1 00:00:01,784 --> 00:00:03,394 [Computer clicks, beeps] 2 00:00:03,525 --> 00:00:05,527 [Down-tempo music plays] 3 00:00:05,657 --> 00:00:08,878 ♪ 4 00:00:09,009 --> 00:00:10,401 This is Daniel Molloy. 5 00:00:10,532 --> 00:00:14,623 It's 10:08 in the morning on June 14, 2022. 6 00:00:14,753 --> 00:00:16,755 ♪ 7 00:00:16,886 --> 00:00:20,498 So...Mr. Du Lac... 8 00:00:21,978 --> 00:00:24,285 ...how long have you been dead? 9 00:00:24,415 --> 00:00:29,377 ♪ 10 00:00:39,474 --> 00:00:41,345 [jazz music plays] 11 00:00:41,476 --> 00:00:44,653 [Louis] The year was 1910 in New Orleans. 12 00:00:44,783 --> 00:00:47,699 [indistinct chatter] 13 00:00:47,830 --> 00:00:51,181 I was being hunted. 14 00:00:51,312 --> 00:00:54,532 And I was completely unaware it was happening. 15 00:00:54,663 --> 00:00:57,100 Please help me! 16 00:00:57,231 --> 00:00:59,711 Anne Rice's vampires are the most 17 00:00:59,842 --> 00:01:03,585 human monsters in literature. 18 00:01:03,715 --> 00:01:06,675 I'm such a fan of Anne Rice's work, 19 00:01:06,805 --> 00:01:08,416 of this world that she created. 20 00:01:08,545 --> 00:01:09,765 So I put a lot of pressure on myself 21 00:01:09,895 --> 00:01:12,768 to fill Lestat's shoes, which are mighty. 22 00:01:12,898 --> 00:01:14,074 This is not a life! 23 00:01:14,204 --> 00:01:16,380 That's 'cause you took my life! 24 00:01:16,511 --> 00:01:18,817 There's one thing I really want to do, 25 00:01:18,948 --> 00:01:20,602 which is play a vampire. 26 00:01:20,732 --> 00:01:22,908 They go, "No, you're not gonna be a vampire. 27 00:01:23,039 --> 00:01:24,475 They're talking about you being the interviewer." 28 00:01:24,606 --> 00:01:26,477 Do over. 29 00:01:26,608 --> 00:01:29,959 The action, the period piece. Be prepared to be wowed. 30 00:01:30,090 --> 00:01:31,569 -[man] Let her go! -[grunting] 31 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:34,050 This is the show that finally says vampires are real. 32 00:01:34,181 --> 00:01:35,312 ♪♪ 33 00:01:38,576 --> 00:01:39,490 [blows] 34 00:01:39,621 --> 00:01:41,101 ♪♪ 35 00:01:43,277 --> 00:01:45,366 -[grunting, snarling] -[screams] 36 00:01:45,496 --> 00:01:48,890 [Molloy] So, du Lac... How long have you been dead? 37 00:01:49,021 --> 00:01:51,154 [Louis chuckles] 38 00:01:51,285 --> 00:01:54,765 [ominous music] 39 00:01:57,551 --> 00:01:59,119 [man] On your mark. 40 00:01:59,249 --> 00:02:01,295 [Mark] We're making this show for AMC 41 00:02:01,425 --> 00:02:03,819 based on Anne Rice's books, 42 00:02:03,949 --> 00:02:05,864 starting, of course, with Interview with the Vampire. 43 00:02:05,995 --> 00:02:09,172 I've probably read it for the first time about 20 years ago. 44 00:02:09,303 --> 00:02:12,044 She satisfies on so many levels. 45 00:02:12,175 --> 00:02:15,091 She's just damn exciting to read. 46 00:02:15,222 --> 00:02:17,528 She's scary as hell, but the books 47 00:02:17,659 --> 00:02:21,489 all deal with grand themes. 48 00:02:21,619 --> 00:02:25,579 This show is a confluence of Anne Rice and Rolin Jones, 49 00:02:25,710 --> 00:02:28,757 which I think is a really happy marriage. 50 00:02:28,887 --> 00:02:31,194 I was doing an overall with AMC. 51 00:02:31,325 --> 00:02:32,891 You come in and you have, like, a nice meeting 52 00:02:33,022 --> 00:02:34,458 with all the executives. 53 00:02:34,589 --> 00:02:35,851 And on the way out, one of them goes, 54 00:02:35,981 --> 00:02:37,331 "And you know, we're probably not gonna 55 00:02:37,461 --> 00:02:38,853 be interested in this. 56 00:02:38,984 --> 00:02:40,421 So, we bought all the Anne Rice books," 57 00:02:40,551 --> 00:02:42,074 And I was, "Uh-uh-uh..." 58 00:02:42,204 --> 00:02:43,641 Like, right at the door. And then I came back 59 00:02:43,772 --> 00:02:45,555 and I said, "I really want to do this." 60 00:02:45,687 --> 00:02:47,297 I'd always loved the book. 61 00:02:47,428 --> 00:02:49,081 And I got a call to meet with Rolin 62 00:02:49,212 --> 00:02:51,388 and with Mark Johnson, where we just talked about... 63 00:02:51,519 --> 00:02:52,824 Anne Rice and vampires. 64 00:02:52,954 --> 00:02:54,696 And we seemed to all be on the same... 65 00:02:54,826 --> 00:02:56,654 page about what we were excited about. 66 00:02:56,785 --> 00:02:58,003 [Louis] Help me! 67 00:02:58,134 --> 00:02:59,656 [knocking on door] 68 00:02:59,788 --> 00:03:01,181 Help me please! 69 00:03:01,311 --> 00:03:04,140 He's in my head, Father! 70 00:03:04,271 --> 00:03:07,448 [Alan] My excitement about the original novel is still there. 71 00:03:07,578 --> 00:03:08,710 The key thing for me was that Anne Rice 72 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:10,320 managed to make you feel that 73 00:03:10,451 --> 00:03:11,713 whatever else you'd heard about vampires, 74 00:03:11,843 --> 00:03:13,541 you were finally getting the truth, 75 00:03:13,671 --> 00:03:16,587 Finally hearing the real story about vampirism. 76 00:03:16,718 --> 00:03:19,895 I think she's really less interested in the vam-powers 77 00:03:20,025 --> 00:03:21,853 and more about the idea, 78 00:03:21,984 --> 00:03:25,509 the burden of existence and enduring. 79 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:31,254 And, um, what the accumulation of loss and regret does to you. 80 00:03:31,385 --> 00:03:33,691 And how do you pick yourself up? 81 00:03:33,822 --> 00:03:36,912 There was a death of her daughter that occurred 82 00:03:37,042 --> 00:03:41,656 and, um, I think she wrote this out of, uh, response to that. 83 00:03:41,786 --> 00:03:44,615 And you can feel it in all the pages, 84 00:03:44,746 --> 00:03:48,445 woven in a depth of feeling and loss and mourning. 85 00:03:48,576 --> 00:03:52,579 That was the last sunrise I ever saw. 86 00:03:52,710 --> 00:03:55,757 Perhaps the kindest thing the Dark Gift has given me. 87 00:03:55,887 --> 00:04:01,589 Interview with the Vampire starts with a mysterious man 88 00:04:01,719 --> 00:04:06,071 explaining to a journalist the story of his life. 89 00:04:06,202 --> 00:04:07,508 [Adam] This is Louis de Pointe du Lac 90 00:04:07,638 --> 00:04:09,597 who's being interviewed by Daniel Molloy. 91 00:04:09,727 --> 00:04:14,602 And Louis tells the tale of how a vampire named Lestat 92 00:04:14,732 --> 00:04:17,474 came to New Orleans, and turned him into a vampire. 93 00:04:17,605 --> 00:04:19,346 They were your brothers and sisters once, 94 00:04:19,476 --> 00:04:21,565 but now they're your savory inferiors. 95 00:04:21,696 --> 00:04:24,568 I don't read this as just the vampire novel, 96 00:04:24,699 --> 00:04:27,005 and I didn't sell it as a horror show. 97 00:04:27,136 --> 00:04:29,704 [Alan] Lestat has very powerful feelings for Louis. 98 00:04:29,834 --> 00:04:32,228 Their relationship is the key to the whole thing, 99 00:04:32,359 --> 00:04:35,013 and for better or worse, because their relationship 100 00:04:35,144 --> 00:04:37,581 is beautiful and ghastly. 101 00:04:37,712 --> 00:04:40,802 So why are we reimagining this story? 102 00:04:40,932 --> 00:04:44,327 Well, I think like any great piece of art, every generation 103 00:04:44,457 --> 00:04:45,807 or every few generations, 104 00:04:45,937 --> 00:04:48,026 uh, wants to reckon with it in a new way. 105 00:04:48,157 --> 00:04:52,335 This is a rigorous and honest engagement 106 00:04:52,466 --> 00:04:54,903 with the source material. 107 00:04:55,033 --> 00:04:57,384 And the one thing you have to know is you have to get down to 108 00:04:57,514 --> 00:05:00,387 what is at the core of these books, 109 00:05:00,517 --> 00:05:02,606 and you cannot disrupt that. 110 00:05:02,737 --> 00:05:05,392 I-- I need to go home. 111 00:05:05,522 --> 00:05:08,395 I've tried to always put Anne in the room with us, 112 00:05:08,525 --> 00:05:10,397 and the idea when we would pivot, 113 00:05:10,527 --> 00:05:12,268 we would just try to go, 114 00:05:12,399 --> 00:05:15,663 well, try to imagine ourselves in 1973 writing this book, 115 00:05:15,793 --> 00:05:18,361 and now put that same writer into 2020, 116 00:05:18,492 --> 00:05:20,668 and you have a network that says, 117 00:05:20,798 --> 00:05:22,409 "Hey, make this a television show." 118 00:05:22,539 --> 00:05:25,412 The novel is out there. Fans will always have the novel. 119 00:05:25,542 --> 00:05:27,849 That movie in 1994, very popular, 120 00:05:27,979 --> 00:05:29,503 with a lot of people always there. 121 00:05:29,633 --> 00:05:31,766 AMC tasked me with trying to make this third thing. 122 00:05:31,896 --> 00:05:33,855 [Louis] The year was 1910. 