Anne Rice Universe press conference at NYCC: News on ‘Talamasca’ & ‘The Vampire Lestat’

On Friday afternoon, the creators and cast of AMC’s upcoming Talamasca and The Vampire Lestat (formerly Interview With the Vampire) held press conferences at New York Comic Con.

Talamasca & The Vampire Lestat

As fans remember from last season of Interview With the Vampire, interviewer Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) was turned. The new season will be him grappling with being turned late in life, Bogosian says.

“The thing to remember is that to be turned later in life means you’re going to carry more of what you were into this other thing, which is not human. You’re a vampire. You’re something else. It’s another dimension.”

Louie (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat (Sam Reid) are still dealing with the fallout of their relationship and the wake of Claudia’s (Delainey Hayles) death. Season two was largely about Louie and his relationship with Armand (Assad Zaman), but season three will be about dealing with the fallout of that relationship following the blowup during Molloy’s interview.

“His daughter is dead, and his relationship of 77 years has ended,” executive producer Hannah Moscovitch added. “And he has to figure out a whole pile of shit now. His entire life has been broken open.”

Fans have also been abuzz about the dynamic between Armand and Daniel. When asked what their relationship will be like following season two, Bogosian said, “You know when a little kid has a stuffed animal when they’re very small, and they just drag it around for years and years, and it only has one eye for a while, and it’s all torn up? That’s his approach to Daniel.”

Meanwhile, for Talamasca, executive producer Johnson as well executive producer Mark Johnson, Moscovitch, director and writer John Lee Hancock, and cast Nicholas Denton (Guy Anatole) and William Fichtner (Jasper). Following Anatole, a student who is about to graduate law school, the Talamasca, a secret agency that monitors and protects humans from the supernatural world, approaches him.

Will the shows overlap at all?

The shows coexist in the same universe, but fans, of course, are dying (no pun intended) to know if there is any overlap between them. That question was answered by Bogosian, who teased the book that Molloy wrote at the end of season two as the catalyst for the convergence.

“Guy finds that there is a piece of information in the book that he needs to know more about,” he said. That opens the door for their interaction in the new series and how the two characters begin to know each other.

Denton also teased a little more about who Guy Anatole is, exactly. “He’s got some ambition, but he also has something else going on. He’s got this disability. He has heard voices for years, since he was a kid, and he’s always thought…that was a mental illness of sorts. So he’s heavily medicated himself, but he actually does find out that he has the mind-reading. And that’s what begins to happen with Daniel Malloy in this scene, and I think that maybe gives him a little bit more leverage in all of it.”

Bringing the two together is not without careful planning. According to Johnson, Johnson, “[A]ll three of them on one hand couldn’t be more different. But they have themes and characters, and I think concerns all tied together.” He added, “We’re going to be very judicious about it and make sure that when Eric Bogosian shows up in another show that there’s a reason for it.”

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