Watching AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, I do feel transported to the headspace of Louis again, still drowning in his own grief. To read Interview with the Vampire is to really understand Louis’s point of view the punishment of immortality, where he is eternally drowning in his own grief. The injustices that Louis feels have been done to him-by his vampire maker Lestat, by the world, by God-weigh on him like a rock in his gut. They’re also eternally frozen in the moment of their death, still recovering from the trauma of their lives centuries into their undeath. Every insult, every heartbreak, every moment of joy, every instance of pleasure, all of it is heightened. Anne Rice’s vampires feel everything at eleven out of ten. When I revisit the novel, what keeps me enthralled in the story is not always the moment to moment story beats, but the beauty of Rice’s prose and the way she is able to convey the depth of Louis’s sorrow. Although the 1994 movie is an iconic piece of 90s blockbuster film culture, AMC’s adaption ultimately feels truer to the spirit of what Rice wrote. What follows emphasizes the themes in Rice’s novels that have made them endure for so long. AMC’s story begins when Malloy is invited by Louis to continue their interview in a compound in Dubai. Rather than being a young man who happens to meet a vampire one night and decides to interview him, this time Daniel Malloy, played impeccably by Eric Bogosian, has already met Louis once as a young man but their interview was never finished. It isn’t just the obvious changes that stand out- Anderson’s Louis de Pointe du Lac is a Black brothel owner in the early 20th century rather than a white plantation owner in the late 18th century-but also the framing of the story. But after the season finale, it seems clear that it’s exactly these character changes that have made showrunner Rolin Jones’s adaptation so true to the spirit of the books.Ī lot has changed in AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, to the point that I, having recently watched the 1994 movie starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, was instantly a little skeptical. In many ways, the Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) of AMC’s Interview With The Vampire is nothing like the one in Anne Rice’s book.
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