Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Interview with the Vampire season 2, episode 7!
Summary
- Lestat's apology to Louis reveals deeper emotions and regret from what he's doing and what he's done, says actor Sam Reid.
- The apology was a desperate attempt at forgiveness he'd never receive, while also revealing he feels like he deserves everything that's happened to him.
- The episode contains complex layers and dream-like scenes, adding to the emotional weight of the trial and Lestat's testimony.
Interview with the Vampire characters. However, he ends up going off script at one point, apologizing to Louis for everything that's happened between them.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Reid revealed the importance of Lestat's apology to Louis in Interview with the Vampire season 2, showing the deeper emotional meaning it had for the ancient vampire. The actor explained how the vampire slowly started to regret going through with the trial, his apology a desperate attempt at getting forgiveness he'd never receive. Check out what Reid had to say below:
He's coming out for revenge and then he changes his mind. That's the framework of the way that the story is told by Louis and Armand. But they also don't know that he changes his mind. So there's a lot of layers. This is complex. And then there's some points which really feel like it's a dream, when it's in reverse and you see the scene silhouetted, then there's a big sweeping, dramatic kind of camera moves that go into his face, which I think is very clearly not true, where it's a very clear dream-like hyper-, hyper-, hyper-simplification of what happened at that trial. There's a lot of complexity in our vampire show.
I think it's important to acknowledge that Lestat probably did something that he'll never fully get over. It was important for me to know, to learn something that I thought was the truth, and it was good to see it, that this act of violence towards Louis wasn't necessarily something that was commonplace to him. It was incredibly upsetting and he hates himself for it, but also that he feels like he deserved everything that happened to him and continues to deserve everything that happens to him. In that moment when he apologizes to Louis, it's so shocking because I don't think he thinks it's going to be over after that apology. He realizes Louis is never going to forgive him.
How Lestat's Apology Sets Up A Complicated Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Finale
He Genuinely Regrets How The Trial Turned Out
Despite apologizing to Louis, Lestat continues the trial as normal, revealing to the audience the extent of the pair's relationship, including the attempted murder that could sentence him to death. By the end of the trail, however, Armand has managed to influence the audience into sparing Louis, while Claudia and Madeleine are burned to death by the sun. Watching his former daughter die, however, makes the ancient vampire seemingly overwhelmed by his actions, likely regretful of how everything ended.
The complexities of Lestat's apology reflect Interview with the Vampire season 2's positive reviews, which have praised this season as a deeper dive into the vampire world. By showing how regretful the ancient vampire is for what happened between him and Louis, it makes the result of the trial all the more tragic. This is especially true because, as seen in the present day, the protagonist still hasn't fully recovered from what happened. Since he's out for revenge in the finale, a major confrontation is bound to transpire.
With the consequences for his actions fast approaching, Lestat's response to the next chain of events will be vital to how his relationship with Louis closes out season 2. However, he's expected to be a potential focus for Interview with the Vampire season 3, something that indicates the finale won't be the final confrontation between the pair. With his character becoming more complex because of the latest tragedy, it remains to be seen how he'll be further developed in the show's future.
While Interview with the Vampire season 3 hasn't been renewed yet, showrunner Rolin Jones wants to base it on the book The Vampire Lestat.
Source: EW
Interview with the Vampire
- Release Date
- October 2, 2022
- Network
- AMC
- Showrunner
- Mark Johnson
Cast
Jacob Anderson
Sam Reid
WHERE TO WATCH
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.
- Writers
- Rolin Jones
- Franchise(s)
- Immortal Universe
- Seasons
- 2
- Streaming Service(s)
- AMC+
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