In The Vampire Lestat — an adaptation of Anne Rice’s book of the same name and a continuation of AMC series Interview With the Vampire — Lestat, played by a possessed Sam Reid, nearly wasn’t a rock star.
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Instead, when season one of IWTV was in production, showrunner Rolin Jones had originally planned for modern-day Lestat to be an orchestra conductor. “It was a big discussion,” says composer Daniel Hart, the architect behind the show’s musical identity. Eventually it became clear that, for their grand plot designs, the vampire needed to perform a popular form of music — though not popular enough to draw the massive crowds of, say, Jelly Roll and Post Malone. Hence, the choice of rock ‘n’ roll.
The decision was also, of course, a tribute to Anne Rice’s vision for the Brat Prince’s music career: compared to 2002’s Queen of the Damned, which saw the greasy-haired immortal diva fronting a nu-metal band with tunes by Jonathan Davis of Korn, the show soundtrack is (arguably) a closer representation of the gothy glam-rock spirit of Rice’s 1985 novel.
