Interview With the Vampire has changed its name to The Vampire Lestat for Season 3, but some things, like Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat’s (Sam Reid) obsession with each other, never change. A new Vampire Lestat sneak peek teases a reunion between these former lovers (see above).
AMC shared new plot details about Season 3 on February 13, when it released Lestat’s first song, “Long Face,” as a single on streaming services.
“In the new rock and roll-centric season, the Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by ‘muses’ from his wild and rebellious past,” the new description reads. “As his band’s popularity and star power rise, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.”
In the video above, fans see Lestat with Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) during their ongoing interview for a documentary about the vampire rockstar, which is his response to Daniel’s book with Louis.
“You and Louis talking again?” Daniel asks on Lestat’s tour bus. Lestat looks up from his phone with a mischievous look and doesn’t reply. Fans on social media already think that he’s texting Louis in that moment.
The teaser also shows a previously shared look at Louis covered in blood, plus new looks at Jennifer Ehle as Lestat’s mother, Gabriella, and more. Here, we’re breaking down all of the latest updates on the upcoming musical season.
When does The Vampire Lestat premiere?
The third season of the Emmy-nominated drama will premiere in Summer 2026, TV Insider has confirmed with AMC. An exact premiere date will be announced at a later time.
Is there a Vampire Lestat trailer?
Yes! The first trailer for The Vampire Lestat was shown to fans in the San Diego Comic-Con 2025 panel audience, and then it was officially released after the New York Comic Con panel in October. In addition to the first looks at Delainey Hayles and Assad Zaman and other returning and new characters in Season 3, it shows Louis and Lestat in some kind of legal meeting.
The trailer reveals that Daniel is directing a documentary about Lestat, inspired by the memoir of his time with Louis, so the meeting could be about that. But Lestat is just using this time to pick apart information about Louis’ relationship with Armand (the girls are fighting).
In the teaser below, released on Lestat’s birthday (November 7), the rocker has notes for Daniel’s decor.
“This is the kind of room that old people grab you by the hand and say, ‘Do not let me die here,’” the brat prince (his nickname from the Anne Rice books) says while smoking a cigarette and preparing for his closeup.
Reid plops down on a leather chair, wearing a velvet shirt, striped pants, and sunglasses in the teaser above. Channeling the first teaser, which debuted at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, Lestat complains about an ugly lamp and an invasive fern on the set of his interview with Daniel. He’s smoking a cigarette indoors because no one can tell him not to. In the first teaser, he was offended by a goblet on a table. (Reid broke down that first look with us earlier this year.)
“Oh, what is that lamp? And the fern? No, no,” he whines. “I enter a room, with that fern, and I do not enter.” Jot that down.
Daniel is heard asking for the fern to be removed as the teaser ends.
Why is Interview With the Vampire now called The Vampire Lestat?
Creator Rolin Jones announced to fans at SDCC this summer that Interview With the Vampire has officially been renamed The Vampire Lestat. Their reason for the change is the fact that they’re adapting The Vampire Lestat novel in the third season, so they’re calling the show by its book name. They’ll presumably do this if/when they adapt book three in The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned, and so on.
How many episodes are in The Vampire Lestat?
There’s no episode count yet, but Season 1 was seven episodes and Season 2 was eight, so expect a similar episode count for Season 3.
The series hasn’t revealed if it’s covering the entire plot of The Vampire Lestat book in Season 3 or if it’s being split into two parts like Interview With the Vampire. But with the inclusion of QOTD characters such as Akasha (Sheila Atim) and Baby Jenks (Ella Ballentine), they’re already starting to bring plot from the next book into the story.
Writer/executive producer Hannah Moscovitch also revealed at New York Comic Con 2025 that they’re pulling from book six, The Vampire Armand, this season as well.
What happens in The Vampire Lestat?
