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Sam Reid takes center stage in the new season, which is officially titled &34;The Vampire Lestat.&34; When does Interview With the Vampire season 3 come out? Al

Sam Reid takes center stage in the new season, which is officially titled "The Vampire Lestat."

When does Interview With the Vampire season 3 come out? All about Lestat's pivot to rock stardom

Sam Reid takes center stage in the new season, which is officially titled "The Vampire Lestat."

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Sam Reid as Lestat in 'Interview With the Vampire' season 3. Credit:

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- *Interview With the Vampire* season 3 will officially be titled *The Vampire Lestat*.

- Sam Reid's Lestat will share his side of the story while finding stardom as a rock icon.

- Season 3 is slated to arrive in 2026.

Lestat is ready for his close-up.

After two seasons spent with Jacob Anderson's Louis de Pointe du Lac, AMC's series is shifting its focus to Sam Reid's Lestat de Lioncourt. This new perspective is so momentous that the series is changing its name from* Interview With the Vampire *to* The Vampire Lestat, *the same name as Anne Rice's 1985 novel about Lestat's rise to rock stardom.

Season 3, which is slated to premiere in 2026, arrives amid an exciting period of expansion for the franchise. Following the success of *Interview With the Vampire*, the network has embraced Rice's expansive bibliography, building its interconnected Immortal Universe, which includes series such as *Mayfair Witches* and *Talamasca: The Secret Order*.

Excited as fans are to see Reid's lethal Lestat writhe beneath the spotlight, they also have questions. Does *The Vampire Lestat* still have room for Louis and the series' supporting cast? How faithful is it to the book? And, perhaps most importantly, when does it come out?

Read on for everything we know so far about *Interview With the Vampire* season 3.**

Will there be a season 3 of Interview With the Vampire?

Sam Reid as Lestat in 'Interview With the Vampire' season 3.

Sophie Giraud/AMC

Yes, AMC renewed *Interview With a Vampire* for a third season in June 2024, just before the season 2 finale.

"When you buy the rights to 18 Anne Rice novels that have sold more than 150 million copies, in your wildest dreams you hope there's a show as good as *Interview *on the other end," Dan McDermott, AMC Studios head, said in a press release. "What [showrunner] Rolin [Jones] has done with these stories and characters... as the steward of this universe, has exceeded the loftiest version of our expectations. We can't wait to see where this creative team takes the series from here and know we are walking alongside an incredibly loyal and passionate base of fans who feel as strongly about this material as we do."**

What is Interview With the Vampire season 3 about?

Sam Reid rocks out as Lestat in 'Interview With the Vampire' season 3.

Sophie Giraud/AMC

Season 3 of *Interview With the Vampire* will shift perspectives, with Lestat taking center stage following the publication of *Interview With the Vampire*, the "fictional memoir" Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) penned with the help of Louis. Lestat, as you might imagine, is not pleased with how he's depicted.

"In season three, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller* Interview With The Vampire*, the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can — by starting a band and going on tour," reads the season's official logline. What follows is a "sexy pilgrimage across space, time, and trauma," with the events of the first two seasons being revisited from Lestat's perspective.

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His perspective is key, as Jones, the showrunner, made it clear to EW in a season 2 postmortem that the only scene featuring "the real Lestat" was in that season's finale, when Lestat and Louis reunited in New Orleans. Otherwise, Jones clarified, Reid has only been able to play Lestat as he exists in the minds of others.

"I don't think we should ever try and say that Louis is a liar or unreliable — he's remembered things that are perfectly valid," Reid told ** in July. "But I don't think that Lestat has the same intention to tell his story as Louis has. He's not trying to necessarily unpack something that might be wound in his head incorrectly. Lestat is much more aware of the structures in which the storytelling might or might not take place."

He continued, noting how Lestat aims to tell his own version of the events via "music, music videos, and recordings," adding that the creative team behind the series is "finding a wonderful, cool way to weave that through a lot of the denser parts."**

Is* Interview With the Vampire* season 3 a musical?

