"Interview with The Vampire" Cast and Character Guide
Everything you need to know about the TV show Anne Rice, including season 3 recently announced.
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Up to two seasons so far, AMC Interview with the vampire The television show adapted the events of the novelist Anne Rice series The Vampire Chronicles , which started with the years 1976 Interview with the vampire . (Previous adaptations of his work include the 1994 film Interview with the vampire , the 2002 film Damné queen and Broadway musical badly received Ballast .) THE Horror / Drama stars Jacob Anderson like Louis de Pointe du Lac (the vampire is questioned) and Sam Reid Like Lioncourt, the manufacturer and lover of Louis, as well as Eric Bogosian As a journalist Daniel Molloy, to whom Louis tells his life story. Although it has not been easy to access for those who do not have a cable or do not subscribe to the network streaming service, AMC +, the series is Critical success And gathered a passionate fans base.
The first season of Interview with the vampire takes place both in Modern Dubai, where Louis thought about his past, and in the 1910s, New Orleans, where Louis still human met an intriguing and attractive French gentleman who will change the course of his life. In season 2, past action takes place in France in the post-secret world war, and it seems that the Recently announced season 3 will be a matter of trotting globe.
And it seems that the network is everything on what it calls "the immortal universe". In addition to Interview with the vampire , AMC is home to the show Mayfair witches , which is adapted from Rice Mayfair witches life And soon coming back for a second season. And a third series of the franchise is also on the way. Talamasca will focus on the secret society which will follow the supernatural, of which IWTV Fans have already had a taste in season 2.
That you came to Interview with the vampire Series as a fan of books or not, there are many human and inhuman characters to follow. Read the rest for a casting and a character guide for the HIT AMC, including the new additions to come in season 3. Spoilers to come!
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Interview with the vampire Seizure 1 casting and characters
Jacob Anderson like Louis de Pointe du Lac
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When we meet him for the first time in 1910, Louis de Pointe du Lac is still human - a brothel owner struggling with the racism of the time and the disapproval of his family. Even after Lestat gave him "the dark gift" of immortality and that they begin to live like eternal companions, Louis hesitates to kiss the life of a killer, putting both in disagreement. Despite all their differences, Louis and Lestat share a passionate connection which is not easily broken.
Anderson comes to the series of roles in Game Of Thrones ,, Broadchurch , And Doctor Who .
Sam Reid as Lioncourt Lestat
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Australian actor Sam Reid ( Beautiful ,, The news reader ) plays Lestat, who is the main character of the majority Chronicles vampire books and in a fairly co-dependent relationship with Louis. It is much older, being born in the 18th century and has little respect for human life. (However, this has not always been the case.) He loves a lot of music, which will play a big role in the third season of the series.
Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy
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After meeting Louis in San Francisco when he was a young man, Daniel Molloy is invited to the penthouse of the vampire these days to eliminate the history of Louis's life and make a book. The human journalist was now in the 1970s, diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and far from his wife and children. Daniel does not simply listen to passively, but often rejects Louis' memories to make sure that he is telling the truth.
Bogosian is a writer and actor who also appeared in Succession ,, Uncoupled gems , And Billion .
Bailey Bass like Claudia
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In season 1, Claudia is played by Bass bailey ( Avatar: Water path ). It is a 14 -year -old girl that Louis saves from a pension fire, although she is on the verge of death. Louis begs Lestat to save her by transforming it into a vampire, and he finally agrees. The three live as something in a family, although Claudia becomes frustrated that it is stuck in the body of a child, and that Lestat has so much control over her and Louis.
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Assad Zaman like Rashid / Armand
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For most of the first season, Daniel knows the actor of stage and screen Assad Zaman Character like Rashid, the faithful of Louis (if the judgment) servant to Dubai. But he remembers in a dream that "Rashid" was also there when he and Louis met for the first time, decades before, and that he had exactly the same appearance. "Rashid" is actually the Vampire Armand, Louis' companion for the past 70 years.
Kalyne Coleman as Grace de Pointe du Lac
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His transformation separates Louis from his family, who includes his sister, Grace. When he feels obliged to drink the blood of Grace's baby, he knows that he can no longer be safely around them.
Christian Robinson like Levi Freiere
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Christian Robinson Play the husband and father of Grace of his children, Levi. Their brother Paul does not approve of Levi for grace, because he is Baptist.
