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There's a lot different about season two. We have all of these new

We're on a much bigger international canvas.

It's quite an electric feeling, actually. It's really funny.

It's kind of very beautiful, very gothic. That blows my mind. It's the

set I've ever been on in my life. Burning the theater down physically was

difficult. It's all just done.

Being able to throw the start up against the wall with a nice flex.

I'm doing things that I don't think I've ever done before.

I love my fangs and I'm going to steal them if I can.

I think it might have been Delaney's first day ever.

And we're like in this pit the first time you see Louis and Claudia.

It's like, this is wild.

Like, this is actually mad.

We had lots of days like that when we were shooting. All this stuff

to, like, where Louis and Chloe are at in the story.

They feel they're in a completely new world.

In season two, we're on a much bigger international canvas.

Their world has sort of gone haywire because of what they've done to Lestat.

They've left New Orleans just as the world itself is going crazy with this

horrible war.

There's some real exciting metaphor there when it comes to war between

and Louis and also the war that they're fighting with themselves.

Episode one is atypical to this season. We were originally going to do the

entire first book in one season. Episode one of our season two was episode five.

of the original plan for season one we're much happier getting to do 15

on this first book but there was always a thought that we would have this

episode of upheaval where they're right in the middle of world war ii and its

aftermath before in the blood we're taking it in thinking that's why we

get warm

In the beginning, it was me and Jacob for a whole month, and I have so much

for him. He doesn't know this, but he helped guide me a lot. He's the most

attentive, patient, and very giving person I think I've ever met.

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

I got really high from the heart because it was just full of this sugary blood

mix, just like an explosion of sugar that I spent the rest of the night just

like...

Just buzzing off the sugar.

I've known exactly four vampires in my life and you've all been the worst.

I'm looking for one.

Just one that ain't a damn bastard.

In Eastern Europe, that's where we encounter the first vampire they've

But unfortunately, it's a revenant vampire, which is described in the book

zombie vampire.

The revenant is so important because...

It's Lily and Claudia's first contact with vampires outside of America.

Ask you the same.

Not the same. She's exciting, and he's confounding, and he's really

disappointing. Kind of seems to have just, like, lost any sense of humanity.

But also, it's just really fun.

The sequence that we're doing today is The Revenant.

attacking Louie. We got a wire system that's lifting Jacob up in the air as if

he's being strangled by the neck.

And then Claudia does a big wire -assisted leap.

Louie!

She was like, yeah, let's go. She just, like, did it.

She just jumps over, like, a lake.

Delaney's really good. It makes all our lives easier when our actors are almost

as proficient as their stunt people.

The more I could do, the more I wanted to do.

And Scott's been amazing at making you feel safe whilst doing it.

It's been a lot of fun. I actually really enjoy stunts. Ready, and three,

one, go!

The wire work is always difficult, and it always starts with a script. We take

that and we go to our gym space here in Prague, and we work out some of these

gags with our wire systems until we find something that we think is going to

work. Got it.

Beautiful. Print that. When you get down to tricking things, like pulling

people's eyeballs out, you just can't do it. So we've got to figure out how do

we cheat it. We always have a nice pair of set of eyeballs.

Eyeballs are kind of in the palm of my hand, and I'm gouging, gouging, and pop

them out. We had to put a whole other appliance on his monster face that had

gouged out eyes.

And then we actually glued these onto the appliance.

Are you going to glue onto my eyelids?

No, I'm gluing everywhere around it. Okay, great. Underneath the appliance, I

had bladders, and it just shot blood out.

Tammy is the expert in all things blood. Sometimes we say more, sometimes we say

less, but...

Ultimately, it's a gut feeling about what's right for the scene.

Luckily, it didn't hit the camera.

I mean, God.

Disgusting.

You got this.

I got this.

You got this.

When Claudia meets Daciana, she is extremely happy because essentially all

known is Louis and the duck.

And she hasn't really known any other female vampires.

Daciana throwing herself into the fire. It's a brutal moment for Claudia.

To finally maybe have this opportunity and then see it go that way is really,

really devastating.

And Louis senses this, and that's why he has to give her that speech in the

truck. We're going to find others like us.

And if it ain't here, we'll go to the next place.

