‘Interview With the Vampire’: Inside the Horrific Episode That Changes Everything
It can be hard enough remembering something that happened a month ago when you were sober, let alone decades before, while under the influence of multiple illicit substances. Throw in the unmooring discovery that vampires aren’t just a figment of Bram Stoker’s imagination, and you have the same mind-bending cocktail that young journalist Daniel Malloy (Luke Brandon Field, playing the younger version of Eric Bogosian’s character) experienced when he first met Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) in 1973.
Memory is a fickle bitch, and this is certainly true in AMC’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s beloved Interview With the Vampire, for both humans and immortal beings.
It was only in the Season 1 finale that Daniel in the present day (played by Bogosian) remembered that Louis was not the only bloodsucker he met in a San Francisco bar decades earlier. Until then, the ancient vampire Armand (Assad Zuman) had been posing as human servant Rashid, attending to Louis and Daniel, allowing him to monitor the conversation. “This time, I won’t save your life,” Armand told Daniel when he dramatically dropped the facade. But did Armand even save Daniel’s life the first time?