The second season of Interview with The Vampire will premiere in 2024, and it will show the return of fan-favorite characters, Comicbook reports. The cast will be the same as before, including Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones, Overlord) as Louis, and Sam Reid (The Newsreader, Lambs of God) as Lestat. Bailey Bass, the original portrayer of the character Claudia, was unable to return for season two, so she was recast with Delainey Hayles (Too Close) in the show.
In an exclusive interview with ComicBook, Anderson explained the theme and what to expect in this following season. “The theme of season 2 is this idea of memory is monster, and how memory and guilt can follow you around,” Anderson stated via Comicbook. “When we meet Claudia and Louis in season 2, they’re dealing with the psychological and literal repercussions of what they did together.” For those unaware, season one found Claudia and Louis betraying their third, Lestat. “With Louis, you definitely get a sense there was some hesitance on his part – he didn’t really go through with it, he pulled back from the decision at the last minute because he is very in love with this fellow monster. That creates tension between the two of them, Louis and Claudia, that they weren’t exactly on the same page, so for those two to be together now in an unfamiliar territory creates a lot of drama.”
“There are things that I can’t talk about in this season that were really challenging and really shocking to me, and I’ve learned a lot of things about Louis and myself,” Anderson stated via Comicbook. “Another big theme in the show is that of endurance and resilience, and because of what Louis is experiencing this season, I’ve definitely learned that my own mind is more resilient than I thought it was. It’s more robust. I can withstand more madness than I thought I could. It’s been really fulfilling and challenging and fun.”
Furthermore, Anderson was able to tease a bit about what the second season will be about. “The continuation of Dubai really opens everything up this season,” Anderson stated about the current storyline in the show beforehand, via Comicbook. “Dubai is really explosive. Dubai really took me by surprise this season. There’s a lot going on there, and there are things that are a part of the wider series of books, but also things that are creations of the writers that makes complete sense to the characters that we know and love. It’s a heavy season for those guys in the present.”
“But we are also going to the theater, we’re in Paris, we’re in Eastern Europe, so it will be very familiar in all the same ways as the first season was, but also there will be surprises,” Anderson teased.
Anderson also added that they will stick to the second half of the book during the second season. “I love the first book, but the second half is not quite as dense as the first half, so the writers this season have definitely expanded on ideas that are hinted at or suggested in the second part of the book.”
Interview With the Vampire returns in 2024 on AMC.