There's a third person on that truck.

And I think it's really a wonderful scene when we realize that, flee as they

might, Louis is never going to shed the stock.

From his life. Me and you.

You and me.

In theory, just the two of them arrived at Paris.

Paris was full of bad things for him. He warned them not to go there in the

first place.

Yeah, it's complicated.

Bonjour, mon amour.

I speak to Jacob every day, non -stop, all the time.

There's a place that me and Sam used to eat in Prague. We talk about the show.

So I was always looking forward to a ghostly stat, dream stat.

Do it like you believe me. I do. I do.

I do.

I do.

I do. If you've committed murder and you've killed somebody you love more

anyone else, it's going to haunt you in every possible way.

Dreamstat, which is what Jacob called him. I definitely tried to bring as much

Louis into that Lestat as I possibly could. For me, what was most important

showing that this is actually an extension of Louis.

Sam copied me a lot. He would mirror my body language in the way that I spoke.

I think Sam had some fun with that.

You kind of really get the sense that this is also Louis. Lestat is always

there. You can't get him out of his head.

I'm still the only one you try.

Lestat is there.

to pass judgment on decisions that Louis is making. And one of them is his

falling in love with Armand.

He editorializes every decision, everything that Louis does.

This is great. What we got is great.

It's just not a companionship. Oh, God, how do you manage it? He's very jealous.

This guy? Really? This is who you love me for?

He's so present in their relationship that Armand...

cannot help but feel Lestat's presence.

That's such a big issue for Armand. It's like your mind is always somewhere

else. Ghost Lestat doesn't just represent Lestat in Louis' mind. It's

Louis' doubts about Armand. There are some pretty harsh things that Louis'

subconscious truly thinks about Armand. It's made even more complicated because

we know Armand and Lestat have history themselves.

Imagine meeting someone new in your life and you find out that... They went out

with your ex.

And not only went out with your ex, were deeply in love with your ex. You shared

a boyfriend.

This is great.

I suppose they have a sort of angry sexual tension between the two of them.

You're not really sure if they hate each other, if they want to be with each

other. And that sort of continues on between the two of them for quite a few

centuries.

He can't help himself but be drawn to Armand and his power. I think they

each other.

His instinct is to contain it, but he quickly realizes that that will not be

contained.

Armand is a very powerful vampire and manages to freeze time, which is

that Lestat uses in Satan 1, so it is where he learns it from Armand.

We have a time freeze element that happens.

Freeze! For me, it was important to not make it too superhero -y. We're using

people who are good at standing frozen.

It's very analog, which I like.

Yeah, keep it simple.

I also sort of love that as it is Armand's point of view, you know, you

Lassat and then he gets kicked out of him. I think it's very fitting.

We start out in our rehearsal space with all kinds of crash maps, wires and

systems, and we measure out what we want to see here on the location.

We have a stunt where Armand throws Lestat into a wall.

We figured out a way that we can motivate Lestat into a wall without

anybody. It's about 25 feet.

So I'll be running.

And then the stunt double will run in and then I'll get flown out.

And I would jump back in.

They're very high -powered, sort of fun things to do.

Being able to throw Lestat up against the wall with a nice flex.

And then I'd come back and I'd get dragged on a rig, which was really fun

Whether this is real or not is a question.

What is Amon's version of Lestat? I think Amon might worship Lestat a little

bit. hate Lestat a little bit, love Lestat a little bit. It's very exciting

we get this new perspective, and I think it's important because, look, there's a

lot of stuff that's going on with Armand, and I think we need to know

coming from a little bit more.

He's like a twisted, angelic, psychotic demon who survived so long.

Armand is terribly insecure because he was jilted by Lestat.

So we know.

A century or so ago, Armand needs control.

And I think part of that control is structure.

Structure. Lestat is not a creature of structure.

So once he's found himself in a situation that kind of is working, it's

working anymore.

I think Armand felt like Lestat got a bit bored with him.

Lestat, Lestat, Lestat.

Love of my life, or is it more rebound of my life?

Louis' relationship with Armand is a response to his relationship with

It's a rebound that lasts for 70 to 80 years, but, like, that's what it is. He

almost takes on the lift -up role in his relationship with Armand.

