Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire is an American gothic drama series created by Rolin Jones for AMC, adapted from Anne Rice's landmark 1976 novel — the foundational work of modern literary vampire fiction. The series reimagines Rice's story with a significant and deliberate transformation: Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), who in the novel is a white Louisiana plantation owner from the 18th century, is reconceived as a Black Creole man navigating New Orleans in 1910, at the intersection of Jim Crow racism, the Storyville vice district, and the moral intoxication of being turned into a vampire by the captivating and manipulative Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid).

The shift in Louis's identity is not cosmetic — it fundamentally recasts the meaning of his submission to Lestat and the power dynamics that define their centuries-long relationship. Delainey Havis plays Claudia, the child vampire who is Rice's most disturbing invention, here given a richer backstory and more active moral agency. Eric Bogosian plays journalist Daniel Molloy, whose second interview with Louis in the present day frames the narrative and introduces an unreliable memory structure that allows the show to interrogate how trauma reshapes the stories survivors tell about themselves.

Interview with the Vampire premiered on AMC in October 2022 and was immediately received as one of the most ambitious vampire stories in television history, praised for its lush production design, the volcanic chemistry between Anderson and Reid, and Rolin Jones's willingness to genuinely update Rice's text for a contemporary audience rather than simply reproduce it. Anne Rice was involved in the development before her death in December 2021. The show has been renewed through multiple seasons and is considered among AMC's prestige flagship productions. It streams on AMC+ and the AMC app.