123 00:05:33,985 --> 00:05:35,726 If you're gonna have all this gothic romance 124 00:05:35,857 --> 00:05:37,859 from the 18's, you're going to move that out-- 125 00:05:37,989 --> 00:05:40,818 What's another sexy, exciting time period for New Orleans? 126 00:05:40,949 --> 00:05:43,038 It seemed very clear to me that the next 127 00:05:43,168 --> 00:05:45,780 really hot moment was when jazz was coming up. 128 00:05:45,909 --> 00:05:48,304 It's New Orleans. It wasn't really hard to say, 129 00:05:48,435 --> 00:05:51,176 "Why don't we make Louis a Black Creole?" 130 00:05:51,307 --> 00:05:53,483 We've kept all the plot. It's all there. 131 00:05:53,614 --> 00:05:55,442 But how we get to these big plot points 132 00:05:55,572 --> 00:05:57,748 are changed and are altered 133 00:05:57,879 --> 00:06:01,230 by those two changes that we fundamentally made. 134 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:03,493 [Alan] Louis is the one that takes you over the threshold 135 00:06:03,624 --> 00:06:05,147 of telling you the story of what it's like to-- 136 00:06:05,277 --> 00:06:06,844 to be human, 137 00:06:06,975 --> 00:06:08,585 to have the feelings that we all have about being human, 138 00:06:08,716 --> 00:06:10,195 which was one of the main stories 139 00:06:10,326 --> 00:06:11,675 I wanted to be able to tell 140 00:06:11,806 --> 00:06:13,242 was sort of the initial stages by which 141 00:06:13,373 --> 00:06:14,635 Louis is brought into this new... 142 00:06:14,765 --> 00:06:16,550 vampire life. 143 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:18,334 We take a little bit more time with that because, you know, 144 00:06:18,465 --> 00:06:19,988 the first episode is a lot about 145 00:06:20,118 --> 00:06:21,903 what you give up to become a vampire? 146 00:06:22,033 --> 00:06:24,732 [Mark] There's questions of-- of good and evil 147 00:06:24,862 --> 00:06:27,212 dealing with alienation and even loneliness, 148 00:06:27,343 --> 00:06:29,258 even when you're with somebody. 149 00:06:29,389 --> 00:06:31,739 And the more you know the characters, 150 00:06:31,869 --> 00:06:35,656 the more you feel for their triumphs or their failures. 151 00:06:35,786 --> 00:06:37,745 [Rolin] You think you know who you are 152 00:06:37,875 --> 00:06:40,965 and coming out the other way and go, "Who was I?" 153 00:06:41,096 --> 00:06:44,360 That's what this show is about, picking away at that. 154 00:06:44,491 --> 00:06:46,667 Stay with us, stick with us. 155 00:06:46,797 --> 00:06:48,233 You're going to see that this is the show 156 00:06:48,364 --> 00:06:50,801 that finally says vampires are real. 157 00:06:50,932 --> 00:06:53,674 It's a great Goddamn yarn, is what it is. 158 00:06:54,805 --> 00:06:57,068 [screaming] 159 00:07:03,379 --> 00:07:04,902 [Molloy] First question: 160 00:07:05,033 --> 00:07:08,036 You weren't always a vampire, were you? 161 00:07:08,166 --> 00:07:09,603 [Louis] No. 162 00:07:09,733 --> 00:07:11,256 I executive produced a number of things for AMC 163 00:07:11,387 --> 00:07:12,823 from Breaking Bad 164 00:07:12,954 --> 00:07:14,085 toBetter Call Saul toRectify 165 00:07:14,216 --> 00:07:15,696 andHalt and Catch Fire. 166 00:07:15,826 --> 00:07:18,133 And if there's something in common about all of them, 167 00:07:18,263 --> 00:07:21,832 It's characters and AMC embraces characters. 168 00:07:21,963 --> 00:07:25,706 And that's what Anne Rice has in spades. 169 00:07:25,836 --> 00:07:28,752 We went out really wide on all of these roles 170 00:07:28,883 --> 00:07:32,147 and I kind of knew as I was writing it, 171 00:07:32,277 --> 00:07:35,411 that there might be an advantage to London theater training. 172 00:07:35,542 --> 00:07:38,240 It was particularly difficult and compounded 173 00:07:38,370 --> 00:07:42,592 because we were casting in the age of, uh, the pandemic. 174 00:07:42,723 --> 00:07:45,203 Where we were doing chemistry reads on Zoom. 175 00:07:45,334 --> 00:07:47,554 We're literally the opposite sides of the world. 176 00:07:47,683 --> 00:07:49,991 There's lots of different time zones. 177 00:07:50,121 --> 00:07:51,775 It was usually like three o'clock in the morning 178 00:07:51,906 --> 00:07:53,211 for me in Australia. 179 00:07:53,342 --> 00:07:55,866 Some things you don't get about America, Lestat! 180 00:07:55,997 --> 00:07:58,260 Yes, let's have this conversation again. 181 00:07:58,390 --> 00:08:00,175 Rolin and I were in LA 182 00:08:00,305 --> 00:08:02,786 in our office at six in the morn-- whatever it was, 183 00:08:02,917 --> 00:08:04,875 [laughs] just a very bizarre way to go about things, 184 00:08:05,006 --> 00:08:06,137 but it worked. 185 00:08:06,268 --> 00:08:07,617 We got our guys. 186 00:08:07,748 --> 00:08:10,011 Gentlemen, well, you all know Louis du Lac. 187 00:08:10,141 --> 00:08:11,839 [man coughs] 188 00:08:11,969 --> 00:08:15,320 Louis, let me introduce you to Mr. Lestat de Lioncourt. 189 00:08:15,451 --> 00:08:17,758 Lestat's come from Europe. He's arrived in America 190 00:08:17,888 --> 00:08:22,371 to try and live out a full human life. 191 00:08:22,502 --> 00:08:24,852 So he's come to New Orleans 192 00:08:24,982 --> 00:08:27,637 to basically set up his own kingdom. 193 00:08:27,768 --> 00:08:30,118 He's here to live the way he wants to live, 194 00:08:30,248 --> 00:08:34,601 with music and sex and partying. 195 00:08:34,731 --> 00:08:36,820 Freedom. 196 00:08:36,951 --> 00:08:40,389 He's very arrogant, he's very vain, he's brash. 197 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:42,739 He knows how to behave in certain situations. 198 00:08:42,870 --> 00:08:44,436 He knows how to purposely 199 00:08:44,567 --> 00:08:46,787 -misbehave in certain situations. -[gasps] 200 00:08:46,917 --> 00:08:49,224 I mean, Lestat is charming as hell, man. 201 00:08:49,354 --> 00:08:50,790 Just somebody you kind of want to 202 00:08:50,921 --> 00:08:52,270 hang out with, you know what I mean? 203 00:08:52,401 --> 00:08:54,577 ♪ Tired of this And in the army ♪ 204 00:08:54,708 --> 00:08:56,405 ♪ As a fighting man♪ 205 00:08:56,536 --> 00:08:58,450 One thing I think that was very important to everyone 206 00:08:58,581 --> 00:09:00,975 was that this version of Lestat 207 00:09:01,105 --> 00:09:05,370 isn't necessarily just the version from the first book. 208 00:09:07,677 --> 00:09:09,853 The Lestat in this book 209 00:09:09,984 --> 00:09:12,639 is very different than the Lestat in this book 210 00:09:12,769 --> 00:09:15,293 and all the rest of the books that go forward after that. 211 00:09:15,424 --> 00:09:18,427 The idea of the charming vampire, 212 00:09:18,558 --> 00:09:20,168 uh, the brat prince, 213 00:09:20,298 --> 00:09:21,952 does not exist in this book. 214 00:09:22,083 --> 00:09:24,215 And, you know, Anne, I think, had nine years 215 00:09:24,346 --> 00:09:25,652 in between that book and this book, 216 00:09:25,782 --> 00:09:26,827 and it's very clear that 217 00:09:26,957 --> 00:09:28,132 she sort of fell in love with Lestat. 218 00:09:28,263 --> 00:09:30,047 ♪♪ 219 00:09:30,178 --> 00:09:33,224 He is hotheaded and violent. 220 00:09:33,355 --> 00:09:35,618 How can you humiliate yourself like this?! 221 00:09:35,749 --> 00:09:37,185 [grunts] 222 00:09:37,315 --> 00:09:40,971 Excited about the challenge, but also... 223 00:09:41,102 --> 00:09:43,670 [laughs] Terrified of what an undertaking 224 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,410 this was gonna be, to... 225 00:09:45,540 --> 00:09:49,066 to live up to Louis de Pointe du Lac. 226 00:09:49,197 --> 00:09:50,851 ♪♪ 227 00:09:50,981 --> 00:09:52,983 [Rolin] Why we ended up with Jacob 228 00:09:53,114 --> 00:09:56,726 was there was this sort of seething humanity. 229 00:09:56,857 --> 00:09:59,294 He was really kind. You instantly liked him 230 00:09:59,424 --> 00:10:01,818 because he's gonna make a series of questionable 231 00:10:01,949 --> 00:10:04,038 decisions along the way. 232 00:10:04,168 --> 00:10:07,215 And so Louis comes from money from the plantation 233 00:10:07,345 --> 00:10:08,738 that was in this book. 234 00:10:08,869 --> 00:10:10,479 His great grandfather had that plantation 235 00:10:10,610 --> 00:10:12,568 and it moved down, third or fourth generation. 236 00:10:12,699 --> 00:10:15,179 And this time period, it was very difficult 237 00:10:15,310 --> 00:10:18,356 to, um, be in the sugar business if you were a Black man. 238 00:10:18,487 --> 00:10:20,010 So he actually makes this savvy move to go, 239 00:10:20,141 --> 00:10:21,795 "Where can I make money at this time?" 240 00:10:21,925 --> 00:10:23,318 And what was good about this, 241 00:10:23,448 --> 00:10:24,928 that there was still sort of a gray area, 242 00:10:25,059 --> 00:10:26,930 there was a moral grayness to his work 243 00:10:27,061 --> 00:10:29,890 that I think, um, he has to confront. 