The new teaser forInterview With The Vampire’s season 3 has revealed Sam Reid’s Lestat de Lioncourt’s rockstar transformation. The teaser serves more as an exclusive backstage sneak peek of whatSam Reid’sInterview With The Vampirecharacterwill look like in the AMC show’s upcoming season, confirming that the new installment is in production and set to release in 2026.
Towards the end of the teaser,Sam Reid also confirms the new installment will be calledAnne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat, which highlights that it will be accurately named after the second novel in the American author’sVampire Chronicles. Here’s the complete sneak peek backstageteaser forInterview With The Vampireseason 3:
Apart from being given an exclusive behind-the-scenes look atThe Vampire Lestat, attendees of the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel were also told about its casting updates.
As confirmed atThe Vampire Lestat’s SDCC panel, bothDelainey Hayles and Assad Zaman will reprise their roles as Bailey Bass and Armand, respectively. While Jennifer Ehle has been cast to play Gabriella, Ella Ballentine will play the role of Baby Jenks. Jeanine Serralles, Christopher Heyerdahl, and Damien Atkins have also been cast to portray Christine Claire, Marius, and Magnus, respectively.
Check out the new pictures of Sam Reid’s rockstar Lestat inInterview With The Vampireseason 3below:
What This Means For Interview With The Vampire Season 3
Sam Reid Seems To Perfectly Carry Lestat’s New Rockstar Persona
After seemingly portraying Lestat as the main villain for quite some time,Interview With The Vampireseason 2’s endingmade him out to be more of an ambiguous character by revealing how Armand skewed Louis’s memories of him. This marked the end of one major story beat, where Louis and Lestat reconciled, but the state of their relationship remained unknown.
Louis seems to break free from Armand’s entrapment, but Lestat’s narrative demands more exploration. After season 2’s final arc, it makes complete sense that season 3 is focusing more on the Sam Reid character and his journey as a rockstar. So far, Reid has done an incredible job of capturing Lestat’s magnetic charm and emotional volatility.
As Sam Reid’s co-star, Jacob Anderson, reveals in the teaser, Reid has been practicing for the role every single day for two years.
InInterview With The Vampireseason 3, however,it looks like he will take things to a whole new level by fully embracing Lestat’s role and showing how his character’s early years as a famous 1980’s rockstar shaped him. As Sam Reid’s co-star, Jacob Anderson, reveals in the teaser, Reid has been practicing for the role every single day for two years.
Anderson also added that “everyone is in for a treat,” hinting at how incredible Sam Reid will be in Anne Rice’sThe Vampire Lestat. Sam Reid, too, expressed his anticipation by saying thathe is excited for everyone to see the show’s “wild costumes,” “crazy sets,” and “extraordinary music.”
Our Take On Interview With The Vampire Season 3
The New Installment Will Likely Continue The Show’s Successful Run
Sam Reid looks incredible as the rockstar Lestat inInterview With The Vampireseason 3’s new teaser, and he even seems to have gotten the character’s singing voice down perfectly. For two seasons straight,Interview With The Vampirehas performed exceptionally well among viewers and critics.
It boasts an almost perfect Rotten Tomatoes score of 99%, and, from the looks of it,its upcoming installment will only strengthen that reputation. The new teaser forInterview With The Vampireseason 3 also raises more hype for the show’s future by revealing how much work the cast and crew are putting in to ensure viewers get to see an authentic and immersive adaptation.
Interview with the Vampire
Based on Anne Rice’s novel series that began in 1976, Interview with the Vampire is a gothic horror fantasy series that explores the life of Louis de Pointe du Lac through an interview with a journalist. Told through flashbacks of Louis' life during the interview, the series examines Louis' relationship with the vampire that turned him, Lestat de Lioncourt, and a teenage girl named Claudia, whom he turns. The series is the first of Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe media franchise.