As shown in the first teaser at SDCC in July 2024, Lestat (Reid) is going to have a brand new look in the third season. Jones shared during an ATX panel this summer that there are at least 16 songs from composer Daniel Hart for the musical season, Lestat’s tour will have 50 stops, and Season 3 will pick up around stop 33 on that tour. The tour will be Lestat’s response to Louis and Daniel’s Interview With the Vampire memoir.
The clapperboard features new key art depicting music notes chaotically clustered and cascading into lines that look ready to fuel a rockstar’s long night of partying. That art is paired with the band’s fang-like VL logo from the Lestat teaser (get more details on how it was made here).
The clapperboard also reveals that Craig Zisk is directing the Season 3 premiere. Zisk directed Interview With the Vampire Season 2 Episode 1, “What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned,” and Episode 5, “Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape.” David Tattersall is the cinematographer for the Season 3 premiere. He also worked on the very first episode, plus Episodes 2, 5, and 6 in Season 1 and Season 2 Episodes 3, 4, and 8.
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Playing with perspective is a core piece of this show’s design as the vampires reflect on their centuries of existence. Seasons 1 and 2 centered on Louis’ perspective, and now Season 3 will shift to Lestat’s as he tells his life story. With a new vampire at the helm of storytelling will come a new aesthetic for the show’s overall look. Jones told TheWrap in June that “you should imagine that aesthetically, and just the way the show feels, and moves, will feel like Lestat just hijacked the show. You will not feel like a 148-year-old guy talking to a 78-year-old guy anymore. That’s not happening.”
Louis is still going to play an important role in Season 3. “I’m not putting Jacob Anderson in a corner,” Jones promised in our Season 2 finale interview. “The next turn, center stage, is Lestat, but I don’t think we’re going to be pushing Louis to the side like he is in those books. I don’t think Louis, as we leave him, is going to be this guy who is suffering as much. Actually, I think he’s maybe beginning his legitimate vampire experience there at the end.”
“Don’t worry about it,” Jones added about Louis to TheWrap. “What they should worry about is, if those people expect to see the same show, that’s never gonna happen. We’re going to go just as aggressively, Lestat front and center.”
Louis has new sources of revenue in Season 3. While Anderson can’t say much about Louis’ new business ventures, he told us at New York Comic Con that the vampire has found a way to commodify vampiric existence. In a way, Lestat is doing the same with his music. Learn more in our interview with Anderson, Reid, and Moscovitch here. The actors discuss how Lestat’s music impacts Louis and Lestat’s relationship here.
Who is in The Vampire Lestat cast?
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Season 1 focused on Louis, Lestat, and Claudia in New Orleans. Season 2 centered on Louis and Claudia in Paris, along with Armand and his theatrical coven. Louis has been telling the story for the first two seasons. In Season 3, it’s Lestat’s turn, but Louis won’t be absent.
As Jones said he is “not putting Jacob Anderson in a corner,” Johnson added in our same finale interview, “The last line [of Season 2] is Louis saying, ‘I own the night.’ That is not an exit line.”
The Season 3 description says that the characters played by Anderson, Reid, Zaman, Bogosian, Joseph Potter (Nicholas), Justin Kirk (Raglan James, who will be seen in Talamasca Season 1 Episode 4), Chris Geary (Sam Barclay), and Gopal Divan (Dr. Fareed from Season 1) will be in the third season. Additional cast members were announced at San Diego and New York Comic Con.
Hayles will be back as Claudia (who appears in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment in The Vampire Lestat trailer). Here’s the rest of the new cast and characters:
The singer Moses Sumney is also featured in the trailer below, but AMC hasn’t revealed who he’s playing. Based on his nails and contact lenses, we know he’s playing a vampire.
The other shows in AMC’s Anne Rice Immortal Universe are Mayfair Witches and Talamasca. Mayfair Witches Season 3 started filming on October 14 and is expected to premiere in 2026. Talamasca aired from October 26 through November 23 and is still awaiting renewal.
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