Queer Series “Interview With The Vampire” Is Coming Back For A Season 2
On Friday, July 21, AMC dropped a new trailer for the second season of their hit show Interview With The Vampire based on Anne Rice’s saga of the same name. Deadline reports that the new trailer was released at Comic-Con and unveils new characters and new actors for old characters.
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Rice’s Interview With The Vampire novel hit the mainstream in 1976, a cult classic that stoked fierce debate about the queer subtext of the novel. The 1994 film adaption with a hunky young Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt made suggestive hints at gay romance but AMC’s Interview With The Vampire went straight for the jugular.
Season one was a whirlwind with chaotic vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (played by Sam Reid) and his (sometimes) lover Louis de Pointe du Lac (played by Jacob Anderson) stumbling through New Orleans together with their adopted vampire daughter Claudia (played by Bailey Bass).
This upcoming season will see Anderson and Reid return in their respective roles but Bass is being replaced with newcomer Delainey Hayles, reports Deadline. Despite filming happening for the majority in Prague with international actors, the production has been halted by the SAG-AFTRA union strikes. The trailer reveals the new season will be out in 2024.
