RUSHES: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid brace for 'anxiety' of 'Interview with the Vampire' season 2

(1 May 2024) INTERVIEW RUSHES INCLUDING BELOW: ASSOCIATED PRESS New York – 1 May 2024 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Anderson (L), actor, Sam Reid, actor – on season 2 of ‘Interview with the Vampire’: Anderson: “There is, an anxiety about like, how are people going to feel about how things have shifted in like the hard times we've done. And some characters in the show make some very – some very surprising decisions, even if you've read the books. So, like –this is just me projecting – I'm like, I'm anxious about it. But no, it is exciting – it’s really exciting to finally share it.” 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Anderson (L), actor, Sam Reid, actor – on season 2 of ‘Interview with the Vampire’: Anderson: “When you make something or you get involved with something because you love it and because you're excited about it, you think that, you think it's something special. So I think it's more like when people respond the same way that you did, it's just this kind of like, ‘oh yeah, we're together then. Like, we agree.” Reid: “We agree. We have similar taste.” 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Anderson (L), actor, Sam Reid, actor – on season 2 of ‘Interview with the Vampire’: Anderson: “There's a real theme of like embracing what you are, who you are. Yeah. I mean, but it's like that's a big theme of the, of the first season but this kind of feels like the – yeah, it really rounds that idea out, you know. Reid” “Yeah, Claudia asks Louis, you know, who are you, Louis? And I think, you know, we kind of – we ask that of all of the characters who are you? And you're constantly, you as an audience member watching it, is questioning who is that person? Am I seeing the real person? Are they pretending to be something? Do they know who they are? Are they lying to me? Oh. You know. And then in particular, you know, with Louis – I don’t want to speak for Louis – so it is a kind of like an origin story. Like, we really start to see him outside of how he's projecting himself through it, through an interview.” 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Anderson (L), actor, Sam Reid, actor – on season 2 of ‘Interview with the Vampire’: Reid: “There’s like waves of vampire media that comes through, you know, like every couple of, couple of years. And we might just be on another, another wave. I don't know if it's necessarily us. I mean, ‘Interview with the Vampire’ is sort of like it was before, you know, ‘Dracula’ and then you have ‘Interview the Vampire,’ books that Anne Rice wrote sort of defined all vampire media. Like all of the ideas that we have outside kind of, you know, evil, kind of secluded, kind of isolated vampire in a tower, lusting over like a town, you know, those ones that are in intense relationships, and have very human feelings and have yearning, kind of like relationships that last centuries – that's kind of Anne Rice, you know? So, I think it's always a great time to kind of try and bring it back into the public sphere because they’re great books.” 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jacob Anderson (L), actor, Sam Reid, actor – on season 2 of ‘Interview with the Vampire’: Anderson: “The thing that's beautiful about the way that this show is written – and it's very much an Anne Rice thing – is that these vampires are not afraid of how emotional they are. The show is not afraid to be hyper-emotional and to, like, wear it on its sleeve and to embrace kind of the. complexity of humanity and yeah – it's like be all the things you are and do it without shame. Like, that idea kind of permeates the whole show. It's not – I’d say our show isn't corny but it loves being, it's camp.” Anderson: “No.” Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/daeb3da73b1947959d4224025e38164b