AMC’s Interview with the Vampire is the very best new (to me) present I’ve watched this yr. After Season 1 dropped on Netflix, I completed it in like a day then instantly signed up for AMC+ to look at Season 2.
One of many issues that makes the present so unimaginable is how a lot ardour the forged and crew put into making it. So, listed below are 21 attention-grabbing behind-the-scenes information concerning the present:
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Jacob Anderson (who performs Louis de Pointe du Lac) instructed Vainness Truthful that the important thing factor he and Sam Reid (who performs Lestat de Lioncourt) have as scene companions “is full and utter belief.”
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The ultimate scene of Season 2 — the place Louis and Lestat reunite in New Orleans throughout a hurricane — was filmed in Prague throughout a blizzard. Since they had been brief on time, Jacob and Sam solely had two takes every.
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For Season 1, Episode 1, Jacob discovered to faucet dance. Nevertheless, he received COVID, so he needed to take his classes remotely whereas self-isolating.
For a scene on the prepare with Claudia in Season 1, Episode 6, he discovered canine coaching too.
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Jacob took residence the Amex card Louis used within the Season 1, Episode 6 scene the place he met Daniel for the primary time.
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Sam took residence Lestat’s blood-soaked shirt from the Season 1 finale.
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SFX artist Howard Berger modeled the vampires’ eye colours after Anne Rice’s descriptions within the books.
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Howard additionally instructed Beneath the Line, “We ended up doing fairly average-size fangs. We had three totally different sizes. I might name it, like, the remainder measurement, which was like their regular measurement. After which there was, like, their assault, which had been larger tooth.”
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The vampires’ nails had been a problem, so Tami Lane, Howard’s co-department head, had the concept of sending the actors to get acyrlics. Having a manicurist come to the trailers ended up being “value prohibitive,” so that they discovered an area nail salon to work with.
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Assad Zaman initially thought he was auditioning to play Rashid, Louis’s family worker. It wasn’t till his third audition that Rolin threw him the “curveball” that Rashid was really Armand.
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Throughout scenes the place “Rashid” was on his iPad in Season 1, Assad was usually enjoying Minecraft.
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Bailey Bass was keen to inform a narrative by Claudia’s hair. At first, the hair staff struggled to seek out footage of Black women within the 1910s and ’20s, a lot much less examples of Bailey’s curl sample. Nevertheless, recommendation from Jacob inspired her to persevere.
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For Eric Bogosian, enjoying Daniel Molloy, who’s changed into a vampire on the finish of Season 2, fulfilled a longtime dream.
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Assad has a secret Armand playlist to assist him get into character. He instructed Vulture, “I instructed showrunner Rolin Jones about one of many songs in it. No, the remainder of it’s mine, I am afraid. It is fairly particular to me.”
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After Season 1 wrapped, Bailey attended remedy to disconnect herself from Claudia.
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The method of casting Delainey Hayles as Claudia (a task she took over in Season 2) moved extraordinarily quick. When she first tried out, “the title of the character was fully totally different, so [she] did not really know who [she] was auditioning for.” A couple of days after sending in her self-tape, she obtained a proposal for an in-person audition the very subsequent day. The day after that, she received the position, and the next day, she flew to Prague.
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After they weren’t filming, Jacob and Delainey spent lots of time collectively. They went on lengthy walks and to dinner.
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There are lots of important variations between the present and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire novel, however there was by no means a model of the present the place Claudia survived.
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Some members of the Théâtre des Vampires had been performed by actors from the British theater firm 1927. Suzanne Andrade and Esme Appleton, who play Celeste and Estelle respectively, co-founded the corporate with animator Paul Barritt, and composer Lillian Henley.
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Since Season 3 is predicated on The Vampire Lestat, Lestat will grow to be a rockstar. They’re “going to attempt to beat Hedwig and the Indignant Inch and Rocky Horror.”
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And eventually, showrunner Rolin Jones instructed Vulture, “When you go into each season like you are going to get canceled, you simply say, ‘Fuck it, go for it!'”
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