Everyone's asking, what's next? What's next? Not, where were you? Or, be

careful. I had enough of that back home.

It's a very toxic relationship in a different way to lift up, but that

really become apparent until later on.

One of the most profoundly important relationships in the entire season is

and Claudia.

There's some interesting things that we've done in reshooting Louie's

of that exchange in New Orleans to turn Claudia and the stats memory of the

same. Please don't be anything.

Please. You will regret this for the rest of your life.

Louie feels deeply responsible for her. She feels responsible for the good

things that happen and the bad things that happen to her.

Louis and Claudia, the theater of vampires.

I think initially Armand kind of embraces her and brings her into the

which is like a huge win for Louis because he can go and live his life in

and not have to worry about Claudia.

They're going to let me join the coven at the end of this week.

I wouldn't miss it for the world.

That's the beginning of Louis and Armand's growth in their relationship.

She's very much in the way of Louis.

exploring life with Armand because he's always looking out for Claudia. So I

think Armand very, very quickly realizes Claudia's on Louis' mind all the time,

whereas I would like Louis' mind to be on me.

Welcome to our lair.

Did I give you consent to look me in the eye, Pius?

It's probably quite triggering for Louis the way that Armand treats Claudia

because of how that treated Claudia.

Seeing Armand dismissed.

Claudia is quite difficult for him. Love makes you stupid.

Well, good for you.

You and him. Him and you.

You and him.

Picked another one over me.

Claudia's reaction to Louis choosing Armand is not shocking.

But I think she finds it disappointing and heartbreaking because she's a second

choice again.

That sets the tone for the rest of the season, sadly.

Yeah. Since Paris is on the way back, give her a little time is all.

Where do you want to hunt?

Visiting the Charles Bridge helped me get into character.

I felt like Claudia more and more as I walked it.

Me and Sam, we went to dinner on the other side of the bridge and we were

walking back and it was quite late and it was kind of beautiful because I was

like, oh, I'm here with vampire -less butt.

We're in, like, this gothic city.

In Prague, there's beautiful castles and Petrum Park, which is kind of spooky

but very beautiful.

You really feel like vampires are living amongst us in Prague.

So, yeah, I think it's perfect for season two of the show.

Unlike Paris, which is sort of enormous and I think can be overwhelming, Prague

is smaller and slightly more manageable from purely a technical point of view of

shooting here.

Who are you, Louis?

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

So we're at our French backlot here in Prague, which we use for a number of

different sets and scenes for the entire season. The first time we see it was

when Louis and Claudia were outside the cafe here.

The sets were beautiful. They built a cafe with a band and beautiful lights.

Behind us, the Mishka Bar is named after one of my dogs, Mishka, who's back in

New Orleans. The other bar, the Petunia Bar, was where we saw Lisette playing

the piano when Louis and Armand were there, and Petunia is one of my other

We designed this street based off an actual street, Rue de Cardinal in Paris.

It's in the Saint -Germain neighborhood, and Madeline's Dress Shop is halfway

down the block.

Roxanne, who played Madeline, she came to me after she saw the set and she

I really understand her.

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

So this season, the theater of the vampires

probably has the most vampiric moment.

Yeah, I'd say that's pretty vampy.

What sold Prague as a shooting location was this huge factory we walked into

looking for the vampire theater.

And we said, okay, we're home.

The thing that amazed me the most about the theater is the detail.

The design of the elements inside the theater. We were riffing on this idea

they had actually been pillaged from churches and other elements and then

modified. So there's a lot of whimsy and irreverence in all of the details

there. It's the coolest set I've ever been on in my life. Each theater

performer... had to have a personality, and that's the joy of props, is that we

get to go into the fine details and say, what does this character have? What do

they have in their pocket? What do they carry?

What do they care about? The vendors are going by with their selling boards that

had cigarettes, popcorn, and condoms. That's not something you ever saw, but

that's just part of what the whole experience of the vampire theater was

to be.

How they deal with disposing bodies is kind of a pretty extraordinary piece of

invention that's come from the mind of Roland Jones and Hannah Moskowitz.

They drag the bodies from the green room down a flight of stairs to the wet

room, where Claudia puts them into the rat boxes.

