AMC Gives Us an Extended Taste of ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Season 2

We’ve been waiting months for a taste of Interview With the Vampire season 2, and AMC has finally delivered a trailer for the highly anticipated new season.

It’s even better than a trailer, actually—it’s an extended sneak peek at season 2, which sends Louis and Claudia on an odyssey through Europe in search of the Old World Vampires. Their journey takes them to Paris, where they encounter the Theatre Des Vampires and their enigmatic leader, Armand:

AMC is loading up with new Anne Rice content, including a second season of Mayfair Witches and a new series that will have all six fans of Queen of the Damned (myself included) on alert. After dropping a few first-look photos from the new season, AMC left us hanging, but nestled inside Variety‘s February update on the Rice-verse (a.k.a. the Immortal Universe) were a few details on the highly anticipated new season.

Interview With the Vampire season 2 will premiere on May 12, a little over a year and a half after the season 1 finale. This season’s guest stars include David Costabile (Breaking Bad) as Leonard, “a seasoned TV personality who has a run-in with Molloy,” the journalist played by returning star Eric Bogosian. Season 2 will also feature Roxane Duran (Riviera) and Bally Gill (Slow Horses).

AMC’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s classic vampire novel premiered in 2022 and stars Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac, a vampire who enlists the help of a renowned journalist to document his life story —including his tumultuous relationship with the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid). Louis’ story takes us back to Louisiana in the early 20th century, when he and Lestat tried to start a family and turned a young girl named Claudia into a vampire. (Delainey Hayles is replacing Bailey Bass as Claudia in season 2 due to a scheduling conflict.)

Interview With the Vampire was previously adapted into a 1994 movie starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Kirsten Dunst. Unlike that movie, the AMC adaptation overtly depicts the queer relationship between Louis and Lestat; just one of the many things that makes the series so compelling.

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