How did you and Sam find the rhythm of those conversations? There’s a combativeness between Louis trying to keep his head down and Lestat being as brazen as possible. This episode tackles respectability politics I’m thinking of Louis telling Lestat not to use the word “vampire” in his place of business. Through it all, Anderson gives Louis a thoughtful interiority molded by raw vulnerability, the subtle changes in his gaze and sudden bursts of violence emphasizing the character’s complicated inhumanity. In the early 1900s, he and Lestat vacillate between adoration and discontent, and in the present day, Louis butts heads with journalist Daniel Molloy over changes in his story since their last interview decades ago (nods to both Rice’s 1976 novel and the 1994 film adaptation). Those power struggles follow Louis across the series’ dual timelines. It’s about the responsibility of power, and where you’re powerless.” “This episode is about him realizing that he’s never going to be human again. In episode two, he knows he’s not the same kind of vampire as Lestat the humiliation of a human life in order to feed yourself is not something he enjoys,” Anderson says. “It’s Louis trying to define what he is now. He realizes that he and Lestat (Sam Reid), despite their now-immortal bond, are incompatible he is rejected by his family, who accuse him of being one with the devil and his murder of a racist local alderman, though seemingly justified, sparks a violent backlash from white people, endangering the Black community Louis only wants to protect. His transformation into a vampire is a fraught process physically and morally, and in the most recent episode, this tension boils over into a series of turning points for Louis. In AMC’s sensual, meta revamp of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, Jacob Anderson’s Louis de Pointe du Lac is a creature defined by conflict. Spoilers follow for episode three of Interview With the Vampire, “ Is My Very Nature That of a Devil. Photo: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for AMC Networks

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