AMC’s hit series Interview With the Vampire recently announced that the production team is set to start filming for the second season this spring. According to Comicbook, Mark Johnson (Better Call Saul, Halt and Catch Fire), one of the executive producers of the show, revealed in an interview that the team will begin shooting in April. Johnson also told in an interview with Variety that most of the second season will occur in Paris.
According to Comicbook, series producer Adam O’Byrne (Use Your Delusion) had made previous comments about the filming schedule telling The Canadian Press that the filming of the second season will take place from April to August 2023. O’Byrne also revealed that the team would be shooting in Prague, which will be standing in for Paris.
The second season of Interview With the Vampire will focus on the second half of Anne Rice’s (Ramses the Damned, The Wolf Gift) novel. It will be during this second season that the audience will get to meet more vampires, including those from the Theatre des Vampires.
O’Byrne has also told the audience about two new characters that will be introduced in season two. One of them is the vampire Santiago who is described as a scoundrel. The other character being introduced in the new season is Madeline, who in the novel is the companion of Claudia. No announcements have been made regarding who will play these new characters in the second season.
The cast of the show includes Sam Reid (The Newsreader, Prime Suspect: Tennison) as Lestat de Lioncourt; Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones, Doctor Who) as Louis de Pointe du Lac; Bailey Bass (Avatar: The Way of Water, Psycho Sweet 16) as Claudia; Eric Bogosian (Billions, Succession) as Daniel Molloy, the reporter; Assad Zaman (Hotel Portofino, Apple Tree Yard) as Rashid; Kalyne Coleman (So Help Me Todd) as Grace de Pointe du Lac; Chris Stack (One Life to Live, Killer Among Us) as Tom Anderson and Christian Robinson (BMF, Third Wheel Material) as Levi.
The Interview with the Vampire series takes place in New Orleans in the early twentieth century. The story follows a successful brothel proprietor named Louis, who in this version of the story is Creole. Yet, he is an outsider mostly due to the situation surrounding his family, his late father, his demanding mother, and his unstable brother. In his attempt to remain a part of society, he avoids accepting his sexuality for fear this will turn him into a permanent outcast.
The series, unlike the 1994 movie, explores in depth the relationship between Louis and Lestat. It can be seen in the season one trailer that their relationship is closer than friends and that the show is not trying to hide it. The relationship between the protagonists has always been vague and up to interpretation. The showrunners for the series decided that it was time to change that.
The first season of Interview With the Vampire is available to stream on AMC+. The second season of the show will start filming in April of 2023. No release date has been given, but the new season will likely premiere in late 2023 or early 2024.