At the end of Interview with the Vampire season two, we saw our leading vamps, Louis and Lestat, seemingly reconciled, leaving fans raring to know what would come next for everyone’s favorite messy romance. (LouStat, as fandom has named them.) But, alas, it doesn’t seem like Louis and Lestat are quite back in the honeymoon phase of their relationship yet. At San Diego Comic Con, the show’s stars, Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson, sat down with the press and got into the good, bad, beautiful, and ugly of Louis and Lestat’s romance in Interview with the Vampire season three (also called The Vampire Lestat).
The last time we saw Louis and Lestat together in the finale of Interview with the Vampire season two, the pair shared a poignant moment full of sweetness, grieving, and love. And although that may have been a truly touching scene between Reid and Anderson’s characters, Sam Reid cautions that “At the end of season two, neither of them had read the book.” The book here is the in-universe version of Interview with the Vampire by Daniel Molloy, freshly released into the world at the very end of the show’s second season.
In The Vampire Lestat, Reid reveals “the book is still quite a large hurdle to get over” and “there’s the fallout of that.” Reid laughs a little wryly, “So, we’re not in a honeymoon face right now. I think we are in our divorce era.”
In fact, some of the scenes between Jacob Anderson’s Louis and Sam Reid’s Lestat in Interview with the Vampire season three sound like they’re going to be more explosive than ever before. In a teaser trailer for The Vampire Lestat shown at San Diego Comic Con 2025, we see Louis and Lestat attending what looks like a divorce mediation, each accompanied by their lawyers. The meeting goes south quickly as Louis and Lestat each begin to yell at the other over the perceived wrongs they’ve each done—with Louis pulling out condescending calm (“I’m happy to discuss Armand if you think that would help you.”) and Lestat devolving into French shrieking.
Anderson says of the Lestat and Louis moment from Interview with the Vampire season three, “That scene that you see in the teaser was mad. I won’t talk too much about the whole scene, but I was a bit shaken after it. I went to [showrunner] Rolin [Jones]. And I was like, ‘What am I doing?” We had to do a different thing in that scene than we’ve done before.” And that thing, it feels like, was to be completely and totally at odds with one another in a much sharper, more cunning way than in previous fights.
But Reid notes getting deeper into Louis, Lestat, and their romance in The Vampire Lestat was a true joy—and it’s exactly the history between them that made them able to cut one another more deeply than ever in Interview with the Vampire season three. He shares, “You have the history of two seasons and a lot of previous experience and a lot of weight that exists now between the two characters that we get to carry on to every scene. So it’s really fun that the layers just become deeper and deeper. It’s so much fun. There are endless possibilities of what you can do with these two characters because they can really burn each other’s houses down, and rebuild them back together block by block, only for one of them to come in with a demolition crew and do it all over again.”
And ultimately, getting into the heart of Lestat (and perhaps Louis getting into the heart of Lestat) sounds like it will be a key part of Interview with the Vampire season three. Sam Reid notes, “I think an important key to Lestat is also that since he has that much power, he doesn’t really feel lovable. It feels like ‘Oh, if I showed all of that power, people would just be scared of me.’ So that’s a big dynamic between Louis and Lestat. He hides so much of himself from Louis, so that he feels like he can be truly loved, and then it ends up being catastrophic in its own right.” Cue the awwwws. Hopefully, during The Vampire Lestat, Lestat can hide away less of himself and let Louis love him fully for who he is.
Because all that said, Interview with the Vampire season three composer Daniel Hart reminds us that when it comes to Lestat, “Louis is the love of his life.” And we can expect that to thread through Lestat’s songs in Interview with the Vampire season three. Hart notes, “How could he not be influenced by Louis in his songwriting? He is absolutely influenced by Louis. I think it’s fair to say, and I think I’m allowed to say, he’s written songs in season three specifically about Louis. You will know that they are songs about Louis.” We can’t wait to hear Lestat’s odes to Louis in The Vampire Lestat, whether they be romantic or vengeful.
Concluding the conversation about Louis as Lestat’s muse, Sam Reid notes that if Lestat were to cover a song about Louis in Interview with the Vampire, it would be “Bloodsport, by a very talented musician, Raleigh Richie.” Raleigh Richie is, of course, Jacob Anderson himself. But with lyrics like “Although you love me, sometimes we meet / Things can get ugly, but we’re still a team / We are an army, the brakes are within / But that’s why we’re stronger, and that’s how we’ll win.” We can see why it’s the perfect choice.
We can’t wait to see Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid back in action as Louis and Lestat when Interview with the Vampire season three releases in 2026.
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