Rae Dawn Chong like Florence de Pointe du Lac
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Violet color actor Rae Dawn Chong Play Louis's mother, Florence, who defends how he earns his money, even if it is not respectable. However, they become distant after a family tragedy and the changes caused by Louis' vampiric transformation begin to show.
Maura Grace Athari like Antoinette
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The singer Antoinette is a source of conflict in the relationship of Louis and Lestat. Louis is jealous of the bond of Lestat with her and even more upset when Lestat reveals that he also transformed it into a vampire.
Luke Brandon Field as a young Daniel Molloy
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The young Daniel plays a more important role in season 2, but season 1 includes a flashback at his first meeting with Louis in a gay bar in San Francisco. The episode of season 2 "Do't Beat, just start the band", reveals everything that happened immediately afterwards, when Louis invited the journalist to his apartment, incurring the anger of Armand.
Damon Daunno like Bruce
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After having undertaken an indiscreet frenzy to feed New Orleans, Claudia flees Louis and Lestat to find herself and, she hopes, other vampires. Unfortunately, she meets Broadway Star Damon Daunno As Bruce, a vampires who victim in a way in which Louis will not speak. She and Louis later use Bruce as an alibi, telling Coven that they meet in Paris that he was their manufacturer, not Lestat.
Steven G. Norfleet like Paul de Pointe du Lac
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Paul is the brother of Louis and Grace, who was institutionalized for his mental health problems. In the first, he tragically threw himself from a roof in front of Louis, sending his brother slipping into sorrow.
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Interview with the vampire Enter 2 Distribution and characters
Seeing no other way to get out of their situation, at the end of season 1, Louis and Claudia hatch a plot to kill Lestat. They drugs one of his victims, then Louis hides his throat, but he does not burn his corpse, which is the only way to ensure its complete destruction. (Daniel calls it on this subject in the present.) Louis and Claudia leave the country, traveling through Europe, according to Claudia's desire to seek and learn more about their gender, and finally settle in Post-war Paris.
It is there that they meet Armand, who has been the leader of a Coven who has also been a theater troupe for many years - and who also has a romantic story with Lestat. As we already knew, Lestat did not leave for good. It appears to Louis in visions and ultimately has great resentment in their lives.
Delainey Hayles like Claudia
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Planning conflicts have led to the redesign of Claudia, which is played by Delainey Hayles ( Holby City ) In season 2. In France, she is determined to find a companion for herself, to befriend a seamstress who is a pariah because of her affair with a Nazi officer during the war. Claudia is first delighted to meet the members of the vampire tea, but becomes furious and discouraged when she is forced to play a little girl again and again in one of their pieces by Santiago revenge.
Ben Daniels like Santiago
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While Armand leads the Coven, Santiago is the star of the troop. Played by Ben Daniels ( The crown ,, Foundation ), It generates the performances which also provide Coven with their victims. He takes it out for Louis and Claudia, suspecting that they are not honest as for their knowledge of Lestat, the co-founder of the company.
Bally gill like rashid
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Rejected by Daniel exclusively as "Real Rashid", he is the human butler of Louis and Armand in Dubai.
Roxane Duran as Madeleine
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As mentioned earlier, Madeleine is hated by her neighbors because of what she says she had to do to survive during the war. This leads to a friendship with Claudia, because they both live on the outskirts of society and believe that no one else understands them. It is played by the French-Austrian actor Roxane Duran . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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Christopher Geary like Sam
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There are many members of the vampires of the tea of, who all turn against Louis and Claudia when they discover that they have violated the law on vampires by killing Lestat. It is necessary to note in particular the vampire SAM, which writes the play which serves as a trial and is the only security attributed to Armand, who claims that he was held captive and made to look - something that Daniel Note is shady.
Joseph Potter like Nicolas de Lenfent
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We briefly meet the pre-armand of Lestat, pre-Luis love, the human musician Nicolas. More powerful than Lestat at that time, Armand accosted them in the street and accuses Lestat of not being up to his vampiric blood by mixing a mortal. He drops Nicolas and takes him to the Lair du Coven to attract the Lestat there.
Justin Kirk like Raglan James
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Angels in America And Weeds star Justin Kirk Appears in some episodes like Raglan James, a Talamasca agent who approaches Daniel in a sushi restaurant and tells him that he is working for an organization that follows vampires and warns of a "great conversion". He provides the journalist information that leads to major revelations, for him and for Louis.
