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Interview with the Vampireseason 3 crashed into the public eye in spectacular fashion atSan Diego Comic-Conwith its new trailer, showing Daniel exploding mysteriously into a coughing fit. In what is surely one of thebiggest trailer drops at SDCC, the trailer shows offInterview with the Vampireseason 3’s new rockumentary aesthetic, in line with the storyline of the book it is adapting -The Vampire Lestat. The second book inThe Vampire Chronicles, this novel followed Lestat becoming a rock star.Daniel is interviewing Lestat in the trailerwhen he starts coughing.
Daniel didn’t interview Lestat in the books, but this move keeps Eric Bogosian’s mercurial Daniel where he should be - front and center. It also doesn’t change the meaning of the book - Lestat will tell his side of the story in the show, just like he did in the book.Daniel’s coughing fit after he asks Lestat a question in the trailer raises important questionsaboutInterview with the Vampireseason 3. Armand made Daniel a vampire at the end of season 2, imbuing him with superhuman health and strength, effectively saving him from Parkinson’s, so his ill health is mysterious.
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Maybe Daniel Interviewed Lestat Before Armand Made Him A Vampire
Season 3 Will Reveal The Real Order Of Events
Interview with the Vampireseason 2ended with the shock revelation that was the vampire Daniel Molloy, but perhaps Daniel’s ill health in the season 3 trailer is taking place prior to his turning. Book readers may not have been expecting the vampire Daniel until seasons 3 or 4, if at all. The development promised more inclusion of Daniel’s canonical storyline with Armand, although Armand turned Daniel at the end of this storyline. Since the show is playing fast and loose with canonical timelines, it could reveal thatDaniel is still human during the events of the trailer.
It’s not clear what happened at the end of season 2 in Dubai, after Louis and Armand argued and Louis left. It’s uncertain how much time elapsed between these events andArmand turning Daniel"out of spite". In the last few scenes of season 2, clearly a long time has passed since Louis and Armand’s argument in Dubai, because Daniel has had enough time to polish Louis' story and get it published. That could have taken months, andDaniel could have interviewed Lestat as an ailing humanin this time, which may be what the season 3 trailer shows.
Interview With The Vampire Season 3 Could Change Vampire Lore
The Vampire Daniel Molloy Could Be Ill
Becoming a vampire inAnne Rice’sThe Vampire Chroniclesleads to immortality and its related suite of superhuman abilities, butmaybe Daniel is still suffering from Parkinsons’s or some kind of unknown vampire illnessin the trailer. If the season 3 trailer does follow chronologically on from the last events shown in season 2, Daniel is already a vampire at this point, but perhaps becoming a vampire didn’t cure him completely. Parkinson’s couldn’t kill him as a vampire, but perhaps season 3 will explore the dangers of turning someone “out of spite” - badly, cruelly, haphazardly, or incorrectly.
Interview with the Vampireseason 3 is expected to come out at some point in 2025.
Becoming a vampire does have a healing power. Armand turned Daniel in the books to save him from madness, and the show seems to be following this logic too, as Lestat and Louis turned Claudia in the show to save her from her burns. If the vampire Daniel is still ailing, perhaps the show will be altering this lore to have Daniel still suffering from some symptoms of Parkinson’s, or some kind of mutated vampire version of this illness. The books suggest thatpoorly made vampires may become zombie-like beasts- perhaps Armand turned Daniel incorrectly with this spiteful intention.
Lestat Is Likely Choking Daniel In The Interview With The Vampire Season 3 Trailer
The Real Reason For Daniel’s Coughing Fit Is In Font Of Him
The sadism of Armand turning Daniel into a botched vampire seems cruel, even for him, leaving the most likely explanation for Daniel’s coughing fit right in front of him. If parts of Daniel and Armand’s “Devil’s Minion” storyline is upcoming in the show, as Jones mentioned it would be toTheWrap,any spite from Armand to Daniel probably wouldn’t extend as far as condemning him to zombiehood. Lestat, on the other hand, is more than capable of spite towards Daniel.
Just as the interview starts in theInterview with the Vampireseason 3 trailer, Daniel asks Lestat what he thinks of his book,Interview with the Vampire, the write-up of his incendiary interview with Louis. Although more nuanced than his portrayal of Lestat in the ’70s when he first spoke to Daniel, Louis' tell-all in this book still paints a challenging portrait of Lestat. In canon, Lestat was displeased with the book. It looks likeLestat’s response to Daniel’s question is telepathically making him coughand retch, telling Daniel all he needs to know about his feelings on the book.
Interview with the Vampireseasons 1 and 2 are available to stream on AMC+ and season 1 will be available on Netflix from August 19.
Lestat is known to have a wide range of vampiric gifts, which seasons 1 and 2 started exploring. Lestat is more than capable of controlling the bodies of others, as seen in season 1 when he walked a whole team of soldiers out of his home via mind control.Lestat’s season 3 storywill see him embracing the 21st century as a rock and roll diva, and he was a diva even before that, so choking Daniel to answer an interview question, in reasonably good humor, seems as Lestat as it comes.
Interview with the Vampire
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Based on Anne Rice’s novel series that began in 1976, Interview with the Vampire is a gothic horror fantasy series that explores the life of Louis de Pointe du Lac through an interview with a journalist. Told through flashbacks of Louis' life during the interview, the series examines Louis' relationship with the vampire that turned him, Lestat de Lioncourt, and a teenage girl named Claudia, whom he turns. The series is the first of Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe media franchise.
