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Lestat Debuts a Rocking New Track in Epic Look at ‘Interview with the Vampire’s Long-Awaited Return [Exclusive]

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Are you ready for The Vampire Lestat‘s big tour? In anticipation of Interview with the Vampire‘s return for Season 3 on AMC and AMC+, the titular creature of the night, played by Sam Reid, has been hard at work preparing for his ascendance to rock godhood, releasing not one, but two new tracks to whet viewers’ appetites for this next chapter. First came “Long Face,” a very David Bowie-inspired glam rock track that leans into the energy of other artists of the 1970s, followed by “All Fall Down,” the official opening theme for the upcoming season. Now, we’re excited to collaborate with the immortal rockstar as part of Collider’s Exclusive Summer Preview series and share a peek at a new single from his discography.

Lestat’s latest is one of the 20 original songs composed by IWTV‘s acclaimed composer Daniel Hart and sung by Reid for this rock-centric season. Compared to the previously released tracks, it’s also a showcase of how the vampire artist evolves throughout the season with a more modern sound. It’s accompanied by a video hyping a bloody takeover of the stage that will highlight his inner diva and leave a lot of bodies in his wake. Like Bowie, he’s about to go on a musical journey with an ever-evolving sound based on some of the most flamboyant rock stars to ever live, only with a lot more violence. Any fans lucky enough to have gotten tickets to The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only – LIVE will even get to hear some of his songs performed in-person in preparation for the musically inclined season.

The change to the title The Vampire Lestat was made to mark the shift to adapting Anne Rice‘s sequel novel of the same name, published in 1985. This time, Lestat will sit in the position once occupied by his former lover, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), telling his “truth” to Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) in a way only he can. Said story follows him on a multi-city tour as his power and influence over humans and vampires alike grow to epic proportions with the popularity of his band, though he’s tormented by the muses he can’t outrun from his past. His newfound status as a rock icon also draws the attention of other beings seeking to contend with him in the wake of the Great Conversion that unnaturally boosted the vampire population. Through it all, viewers will get to see Lestat at his absolute pinnacle and witness as he’s forced to reckon with his actions.

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‘The Vampire Lestat’ Will Be the Wildest Chapter of the Series Yet

Between the rocking tunes, the new era, and the shift to the diva that is Lestat as the new storyteller, The Vampire Lestat will be a complete transformation for the AMC hit. In an interview with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff during San Diego Comic-Con last year, series creator and showrunner Rolin Jones warned viewers may get a bit of “whiplash” from the first two Louis-focused seasons. “It’s going to be on the back of Lestat living like Lestat, embracing like Lestat. It’ll be contradictory and hallucinogenic and strange and wild.” Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles, and Jennifer Ehle are among the other returning cast members with Reid, Anderson, and Bogosian, while Sheila Atim, Noah Reid, Ryan Kattner, Seamus Patterson, and Sarah Swire will make their IWTV debut.

To ensure the songs were completely intertwined with the story, Jones and Hart worked closely together, with Hart even co-writing an episode. For Reid, it was an entirely new experience seeing the project unfold over time and witnessing how each track fit into the context of Season 3 as he was learning to perform all of them. He told Nemiroff:

“The thing that has changed this year, for Lestat, is the music. Getting music before getting a script is a real mind-bleep, because I’d never done that before. It was a really complicated way to start a character, because without context, music is incredibly subjective. But also, how do you connect? ‘What is the context of this?’ I kept saying this, ‘Where did this come from? Why is he doing this?’ Then slowly, as the context came in… But I’m having to learn these songs, we’re having to record them, and poor Daniel was being incredibly patient, like, ‘It’s this, and this, and this.’ I was like, ‘I need to know!’ [Laughs] But then, as this context comes in, they open up, and you just see how incredibly brilliant this music actually is. It’s just that I was naive to being able to fully understand it, but I had to learn the mathematics of the songs, which are incredibly complex. Daniel Hart’s an incredibly talented songwriter and musician, and he writes gigantic songs. They are mega, mega songs. Rolin also writes mega texts, but I’ve been used to that. It’s been a big change, but super fun.”

Interview with the Vampire Season 3, The Vampire Lestat, premieres on AMC and AMC+ on June 7. Check out the new teaser above and visit Lestat’s official artist page on Spotify, Apple Music, and more to follow along as new songs drop throughout the season. Stay tuned here at Collider as well for more exciting looks at the latest in television and film from our summer preview event throughout the coming weeks.


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Release Date

October 2, 2022

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Directors

Levan Akin, Alan Taylor, Craig Zisk, Emma Freeman, Keith Powell

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Writers

Jonathan Ceniceroz, Coline Abert, Eleanor Burgess, Ben Philippe

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