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Interview with the vampire Enter 3 casting and characters
Everything changes again in the last two episodes of season 2. ( Again, major spoilers! ) Lestat returns (in style, of course) to participate in the trial at the Théâtre des Vampires, where Madeleine (which Louis turned) and Claudia are executed on stage, while Louis seems helpless. Louis is banished and finally saved from his crypt by Armand, who claims to have saved Louis from the fate of Claudia. Louis kills almost all of the Covenant in an outburst, but the Talamasca provided Daniel the script of the play, with notes on the sidelines by Armand - the director. Learning in the present that it was in fact Lestat who forced telepathically the public to ask for his banishment, and that he would have done the same for Claudia if he had been strong enough, Louis finds Lestat in New Orleans and that they reconcile.
Meanwhile, Daniel's book was released, driving vampires all over the world to threaten to destroy Louis for having exposed their secrets. Oh, and Armand transformed Daniel into a vampire, although he said that he had no interest in being a manufacturer.
In the press release announcing season 3, AMC revealed that he will draw from Rice's novel in 1980, The Lestat vampire , in which the Lorin Anti-Harm anti-hero becomes a rock star.
"In season 3, the resentment of the superficial representation in the interview with the trashy bestseller with The Vampire", the vampire Lestat establishes its history directly in a way that the vampire that Lestat can - starting a group and in turning "," The press release reads . "Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those who must be kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others which we cannot yet tell you about a sexy pilgrimage through space, the time and trauma.
AMC has not yet announced again casting for the next season, but let's take a look at the characters appointed in the synopsis and what we could expect from them, on the basis of the books.
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Gabrielle
Gabrielle is the mother of Lestat, who was born from a rich Italian family and married a French nobleman, although they lived in poverty. Lestat is her youngest child and favorite, and she abandons everything she can for him. They remain connected through letters when he moves to Paris, becoming an actor and coming in wealth as a vampire. When she dies of consumption, Lestat turns her, making her mother her first flight. She takes the life of vampire as he did, and they live and travel together for a certain time.
Nicolas
Nicolas (or Nicki), which we met in season 2, is a great presence The Lestat vampire . In the book, they meet when Lestat is always human and headed together in Paris. Lestat is kidnapped with their bed by its creator, the Magnus vampire, which creates it. His new power and wealth complicates his relationship with Nicki, especially after Lestat turned Gabrielle, and Nicki feels that he is left behind. However, being given the gift of Lestat does not make Nicki happier.
Magnus
We have already heard the name Magnus mentioned in the series, notably Lestat boasting that he has the blood of Magnus in his veins. (His crypt is also the place where Louis and Armand find Lestat in the final of season 2.) The Lestat manufacturer was born during the 15th century and was consumed over the years by the idea of finding an heir For his line and his fortune, unhappy as he was in his vampire life. He spots Lestat when the latter acts on stage and chooses him, transforming Lestat without his consent. Before jumping deliberately in a pyre (something we saw a Romanian vampire doing in season 2), he leaves his wealth to his without the flowing penny.
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Marius
In The Lestat vampire , Marius de Romanus is the manufacturer of Armand and older than any of the vampires that we have met so far. (The book gives birth to 1 BC) Lestat begins to leave messages for Marius while he travels with his mother, and Marius ends up visiting him, sharing with him the original story of all vampires.
Those who must be preserved
And this is where those who must be held come. (No, it is not the name of the Lestat group, unfortunately.) The title refers to Akasha, who was the queen of what was going to become Egypt in 5000 BC, and Enkil, her husband. When an assassin tries to kill them both, a bad mind called Amel enters Akasha's body and made her the very first vampire. It subsequently transforms Enkil through the better known method. Because they are the source of all the vampires in the world, everything that happens to Akasha and Enkil arrives at all their offspring. In The Lestat vampire , Marius keeps those who must be kept, which have essentially become statues, and warns them to let them be. Of course, he doesn't do it.
Rice The Damné Queen Pick up the story of Akasha and Enkil after The Lestat vampire . Aaliyah Play Akasha in the 2002 film of the same name.
Conclusion
In the press release of the new season, AMC notes that they have the rights of18 Anne Rice Novels, which means that it can only be the beginning with regard to the adventures of Lestat, Louis, Armand, and even more on your television screen. A first date has not been announced for Interview with the vampire Season 3, but he will probably arrive in 2025.
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