244 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:31,500 [Lestat] You're a pimp. 245 00:10:31,631 --> 00:10:33,023 [Louis] The product was desired 246 00:10:33,154 --> 00:10:34,895 and it came in as many forms 247 00:10:35,025 --> 00:10:36,984 as there were ways to move. 248 00:10:37,114 --> 00:10:40,683 [Jacob] I think Louis is very confused about his identity. 249 00:10:40,814 --> 00:10:43,468 He's somebody that wears... 250 00:10:43,599 --> 00:10:45,122 many different hats. 251 00:10:45,253 --> 00:10:46,689 And, you know, he's trying to juggle 252 00:10:46,820 --> 00:10:48,909 a family life, a business. 253 00:10:49,039 --> 00:10:52,739 He's got his siblings, his sexuality, 254 00:10:52,869 --> 00:10:55,306 his race, his family history. 255 00:10:55,437 --> 00:10:57,918 These things are all kind of contributing to him 256 00:10:58,048 --> 00:11:00,268 having a bit of an identity crisis. 257 00:11:00,398 --> 00:11:04,359 Go home. Yes, I'll bleed you like a [indistinct], bro. 258 00:11:04,489 --> 00:11:07,275 Louis is quite progressive for his time. 259 00:11:07,405 --> 00:11:09,407 [laughter] 260 00:11:09,538 --> 00:11:12,584 The way that he dresses, the way that he presents himself. 261 00:11:12,715 --> 00:11:14,935 The way that he thinks about the world around him 262 00:11:15,065 --> 00:11:16,632 is kind of steps ahead. 263 00:11:16,763 --> 00:11:18,547 ♪♪ 264 00:11:18,678 --> 00:11:20,505 He just doesn't quite belong in his time. 265 00:11:20,636 --> 00:11:21,855 And I think that would be 266 00:11:21,985 --> 00:11:23,987 a really attractive thing for a vampire 267 00:11:24,118 --> 00:11:26,033 because vampires don't either. 268 00:11:26,163 --> 00:11:27,948 And I think that Lestat sees that Louis 269 00:11:28,078 --> 00:11:30,994 is almost like running away from his humanity. 270 00:11:31,125 --> 00:11:33,170 [Lestat] The first time I laid eyes on you, 271 00:11:33,301 --> 00:11:35,390 I saw that sorrow. 272 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,741 I can take away that sorrow, Louis. 273 00:11:38,872 --> 00:11:40,961 The irony being, I think actually, 274 00:11:41,091 --> 00:11:43,311 when he becomes a vampire is when he starts 275 00:11:43,441 --> 00:11:44,921 to reconnect to his humanity. 276 00:11:48,708 --> 00:11:52,189 Claudia, she is brought in to our story as she was in the novel, 277 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,236 as a kind of gift from Lestat to Louis. 278 00:11:55,366 --> 00:11:57,194 Louis has made that heartbreaking realization 279 00:11:57,325 --> 00:11:59,066 that he's going to lose his family 280 00:11:59,196 --> 00:12:01,808 because they're gonna age and die and... and go away, 281 00:12:01,938 --> 00:12:03,418 and he's never going to have a family of his own. 282 00:12:03,548 --> 00:12:06,769 And so Lestat make an effort to create one for him. 283 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:07,988 [Louis] Where's your mama? 284 00:12:08,118 --> 00:12:10,817 The best thing in this book... 285 00:12:10,947 --> 00:12:11,992 is Claudia. 286 00:12:12,122 --> 00:12:14,168 ♪♪ 287 00:12:14,298 --> 00:12:16,431 [Bailey] Claudia is a 14-year-old girl, 288 00:12:16,561 --> 00:12:17,780 and she gets turned into a vampire 289 00:12:17,911 --> 00:12:20,348 and then has to deal with being stuck 290 00:12:20,478 --> 00:12:22,002 for the rest of her life 291 00:12:22,132 --> 00:12:25,788 as her mind matures and she becomes a woman. 292 00:12:25,919 --> 00:12:28,573 As Anne Rice wrote her, she was a young child, 293 00:12:28,704 --> 00:12:30,662 a five or six-year-old child. 294 00:12:30,793 --> 00:12:34,579 I think aging Claudia up is a super-smart decision. 295 00:12:34,710 --> 00:12:36,059 For her being stuck at that age, 296 00:12:36,190 --> 00:12:37,800 there's a lot of turmoil and-- 297 00:12:37,931 --> 00:12:39,584 how is she going to find companionship 298 00:12:39,715 --> 00:12:41,586 and how is she gonna grow? 299 00:12:41,717 --> 00:12:43,588 You're stuck between being an adolescent 300 00:12:43,719 --> 00:12:46,896 and a child and adulthood. 301 00:12:47,027 --> 00:12:50,639 She can never have a family. She can never have babies. 302 00:12:50,770 --> 00:12:54,295 So it's just absolutely heartbreaking. 303 00:12:54,425 --> 00:12:56,601 The beauty of Claudia, she's a teenage girl, 304 00:12:56,732 --> 00:12:58,647 but she also is a vampire. 305 00:12:58,778 --> 00:13:03,217 That she still has crushes and wants to stay out late. 306 00:13:03,347 --> 00:13:05,523 [Bailey] When Claudia first becomes a vampire, 307 00:13:05,654 --> 00:13:08,309 everything's new to her and exciting. 308 00:13:08,439 --> 00:13:10,093 When she's going for her first kill, 309 00:13:10,224 --> 00:13:12,574 she's feeling everything, and it's so euphoric. 310 00:13:12,704 --> 00:13:14,315 [man screaming] 311 00:13:14,445 --> 00:13:16,230 She's not thinking of what she's doing. 312 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:17,840 She's just like, "I need to eat," 313 00:13:17,971 --> 00:13:19,755 because everything is heightened for her 314 00:13:19,886 --> 00:13:21,278 because she is 14. 315 00:13:21,409 --> 00:13:23,454 I'm so hungry! 316 00:13:23,585 --> 00:13:25,979 I think I'm gonna die! 317 00:13:26,109 --> 00:13:29,199 They're essentially they're just-- a family of murderers. 318 00:13:29,330 --> 00:13:31,245 So I think there's something a little bit 319 00:13:31,375 --> 00:13:32,637 uncomfortable about... 320 00:13:32,768 --> 00:13:35,031 [laughing] the whole situation, obviously, 321 00:13:35,162 --> 00:13:38,165 but then I think there is a real love. 322 00:13:38,295 --> 00:13:43,344 What is funny, I suppose, is the domestic nature 323 00:13:43,474 --> 00:13:48,131 of three monsters trying to live what they assume to be 324 00:13:48,262 --> 00:13:50,220 a sort of normal existence. 325 00:13:50,351 --> 00:13:52,440 -No running, young lady. -[laughs] 326 00:13:52,570 --> 00:13:54,094 The dynamic between them is great. It's, uh... 327 00:13:54,224 --> 00:13:57,227 Some of my favorite material in this series 328 00:13:57,358 --> 00:14:00,013 is the family and both the loving moments 329 00:14:00,143 --> 00:14:02,580 between them and the, uh, hateful moments between them. 330 00:14:02,711 --> 00:14:05,105 It's a way to look at human behavior, 331 00:14:05,235 --> 00:14:08,064 family behavior, and just blow the lid off it. 332 00:14:10,893 --> 00:14:14,810 When it came to who is a journalist that has 333 00:14:14,941 --> 00:14:17,813 the capability to push a character 334 00:14:17,944 --> 00:14:20,207 who's far more powerful than him, 335 00:14:20,337 --> 00:14:23,253 we couldn't be prouder that is Eric Begozian, 336 00:14:23,384 --> 00:14:25,473 who, uh, I think Rolin would say was 337 00:14:25,603 --> 00:14:27,344 who we always had in mind for it. 338 00:14:27,475 --> 00:14:30,478 The day before they called me for this role, 339 00:14:30,608 --> 00:14:32,349 I was thinking... 340 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,135 there's one thing that I've yet to do 341 00:14:35,265 --> 00:14:38,790 that's in my bucket list, which is play a vampire. 342 00:14:38,921 --> 00:14:42,577 So the next day, I get the call, and I'm like, "Whoa, okay." 343 00:14:42,707 --> 00:14:44,274 And I call them up, they go, "No, that's-- 344 00:14:44,405 --> 00:14:45,928 You're not gonna be a vampire. 345 00:14:46,059 --> 00:14:47,843 They're talking about you being the interviewer." 346 00:14:47,974 --> 00:14:49,627 I got to call you back. 347 00:14:49,758 --> 00:14:53,370 We wanted to put a meatier, more aggressive journalist 348 00:14:53,501 --> 00:14:55,155 in the room to ask some questions, 349 00:14:55,285 --> 00:14:56,939 but we also, first and foremost, 350 00:14:57,070 --> 00:14:59,507 wanted to revere what Anne had made. 351 00:14:59,637 --> 00:15:03,337 So we were like, "Oh, well, what if it's the same guy?" 352 00:15:03,467 --> 00:15:06,340 [Eric] Now it's over 40 years later, 353 00:15:06,470 --> 00:15:10,822 and Daniel has been invited to interview again. 354 00:15:10,953 --> 00:15:12,824 You've grown old, Daniel. 355 00:15:12,955 --> 00:15:16,611 Yeah, well, mortality beats a heavy drum. 356 00:15:16,741 --> 00:15:19,353 He's got some mileage on his treads. 357 00:15:19,483 --> 00:15:22,617 And he's also not well. 358 00:15:22,747 --> 00:15:25,533 You have Parkinson's disease, Daniel? 