Summary

• AMC's Interview With The Vampire season 2 was paused due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, but will now premiere on May 12, 2024.
• Despite the delays, AMC has confirmed the renewal of the show and announced a crossover with the Mayfair Witches series.
• The main cast , Jacob Anderson as Louis and Sam Reid as Lestat, will return for Interview with the Vampire season 2, while other characters will be recast.

Interview With The Vampire season 2 news is starting to trickle in for the AMC Anne Rice television universe. Based on the debut novel in Rice's monumental Vampire Chronicles series, Interview With the Vampire follows vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac who recounts his astounding life to a journalist. Though the story has been adapted before, the AMC series fleshes out Rice's original ideas while also modernizing them for a contemporary audience.

Met with almost universal critical acclaim, AMC's Interview With the Vampire garnered high praise for its playful tone and deft handling of Rice's complicated writing (via Rotten Tomatoes). The critical reception was just icing on the cake for AMC, who have gone all in on the Anne Rice universe with their companion series The Mayfair Witches, which is set in the same universe. With all that in mind, Interview With the Vampire season 2 was a foregone conclusion.

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AMC’s Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Recent News

AMC Releases Another Trailer For Season 2

With the second season's release date lurking ever nearer, AMC has released another trailer for Interview With the Vampire season 2. The presumptive final trailer offers more looks at the sophomore season, with a particular eye on Louis and Claudia's life immediately after their betrayal of Lestat. Furthermore, the trailer hints at the return of the interview format and highlights Armand's increased significance going forward. AMC isn't expected to release any more trailers before the May 12 premiere.

AMC's Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Release Date

The Interview Continues In May

After the delays caused by the Hollywood strikes of 2023, Interview With the Vampire season 2 has finally been able to establish its highly-anticipated premiere date. The Anne Rice adaptation will return to AMC on May 12th, 2024 at 9 PM ET where it will air live before being made available to stream on AMC+.

The Hollywood strikes of 2023 consisted of the WGA strike which was resolved on September 27th, 2023 and the SAG-AFTRA strike which was resolved on November 9th, 2023.

AMC’s Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Cast

The New & Returning Faces Of Season 3

The cast of Interview With the Vampire season 2 is beginning to take shape, and it has been confirmed that Jacob Anderson will return as Louis de Pointe du Lac alongside Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt. Likewise, Eric Bogosian will reprise his role as Daniel Molloy, but his character isn't likely to be around once the series moves on past Rice's Interview With the Vampire novel.

Assad Zama has been confirmed as part of the season 2 cast, and he will return as Armand, a vital character in the future of the series, even though he played a small role in season 1. Ben Daniels will reprise as Santiago, but the role of Claudia has been recast for season 2. Originally played by Bailey Bass, the tragic child vampire character will now be played by Delainey Hayles.

The full list of confirmed season 2 cast includes:

AMC’s Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Story Details

The Second Half Of Anne Rice's Novel

The first season ended with only half of the first book's story told, which means the Interview with the Vampire season 2 story will finish off the first book's plot. The first season also ended on a major cliffhanger as Claudia convinced Louis to help her murder Lestat, so they could escape his clutches. However, Louis couldn't do it, and he ended up saving Lestat by sending him in a coffin (with locks on the inside) to a rat-infested dump, so the vampire could heal himself over time.

It is also interesting to see in the first season that Louis was lying to Daniel, at least about important details of his story. This brings a lot of questions into focus as it makes Louis an unreliable narrator, and viewers can't be sure that anything he has said is accurate or truthful, at least at face value. There was also the reveal at the end of Interview With the Vampire season 1 that Rashid was Armand from the novels, and that opens an entirely new world for Interview With the Vampire season 2.

Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Trailer

Watch The Show's Trailers Below

Despite the delays caused by the SAG-AFTRA strike, AMC has released an official teaser trailer for Interview With the Vampire season 2. At just over a minute long, the Interview With the Vampire teaser released at SDCC 2023 doesn't reveal a huge amount about the specific plot details, but it does set up the general premise, that the show is moving to Europe and will involve a blood coven linked to Lestat. Additionally, the tease for Interview With the Vampire season 2 also gave viewers their first look at the recast Claudia, played now by Delainey Hayles.

Less than a month before the show's premiere date, an extended trailer for Interview With the Vampire season 3 was dropped by AMC. While reintroducing the interview format that is integral to the show's storytelling, the lengthy trailer also catches back up with Armand and Louis after the surprising revelation at the end of season 1. The trailer also showcases a bit of what happened in the past and chronicles how Claudia and Louis struggled after their conspiracy against Lestat.

AMC has released a third, and presumably final, trailer for Interview With the Vampire season 2 that hammers home what the themes of the sophomore season will be. Like the previous trailers, the bulk of the runtime is dedicated to Louis and Claudia in the immediate aftermath of their betrayal of Lestat. However, it also shows a lot of the modern-day storyline, with Armand taking center stage in the eponymous interview segments.