Anne Rice Universe press conference at NYCC: News on ‘Talamasca’ & ‘The Vampire Lestat’

On Friday afternoon, the creators and cast of AMC’s upcoming Talamasca and The Vampire Lestat (formerly Interview With the Vampire) held press conferences at New York Comic Con.

Talamasca & The Vampire Lestat

As fans remember from last season of Interview With the Vampire, interviewer Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) was turned. The new season will be him grappling with being turned late in life, Bogosian says.

“The thing to remember is that to be turned later in life means you’re going to carry more of what you were into this other thing, which is not human. You’re a vampire. You’re something else. It’s another dimension.”

Louie (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat (Sam Reid) are still dealing with the fallout of their relationship and the wake of Claudia’s (Delainey Hayles) death. Season two was largely about Louie and his relationship with Armand (Assad Zaman), but season three will be about dealing with the fallout of that relationship following the blowup during Molloy’s interview.

Denton also teased a little more about who Guy Anatole is, exactly. “He’s got some ambition, but he also has something else going on. He’s got this disability. He has heard voices for years, since he was a kid, and he’s always thought…that was a mental illness of sorts. So he’s heavily medicated himself, but he actually does find out that he has the mind-reading. And that’s what begins to happen with Daniel Malloy in this scene, and I think that maybe gives him a little bit more leverage in all of it.”

Bringing the two together is not without careful planning. According to Johnson, Johnson, “[A]ll three of them on one hand couldn’t be more different. But they have themes and characters, and I think concerns all tied together.” He added, “We’re going to be very judicious about it and make sure that when Eric Bogosian shows up in another show that there’s a reason for it.”

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