359 00:15:25,663 --> 00:15:26,969 Yeah. 360 00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:29,276 This interview allows him to go back 361 00:15:29,406 --> 00:15:32,975 and maybe grab the brass ring one last time. 362 00:15:33,106 --> 00:15:34,324 Do over. 363 00:15:34,455 --> 00:15:36,065 -♪ -[beeps] 364 00:15:36,196 --> 00:15:38,850 I have to keep in mind that this guy almost killed me 365 00:15:38,981 --> 00:15:40,417 40-something years ago. 366 00:15:42,028 --> 00:15:44,595 He takes that fear and he turns it into anger. 367 00:15:44,726 --> 00:15:49,209 So the more scared he is, the more angry he can get. 368 00:15:49,339 --> 00:15:51,472 I'm not that kid that you talked to 369 00:15:51,602 --> 00:15:52,864 40-something years ago. 370 00:15:52,995 --> 00:15:55,432 It's best we start when our boy's had a rest. 371 00:15:55,563 --> 00:15:57,478 I'm not your fucking boy. 372 00:15:57,608 --> 00:16:00,960 I'm an old man with all the triggers that come with it. 373 00:16:02,526 --> 00:16:04,485 And I'm ready. 374 00:16:04,615 --> 00:16:09,011 They met in San Francisco in 1973. 375 00:16:09,142 --> 00:16:10,404 I think they had... 376 00:16:13,146 --> 00:16:15,061 This interview. 377 00:16:15,191 --> 00:16:18,238 And I think 50 years later, 378 00:16:21,806 --> 00:16:23,852 They're having this interview. 379 00:16:24,461 --> 00:16:28,683 ♪ 380 00:16:36,430 --> 00:16:40,260 -[indistinct chatter] -[jazz music plays] 381 00:16:40,390 --> 00:16:42,262 One of the delights about doing this show 382 00:16:42,392 --> 00:16:44,915 is that it's a love letter to New Orleans 383 00:16:45,047 --> 00:16:46,483 as much as to vampires. 384 00:16:46,614 --> 00:16:49,356 And I think Anne Rice's, um, affection for the city, 385 00:16:49,486 --> 00:16:51,445 you know, informed her take on the whole thing. 386 00:16:53,751 --> 00:16:55,665 The interesting thing about Anne Rice is... 387 00:16:55,797 --> 00:16:58,104 not only was she this huge literary figure, 388 00:16:58,234 --> 00:16:59,931 but in the city of New Orleans, 389 00:17:00,062 --> 00:17:01,890 she actually did a lot for preservation, 390 00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:04,109 just to maintain as much... 391 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,156 historical texture in the city as she possibly could. 392 00:17:08,288 --> 00:17:10,507 Often, Anne would go to these places 393 00:17:10,637 --> 00:17:13,205 and just spend time just immersing herself 394 00:17:13,336 --> 00:17:15,295 in these historic homes and museums. 395 00:17:15,425 --> 00:17:17,558 And it's in there. Like, it's in the pages. 396 00:17:17,688 --> 00:17:18,993 It's in the words. 397 00:17:19,125 --> 00:17:21,605 We're shooting at Gallier house. 398 00:17:21,736 --> 00:17:24,868 It's what Anne Rice wrote as Lestat's house in the novels. 399 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,089 And so it's really exciting to be able to 400 00:17:27,220 --> 00:17:30,397 keep that connection to the books. 401 00:17:30,527 --> 00:17:33,313 This world, this universe, and this character that Anne 402 00:17:33,443 --> 00:17:36,838 created speaks directly to the heart of this city. 403 00:17:38,709 --> 00:17:40,624 We shot a scene the other day 404 00:17:40,755 --> 00:17:43,497 where-- it's actually a direct quote of Anne Rice, 405 00:17:43,627 --> 00:17:46,195 where Lestat is talking about New Orleans, 406 00:17:46,326 --> 00:17:49,546 and he says, "There's not an inch of this city 407 00:17:49,677 --> 00:17:51,374 that wasn't built from the fierce wilderness 408 00:17:51,505 --> 00:17:53,202 that surrounds it. 409 00:17:53,333 --> 00:17:56,379 New Orleans is very much a part of 410 00:17:56,510 --> 00:18:00,557 the romanticism of Anne Rice's books. 411 00:18:00,688 --> 00:18:03,821 It really serves that kind of magical, 412 00:18:03,952 --> 00:18:06,650 fantastical storytelling. 413 00:18:06,781 --> 00:18:10,915 And it does feel like a place where vampires live. 414 00:18:11,046 --> 00:18:12,743 ♪♪ 415 00:18:12,874 --> 00:18:15,746 [rumbling] 416 00:18:15,877 --> 00:18:19,010 [indistinct chatter] 417 00:18:19,141 --> 00:18:21,578 [Mark] I produced a number of big movies. 418 00:18:21,709 --> 00:18:24,581 This is as big as any of those. 419 00:18:24,712 --> 00:18:27,497 [Keith] The production design, it's breathtaking. 420 00:18:27,628 --> 00:18:31,414 It is thorough, all the way down to the very last detail. 421 00:18:31,545 --> 00:18:34,591 ♪♪ 422 00:18:36,637 --> 00:18:38,639 We set it in a part of 423 00:18:38,769 --> 00:18:41,294 New Orleans that doesn't exist anymore. 424 00:18:41,424 --> 00:18:43,470 Storyville was the section that was 425 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:45,167 next to the French Quarter. That was... 426 00:18:45,298 --> 00:18:47,256 Uh, a wi-- the wild section. 427 00:18:47,387 --> 00:18:49,040 It was really one of the first times in American history 428 00:18:49,171 --> 00:18:52,043 where we had a really-- sort of a red light district, 429 00:18:53,349 --> 00:18:56,047 And it was a rip-roaring time. 430 00:18:56,178 --> 00:18:59,616 Storyville was a crazy social experiment in New Orleans. 431 00:18:59,747 --> 00:19:01,183 It started right at the turn of the century, 432 00:19:01,314 --> 00:19:03,533 and it was over by 1917. 433 00:19:03,664 --> 00:19:06,101 And they allowed prostitution 434 00:19:06,232 --> 00:19:10,366 in a very small 40-block square of the city. 435 00:19:11,541 --> 00:19:13,761 When you walk onto these sets, 436 00:19:13,891 --> 00:19:18,461 it's-- it's as if you're going into 1920's New Orleans. 437 00:19:18,592 --> 00:19:21,072 Oh, it's much bigger than I imagined it to be. 438 00:19:21,203 --> 00:19:23,684 This is big in terms of sets and our backlot, 439 00:19:23,814 --> 00:19:25,816 which is a true backlot. 440 00:19:25,947 --> 00:19:28,993 It's almost like the ones they used to have in the studio lots 441 00:19:29,124 --> 00:19:30,908 in the heyday of Hollywood. 442 00:19:31,039 --> 00:19:33,128 ♪♪ 443 00:19:33,259 --> 00:19:36,087 There's a couple buildings here that are exact replicas 444 00:19:36,218 --> 00:19:40,266 of buildings that used to exist on Basin Street in Storyville. 445 00:19:40,396 --> 00:19:42,920 This is the exterior of our Fairplay. 446 00:19:43,051 --> 00:19:45,096 We had our great sculptor Brent 447 00:19:45,227 --> 00:19:47,577 build the entablature with a woman above, 448 00:19:47,708 --> 00:19:49,797 and that's actually a detail from a building in Storyville 449 00:19:49,927 --> 00:19:51,494 that we found and reproduced. 450 00:19:51,625 --> 00:19:53,714 We're actually standing outside of 451 00:19:53,844 --> 00:19:57,021 the stage set of Lestat's townhouse. 452 00:19:57,152 --> 00:19:59,937 It is an exact match for our location 453 00:20:00,068 --> 00:20:01,461 at 1132 Royal. 454 00:20:01,591 --> 00:20:04,028 We replicated the fluted columns 455 00:20:04,159 --> 00:20:06,161 with the Corinthian capitals, 456 00:20:06,292 --> 00:20:10,644 and we had our sculptors recreate the iconic iron doors 457 00:20:10,774 --> 00:20:13,516 that are the entryway to the vestibule. 458 00:20:13,647 --> 00:20:16,258 So we're in Lestat's townhouse, 459 00:20:16,389 --> 00:20:19,305 and we really wanted to avoid 460 00:20:19,435 --> 00:20:21,698 some of the design cliche of vampire 461 00:20:21,829 --> 00:20:24,484 and get away from the burgundies and the blacks 462 00:20:24,614 --> 00:20:27,051 and the things that we kind of historically 463 00:20:27,182 --> 00:20:28,879 associate with vampires. 464 00:20:29,010 --> 00:20:30,838 For me, it was really important to have, like, 465 00:20:30,968 --> 00:20:33,536 a vampire design aesthetic and what it means to live in 466 00:20:33,667 --> 00:20:36,713 a space that's been curated by a vampire, 467 00:20:36,844 --> 00:20:41,196 especially someone who is as vivacious as Lestat is. 468 00:20:41,327 --> 00:20:42,937 So this is the dining room. 469 00:20:43,067 --> 00:20:45,461 Nothing good ever happens in here, 470 00:20:45,592 --> 00:20:47,158 Nothing-- nothing positive happens. 471 00:20:47,289 --> 00:20:49,683 This has gotta be one of my favorite rooms, actually. 472 00:20:49,813 --> 00:20:51,859 And we wanted to pay an homage to 473 00:20:51,989 --> 00:20:54,731 vampire lore and filmmaking. 474 00:20:54,862 --> 00:20:57,212 And so the candlestick that gets pulled 475 00:20:57,343 --> 00:20:58,996 and the-- the bookcase opening. 476 00:20:59,127 --> 00:21:02,739 So we wanted to have secret panels for the coffin room. 477 00:21:02,870 --> 00:21:06,352 So we needed a way to open those secret panels. 