Warning: This article contains spoilers for Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Finale: “And that’s it. There’s nothing else.”
It took him 77 years, but Louis (Jacob Anderson) finally found his groove by the end of Interview with a Vampire season 2. And he didn’t do it alone.
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The intense and emotional finale spanned nearly 100 years, as Louis and Armand (Assad Zaman) finished telling their story to Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), but the journalist used evidence given to him by the Talamasca to prove that Armand had been lying to Louis since the clan’s trial in Paris. Louis believed Armand had saved him from death, but Daniel revealed that Armand had actually directed the entire trial and that it was Lestat (Sam Reid) who had saved Louis instead. For 77 years, Armand had built their entire relationship on a lie. Louis furiously attacked Armand for the betrayal and ordered him to leave.
Now armed with the truth, Louis traveled to New Orleans to finally reunite with Lestat. The two tearfully opened up about Claudia’s (Delaney Hayles) death and Louis’ suicide attempt, and Louis thanked Lestat for giving him the dark gift. The vampires continued to talk as the camera panned back, but viewers couldn’t hear what they were saying. However, the embrace they shared as a hurricane raged outside spoke volumes.
The finale then took a leap forward in time: Daniel published his “fictional memoirs” Interview with the Vampire, even though Louis didn’t want it, and the book was publicly ridiculed by humans and privately pissed off all the vampires. It is revealed that Daniel was also turned into a vampire by Armand after Louis left them alone, but Louis and Daniel had not heard from Armand since then. The season ended with Louis challenging all the vampires angry at him for exposing their way of life to come to him.
Suffice to say, a lot happened in the Season 2 finale. But Reid’s favorite part of the emotional episode was Louis and Lestat’s long-awaited reunion. “I just thought it was beautiful,” he says. Weekly Entertainment“It was a fantastic way to end the season. There’s a lot of loose ends to tie up, there’s a few things you really want to figure out, but there’s also a very, very satisfying conclusion. It’s this beautiful journey of Louis coming to terms with himself and finding his feet and accepting the gift of darkness. And Lestat also coming into his own a little bit now.”
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When Louis reunites with Lestat in New Orleans, it’s a far cry from what fans have seen throughout the series. He lives in a rundown house, pretends to play the piano on a piece of wood while using Siri to play music, and tells Louis he’s “going on tour” but needs about 50 years additional practice before. This may come as a shock to viewers who haven’t read Anne Rice’s books, but Reid was excited to finally get to play this version of Lestat.
“He’s really not in a good place,” Reid says. “He’s probably in one of the worst places he’s ever been, but at least he’s got Louis back. They’re not back together, but at least they’re talking. I know what he did during that time. You can’t always play, so it’s complicated, but it’s very well done.”
Reid wanted to go even further with Lestat’s physical appearance in the finale, but showrunner Rolin Jones had to rein him in. “I always wanted to have the scars, the gaunt, special-effects makeup, and the gooey skin,” the actor says. “I wanted to be a full-on ghoul, basically. And Rolin, rightly, I guess, said, ‘No, it’s a psychological thing. You’re injured, but it’s a psychological injury. It’s whatever you want it to be, but it’s in your mind.'”
Although Reid doesn’t want to go into detail about what Lestat has done since the trial to bring about such a drastic change, he does reveal that Lestat was “forced to come to terms with himself more.”
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“Claudia is a huge loss, and Louis and Lestat, for about a century, will never be able to spend so much time together without mentioning Claudia,” Reid said. “They can’t. That reunion scene, they can only really talk for three minutes before immediately talking about Claudia, and there’s so much to process there. And she haunts them both at different times .I think maybe Lestat would probably walk quite comfortably in the sun the same way Louis does, but this Lestat won’t die, he’ll just tan.
AMC has officially renewed Interview with the Vampire for season 3, and the series will then adapt Rice’s second book, The vampire Lestat“We follow the order of the books,” confirms Reid. The new season will center on Lestat, who resents his portrayal in Molloy’s book and, determined to set the record straight, becomes a rock star.
“Sam worked really hard for two years as a supporting actor, and I think Jacob is very excited to do the same for him and put Sam front and center,” Jones said. Well. “We’ve only scratched the surface with Sam, who is an incredible actor.”
The showrunner knows it was “infuriating” for Reid to constantly play other characters’ perceptions of Lestat rather than the character himself, but that eventually came to an end. “We gave it an objective scene, the New Orleans scene,” Jones says. “At that point, that’s no one’s point of view. The camera is over there watching them both, so there you go, fans. A scene so far from the real Lestat. »
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But that scene, and the way Season 2 ends, went through a lot of changes before it made it to the big screen. First and foremost, because the showrunner had originally planned for the first book to be adapted into a single season. Second, due to budget issues, among other reasons, the first book was split into two seasons. Second, the showrunner wanted Louis and Lestat’s reunion to take place during Hurricane Katrina, but the timeline didn’t fit. Furthermore, there were aspects of the scene that would never be “acceptable” to AMC.
“This meeting is totally nihilistic, so we were going to do something different,” he says. “The idea of setting it during a storm, we thought about it a little bit King Lear “Where the storm happens inside and the storm happens outside. It’s the idea that their relationship has been like a hurricane, and they find this moment of forgiveness and calm and quiet in the middle of a hurricane, and that seemed like the way forward.”
It was important to Jones to build on Louis and Lestat’s reunion for the end of the story. “It’s very clear in the last few books that this relationship can’t be abandoned,” Jones says. “It’s actually a very central relationship, so how do you bring it back and start this journey again? We’re just starting to see a glimmer of forgiveness and responsibility in that last scene between the two of them.”
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“But we don’t end with them as a couple,” Jones adds. “They had a reconciliation and that, in the novel, is quite dark, their separation. We went the other way, which is we start to frame the journey about how they ultimately, maybe eight seasons later, will end up together We just wanted some catharsis. We wanted to earn that hug and earn those quiet words that neither of us even know what they said to each other.
Jones reveals that they actually turned off Anderson and Reid’s microphones on set while Louis and Lestat finished their conversation. “The whispers that are happening, there are two people on earth that know what was said there, and that’s Sam and Jacob,” Jones says.
Reid was honored to see how the showrunner literally wrote this moment into the script. “No one knows what Louis and Lestat are really saying to each other (except us), which is, I think, the crux of what’s happening in this show,” Reid says. “It’s all about point of view. It’s all about perspective. It’s all about who’s saying what about the other. And now we’ve given these characters back their voices, and now these characters know what they’re saying and thinking about each other after all of this, but it’s just for them. They’re taking it back to themselves and no one will ever know. Not even Rolin knows.”
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Jones felt like he owed it to the actors to give them this private moment. “The amount of money they put into these characters, the knowledge they have, and everything we put them through, it was like they deserved a gift,” the showrunner said. “They have a very close friendship that comes from that show, and all of these fans really loved not only the characters, but also the friendship that developed off-screen. So it was a meta-celebration of the work that they accomplished for two seasons.”
Will Reid ever reveal what he and Anderson said to each other? “Of course not,” says the actor, smiling. “I’m sure people who do that kind of oral reading can probably get on with it.”
“I’m sure someone will try to break the code, but I hope they don’t,” Jones said. “I hope the public will be really respectful of that.”
But as for the season finale, when Daniel reveals that Armand turned him into a vampire, Jones hints that there’s more to come from this story. “One is a creator and the other is a beginner,” he says. “We’d be terrible playwrights if they never did scenes together again. We just needed to set the stage for a lot of new writing for Louis, and I think this moves him forward. There’s new writing to do for this character.”