Sam Reid as Lestat in 'Interview With the Vampire'.

Sophie Giraud/AMC

*Interview With the Vampire* season 3 is not a musical in the traditional sense, though Reid told EW that he sings quite a lot in the upcoming episodes, which will feature original songs penned by composer Daniel Hart.

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"I've been with him working with him on the songs first," Reid 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. Trying to work out the character's arcs through the songs has been an adventure in itself."

Jones also spoke with EW about incorporating the songs into the drama. "What you didn't want is songs just dropped in," he said. "Quite often, we would build scenes and story arcs around songs that Daniel wrote and said, 'I think Lestat would have sang this' ... He's on a rock tour, so songs will be sung. A lot of them are on-camera performed, and then a lot of them are tied to memories that we have, and sometimes we get super weird with them. And sometimes they're wallpaper, too, for storytelling."**

Who's returning for* Interview With the Vampire* season 3?

Sam Reid as Lestat and Jacob Anderson as Louis in 'Interview With the Vampire' season 2.

Larry Horricks/AMC

Reid will lead season 3 of *Interview With the Vampire* (ahem, *The Vampire Lestat*), but that doesn't mean Anderson's Louis will be left in the dust. That said, he may manifest in ways you don't expect. Since we're getting Lestat's side of the story, Louis will be rendered as he exists through the eyes of Lestat.**

"Sam worked really hard for two years as a supporting actor, and I think Jacob is very excited to do the same thing for him, and put Sam front and center," Jones told EW. "We've just scratched the surface with Sam, who's an incredible actor."

According to the synopsis, season 3 will also see appearances from Bogosian's Molloy, as well as ancient vampire Armand (Assad Zaman) and Raglan James (Justin Kirk), the Talamasca member who's also set to appear on *Talamasca: The Secret Order*.

At the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con, it was also announced that Delainey Hayles would reprise her role as Claudia, the (doomed) teenager who becomes a surrogate daughter to Louis and Lestat.

Who's joining the cast of Interview With the Vampire season 3?

Sam Reid as Lestat in 'Interview With the Vampire' season 3.

Sophie Giraud/AMC

Several key characters from *The Vampire Chronicles* will debut in season 3, the most notable of which is Lestat's mother, Gabrielle, who is here named Gabriella and played by Jennifer Ehle (*Lioness*).

"She's coming in like an asteroid in season 3," Jones said at Comic-Con. "She's about to destroy everything in her wake."

Season 3 will also see the arrival of Magnus, a key figure from Lestat's past, played by Damien Atkins (*Slings & Arrows*). Christopher Heyerdahl (*Peacemaker*), meanwhile, will play the Roman vampire Marius, a fixture of Rice's book series.

Also joining the cast are Ella Ballentine (*The Dark and the Wicked*) and Jeanine Serralles (*Apples Never Fall*) as Baby Jenks and Christine Claire, respectively.**

Is there a Interview With the Vampire season 3 trailer?

As of this writing, there's no official trailer for* Interview With the Vampire *season 3, though AMC *did* drop a teaser teasing Lestat's life as a rock icon.

In the clip, which sees Reid's Lestat singing and sawing a violin, fans are treated to a brief snippet of Lestat's anthemic music.

Reid, meanwhile, says that Lestat is "living a rockstar life in its most hedonistic, authentic way," adding, "Right now, he wants to be completely engulfed in the music. It lights a fire in him."

Is there an Interview With the Vampire season 3 release date?

AMC has yet to announce an exact release date for *Interview With the Vampire* season 3, but it's currently slated to arrive in 2026.**

Where can I watch Interview With a Vampire?

Jacob Anderson as Louis and Delainey Hayles as Claudia in 'Interview With the Vampire' season 2.

Larry Horricks/AMC

*Interview With the Vampire* seasons 1 and 2 are currently available to stream on AMC+ and Netflix.**

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