478 00:21:06,482 --> 00:21:08,615 And we designed that into the mantle, the fireplace, 479 00:21:08,745 --> 00:21:11,139 so that you activate this little push button. 480 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:14,969 And then the built-in wood panels of the bedroom, 481 00:21:15,099 --> 00:21:17,972 which also have our Art Nouveau embellishment 482 00:21:18,102 --> 00:21:22,585 swing open and, um, it reveals the coffin room inside. 483 00:21:22,716 --> 00:21:26,850 [mechanical creaking] 484 00:21:26,981 --> 00:21:29,113 Claudia's room, we actually do the gag with the lamp, 485 00:21:29,244 --> 00:21:30,811 where you twist the lamp. 486 00:21:30,941 --> 00:21:32,769 In her bed is actually a Lazy Susan 487 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:36,599 that turns around and there is a coffin inside. 488 00:21:36,730 --> 00:21:38,775 Trying to use vampire logic of what I'd want 489 00:21:38,906 --> 00:21:41,387 in my secret coffin room and that would be... 490 00:21:41,517 --> 00:21:43,258 "How do you know if it's daylight outside?" 491 00:21:43,389 --> 00:21:44,912 And so we added these beautiful... 492 00:21:45,042 --> 00:21:48,219 uh, reproduction nouveau peephole so that we could 493 00:21:48,350 --> 00:21:50,961 open them and see if it was sunny out or not. 494 00:21:51,092 --> 00:21:54,138 She's so considerate of what we might need, 495 00:21:54,269 --> 00:21:56,010 what we might be looking at, 496 00:21:56,140 --> 00:21:58,012 -what we might want to touch. -[clatter] 497 00:21:58,142 --> 00:21:59,753 There's always something tangible about way she designed it. 498 00:21:59,883 --> 00:22:02,364 But inside these boxes, 499 00:22:02,495 --> 00:22:06,890 there are tons and tons of incredible items. 500 00:22:07,021 --> 00:22:09,023 This is the amount of detail that was in the show. 501 00:22:09,153 --> 00:22:10,981 The original Fairplay matches. 502 00:22:11,112 --> 00:22:13,070 And it becomes the Azalea. 503 00:22:13,201 --> 00:22:16,335 Security equipment for the penthouse of du Lac. 504 00:22:16,465 --> 00:22:18,946 [Sam] That's the only chess set. 505 00:22:19,076 --> 00:22:20,600 Is this the one that I threw across the room? 506 00:22:20,730 --> 00:22:22,384 [man] Yeah, and it surprisingly didn't break. 507 00:22:22,515 --> 00:22:25,300 [Jacob] So this is just a box of voodoo dolls. 508 00:22:25,431 --> 00:22:28,869 This scared the... out of me, this one. 509 00:22:28,999 --> 00:22:31,698 It's-- Sometimes it's just better to not know. [chuckles] 510 00:22:31,828 --> 00:22:33,874 ♪♪ 511 00:22:34,004 --> 00:22:37,617 [Carol] It has been so grand and so epic. 512 00:22:37,747 --> 00:22:40,010 So many big scenes with so many people. 513 00:22:40,141 --> 00:22:43,318 And we've got a lot of amazing real period clothing 514 00:22:43,449 --> 00:22:45,712 that is coming from all over. 515 00:22:45,842 --> 00:22:48,628 But because our leads are vampires, 516 00:22:48,758 --> 00:22:49,890 [grunts] 517 00:22:50,020 --> 00:22:51,848 they're rough on their clothes. [laughs] 518 00:22:51,979 --> 00:22:54,242 -[grunts] -[screams] 519 00:22:54,373 --> 00:22:55,852 So many dresses made, 520 00:22:55,983 --> 00:22:58,420 so many suits made, all of their shoes. 521 00:23:00,030 --> 00:23:01,205 We make a lot. 522 00:23:01,336 --> 00:23:02,642 We really kind of turned up 523 00:23:02,772 --> 00:23:04,121 the color for Louis. 524 00:23:04,252 --> 00:23:07,951 And when you meet him in this, 525 00:23:08,082 --> 00:23:11,738 and he pops out in this gold and... it's just beautiful. 526 00:23:11,868 --> 00:23:14,131 I get out of the car and people would be like, 527 00:23:14,262 --> 00:23:16,351 "Damn! Ooh! Look at the suit." 528 00:23:16,482 --> 00:23:20,877 Like, people, were ju-- like, were going crazy over my suits. [laughs] 529 00:23:21,008 --> 00:23:23,880 The costume helps the actor in so many ways. 530 00:23:24,011 --> 00:23:27,101 So one of the things that was a real challenge 531 00:23:27,231 --> 00:23:30,800 was making sure that every single detail was just right. 532 00:23:30,931 --> 00:23:34,587 And I've spent months researching so that you 533 00:23:34,717 --> 00:23:36,415 really feel you're in that time, 534 00:23:36,545 --> 00:23:38,591 and then your characters 535 00:23:38,721 --> 00:23:41,594 can be who they need to be on top of it. 536 00:23:41,724 --> 00:23:44,335 [Sam] Lestat really is a man from the 1700s. 537 00:23:44,466 --> 00:23:46,686 So in terms of the costume, when we first meet him, 538 00:23:46,816 --> 00:23:48,470 he's still wearing elements of that. 539 00:23:48,601 --> 00:23:51,255 This was a coat that we designed for him to land in 540 00:23:51,386 --> 00:23:54,737 and, um, a lot of texture and a lot of wear there, 541 00:23:54,868 --> 00:23:57,436 and a little bit of elegance in that lining, 542 00:23:57,566 --> 00:23:59,699 you know, when you get a pop of that, 543 00:23:59,829 --> 00:24:00,917 it's like, "Oh." 544 00:24:01,048 --> 00:24:03,354 Carol has done an extraordinary job 545 00:24:03,485 --> 00:24:07,097 of really keeping the elements of bondage in his costume. 546 00:24:07,228 --> 00:24:11,406 So I think they're really fun to walk around in. 547 00:24:11,537 --> 00:24:13,277 The red cloak that I wear was definitely, like, 548 00:24:13,408 --> 00:24:15,366 I remember walking outside and everyone was like, 549 00:24:15,497 --> 00:24:17,804 "Holy cow." And I was like, "I know, right? It's so great." 550 00:24:19,936 --> 00:24:22,504 When people see the show, they're going to really flip out 551 00:24:22,635 --> 00:24:24,593 and fall in love with every aspect of it 552 00:24:24,724 --> 00:24:26,508 and the way it looks and the way it sounds. 553 00:24:26,639 --> 00:24:29,076 The music alone is amazing. 554 00:24:29,206 --> 00:24:31,078 And the acting and the costumes, 555 00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:32,862 the hair, and the makeup and the production design, 556 00:24:32,993 --> 00:24:34,864 everything about it, it feels authentic. 557 00:24:34,995 --> 00:24:37,519 And you buy the universe 100%. 558 00:24:37,650 --> 00:24:40,957 ♪♪ 559 00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:56,669 It's as if I'd walked my entire life as a dead man. 560 00:24:56,799 --> 00:25:00,324 I know that I've always loved vampires as characters, 561 00:25:00,455 --> 00:25:02,196 as creatures who've scared me from-- 562 00:25:02,326 --> 00:25:03,763 I remember at an early age 563 00:25:03,893 --> 00:25:05,286 reading Bram Stoker, 564 00:25:05,416 --> 00:25:07,462 there's something so... 565 00:25:07,593 --> 00:25:11,379 sort of deliciously scary about them. 566 00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:14,469 I think people really love, just, vampires 567 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,776 and vampire stories because... 568 00:25:16,906 --> 00:25:21,432 it shows us the dark nature of ourselves. 569 00:25:21,563 --> 00:25:23,652 It's like this funhouse-mirror reflection 570 00:25:23,783 --> 00:25:28,701 on our own mortal lives and things that we all think about. 571 00:25:28,831 --> 00:25:30,616 Everyone feels like they sort of know 572 00:25:30,746 --> 00:25:32,705 the vampire mythology, but there's a lot of variation. 573 00:25:32,835 --> 00:25:34,837 [Howard] We look atNosferatu . 574 00:25:34,968 --> 00:25:36,970 We look at Bela Lugosi'sDracula. 575 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:38,624 You know, Frank Mangella'sDracula. 576 00:25:38,754 --> 00:25:40,408 So many different versions of vampires. 577 00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:42,453 But I think what's different about Anne Rice 578 00:25:42,584 --> 00:25:44,804 than a lot of other vampire things 579 00:25:44,934 --> 00:25:47,807 is the humanity of it all. 580 00:25:47,937 --> 00:25:49,939 In terms of the look of our vampires, 581 00:25:50,070 --> 00:25:51,550 we made decisions earlier on, which are 582 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,987 right out of the Anne Rice mythology. 583 00:25:54,117 --> 00:25:55,684 That, you know, they are not monstrous, 584 00:25:55,815 --> 00:25:57,251 they're not terrifying to look at. 585 00:25:57,381 --> 00:25:59,949 Their look is sort of a heightened human beauty. 586 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,472 [Howard] I don't want to make them pale. 587 00:26:01,603 --> 00:26:02,822 I don't want to make them veiny. 588 00:26:02,952 --> 00:26:04,693 I don't want to give them a crazy forehead, 589 00:26:04,824 --> 00:26:07,000 Because how would they integrate into the real world? 