With Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire, series creator Rolin Jones switches perspectives from Louis and Armand to the eponymous Brat Prince in The Vampire Lestat.As I noted in my review, this season will leap from 18th-century Auvergne, where Lestat spent his mortal life, to 2025 America, where he's on tour with his rock band, The Vampire Lestat. In tow, he's got Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), the journalist and vampire who published Louis' recounting as a book called Interview with the Vampire. Cameras roll on Lestat and the band for a behind-the-scenes documentary that Daniel is directing with Oscar ambitions. But the Brat Prince taunts that this doc is the "liner notes" to his songs, which offer a "rewrite" of Louis' version.
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What's Lestat's beef with Interview with the Vampire?
Well, in the voiceover — courtesy of the vinyl records auctioned off at the top of the Season 3 premiere episode, "Detroit" — Lestat regards Louis' version of him as "a mayonnaise villain with psychopathic tendencies." From there, Lestat's new look for Season 3 reveals that he has longer hair than Louis recalled, and that his torso is striped with pink, meaty scars from fighting a wolf pack when he was a mortal. The Brat Prince also chides Daniel and Louis from treating vampire sex as an often-traumatic thing in the book. In his record The Failures, Lestat says, "The fourth best thing the vampire can do to avoid thinking about the past is sex," adding, "Sex is fun, like the fun I sing about in 'Long Face.'" How is Lestat different in The Vampire Lestat versus Interview with the Vampire?
