Sam Reid, who plays Lestat du Lioncourt in “Interview With the Vampire,” said when the show first debuted its full trailer at Comic-Con in 2022, he was terrified that everyone was going to hate it.
“I remember just being backstage before we went on to that panel two years ago and just feeling like the world was ending,” Reid said. “It was so nerve-wracking because obviously people love the film, they love the book. It was scary.”
Reid and his co-stars Delainey Hayles and Assad Zaman as well as showrunner and executive producer Rolin Jones and executive producer Mark Johnson sat down at the Variety Studio, presented by Google TV at 2024 San Diego Comic-Con to discuss the upcoming third season.
“Interview With the Vampire” stars Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac — the vampire who reconnects with interviewer Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) nearly 50 years after their initial sessions. Assad Zaman appears as Armand and Delainey Hayles portrays Claudio in the second season of the show.
The series is one of the adaptations of Anne Rice’s gothic horror novel from 1976. The book was the first of Rice’s series of novels, “The Vampire Chronicles,” which was adapted into the eponymous film starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst.
The third season will see a more musical aspect to it, which Jones accredits to composer Daniel Hart. He said they’ll be working on writing songs together, all to be sung by Reid.
As for how Reid is prepping and bringing back up his musical chops, he quipped: “I’m taking a lot of drugs, and they’re flying me around on a private plane and I’m just living like a permanent rock star.”
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