The vampires are back in town because AMC has given us a release date for the re-titled Interview with the Vampire Season 3 with The Vampire Lestat.
AMC has confirmed that Season 3 will be released on Sunday, June 7, and new episodes will air on AMC and stream on AMC+.
Just as the name suggests, The Vampire Lestat will be shifting the spotlight onto Lestat de Lioncourt as he takes on the role of a global rockstar. We can expect Lestat shredding absolute bars on Fender guitars and ghosts from Lestat’s past.
The Vampire Lestat release date, streaming details, and what Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire is all about
AMC has confirmed that The Vampire Lestat will be released on Sunday, June 7. The episodes will air on AMC and stream on AMC+.
Season 3 takes a very different direction if we compare it to the earlier ones. Lestat de Lioncourt takes up the role of him being a sexy and hot global rockstar, and he is expected to go on a huge tour across many cities. His fame reaches its peak, and that very fame starts to pull both humans and vampires toward him.
The synopsis for Season 3 reads:
“In the upcoming 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. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, 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.”
AMC has also released a new musical track from the show titled All Fall Down, performed by Sam Reid (Lestat de Lioncourt) and written by Daniel Hart.
In an in-character marketing campaign for the release of Lestat’s second musical single, All Fall Down Lestat jokingly said,
” ‘All Fall Down’ is mercifully only 68 seconds long. That’s 54 seconds more Daniel Hart than anyone should suffer. I like the harmonies on the chorus. I did those.”
Hart then explained the song’s tone and said,
“[It] marks a time in this vampire band’s life when they were still figuring out exactly what their sound was… we tried to capture the overall feeling of this new Lestat… more wild, more raw, more self-deprecatingly funny than ever before.”
The Vampire Lestat cast list and what Season 3 will explore
Many known cast members will be making a comeback for The Vampire Lestat, along with new and important characters who have been pulled right out of Anne Rice’s books.
The main and returning cast for The Vampire Lestat includes:
- Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt
- Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac
- Assad Zaman as Armand
- Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy
- Delainey Hayles as Claudia
- Jennifer Ehle as Gabriella
The new cast member add-ons for The Vampire Lestat include:
- Ella Ballentine as Baby Jenks
- Jeanine Serralles as Christine Claire
- Christopher Heyerdahl as Marius
- Damien Atkins as Magnus
- Noah Reid as a member of Lestat’s band
Jennifer Ehle’s character Gabriella is also expected to play a major role in Season 3.
Rolin Jones told TV Insider,
“In my head, other than Lestat, [Gabrielle is] the central character of Season 3. The most important character.”
Season 3 will also look at Lestat’s origins, including stories that have been set in the 1700s. During the SDCC 2025 panel, Sam Reid told the crowd,
“We are going to the past…It’s not all rock star. It is the 1700s, and everything you want to see.”
Jacob Anderson also hinted at Louis’s mindset after the events of the previous season. Speaking about the character, he said,
“He’s not happy about the book…at all. He’s diversifying himself. He has new avenues of revenue. He’s living his full vampire self. But things can’t ever stay good for Louis.”
The Vampire Lestat marks a really big change creatively for the Interview with the Vampire series. Instead of just continuing the same story, AMC has decided to lean into Anne Rice’s second novel while bending the AMC show around Lestat himself.
The series will premiere on June 7, and it will introduce us to a more fun, louder, and darker version of Lestat, who is now a rock star with a lot of flashbacks to the 1700s.
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Edited by Priscillah Mueni