Anne Rice stans, puts your hands up! Rock icon (and vampire) Lestat de Lioncourt takes center stage in AMC’s teaser for Interview with the Vampire Season 3, an adaptation of Rice’s sequel novel The Vampire Lestat.
In the clip, first shared during the IWTV panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Lestat (Sam Reid) walks into an on-camera interview run by an offscreen Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) — the same journalist who interviewed Lestat’s former(?) lover Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) in the first and second seasons. Lestat proceeds to be the diva that we all know and love him to be: refusing hair and makeup; asking them to take a goblet of blood away; commenting on the sound guy’s dehydration, and just overall exuding sass and arrogance.
The all-too-short teaser ends with a montage of Lestat at various points of this interview — laughing, crying, and looking generally menacing at the camera. This is soundtracked by Lestat’s own song, “Why the Long Face?” Perhaps AMC is asking us this, because there’s no premiere date yet for Season 3.
According to TV Insider, though, executive producer Rolin Jones listed off numerous inspirations for Lestat’s music at the panel, including Chappell Roan. While we wait for more information, we’re holding out for a Chappell cameo in IWTV Season 3.