590 00:26:07,130 --> 00:26:09,089 Everybody would be running away from them. 591 00:26:09,219 --> 00:26:10,917 But instead, we went the other way 592 00:26:11,047 --> 00:26:13,180 and made him look perfect in every way. 593 00:26:13,310 --> 00:26:15,182 ♪♪ 594 00:26:15,312 --> 00:26:16,836 Well, the eyes are described, 595 00:26:16,966 --> 00:26:18,533 you know, very beautifully in the novels, 596 00:26:18,664 --> 00:26:20,187 and-- and we've been very true 597 00:26:20,317 --> 00:26:23,103 to the descriptions that we were given. 598 00:26:23,233 --> 00:26:27,281 Each of our vampires has special contact lenses that they wear, 599 00:26:27,411 --> 00:26:28,848 and they each have their own color. 600 00:26:28,978 --> 00:26:32,416 Louis, he has these bright green eyes. 601 00:26:32,547 --> 00:26:35,855 Lestat, his eyes are a beautiful pale gray. 602 00:26:35,985 --> 00:26:40,294 And Claudia has these amber orange eyes that, like, pop. 603 00:26:40,424 --> 00:26:43,297 When I looked in the mirror, I saw my lenses. 604 00:26:43,427 --> 00:26:46,735 I can creep people out. Like, I have that power. 605 00:26:46,866 --> 00:26:49,085 [Alan] And they have different contact lenses for different moods 606 00:26:49,216 --> 00:26:52,698 and different, uh, levels of arousal and ferocity. 607 00:26:52,828 --> 00:26:56,266 When they attack. their pupils dilate 608 00:26:56,397 --> 00:26:59,226 really big, so we have separate contacts for that. 609 00:26:59,356 --> 00:27:01,445 [Jacob] People look at you funny, and you're like, 610 00:27:01,576 --> 00:27:03,186 "Why are people looking at me like this? 611 00:27:03,317 --> 00:27:05,928 And you forget that you haven't blinked for four minutes 612 00:27:06,059 --> 00:27:09,715 because there's no air going into your eyes. [laughs] 613 00:27:12,587 --> 00:27:14,545 Well, one of the things we're doing differently in the show 614 00:27:14,676 --> 00:27:16,722 is that the vampires don't always have their fangs, 615 00:27:16,852 --> 00:27:18,288 and it depends on their mood. 616 00:27:18,419 --> 00:27:20,464 So we have, like, what we call resting fangs. 617 00:27:20,595 --> 00:27:21,901 We have attack fangs. 618 00:27:22,031 --> 00:27:23,946 We have a lot of different fangs. 619 00:27:24,077 --> 00:27:26,122 We made hundreds and hundreds of teeth for these guys. 620 00:27:26,253 --> 00:27:27,994 There's three different lengths, 621 00:27:28,124 --> 00:27:30,257 and there are slip-on caps that click in. 622 00:27:30,387 --> 00:27:32,955 So obviously, when they're about to eat, 623 00:27:33,086 --> 00:27:36,350 that's when their fangs appear. 624 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,788 And that will be a combination of us and digital effects. 625 00:27:39,919 --> 00:27:43,923 Claudia has four fangs, and the standard is two. 626 00:27:44,053 --> 00:27:46,795 Our tongues are not used to wearing things, 627 00:27:46,926 --> 00:27:51,582 so that was a little bit awkward. 628 00:27:51,713 --> 00:27:54,150 It took a while to practice learning how to speak 629 00:27:54,281 --> 00:27:56,326 with a full set of dentures. 630 00:27:56,457 --> 00:28:00,504 Claudia, Lestat and Louis, we have a set of 631 00:28:00,635 --> 00:28:03,377 full bridges for attack mode. 632 00:28:03,507 --> 00:28:05,422 Where are your parents at this hour? 633 00:28:05,553 --> 00:28:07,294 Claudia! No, don't! 634 00:28:07,424 --> 00:28:09,252 [snarls] 635 00:28:09,383 --> 00:28:11,602 The fingernails have a big part of the Anne Rice lore. Um... 636 00:28:11,733 --> 00:28:14,127 And the way they're described, there's a sheen to them. 637 00:28:14,257 --> 00:28:16,172 They're-- they're extended, they're slightly pointed. 638 00:28:16,303 --> 00:28:19,610 They're also useful as weapons, uh, but they're beautiful. 639 00:28:19,741 --> 00:28:22,178 We didn't want claws on them. We wanted very slight... 640 00:28:22,309 --> 00:28:25,051 but yet they looked like they were razor-sharp. 641 00:28:25,181 --> 00:28:27,967 The nails are really fun, especially for Claudia. 642 00:28:28,097 --> 00:28:31,013 One of the scenes is admiring her nails. 643 00:28:31,144 --> 00:28:34,060 So even the way Claudia kills, 644 00:28:34,190 --> 00:28:36,192 I always like to remember the nails. 645 00:28:36,323 --> 00:28:38,368 Like, "These are my nails, I'm going to kill with these." 646 00:28:38,499 --> 00:28:39,587 [Louis] You're wondering if your nails 647 00:28:39,718 --> 00:28:41,110 would be like that forever, 648 00:28:41,241 --> 00:28:42,982 and the answer is yes. 649 00:28:43,112 --> 00:28:44,157 [Howard] I'll tell you, the biggest struggle 650 00:28:44,287 --> 00:28:45,811 is keeping the nails on. 651 00:28:45,941 --> 00:28:47,682 First brought in somebody to do all their nails, 652 00:28:47,813 --> 00:28:49,945 like, once a week, but then nails would fall off, 653 00:28:50,076 --> 00:28:52,208 and then we'd have to glue them on on-set. 654 00:28:52,339 --> 00:28:54,428 [Tami] Jacob, he has these press-on nails, 655 00:28:54,558 --> 00:28:57,170 whereas Sam, he's agreed to get acrylics made. 656 00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:59,607 We have a nail person, a specialist, come in 657 00:28:59,738 --> 00:29:02,958 and do acrylic nails on him and also on Bailey. 658 00:29:03,089 --> 00:29:05,004 [chuckles] The only reason 659 00:29:05,134 --> 00:29:07,049 I don't wear the acrylic nails 660 00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:10,313 is because I have a-- a young daughter, 661 00:29:10,444 --> 00:29:13,882 and I have to change her nappy and give her cuddles, 662 00:29:14,013 --> 00:29:15,797 and I don't want her to-- want to scratch her. [chuckles] 663 00:29:18,365 --> 00:29:20,106 We put them through a lot, you know? 664 00:29:20,236 --> 00:29:22,717 Having sticky blood on you is a horrible thing. 665 00:29:22,848 --> 00:29:24,806 I mean, imagine if you just covered yourself 666 00:29:24,937 --> 00:29:26,634 in honey all day long. 667 00:29:26,765 --> 00:29:28,418 So we had gallons and gallons and gallons 668 00:29:28,549 --> 00:29:30,464 of vampire blood, dressing blood, 669 00:29:30,594 --> 00:29:33,032 mouth blood, gel blood, the whole thing. 670 00:29:33,162 --> 00:29:34,729 And then we had all the human blood, 671 00:29:34,860 --> 00:29:36,383 which we spilled all over the place. 672 00:29:36,513 --> 00:29:38,124 Tons and tons of blood. 673 00:29:38,254 --> 00:29:40,953 And then we also had these big giant puddles of blood 674 00:29:41,083 --> 00:29:43,477 that were synthetic, just like mats, like a doormat, 675 00:29:43,607 --> 00:29:44,957 but they're in the shape of a giant puddle. 676 00:29:45,087 --> 00:29:46,480 And we had all different sizes. 677 00:29:46,610 --> 00:29:49,091 [Tami] Like, right down here is... 678 00:29:49,222 --> 00:29:51,920 is our blood kit that we carry to set. 679 00:29:52,051 --> 00:29:55,489 And we have different kinds of blood, like gel blood, 680 00:29:55,619 --> 00:29:58,492 which is just kind of a solid blood, some low-light blood, 681 00:29:58,622 --> 00:30:02,191 so it's like, because we're in the dark a lot. 682 00:30:02,322 --> 00:30:04,846 This is pumping blood. So I usually hook up a tube, 683 00:30:04,977 --> 00:30:06,282 Then-- [whooshes] 684 00:30:08,371 --> 00:30:11,461 Yeah, there's a lot of blood in the show. [laughs] 685 00:30:11,592 --> 00:30:13,637 They're actually cocktailing something right now 686 00:30:13,768 --> 00:30:15,248 that we're going to use in Episode Seven, 687 00:30:15,378 --> 00:30:17,206 and we're actually going to be drinking it, 688 00:30:17,337 --> 00:30:19,426 and we're taste testing it... 689 00:30:19,556 --> 00:30:20,775 to make sure we like it. 690 00:30:20,906 --> 00:30:21,994 And there's, like, hibiscus in it, 691 00:30:22,124 --> 00:30:23,647 but it looks like blood. 692 00:30:23,778 --> 00:30:26,955 [chuckles] The drinkable blood is very sugary, 693 00:30:27,086 --> 00:30:30,089 so you get this kind of, like, high from it, 694 00:30:30,219 --> 00:30:32,221 which is probably not as intense a high 695 00:30:32,352 --> 00:30:35,050 as vampires get from drinking real blood, 696 00:30:35,181 --> 00:30:36,573 but there's something. 697 00:30:36,704 --> 00:30:37,661 [Louis chuckles] 698 00:30:37,792 --> 00:30:40,099 Ah-uh-uh-uh-uh. 699 00:30:40,229 --> 00:30:42,101 We live off the blood of the living. 700 00:30:42,231 --> 00:30:46,105 Out the back, I have a... fire extinguisher loaded 701 00:30:46,235 --> 00:30:49,151 with blood, so I hook that up to my hoses. 