You put your frisbee...

In the body box?

I was in the rat box, and it was horrible.

It's dark, it's damp, and claustrophobic.

They're actually lined with foam so that we could dump people and bodies in

there and not hurt anyone.

They found the heart.

Rats love hearts.

Roland and I are old theater nerds, and so the prospect of getting to work on a

TV show where there's a theater company was just...

too exciting to pass up. We knew we wanted all these bizarre people because

theater companies are always a bunch of misfits.

Claudia's been searching for a family her whole life. So when all these

are accepting her into the coven, she found what she's been looking for. A

of people that put her first.

So these are a pair of Santiago's things.

And these are cats that just Click on. That's what this bar is. It kind of

around the tooth behind the fang, and that's how they stay in.

Claudia tastes each coven member's blood as an induction.

I had loads of arms being put in my face, and I was just eating them. I love

fangs, and I'm going to steal them if I can.

I'm a fierce vampire trapped in the body of a little girl.

I'm reminded of it every night of my existence.

To finally be in the coven and have an opportunity to go on stage.

But to have to play a baby... I play the little girl.

Being put in a dress that blue, that big and that fluffy, and to act like a

child is her worst nightmare.

She's reminded of what she is, how she'll forever be perceived.

I loved doing Baby Lou's performances. I think they were so much fun, even

though Claudia hated them.

We knew we wanted to get this great theater company in 1927 from the U .K.

come and design the projection for us. Two of their founding members are in the

coven, Esme and Suzanne, play Celeste and Estelle.

They created hand -cut stop -motion animations for the plays within the

and then we added a film grain effect to the projections.

It's such a beautiful texture, and it's so amazing that we got to capture that.

The question of music remains important to the show in season two. Music was

very central to Anne's writing. And then we have Daniel Hart, our composer. Fans

will appreciate some of the way Daniel has teased out some musical themes that

populate the show.

Placement of reason.

We wanted to have an exciting leading man in Santiago, so we got the great Ben

Daniels. I love Ben Daniels. He's mischievous. He's a cheeky man.

you're about to see is real.

I kind of like and love to hate him. He's just so delicious to play and

hopefully to watch.

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

On the job, I've done all my stunts, all my flying, because I've done my work,

so I'm sort of quite used to it.

When we initially built this set, we didn't know what all the stunts were

to be. We knew we needed to have different people flying within the

so stunts was able to rig truss and all of their hanging elements from the

structure that we built into the set.

Annika, the first victim of Santiago's on the stage, was actually played by our

director's assistant, who is primarily an actress.

It was just so funny working alongside the set, next to somebody who all of a

sudden is on stage, who is bitten and devoured by the coven.

Santiago's are kind of... Grifly, jealous, devious, poor.

Louis and Santiago have a very competitive relationship almost

I think it kind of comes down to Louis not really being interested in the

theatre. He's almost, like, more interested in Louis for the fact that

not interested in him at all.

You disgust me.

Don't be afraid to start the tape.

The interview of the interview with the vampire becomes more important in season

two. We should get every detail right. The interview goes from playing chess

against one person to playing 3D chess against two people. It's a complicated

bunch of relationships that they're all stacked on top of each other.

Members of my covenants.

We'll get to you.

They're all playing against each other. It changes the dynamic substantially.

Louis gets to a point when he regrets having started that interview because

Malloy gets better and better at his job and, quite frankly, gets information

that Louis doesn't want him to have and doesn't know he has. How did she like

being infantilized?

Coven life requires the letting go of the self. She carried over to up here

a seasoned sailor. Are they lying to me? Is this a true story?

How much of this is real? How much is this just made up?

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

It's his job.

It's his drug.

He's reveling in it. You should end it.

What Malloy is seeing on the couch in front of him is maybe not all that we

see. By this point, who tells the story is often more important than how the

story is being told.

This is too important a moment in our story for these games.

Oh, is there a game being played?

He feels he needs to manipulate the people around him. It's like scratching

itch. Armand is always, well, so, sorry.

But he is.

Malloy is an unfortunate collateral damage.

Now that he is here and he's crying, Armand has to preserve his relationship

with Louis.

Armand didn't want me to do the interview, Daniel.

