Summary
- The season 2 trailer for Interview with the Vampire offers a thrilling glimpse into the expansion of the dark world of the undead.
- Fans can expect a shift in setting as the show seemingly heads to Europe, where Louis encounters a new bloodsucking coven with ties to Lestat.
- The trailer also teases the return of familiar characters and the introduction of a recast Claudia, portrayed by Delainey Hayles. Exciting developments await in season 2!
The dark world of the undead is expanding with the Interview with the Vampire season 2 trailer. Based on Anne Rice's novels of the same name, the gothic horror show centers on vampire Louis de Ponte du Lac as he tells his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy, an affluent Black man in 1910s New Orleans who was romanced and changed by the charismatic Lestat de Lioncourt. Led by Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid, Interview with the Vampire season 1 garnered a near-perfect 99 percent approval from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and earned a season 2 renewal ahead of its debut.
As part of the show's San Diego Comic-Con 2023 , AMC has revealed the official Interview with the Vampire season 2 trailer.
The trailer, as seen above, offers the first major look at the next chapter of the Anne Rice adaptation as it seemingly heads to Europe, where Louis meets a new bloodsucking coven with ties to Lestat. The trailer also reveals the first look at the recast Claudia, now played by Delainey Hayles, and the return of Assad Zaman's Rashid, who was revealed to be Armand in the season 1 finale.
How Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Adapts The Rest Of Rice's Novel
Interview with the Vampire season 1 ended on a pretty explosive note for the characters in Rice's adaptation as Claudia and Louis enacted their plan to kill Reid's Lestat in the hopes of escaping his influence, poisoning one of his victims, slitting his throat and leaving him in a truck for the city dump. The season 1 finale also saw Louis' modern-day companion, Rashid, reveal to reporter Daniel that he was secretly the vampire's love of his life Armand after plenty of teases that he was hiding a darker secret behind his identity.
Those familiar with Rice's novels will know this to be a major deviation from the source material, with the halfway point of Interview with the Vampire taking Louis and Claudia's efforts to kill Lestat going a step further by burning down their New Orleans mansion with him inside, which he would later reveal to have survived. The novel also didn't include Armand in the present day storyline of Louis being interviewed by Daniel, but rather do so alone and breaking up with his fellow vampire some years prior.
Despite these changes, the Interview with the Vampire season 2 trailer has pointed towards a faithful adaptation of the remaining half of Rice's novel. Between the traveling circus of vampires feeding on unsuspecting guests to Lestat's ambiguous fate, Louis and Claudia's escape from their initial horrors looks to be far from over even as they head to a new continent. With both another Anne Rice adaptation and crossover between Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches in the works at AMC, it will be interesting to see whether season 2 of the former concludes the show or sets up adapting its source sequel, The Vampire Lestat.
Source: AMC
