“This is a really toxic relationship, but there’s so much love and desire and tension.
It’s not a sexual tension because we get that out of the way quite quickly.
“It’s an ever-changing relationship that seems to fall into these cycles,” Anderson says.
Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt and Jacob Anderson as Louis De Point Du Lac in ‘Interview With the Vampire’.Alfonso Bresciani/AMC
“It’s like they change a little bit, but become more the same each time.
They don’t really seem to learn very much.”
“They’re in a romantic relationship.
Anderson quips that the series is “essentially about a married couple slamming doors on each other.
The beauty of it is that nothing really goes unexplored.”
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you two first meet?
JACOB ANDERSON:The first time we met was virtually, like this.
It must have been a relief to finally meet in person, then.
ANDERSON:Yeah, it was weird.
It was a really strange way to do that process.
Just talking about logistics and stuff like that.
There was a bit of back and forth.
He was always making quite different faces.
REID:[Laughs] I also have photographs of Jacob too.
I was like, “Oh, this guy’s interesting.”
ANDERSON:[Laughs] Exactly, but you made a very good first impression.
I was like, “This guy’s brave, he’s sending me videos.
This is how I’m seeing Lestat de Lioncourt for the first time.”
How did your first in-person meeting go?
REID:We were in New Orleans quite early, almost a month before filming began.
We first met in person in a rehearsal room.
ANDERSON:I’ll tell you where we met we met in a corridor.
We spent the whole day walking around together.
REID:We went to Jackson Square.
We went to the house that we’d be filming in a lot.
We walked around Louis Armstrong Park.
Then we went to a vampire boutique.
ANDERSON:Yeah, we did!
We both bought vampire candles.
REID:It was so much fun.
And then I lit mine and you didn’t.
ANDERSON:I wanted to make it ceremonial.
I was like, “Should we light our candles tonight?”
I thought that was quite funny.
ANDERSON:[Laughs] Well, I wouldn’t know.
I still haven’t lit mine.
REID:I’m a fan of the movie.
We didn’t really think about the film that much.
Sam became my personal alphabettery, like the Anne RiceAlphabettery.
REID:They’re amazing books.
That was a big help.
That’s a lie.
Didn’t happen that way.”
Very unhelpful for my preparation.
[Laughs] I got really icy about it a few times.
“I don’t want hear this.
I have to believe something is true.”
It’s nice be able to believe what you’re saying.
REID:I love how this series plays with the way memory works.
ANDERSON:You’re getting one side of couple’s therapy, currently.