Still don't, if that means playing with an old man's memories.

Small fry compared to the things he's done.

He's picked the wrong guy to try to scare.

Malloy gets more into it the more you push him. That's when I bring my method

acting to the game because that's the way I am. So happy to fight with

And I will fight with Armand.

I was the one being interviewed.

No point.

No point.

Other than...

Your boyfriend.

A lot of the dynamics that we're looking at in Dubai had their roots or their

beginnings in that apartment in San Francisco.

I like what you've done with the place.

I want to tell the real story.

Louis and Malloy have returned to the apartment in San Francisco, and we see

this interview play out.

Recreating 1973 was a lot of fun. In San Francisco, it almost doesn't seem a

part of the season, and yet it is in many ways the backbone of the season.

a very contained episode, but consequently every detail, every prop,

dressing has to be right.

This went through many permutations.

It's a beautiful backgammon board, rebuilt to handle all the drugs that

offering to Malloy. There's everything he might want.

Cheeseburgers or chicken chow mein, take your pick.

The guy who plays the younger Daniel is Luke Brandon Field.

We met in New Orleans, and I didn't realize that he was kind of watching me.

Take this seriously.

I am.

It would freak me out sometimes.

I was like, that's Eric.

That's Eric.

I love watching him do it. As an actor, it's great to have some other actor

building my backstory so that in a way we create the character together. It

informs everything that I am doing in later scenes.

When we got to do the attack on Young Maloy in 1973 in San Francisco, we were

able to put on a nice, meaty appliance with a bladder underneath, and I was

there behind with a hose with a couple syringes full of blood. I got a little

overzealous on the first try and hit the wall opposite of where he was. I think

visual effects had to paint off the blood on that wall.

So the room got dirty, so what, I clean it up? No, I clean it up!

You make the mess and I clean it up. It's a mad episode.

But you remember right up until when you bit me. And I remember right up until

when you bit me.

And then both our memories cut out.

Same precise edit on two brains.

We both discover the depths of duplicity that Armand has gone to.

They start trying to piece together what happened.

Both of them sort of had their memories manipulated, let's say, by Armand.

He blacked out.

I blacked out.

It's kind of the biggest betrayal, isn't it? You rewrite their history, which

encompasses your history with them as well. I don't know if I believe that

asked him to do it.

Tell him I love him, Armand.

Tell him!

It makes me angry now. Armand is so wrong for that.

Up to this point, the Malloy -Louis dynamic is adversarial.

You've made me an accessory to murder, and you've had 13 sessions.

I want to know, for me, what happened between us.

And I think what happens here is a bond of friendship is discovered. And Malloy

figures out that Louie, back in San Francisco, essentially gave him his

for his career.

You're a bright, young reporter with a point of view.

If things ever get bad again, these are the words you'll hear in your mind like

a tape playing over and over. There is a shift in power simply because of this

new information.

The thing about Daniel Malloy is he can smell when something isn't quite right.

And this is where the talamasca comes in. Hello.

Anne Rice's imagination seems to be limitless, and she's able to create a

and then add another world onto it. So the Talamasca world is just fabulous.

Talamasca is this organization that oversees witches, vampires, all of this

unexplained phenomena in our world. I love the Talamasca in the book. Their

ethos is always like, we don't get involved, we don't pry, we just collect

facts. But it's somehow...

They always get involved. They always pry.

You weren't provided any information about the fire in our archives.

They're the ones that sneak him information about the fire.

The stakes for Malloy really begin to ramp up. There's a real fear, and you

see it in Eric's performance.

Can you protect me?

No. We're particularly poor at keeping our assets alive.

I'm not an asset.

It's such a fun concept.

I look forward to seeing how that continues in the future. We are

Talamasca series.

I love the Talamasca. I can't wait to see more Talamasca.

Are you ready, you filthy animals?

I think when he finds out that the Coven are holding Claudia and

Louis, accountable for his death. I think he can't not be there until he

the opportunity to come back and save Louis.

Monsieur Lestat de Leoncourt.

The man himself, Lestat, slowly comes from the corner of the stage.

