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Do you know what it means to be loved by death?

Do you know what it means to be loved by death? Is something that... No pain.

Santiago says to his victims on stage, as he basically lulls them

into their death.

So all of a sudden we're in Paris, and we're in exciting post -war Paris.

There's a certain intellectual fervor that is taking over this particular

Paris is everything that Claudia's been waiting for.

I love getting old baguettes and, like, Louis wearing this little scarf is what

Louis imagines French people wear.

I'm the reticent vampire of the 9th arrondissement.

I don't think Louis is really playing at stereotypes of an American tourist. I

think he is that. He's living it. He is.

The stereotype of an American tourist.

What do you want?

How you gonna get there?

There's some giddiness there, and there's some humor that they haven't

Certainly not since they killed the fat.

Our finest seats.

And then they get to meet these vampires, and this is really the thing

Claudia has been desperately seeking.

And in Armand, we have someone that is really intriguing to Louis. So both of

them... are over the moon.

You learn when they go to the theater and they meet the Coven. Claudia is

someone that needs community.

Louis is someone that needs to know that community is there, but to be away from

it a lot.

Roger!

To the displacement.

of reason.

What sold Prague to us as a shooting location for Paris was not the physical

Prague, which is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and can

Paris in many, many ways. It was this huge factory we walked into looking for

the vampire theater.

And almost immediately, I just saw the sparkle on Marla Parish's eyes

and our production designers, and we said, okay, We're home. This is where we

need to be. It's just spectacular.

That was a key factor that brought us to Prague, was landing this location and

understanding how vital that was going to be to season two.

The prospect of getting to work on a TV show where there's a theater company was

just too exciting to pass up. And we wanted to have an exciting leading man,

Santiago, so we got the great Ben Daniels.

We here at Théâtre des Vampires delve into the underbelly of the human soul.

Santiago and the whole coven, it's like a breath of fresh air. It's like this

new mischievous energy that comes into the show.

This is what she's been waiting for. And she envisions a family with these coven

members just living her best life, eating people.

Santiago is certainly the most theatrical of everybody in the vampire

Everything you're about to see. He thinks he's Laurence Olivier.

Is real.

But he is mesmerizing and he is captivating. And appalling. And the

loves him. I love you, Ford. And Claudia immediately falls in love with what he

represents and wants to be a part of it.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Let her speak, Sam.

I'd like to point out also, just a little aside, that the woman who plays

Annika, the first victim we see, is actually our director's assistant.

We found out that she is an actress, a very good actress, and primarily an

actress.

Sinead, who played the woman, she was very, very good at being terrified.

It was very upsetting to see because it was like all of her in her entirety.

But for Claudia, I think Claudia fully.

I was like, where are the stairs to the stage? Like, get me on there right now.

It was just so funny to be working alongside the set next to somebody who

a sudden is on stage being devoured by Santiago and later the rest of the

Covenants. And it's brutal and beautiful and so theatrical and so brilliant.

It's like 14 vampires now on the show.

And I was like, wow, this is intense.

This is like a new thing.

And they all had relationships already and they've been rehearsing, they've

like shooting these plays.

It was really helpful for me personally to walk into this whole world of

vampires that was like unfamiliar and different as well to what we established

in season one. But also just like a very funny, very lovely group of people.

I ask him that.

Was it worth the wait?

Malloy is finally getting his footing when it comes to how to deal with

the fact that there are now two vampires instead of one. Are you two going to

finish each other's sentences for the whole session?

We've been together 77 years, Daniel.

What was fun was realizing that we'd spent all of season one with

Rashid lingering in the background.

You're lingering, Rashid.

It was fun for me to see, like, little things that Assad was doing in season

as Rashid, where you can see him under it. What do you think will happen to Mr.

Dulac when you publish this book?

I love working with Assad.

He's so intense, and it's wonderful to play against. It's really fun.

She wanted to say yes.

But she didn't trust you.

You hadn't given her a reason to.

It's not Malloy's fault that he's here. He was brought here by Louis.

But now that he is here and he's prying, our mind has to preserve their

relationship and their history together.

If you're willing to ask your questions and then listen.

It becomes a battle of wits.

What happened next?

We have this phenomenal scene in front of this, we always called it the murder

mansion. It's described exactly how we see it.

They arrive and Louis and Armand have this wonderful flirtation.

Enjoy yourselves.

That might have been one of the best days of my life.

It was, honestly,

it was just adults playing.

You coming?

I ate before the play.

What I really liked about Levin's direction in this is that when we got in

mansion, it was like, you're vampires.

Go have fun, be vampires.

The chaos in the background and vintage noir romance happening in the

foreground. Say something, Claudio.

Spark in the dark.

The thing that I remember most about filming the murder mansion scene was

that...

all this madness happening.

You must work harder on that.

And every single time something smashed or popped, I was like, just jumping.

You're not going to win.

I am now where I most want to be. But somehow, Asad just managed to like, just

very focused and didn't flinch.