702 00:30:49,282 --> 00:30:50,979 [man] Great. 703 00:30:51,110 --> 00:30:52,938 That's probably two gallons worth of blood right there. 704 00:30:53,068 --> 00:30:55,505 And then we'd go crazy and just, like, 705 00:30:55,636 --> 00:30:57,072 Kill Billit over the place. 706 00:30:57,203 --> 00:30:58,987 We wanted it to be, like, boom! 707 00:31:01,337 --> 00:31:03,731 One of the, um, things we had to be concerned about 708 00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:05,994 is that we were shooting in locations 709 00:31:06,125 --> 00:31:08,823 that are like, 150 years old in New Orleans. 710 00:31:08,954 --> 00:31:10,564 There's a sequence in Episode One, 711 00:31:10,694 --> 00:31:12,783 we just annihilate a bunch of people in there. 712 00:31:12,914 --> 00:31:14,524 And we're shooting in this church and I'm like, 713 00:31:14,655 --> 00:31:16,048 "Okay, we've got to be really, really careful." 714 00:31:16,178 --> 00:31:17,353 The second the blood hit the floor, 715 00:31:17,484 --> 00:31:20,443 we finished shooting it, we cleaned it right up. 716 00:31:20,574 --> 00:31:24,143 It's no easy feat acting with fake blood in your mouth 717 00:31:24,273 --> 00:31:27,363 and fake teeth that you can't chomp down on 718 00:31:27,494 --> 00:31:30,801 and with contact lenses where you can barely see, 719 00:31:30,932 --> 00:31:32,847 and then have to deliver a beautiful, 720 00:31:32,978 --> 00:31:34,414 heartfelt performance. 721 00:31:34,544 --> 00:31:37,896 -This is not a life! -That's 'cause you took my life! 722 00:31:40,246 --> 00:31:42,378 The cast never complained about it, 723 00:31:42,509 --> 00:31:45,338 and they always took it on beautifully because 724 00:31:45,468 --> 00:31:47,427 they all saw-- special. 725 00:31:47,557 --> 00:31:49,733 And makes the show that much more, 726 00:31:49,864 --> 00:31:50,909 um, exciting to watch. 727 00:31:53,259 --> 00:31:54,260 [director] Cut! 728 00:31:55,652 --> 00:31:58,699 [indistinct chatter] 729 00:32:01,310 --> 00:32:03,878 The beauty of Anne Rice's characters 730 00:32:04,009 --> 00:32:06,054 is that they aren't creatures. 731 00:32:06,185 --> 00:32:09,840 They are us. They feel the same way we do, 732 00:32:09,971 --> 00:32:12,713 and they don't quite know where they belong in the world. 733 00:32:12,843 --> 00:32:17,587 I think that a lot of alienated people can identify with that. 734 00:32:17,718 --> 00:32:21,809 It's really empathetic and says it's okay to be 735 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:23,158 a little bit different. 736 00:32:23,289 --> 00:32:26,901 It's okay to be feared by others. 737 00:32:27,032 --> 00:32:30,470 It's okay to have these questions about yourself. 738 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,429 [Jessica] I think there was a very big female population. 739 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,346 I think there's a very big LGBT population who really... 740 00:32:37,477 --> 00:32:40,001 captured from the book this feeling 741 00:32:40,132 --> 00:32:42,438 that there wasn't a judgment for people 742 00:32:42,569 --> 00:32:46,051 who had feelings for one another who are of the same sex. 743 00:32:46,181 --> 00:32:48,053 [Levan] She really had an impact on my life. 744 00:32:48,183 --> 00:32:50,490 It was the first... 745 00:32:50,620 --> 00:32:54,320 Queer book... mainstream book... that I had read, 746 00:32:54,450 --> 00:32:57,323 and I remember reading it and being so surprised by it. 747 00:32:57,453 --> 00:32:59,716 I was like 15, and I was like, "Oh, my gosh, they're," 748 00:32:59,847 --> 00:33:01,153 you know, "in love." 749 00:33:01,283 --> 00:33:03,111 And that was a very big deal to me, 750 00:33:03,242 --> 00:33:07,507 And I'm very glad to be a part of this show. 751 00:33:07,637 --> 00:33:11,380 [Jacob] We're all in love with Anne Rice's stories 752 00:33:11,511 --> 00:33:14,253 and the questions that she asks in her books 753 00:33:14,383 --> 00:33:15,906 and through her characters. 754 00:33:16,037 --> 00:33:18,735 Why do you do this, Lestat? 755 00:33:18,866 --> 00:33:20,650 Well, I like to do it. I enjoy it. 756 00:33:20,781 --> 00:33:21,956 [Louis] Well, I don't! 757 00:33:22,087 --> 00:33:22,957 It feels like holding this kind of 758 00:33:23,088 --> 00:33:25,481 very precious thing every day. 759 00:33:25,612 --> 00:33:29,398 ♪♪ 760 00:33:29,529 --> 00:33:32,706 You know, Anne passed away while we were shooting this. 761 00:33:32,836 --> 00:33:35,491 [Jessica] When we found out that Anne Rice passed away, 762 00:33:35,622 --> 00:33:37,058 it was certainly something 763 00:33:37,189 --> 00:33:38,712 that all of us immediately felt, 764 00:33:38,842 --> 00:33:42,368 and the mood the next day feeling particularly heavy. 765 00:33:42,498 --> 00:33:45,632 I think especially for the city of New Orleans. 766 00:33:45,762 --> 00:33:47,329 She is an icon here, 767 00:33:47,460 --> 00:33:50,680 and-- and this city has a lot to thank her for. 768 00:33:50,811 --> 00:33:53,466 [Sam] It's a great tragedy. It's a huge literary loss. 769 00:33:53,596 --> 00:33:58,253 I actually went down to the Garden District bookshop 770 00:33:58,384 --> 00:34:01,517 that day and went and spoke to people 771 00:34:01,648 --> 00:34:03,171 who knew her and, you know, 772 00:34:03,302 --> 00:34:05,130 who often threw her book openings 773 00:34:05,260 --> 00:34:07,306 and went through their old photographs... 774 00:34:07,436 --> 00:34:10,483 of Anne Rice turning up to her book signings 775 00:34:10,612 --> 00:34:13,485 and book openings in a coffin, in a bridal dress. 776 00:34:13,616 --> 00:34:14,530 And... 777 00:34:16,141 --> 00:34:18,534 This was an extraordinary person 778 00:34:18,665 --> 00:34:22,581 who made a huge impact on a lot of people's lives. 779 00:34:22,712 --> 00:34:25,933 I would have liked to have thanked her because 780 00:34:26,063 --> 00:34:28,891 when I read Interview with the Vampire, 781 00:34:29,023 --> 00:34:31,764 I felt understood on some level. 782 00:34:31,895 --> 00:34:34,420 I felt spoken to, I felt... 783 00:34:34,550 --> 00:34:39,554 I felt, um, comforted by how she writes. 784 00:34:39,686 --> 00:34:43,255 [Jessica] On the morning of our next shoot day, 785 00:34:43,385 --> 00:34:45,039 Rolin read a really beautiful passage 786 00:34:45,170 --> 00:34:46,780 from the beginning of the book 787 00:34:46,909 --> 00:34:52,351 and really spoke to the legacy that she has built. 788 00:34:52,481 --> 00:34:55,266 I think we carry it, that legacy, as a great... 789 00:34:55,397 --> 00:34:59,314 responsibility and with a huge amount of respect. 790 00:34:59,445 --> 00:35:01,490 She's the reason that we're here 791 00:35:01,621 --> 00:35:05,755 getting to tell this beautiful story. 792 00:35:05,886 --> 00:35:08,802 [Jessica] It really was a wonderful moment for everyone 793 00:35:08,932 --> 00:35:11,152 to come together and pay respect to her. 794 00:35:11,283 --> 00:35:13,937 The thing that felt different after that was 795 00:35:14,068 --> 00:35:16,070 you really got a sense then 796 00:35:16,201 --> 00:35:18,333 that it was on us after that. 797 00:35:21,249 --> 00:35:24,774 She wasn't going to be able to write any more, any more words. 798 00:35:24,905 --> 00:35:27,081 So the canon is now set. 799 00:35:27,212 --> 00:35:31,085 [Jessica] And for her to not be able to see all of these 800 00:35:31,216 --> 00:35:33,783 wonderful characters come to life again, 801 00:35:33,914 --> 00:35:37,047 I think is something that really sits with all of us. 802 00:35:37,178 --> 00:35:39,920 And something that we feel even more of 803 00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:41,835 a responsibility over, 804 00:35:41,965 --> 00:35:43,576 creating something that hopefully 805 00:35:43,706 --> 00:35:45,969 the fans and people who appreciate her 806 00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:48,407 -will continue to do so. -[sobbing] 807 00:35:48,537 --> 00:35:52,062 [Eric] I think every author loves their writing first. 808 00:35:52,193 --> 00:35:54,761 If a movie or TV show gets people to go back 809 00:35:54,891 --> 00:35:57,546 and look at it again, that's as honored as you can get. 810 00:35:57,677 --> 00:36:01,028 So I think it's certainly, uh... 811 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:03,900 It would be something that would make her happy to think 812 00:36:04,031 --> 00:36:07,339 that a really nice manifestation of her books 813 00:36:07,469 --> 00:36:11,647 will get people to go back to her books. 