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Episode one is called What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned?

It is very much the recognition of being damned and looking for an answer, and

there is no answer.

In the early stages of development of season one, we were originally going to

the entire first book in one season, and there was always a thought that we

would have Louis and Claudia post -New Orleans and pre -Paris.

have this episode of upheaval where they're in the european war theater and

they're searching out these vampires louis and claudia are like right in the

thick of it i think it's a very bold way to start it was really exciting to feel

like you're taking these characters completely out of their comfort zones

claudia and louis are at odds with each other because of how season one left off

there's war

It's affecting the blood.

Louis is kind of trying to earn back Claudia's trust in him, but Claudia is

reluctant to hear it.

The scene where I threw the heart at Louis, it was really exciting to film.

guy that played the dead soldier, he was very sweet about everything.

He was like, hit me in the chest as hard as you want. And I was like, I'm not

going to do that.

I had the heart in my hand and then just like preloaded it and then bit into it.

And it's just like.

An explosion of sugar in your mouth. So I spent the rest of the night just,

like, just buzzing.

If you've committed murder and you've killed somebody you love more than

else, that's going to stick with you for a while.

And Lestat haunts Louis, and it is a fixation. Louis is never going to shed

Lestat. The way to approach Dreamstat, which is what Jacob called him, I

definitely tried to bring as much Louis into that Lestat as I possibly could.

He's mimicking his body language.

I do. I do. He repeats the words that he says in the same way.

I do. Stop!

So you kind of really get the sense that this is also Louis.

I do.

I do.

Claudia is looking for where she belongs, where she comes from. Where are

other vampires?

We encounter the revenant vampire, which is described in the book as a zombie

vampire.

Amrice's vampires are so human.

It's such a departure from kind of like beautified, glamorous vampires.

Also, it's just really fun.

It's a vampire.

No, I'm a vampire. That's a catfish.

The sequence that we're doing today is the revenant attacking the buoy. We've

got a wire system that's lifting our actor, Jacob, up in the air as if he's

being strangled by the neck.

And then Claudia does a big wire to the leap, lands on his back, rips his eyes

out, saves the day.

Delaney's really good. She's actually really very handy in a wire.

It's been a lot of fun. I actually really enjoy stunt. I like doing

things, so the more I could do, the more I wanted to do.

A lot of harness work, a lot of leg locking around actors and pulling.

The trickiest thing is her ripping his eyes out. So our idea for cheating it

to slap her fingers onto his eyes and cover it with the resident's hand, and

then they drop to their knees, and we use that as a stitch point where we can

put in the prosthetic eye makeup and cover it with Delaney's hand.

Eyeball is a kind of...

In the palm of my hand and I'm gouging, gouging, pop them out. Dirk's amazing

and Dirk's really tall.

So when I was locking my legs around him, the harness had to be there. The

sounds that he makes as the Revenant and how he embodies it is really amazing.

Gloria!

A

woman

vampire. Claudia has never met a vampire that she was fully on board with. And

finally meeting this female vampire that she appears to make a connection with

is so joyful for her.

Dathiana throwing herself in the fire. It's a brutal, brutal moment.

That kind of solidifies everything that Claudia thinks of herself and what it

means to be a vampire.

It's a lonely life.

The interview becomes more important in season two.

This is the first time that Armand has been in this conversation.

I think Armand is trying to knock Malloy off his game. I think he's trying to

frighten Malloy.

May I make an observation? You always control the interview?

Yes.

He's skilled.

He wants you in pieces for the privilege of putting them back together.

It's his job. It's his drug.

Armand wants to protect himself, but also he wants to protect his

with Louis and what they have. He feels he has no choice except to come in

sharing the narrative with Louis.

Claudia was entirely broken.

She had left a part of herself in Romania.

I knew I had to steer her far away from it.

I want to say something to you.

In the van on the way to Paris, he's kind of planting a flag in the ground

saying, look, we've been through it. We're going to keep going through it.

going to find others like us.

Regardless of what happens, I will be here.

If you were the last vampire on earth, it would be enough.

Okay.

Okay.