The Vampire Lestat Showrunner Admits Changing Anne Rice’s Source Material in This Week’s Episode Will Probably Be a ‘Little Disappointing’ to Fans

The Vampire Lestat Recap: Brave Little Wolfkiller

“Toronto” mostly takes place on a soundstage, shifting between the interview and flashbacks, and the result is an episode with hundreds of pages’ worth of Lestat’s backstory packed into brief, overstuffed visions.

‘The Vampire Lestat:’ Star Sam Reid, Creator On Staging Their Favorite Song of the Season and Then Getting the ‘F— Out of the Way’

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Toronto,” the third episode of “The Vampire Lestat,” now streaming on AMC+. Don’t say Lestat de Lioncourt never gave you anything. He just doesn’t let you keep it. In the third episode of “The Vampire Lestat,” AMC’s rebranded continuation of “Interview With the Vampire,” aspiring rock star Lestat […]

The Vampire Lestat Showrunner Admits Changing Anne Rice’s Source Material in This Week’s Episode Will Probably Be a ‘Little Disappointing’ to Fans

Spoilers follow for The Vampire Lestat Season 3, Episode 3 - “Toronto,” which is available on AMC and AMC+ now.In “Toronto,” the latest episode of AMC’s series formerly known as Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire, audiences get to witness a sampling of every version of Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) roiling inside of him. The memories of his life in Paris up to when he was turned are juxtaposed against his current, combative on-camera interv…

Sam Reid on what Claudia and The Vampire Lestat have in common

Gone but not forgotten, Claudia comes back in the third episode of The Vampire Lestat, "Toronto." The vicious daughter who took after her maker, Lestat, is remembered in echoes of the past and a doppelgänger in the present. So, what does Sam Reid, who plays Lestat, have to say about how "Toronto" adds a new layer to what father and daughter have in common? In an interview for Mashable's Say More series, Reid reflected, "They have a mutual unders…

Sam Reid's tour de force performance anchors a devastating The Vampire Lestat

Up until now, Interview With The Vampire‘s rebranding as The Vampire Lestat has made sense. Season three’s initial couple of outings didn’t boast the intimacy of Daniel Molloy prodding his immortal subject in close proximity and at great length. It’s not for lack of trying on his part. For the past two months of The Vampire Lestat’s tour, Daniel has attempted to ask Lestat about his human past, musical present, and messy love life. All he’s gott…

Silly, Sultry, Emotionally Damaging: ‘The Vampire Lestat’ Is Doing It All

Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt in "The Vampire Lestat"Sophie Giraud / AMC If you had an impression of Interview with the Vampire the TV show as a melodramatic, blood-soaked, toxic love story — more brazen in showcasing these elements than the 1994 movie with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise — then the season 3 premiere probably knocked your socks off. Rolin Jones struck a strange, beautifully delicious chord as a showrunner with this new season: He man…