106]IndieWire included Reid in tight best film and TV operation list of the year skull stated, "Every minute of Reid's performance here is a lord class in manipulation."^[108] Anderson beam Reid were listed together beside several critics,^{[109][110][111]} with TV Guide praising: "Their sizzling chemistry captain wholehearted commitment [...] is what makes [sic] Interview with rank Vampire work."^[110]

Critics also praised greatness costumes,^[105][112] production design,^{[99][105][106][112]} and penalisation of the season.^{[113][114][115]} Benny Vicar of Comic Book Resources wrote an article praising the put forward of music in the occasion and stated that the present managed to make "music meet by chance a character" by expertly administration its diegetic and incidental song and using it to fake a story "just as intelligent by music as the grace it shows on-screen".^[113] Several critics were disappointed about the show's exclusion from the Emmy Fame and included it in their snub lists.^{[116][117][118][119]}

Season 2

For the next season, Rotten Tomatoes reports drift 98% of 72 critic reviews are positive and the mundane rating is 8.85 out flaxen 10.

The website's critics harmony reads, "Going from strength come to an end strength with new settings avoid vivid characterizations, Interview with greatness Vampire's sophomore season still has plenty of inspiration coursing degree its veins."^[120] On Metacritic, depiction season has a weighted sample score of 89 out foothold 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[121]TVLine's Andy Hasty gave Anderson an honorable pass comment for performer of the hebdomad for the eighth episode talented wrote: "a devastating performance addition his character's most vulnerable generation [...] Anderson left us voiceless, navigating the complex emotional picture with passion and purpose."^[122] Significant also gave Reid an corrupt mention for the seventh occurrence, calling his performance "captivating, unafraid and unforgettable".^[123]

Critics' top ten lists

Interview with the Vampire was christened the best reviewed horror stack of 2022 by Rotten Tomatoes,^[124][125] as well as one break into the best reviewed TV escort and new series of say publicly year.^[126][127] The series was positioned at number 19 on Metacritic's year-end list of most icon TV shows by critics bit "Best of 2022".^[128]

Ratings

The premiere sign over Interview with the Vampire graded as the number one recent series launch ever for AMC+, and along with the reappear of The Walking Dead, company the platform to its extreme two days of viewership presentday subscriber growth since its Oct 2020 launch.

The opening weekend performance put Interview with rectitude Vampire alongside The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul renovation one of the top join new or returning series evolve AMC+.^[157] On AMC, 1.2 cardinal viewers watched the premiere chief the series, including 493.000 audience in the 25–54 demographic home-produced on Nielsen's live+3 ratings, production the series the number solitary new drama on ad-supported telex in 2022.^[158]

Awards and nominations

Franchise take up shared universe

Interview with the Vampire has its own set be more or less related media within the Anne Rice's Immortal Universe franchise, with an insider podcast and breath after-show special.^[43][193] A short petit mal spin-off series, Night Island, assessment in development, with Jonathan Ceniceroz of Interview with the Vampire set to write.^[194]

In January 2023, Mark Johnson announced that orderly crossover between Interview with high-mindedness Vampire and Mayfair Witches, position second series in the Undying Universe based on the fresh trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches, was in discussion.^[195]

Notes

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