Interview with the Vampire star teases ‘musical’ season three

Interview With the Vampire actor Sam Reid has shared tantalising teasers for season three.

The 38-year-old Australian actor, who plays Lestat de Lioncourt in the AMC fantasy drama, admitted the upcoming third season is “pretty wild”.

“I can’t really believe we’re doing it. Sometimes I’m like, ‘What the hell?!'” he said.

Season three of the show, which is set to premiere in 2026, will cover The Vampire Lestat, the second novel in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series.

While the first two seasons follow Louis de Pointe du Lac, played by Jacob Anderson, the third will follow Lestat as he becomes a famous rock star, complete with musical numbers, according to Reid.

“Lestat has an intention to express his views and his experience through music, music videos, and recordings, and all this kind of stuff,” he says. “They are finding a wonderful, cool way to weave that through a lot of the denser parts.”

Born in the 1700s, the 264-year-old vampire first appears in the debut episode of the AMC series where he meets Louis after travelling to New Orleans.

A diva by all accounts, Reid says the character’s flamboyant attitude shines in season three, telling Entertainment Weekly: “A rock star is no more different than an actor on the 18th century stage – it’s just the same thing in different periods.”

Asked about the musical numbers, Reid said he had been working with the show’s composer, Daniel Hart, to perfect the bold rock star persona, adding that it was no easy feat.

“I’ve been with him working with him on the songs first,” he said. “It’s been a really interesting way to approach a character, by coming in through the music to start with before we had any scripts.

“Lestat is a bit of a mercurial character himself, and there’s something very interesting about a character who would love to play a symphony as well as a David Bowie song.”

Reid assured fans that the songs would be all rock, saying he believed there to be something “inherently vampiric” about rock music, despite believing it’s not the “flavour of the month” in terms of popular music today.

“There’s something about harking back to sounds that might feel from different periods, but also trying to bring them back into the now and the contemporary, but also tie them into his own personal journey,” he said.

“At the end of the day, Lestat is a musician that writes from personal experience.”