This is something that the audience and all of us, frankly, shooting the show,

had been waiting for for the whole season. Lestat on that stage, Sam Reid

looking like a million bucks and being Lestat in all his glory.

You've returned to Paris because?

I have a box at Roland Garros for the men's doubles. I'm going to join the

Australians if they win.

Any day where Sam is there is a good day for me.

We do the play with the live audience and it's quite an electric feeling

actually. It's really fun.

For Louis, he doesn't know if he's really there because he's been seeing

frequently. Ned had all the hallmarks of a hallucination, but no, he was real.

He also hates him a little bit because he's responsible for what's happened to

them. But he kind of like falls in love again a little bit.

I will always be sorry for what I did to you.

I was not worthy of the forgiveness you would give me.

It's complicated.

Lestat's physical presence is sort of the final nail in the coffin, if you

What should happen to Louis and Claudia?

It's their turn to hurt.

A very special book for you to swear upon, Monsieur de Leoncourt.

One of the most important items in the show are Claudia's diaries.

Everyone is filled properly with what needs to be in the diaries.

It pertains to a lot of the dialogue. As the script developed, it was necessary

to change what was in the diaries.

All her diaries are displayed on stage for everyone to read. Santiago is

passages out.

I shall be your angel of death, Lestat.

Santiago finds out that Claudia and Louis have killed Lestat de Leoncourt,

maker, and he knows he has a way to kill them. And so this is the culmination of

that. Not much time left, Lestat.

Tick -tock, tick -tock.

At the heart of the trial is Lestat is back to kill them all.

Take us back to the beginning, if you will, of the story of butchery. It's a

story of love, not butchery.

What he's trying to do the whole time in play is control the audience.

It's quite a big feat to mind control that many people. So he knows if he's

going to save Louis, he's got to get in there, into the crowd all the time and

see how do I manipulate these people. Take my hand.

This is all me.

Or the vampire, Louis de Quant du Lac.

Guilty or not guilty.

And he does change their mind about Louis' sentencing.

Banishment. Banishment.

Banishment. Banishment! You were supposed to die with Claudia.

The revelation that Armand was actually the director of it is another cherry on

top. of his sort of manipulation and his sort of ruthlessness 77 years based on

a seismic lie

burning

the theater down physically was really difficult we put a layer of cement board

underneath all of our flooring so that even if our finishes were wood there was

something underneath it that was going to help with fire prevention in the

existing structure

There's something about a theater burning and all of these coffins in

of the vampires are asleep are burned and everybody is cremated. The end of

a coven.

Yeah, burn it down. Let them burn.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you to set aside your mortal biases and

remember that we are monsters.

The Claudia journey is the real tragedy of this season.

I feel like I get to pick one thing for myself, and it's

her. The truly lovely relationship that Delaney and Roxanne created between

Claudia and Madeline is so heartwarming and beautiful.

I'm the vampire Madeleine Parvieux.

And my immortal companion is Claudia.

Madeline gets asked the question, do you want to spend eternity with the coven

or do you pick Claudia?

Madeline picks Claudia.

And that is all Claudia's ever needed to hear is to be put first.

Her life ultimately has been a tragedy.

So death to her is just, she's like, bring it on.

If there is an afterlife, I'm going to come back and kill all of you.

I watched Claudia die over and over and over and over again.

We shot it for three days, and they're watching her die.

And obviously the progressions of the makeup that she went through, so by the

end, you know, she was just so disfigured. It was actually horrific.

We knew that the burn was going to start at one part and grow. The sculptors at

K &B sculpted these flat pieces. You just kind of do a patchwork.

Her last look to him, it was so heartbreaking.

He was crying.

I was trying really hard not to.

She will haunt him for the rest of his life.

This role has been life -changing for me. Filming with Jacob and Sam has been

euphoric for me. I was very happy that we got to give Claudia her full arc

because she's one of the most complex characters I've ever read.

Claudia is dead.

But my rage had risen.

Claudia represents Louis' last connection to this world.

He certainly avenges her death.

Claudia's death removed temporarily, I think, Louis' sense of humanity. He

starts to come to terms with who she was.

And like channel some of that ruthlessness and brutality and uses that

adventure. Okay, so what was the plan?

I was going to die.

And I was going to take as many of them with me as I could.

