Interview with the Vampire season 2 adds Ben Daniels as the vampire Santiago

AMC is so dedicated to building a franchise out of the books and characters from Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, they ordered a second season of the Interview with the Vampire TV series before the first season had even started airing. The first season wrapped up its seven episode run back in November, and now it’s time to start looking ahead to season 2. Deadline reports that Ben Daniels (Foundation) has signed on for a series regular role in Interview with the Vampire season 2, and he will be playing the character Santiago, “the leading vamp thespian of the Theatre des Vampires who grows increasingly suspicious of the American vampires Louis and Claudia.” When Interview with the Vampire was brought to the screen in 1994, Santiago was played by Stephen Rea.

Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire centers on the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac as he relates the story of his life to a reporter, in particular how he was turned into a vampire and then mentored by Lestat de Lioncourt.

The AMC version stars Sam Reid (The Newsreader) as Lestat; Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones) as his companion Louis de Pointe du Lac; Bailey Bass (Avatar 2) as Claudia, a young girl who becomes part of Louis and Lestat’s vampire family; Assad Zaman (Small Axe) as Rashid, Louis’ companion in present day; newcomer Kalyne Coleman as Louis’ sister Grace; Christian Robinson (Power Book III: Raising Kanan) as Levi, an upstanding Baptist who has won Grace’s heart; and Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio) as Daniel Molloy, an investigative journalist nearing the end of his career who’s given a second chance at the interview of a lifetime.

Alan Taylor, who directed the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark, executive produces Interview with the Vampire and directed the first two episodes of the show. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul producer Mark Johnson is overseeing the building of AMC’s Vampire Chronicles franchise. Rolin Jones, co-creator and showrunner on the first season of the HBO series Perry Mason, is the creator, showrunner, and writer of the Interview with the Vampire series. Jones and Johnson executive produce the show alongside Taylor. Anne Rice’s son Christopher Rice is also on board as executive producer, and Rice herself will be receiving executive producer credit as well.

Interview with the Vampire season 2 will be set in Prague and will consist of eight episodes.

I haven’t watched the first season of the show yet, but our own Alex Maidy was quite impressed with the first batch of Interview with the Vampire episodes, giving them a 9/10 review you can read at THIS LINK.

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