814 00:36:11,778 --> 00:36:15,651 I think she was a significant American writer, 815 00:36:15,782 --> 00:36:19,873 And I think she has a bunch of people out there who... 816 00:36:21,353 --> 00:36:24,443 This book is the book for them. 817 00:36:24,573 --> 00:36:27,141 This thing means the world to them. 818 00:36:27,272 --> 00:36:30,362 And I think, um, there's a couple of generations 819 00:36:30,492 --> 00:36:33,321 that don't know it like that. And we're hoping that... 820 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:36,411 That'll happen again. 821 00:36:36,542 --> 00:36:37,673 ♪♪ 822 00:36:54,037 --> 00:36:57,258 We're making this show for a lot of people 823 00:36:57,389 --> 00:36:58,520 who've never read Anne Rice, 824 00:36:58,651 --> 00:37:00,696 perhaps have never even heard of Anne Rice. 825 00:37:00,827 --> 00:37:02,350 So it has to satisfy them. 826 00:37:02,481 --> 00:37:04,178 but most importantly, there are the readers. 827 00:37:04,309 --> 00:37:06,136 You have to get the core right. 828 00:37:06,267 --> 00:37:09,662 The spirit of the books has to be true, 829 00:37:09,792 --> 00:37:11,664 and I believe... 830 00:37:11,794 --> 00:37:14,362 I believe we got it right. 831 00:37:14,493 --> 00:37:16,712 I think fans should be most excited about 832 00:37:16,843 --> 00:37:20,325 diving into the Anne Rice world and this amazing, 833 00:37:20,455 --> 00:37:23,110 beautiful world that Rolin has created, 834 00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:24,938 um, in this adaptation. 835 00:37:25,068 --> 00:37:27,767 I wasn't sure you remembered me. 836 00:37:27,897 --> 00:37:31,118 Your book makes no mention of our prior meeting. 837 00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:34,730 What I would say to fellow Anne Rice fans 838 00:37:34,861 --> 00:37:39,561 is to trust us because we all love her, too, 839 00:37:39,692 --> 00:37:42,172 and stick with us. 840 00:37:42,303 --> 00:37:46,568 The thread of her storytelling is all the way through it. 841 00:37:46,699 --> 00:37:48,614 People who have read these books closely, 842 00:37:48,744 --> 00:37:52,226 I think will quite quickly figure out how much love 843 00:37:52,357 --> 00:37:54,446 and how much reverence we had for this book. 844 00:37:54,576 --> 00:37:56,883 You mentioned vampires and one of those, 845 00:37:57,013 --> 00:37:58,537 readers tend to call bullshit. 846 00:37:58,667 --> 00:37:59,973 Have I hit a nerve? 847 00:38:00,103 --> 00:38:02,541 We are going to have a number of Easter eggs. 848 00:38:02,671 --> 00:38:04,151 Some pretty obvious, 849 00:38:04,282 --> 00:38:07,241 some only the keen viewer will be aware of. 850 00:38:07,372 --> 00:38:10,940 I came to know Christ in a monastery. 851 00:38:11,071 --> 00:38:12,333 I wanted to be a priest. 852 00:38:14,727 --> 00:38:16,468 There are other, you know, Easter eggs 853 00:38:16,598 --> 00:38:18,992 connecting to other books and other vampires. 854 00:38:19,122 --> 00:38:21,690 There's a character from Queen of the Damned 855 00:38:21,821 --> 00:38:23,431 that makes an appearance here. 856 00:38:23,562 --> 00:38:25,172 The nice thing about how AMC is doing this 857 00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:27,783 is there a few story threads 858 00:38:27,914 --> 00:38:30,046 from Anne Rice's world rising at the same time. 859 00:38:30,177 --> 00:38:31,918 So in Interview with the Vampire, 860 00:38:32,048 --> 00:38:33,485 we get to make a few references 861 00:38:33,615 --> 00:38:35,225 to the witches who are literally 862 00:38:35,356 --> 00:38:36,923 just down the block in our story. 863 00:38:37,053 --> 00:38:39,055 Plenty of brooms down the street at the Mayfair Sisters' home. 864 00:38:39,186 --> 00:38:41,449 -[laughs] -He's calling me a witch, Momo. 865 00:38:41,580 --> 00:38:45,366 [Mark] The Immortal Universe is a description of some of 866 00:38:45,497 --> 00:38:47,455 Anne Rice's books with 867 00:38:47,586 --> 00:38:49,979 interwoven and connected characters. 868 00:38:50,110 --> 00:38:52,982 We obviously have Interview with the Vampire, 869 00:38:53,113 --> 00:38:57,422 and on the heels of it, isThe Mayfair Witches. 870 00:38:57,552 --> 00:39:01,034 And that is starring Alexandra DiDario. 871 00:39:01,164 --> 00:39:04,951 It's a story about a woman, a doctor, in San Francisco, 872 00:39:05,081 --> 00:39:07,388 who discovers that she's the 13th Witch 873 00:39:07,519 --> 00:39:09,738 in a line of New Orlean witches 874 00:39:09,869 --> 00:39:12,828 And comes to New Orleans and has to deal with 875 00:39:12,959 --> 00:39:15,440 these desperate influences on her life. 876 00:39:15,570 --> 00:39:19,052 And we will develop beyond that. 877 00:39:19,182 --> 00:39:23,186 Interview with the Vampire, Season One, is such a wild ride. 878 00:39:23,317 --> 00:39:25,972 - There's romance, there's backstabbing, -[giggles] 879 00:39:26,102 --> 00:39:27,365 there's killing. 880 00:39:27,495 --> 00:39:29,497 [grunts] 881 00:39:29,628 --> 00:39:32,326 We have amazing stunt sequences. 882 00:39:32,457 --> 00:39:34,633 You get a little bit of everything. 883 00:39:34,763 --> 00:39:37,418 And there are some very funny moments as well. 884 00:39:37,549 --> 00:39:40,682 I'm a person who very much believes that all drama 885 00:39:40,813 --> 00:39:43,293 should have comedy and all comedy should have drama. 886 00:39:43,424 --> 00:39:45,121 And I-- What I always say is 887 00:39:45,252 --> 00:39:48,864 somewhere in the middle, humanity lies. 888 00:39:48,995 --> 00:39:51,954 But I think the humor is in Anne Rice as well. 889 00:39:52,085 --> 00:39:54,827 It's extreme stuff and these are extreme feelings 890 00:39:54,957 --> 00:39:56,132 that they're feeling. 891 00:39:56,263 --> 00:39:57,612 You know, it's gallows humor. 892 00:39:57,743 --> 00:40:00,006 You have to find... the macabre funny. 893 00:40:00,136 --> 00:40:01,486 -[grunts] -[moaning] 894 00:40:01,616 --> 00:40:03,226 If we didn't laugh, 895 00:40:03,357 --> 00:40:05,664 we'd all be screwed, really. 896 00:40:05,794 --> 00:40:07,622 [Keith] It's compelling and it's humanity 897 00:40:07,753 --> 00:40:09,581 and it's-- and it's beautiful. 898 00:40:09,711 --> 00:40:11,670 And I think that that's what people 899 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:16,065 will be watching, uh, as they kill many... 900 00:40:16,196 --> 00:40:18,459 many, many people. 901 00:40:18,590 --> 00:40:20,069 Whenever you ready, Louis. 902 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:21,984 [screams] 903 00:40:23,769 --> 00:40:26,293 When you see this, this will be your new 904 00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:28,121 Interview with the Vampire. 905 00:40:28,251 --> 00:40:30,036 Like, you'll get it and you'll be like, 906 00:40:30,166 --> 00:40:31,820 there is no other Interview with the Vampire. 907 00:40:31,951 --> 00:40:33,692 There's this version and that's that. 908 00:40:35,389 --> 00:40:36,477 He's dead. 909 00:40:36,608 --> 00:40:39,175 Yes, there is a lot of blood, 910 00:40:39,306 --> 00:40:42,309 Yes, there are a lot of 911 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:47,096 really gross horror movie classic tropes, 912 00:40:47,227 --> 00:40:49,708 But there's a beating heart to this show. 913 00:40:49,838 --> 00:40:52,580 That is the greatest part about this show. 914 00:40:52,711 --> 00:40:57,846 They're vampires. The emotions get wider and wider and wider. 915 00:40:57,977 --> 00:41:00,545 [Mark] One of the most satisfying moments 916 00:41:00,675 --> 00:41:03,461 for a producer just standing back 917 00:41:03,591 --> 00:41:06,072 and just saying, "Oh, my God, 918 00:41:06,202 --> 00:41:08,640 I had something to do with putting this together." 919 00:41:08,770 --> 00:41:10,903 And you just beam with pride. 920 00:41:11,033 --> 00:41:13,340 And this happened a lot on this show. 921 00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:16,386 There's his mark. 922 00:41:16,517 --> 00:41:20,216 So I really hope that the fans of-- of these books 923 00:41:20,347 --> 00:41:24,351 and this world really see that we are 924 00:41:24,482 --> 00:41:26,440 bringing in all of the elements 925 00:41:26,571 --> 00:41:28,790 and that we can do them honestly 926 00:41:28,921 --> 00:41:34,100 and truthfully and as blatantly as she wanted. 927 00:41:34,230 --> 00:41:37,059 I'm really excited for people to see it. 928 00:41:37,190 --> 00:41:39,322 And there's nothi-- I don't think there's anything else 929 00:41:39,453 --> 00:41:40,846 like this show. 930 00:41:40,976 --> 00:41:43,501 ♪♪ 931 00:41:50,682 --> 00:41:52,422 -[snarls] -[grunts]