I am about to film my death.

Louis and I have been chasing each other and I pop out of the manhole cover and

he decapitates me. It's a great scene to film with a combination of stuntmen, me

and a fake head.

Luckily we had a head cast from a previous show we actually did with Ben

Daniels. I'm really glad I didn't have to do it again. It's so awful if you're

claustrophobic. You're encased in gel and plaster with just tiny holes through

your nostrils for 15 minutes.

Some sculptors sculpt the eyes open and gave him...

Kind of a slack jaw.

He's made of rubber, so he's pretty solid. It's really hard to destroy.

Just like Ben Daniel.

I just sent him a text about 20 minutes ago of me carrying his head and giving

it a little kiss on the nose.

Say that to Bob Claudio to my face.

The way I see it is that Louis puts his foot on Santiago's head because it's

like one final use of Santiago's human wit.

Please come home.

This was Magnus' lair.

We shot Magnus' lair at the sewer museum.

Yeah, we saw it in a real sewer.

And it was stinky.

Louis doesn't know at the time how much Lestat did to save Louis' life. Lestat

is quite surprised when he turns up with Armand and Louis blaming him for

Claudia's death.

Does it take a lot out of you?

Destroying everything in your wake?

He goes there and does the thing that he thinks will most destroy Lestat, which

is leave him for someone else.

This is how Louis is going to love Armand. He's out of spite to Lestat. But

feel bad for Armand as well.

I think it's a very powerful punishment to Lestat.

There's a very interesting dynamic between Lestat and Armand. Lestat has

piece of information that could make his whole world crumble. Louis didn't

realize that Lestat saved him.

Enjoy him.

Let's see how long it holds.

It's also a testament to Louis and Lestat's love, because Lestat probably

He'll work it out. He'll come back to me.

It takes him a really long time, but he does.

We're shooting a Creole cottage exterior in New Orleans, and this is the

interior of the set.

It looks very down and dirty and dilapidated, but we have to simulate a

hurricane outside of the set. So we've been working with special effects.

There's actually plumbing all throughout the house so that the roof leaks, the

shutters rattle, glass is going to break. All sorts of things are happening

trembling. So this is actually a very technical set, even though it looks like

dump.

Hello, Louie.

Is that thing true?

The reconciliation of Astarte and Louis, it went through quite a few different

iterations.

Shall we list all the ways we have wronged each other and why it will never

right between monstrous? I came to thank you.

And I love that we landed on this idea of like a thank you.

I can't get it out of my mind. Not all of you.

Do you hear me?

In that embrace, I see them forgiving each other.

And I think that's quite beautiful.

So much time.

was wasted.

Luckily, they've got forever, potentially.

And then the silent bit, there's something very beautiful about just

these two characters the knowledge of what their love and what their

relationship and who they are to each other is just for themselves.

Action!

The day before I got the offer to play this role...

I was thinking to myself, what was left that I wanted to do with my life? And

there was one character that I had not played yet, which was a vampire.

Armand has never made a vampire. He hasn't forsaken a human being into the

of a vampire.

It's pure rage kill. The thing to me with Anne Rice's vampires is that you're

like stuck with yourself, right? But he's still Daniel Malloy. He's just a

sharper version of Daniel Malloy. He can become more vital.

And I think that extra energy powers up his acerbic, pugnacious personality.

I'm guessing you haven't heard from my maker.

No. Math.

I would personally consider Louis and Daniel friends.

Daniel has become like an annoying little brother to Louis.

I shouldn't have left you alone with him.

Make it up to me.

We'll do a follow -up book.

Me and Louis have been on a real journey together this season.

We've been able to spend 15 episodes on this first book, and we've been able to

put a bow on it. I hope Anne Rice is looking down and being like, you've

Claudia. You've given her her full art, as she deserves.

Cut. Cut. Thank you. Here we go. Now we're going to launch into something

I'm hoping I get to learn to be a better vampire.

We're going to go exploring together.

What's next?

I'm more interested in where he's come from.

That's what I'm curious about.

I don't really know what my future is yet.

And season three, I'm not sure how much of this I'm allowed to talk about. It's

mouth -watering for what's to come.

Everyone's in for real trouble.