Interview With the Vampire sank its fangs into San Diego Comedian-Con on Saturday, July 26, as stars of the favored horror/romance collection, together with Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, and Eric Bogosian, all appeared in Ballroom 20 to assist promote Season 3. Through the panel for Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe, AMC+ additionally launched an unique “Sneak Peek Backstage” video (beneath) of the upcoming season, by which it was revealed that the present will change its title from Interview With the Vampire to The Vampire Lestat in 2026. Reid’s transformation into Rockstar Lestat is on full show through the must-see footage, and the actor can’t consider he’s really attending to convey this David Bowie/Jim Morrison-esque iteration of the character from the novels to life on-screen. Reid mentioned in an interview with Leisure Weekly:
“It is fairly wild, I’ve acquired to say. I can’t actually consider we’re doing it. Generally I’m like, ‘What the hell?!’ Lestat has an intention to precise his views and his expertise via music, music movies, and recordings, and all this type of stuff. And they’re discovering an exquisite, cool strategy to weave that via plenty of the denser elements.”
Followers can hear Lestat’s track “Lengthy Face,” which debuted throughout final 12 months’s Comedian-Con, resonating via the footage, but when one pauses the video and appears intently, a never-before-released piece of music makes its debut — on paper, a minimum of. Reid is rehearsing a track titled “Why Do I Must Really feel?” that’s written on a web page in his binder.
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Sam Reid’s Lestat de Lioncourt might be making a “double album’s” value of music in Season 3.
Reid is “loving” all of the preparation it takes to convey the rockstar model of the Brat Prince off the web page and into the AMC collection. The actor additionally reveals that Lestat makes use of his music to answer the memoir Interview With the Vampire, printed by his lover Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson) and collaborator Daniel Molloy (Bogosian). Nonetheless, Lestat won’t solely must cope with them, but additionally a number of Anne Rice’s literary characters who’ve in the end been forged within the collection.
Meet the New Solid of ‘The Vampire Lestat’
A number of new characters will be part of The Vampire Lestat in 2026, however hardcore Interview With the Vampire followers will probably be delighted to know that Delainey Hayles will probably be returning for Season 3 regardless of the heartbreaking demise of her character Claudia in Season 2’s penultimate episode. Assad Zaman can even reprise his function as Armand in The Vampire Lestat. Nonetheless, a number of fan-favorites from the novel of the identical title, which was printed in 1985, are able to rock, too.
Maybe most significantly, it was revealed at Comedian-Con that Jennifer Ehle will painting Lestat’s mom, Gabrielle, who has been renamed Gabriella for some cause. Ehle (Fifty Shades of Gray, Lioness) is finest identified for taking part in Elizabeth Bennet alongside Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy in 1995’s Satisfaction and Prejudice. These not aware of Lestat’s difficult relationship together with his mom acquired a style of simply how naughty the duo will be in three minutes’ value of footage solely proven to these in attendance at this 12 months’s Comedian-Con — very naughty!
Christopher Heyerdahl of The Twilight Saga fame and his visitor function as Kal-El/Clark Kent’s (Tom Welling) uncle, Zor-El, on Smallville has been forged to play the essential a part of Marius de Romanus in The Vampire Lestat. Marius was initially portrayed on the large display by Vincent Perez in 2002’s Queen of the Damned. In the meantime, Lestat’s vampire maker, Magnus, will probably be performed by prolific tv star Damien Atkins. Sadly, there’s no phrase but on who will play The Nice Mom and the world’s authentic vampire, a.ok.a. the Queen of the Damned, Akasha. Nonetheless, Ella Ballentine has been forged as Child Jenks, so there’s a direct hyperlink to Anne Rice’s third novel in The Vampire Chronicles collection (The Queen of the Damned, 1988).
Interview with the Vampire Season 3 drops on AMC and AMC+ in 2026. Actually, Jacob Anderson appeared to let it slip in an interview with Display Rant that April will mark the arrival of the primary new episode. Nonetheless, till then, followers can relive the tumultuous relationship between Sam Reid’s Lestat de Lioncourt and Anderson’s Louis de Pointe du Lac in Seasons 1 and a pair of of the hit vampire collection. Each can be found to stream anytime on AMC+ whereas Netflix subscribers solely have entry to Season 1, which encompasses the present’s first seven episodes.
Sources: AMC+, Leisure Weekly, Display Rant