Jacob Anderson, who performed Daenerys Targaryen’s right-hand man Gray Worm in “Recreation of Thrones,” takes a bloody flip as Louis in AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire.”
The sequence, airing Sundays at 10 p.m. on AMC (and streaming on AMC+), is predicated on the 1976 Anne Rice novel which, in turned, spawned the 1994 film starring Brad Pitt as Louis and Tom Cruise as Lestat (performed right here by Sam Reid). It’s already been renewed for a second season and follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Anderson), a vampire who recounts his life to reporter Daniel Malloy (Eric Bogosian) within the current day — together with his origins in 1910 New Orleans and his tumultuous relationship together with his vampire sire and poisonous love, the mercurial Lestat de Lioncourt.
“I won't have been in a position to play Louis if I hadn’t first performed Gray Worm,” Anderson, 32, advised The Put up. “You need to discover ways to be comfy in silence, and do issues together with your eyes, and never depend on dialogue on a regular basis. Despite the fact that Louis is speaking rather a lot on the present, as we go deeper into the season, he does extra with out saying very a lot.”
“It’s like essentially the most fantastically written rant about an ex,” he mentioned in regards to the story, which is narrated from Louis’ perspective. “My relationship with Anne Rice’s world started with the pilot. I learn the script and was like, ‘What is that this, and the way does it perceive my mind so nicely?’ Then I began studying the primary ebook and simply fell in love with, not simply these characters, however the way in which they thought, the way in which they ached over their existence. Anne Rice had such a singular voice,” he mentioned in regards to the writer, who died at age 80 final yr.
“I'd have cherished to have identified what she’d considered what we’ve performed. Hopefully she could be proud.”
Anderson mentioned that he discovered Louis to be relatable, as a result of he can hook up with being an “over thinker” and having anxiousness and bouts of melancholy.
“Quite a lot of that comes with coping with being a human and childhood stuff, and searching again at issues I’ve mentioned or performed, like, ‘Did I do the proper factor, how do I do issues in a different way subsequent time?’ There’s one thing about Louis’ questioning that feels very sincere, and true to that,” he mentioned. “The best way that he displays on the world round him – I actually wanted [that book] once I was a youngster. Typically, I feel you don’t all the time want any individual to let you know that the whole lot goes to be alright. Typically you simply want the acknowledgement that life is usually a fixed state of questioning what and the place you're. There aren’t clear solutions for Louis within the first ebook, and I actually recognize that.”
“Interview with the Vampire” differs from the film, amplifying the homoerotic undertones, and Anderson mentioned Pitt’s efficiency wasn’t on his thoughts as he tackled the position of Louis.
“I get pleasure from Brad Pitt as an actor, however we’re doing very various things,” he mentioned. “I feel our Louis is according to the general Louis within the Vampire Chronicles [series], and who he's in later books.
“I cherished enjoying all of the eras of his life, for various causes. There’s one thing enjoyable about that vampire detachment within the present-day stuff,” he mentioned. “And for something I received to do with Sam, that relationship is so enjoyable to play. You bond in a extremely specific method whenever you’re working nights and coping with these lofty themes. The sentiments are enormous in each scene. In case you don’t have that frequent language and discover that chemistry … I don’t assume me and Sam wanted to search out it, there was one thing pure that we discovered collectively.
“It could be tough if we didn’t like one another an terrible lot.”
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