“F**ok you, you ho. I don’t need you again.” One of the crucial express, cathartic, messy breakup songs of the early 2000s, plus its musical response that has simply as a lot chew, are the track references Jacob Anderson makes use of to explain how rockstar Lestat’s music impacts Louis and Lestat’s relationship in Interview With the Vampire Season 3, premiering in 2026 on AMC.
Sitting between Sam Reid (Lestat, now a well-known musician) and their costar, Eric Bogosian (Daniel, now a fledgling vampire), in TV Insider and TV Information Journal’s San Diego Comedian-Con 2025 studio on July 25, Anderson (Louis, companion sufficient for himself proper now) brings up the iconically profane R&B monitor Eamon launched as his debut single in 2003, “F**ok It (I Don’t Need You Again).” In 2004, Frankee launched an equally iconic response track, “F.U.R.B. (F U Proper Again),” as her debut single (the 2 singers by no means truly dated), and few breakup songs have been in a position to produce as a lot petty catharsis for listeners within the time since.
“Do you keep in mind Frankee and Eamon?” Anderson asks TV Insider as he hums the tune, “‘[F. U., you ho], I don’t need you again,” including, “After which ‘F. U. Proper Again’ was just like the response. It’s like that, however vampires.”
This reply capped off Reid’s, who had simply defined how Lestat’s music is a direct response to Louis and Daniel’s memoir, however in a option to keep away from exposing how fame particularly impacts Louis and Lestat’s relationship within the third season (we hit a spoiler nerve with that individual query). Reid says that Lestat’s music is in “some extent a response” to the ebook and “impacts their relationship fairly tremendously.”
“It’s a pertinent, sort of bodily barrier that maybe they carry,” Reid provides, attempting to repress amusing, as do Anderson, Bogosian, showrunner Rolin Jones, and government producer Mark Johnson. Bogosian clarifies, “We’re laughing loads as a result of there’s all these items we’re not supposed to speak about and we preserve dancing round it.” It appears we’re onto one thing with this line of questioning.
Because of Armand’s (Assad Zaman) “seismic lie” concerning the trial in Nineteen Forties Paris, Louis and Lestat spent seven a long time aside. They reunited in a standout scene within the Season 2 finale set in 2022 that gave the characters house to grieve the murdered Claudia (Delainey Hayles), their vampire daughter, collectively for the primary time. A while has handed since that final assembly when Season 3 picks up, and the lyrics from Lestat’s first track, “Lengthy Face” (which was debuted at SDCC 2024), indicate a messy situationship has fashioned between the exes between seasons. Add newfound fame for each of those bloodsuckers into the combo — and the Frankee and Eamon tracks as inspiration — and you’ve got a recipe for a sublimely chaotic, it’s-complicated-as-hell period for these immortals.
Interview With the Vampire Season 3 isn’t a musical, however the music is diegetic. The tracks are actually the soundtrack of Lestat’s lengthy life, with Jones saying above that we’ll see “the messiest three, 4 months of his whole existence.” The tunes are a key piece of the storytelling; the lyrics and even Lestat’s melodic decisions will reveal particulars about his inside world.
The main points of Interview With the Vampire Season 3 are being stored underneath tight lock and key, however Jones does share, “I really feel very assured now we have one of many nice soundtracks that has ever been made.” The Frankee and Eamon point out solely makes us extra assured that the crew is aware of precisely what they’re doing with this massive swing. Composer Daniel Hart is making all the songs. Anderson, identified to the music world as Raleigh Ritchie, feedback on his potential involvement within the music manufacturing above as nicely.
Followers will get some thrilling updates, together with casting bulletins, on Interview With the Vampire Season 3 in the course of the Anne Rice Immortal Universe panel happening right now, July 26, at 4:30 p.m. PT in Ballroom 20 at San Diego Comedian-Con. The panel, and sibling sequence Talamasca‘s, is moderated by TV Insider’s personal Damian Holbrook.
Interview With the Vampire Season 3 Premiere, 2026, AMC
— Further Reporting by Emily Aslanian