AMC’s Interview with the Vampire keeps the spirit of Anne Rice’s original but with some major updates.
This article contains spoilers forInterview with the Vampireseason 1.
Here are some of the biggest changes made to Louis and beyond.
In the novel, the interviewer isnt even named.
50 years later, hes been asked to redo the conversation to fully get the facts straight.
This major shake-up of the storys set-up is one of the shows most interesting changes.
The dynamic between Claudia and her adoptive fathers is also very different.
Like Louis, Claudia is now also Black and experiences the racism of the era alongside him.
But like her novel counterpart, Claudia is still cunning and its she who pushes Louis to kill Lestat.
It also sets up a whole load of questions for season two: why was he in disguise?
Is he actually Louis great love?
What happened between the pair between meeting Daniel in the 70s and now?
All answers are given in the next season, so stay tuned for that arriving on Netflix!
