This article contains spoilers from Anne RicesVAMPIRE CHRONICLESnovels.
The ancient vampire wont lighten the historical weight buried in cryptic footnotes covered in blood.
The contemporary talks are set in Prague, but recent clips extend grand theatrical overtures.
Anne Rices Interview with the Vampireseason 2will open with a new Parisian location, and fresh blood.
AMCs playbill says the part of Claudia has been recast with Delainey Hayles.
Roxane Duran joins as the dollmaker Madeleine, a tragic figure with worse pains to suffer.
The latest trailer also features a new, albeit secondary, antagonist, Santiago (Ben Daniels).
Interview with The Vampireseason 1 dropped the curtain on Louis maker and loverin a rushed farewell.
The latest trailer teases a command performance.
Lestat and Santiago share a past, and a love of high drama.
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What Is the Theatre des Vampires?
He was the vampire; I seemed the mirror, Louis later recounts.
Louis derides his new acquaintance as a buffoon, much like most park-goers would brand a street mime.
But Santiago is no clown.
Theatre des Vampires may mock conventions, but believes the code.
Vampires do not kill vampires, unless theyve killed a vampire.
The troupe are a coven, or a decadent cult of infinite desires and endless last suppers.
They also want to put fangs in throats, and other plasma-rich body parts.
It takes more than usual party snacks to appease the more jaded libertine appetites.
European vampires are older, more powerful, and more dangerous than their remorseful American counterparts.
The Eastern European vampires are called revenants, because they are unrecognizable ghosts of former selves.
Who Is Santiago?
Santiagos extended history is shrouded in last moment rewrites and fatal improvisations.
He was enormous in height though gaunt as myself, Louis remembers inInterview with the Vampire.
Santiago is younger than Armand, who is 400 years old and lived his mortal life during the Renaissance.
Louis doesnt recognize what he sees in Santiago until it is too late.
Viewers should expect Santiago to be bloodthirsty, vindictive, petty, and manipulative.
He will prove how vampires should be as careful with scythes as they are with stakes.
The venal thespian is also a master trickster.
The veteran mentalist of stage and scene picks up mental remnants about a vampire from Louis past.
The bulk of season 2 will be about Santiago finding the truth to this story.
But Louis left Lestat alive, balking at the truth when confronted by Claudia.
In the book, Santiago suspects the newly emigrated vampires killed their creator, and his suspicions become obsessions.
This will lead to what promises to be a major conflagration of a season closer.
If faithful to the book, theInterview with the Vampireseason 2 finale will change Louis fundamentally.
Interview with the Vampire season 2 premieres on AMC and AMC+ on May 12.
