While AMC’s Interview With the Vampire is, as the name suggests, the story of a vampire — in this case, Louis de Pointe du Lac, played by Jacob Anderson — as told in an interview, the vampire’s story isn’t the only one viewers are being invited into. The interviewer himself, Daniel Molloy, is also an important and interesting figure whose life and experiences intersect with Louis’s first in an interview in the 1970s and again in the present day with. This time around both man and vampire are a bit older, perhaps a bit wiser, and as Louis looks to set the record straight, Daniel is looking at his second crack at the interview of a lifetime. With the AMC series taking a bit of a different approach to Anne Rice’s iconic novel for its adaptation, the series’ take on Daniel is a bit different than what readers came to know when he was referred to simply as “the boy” and for Eric Bogosian, who plays Daniel in the series, he found his approach to this take on Daniel not just from the groundwork in Rice’s book, but from the script he was given as well as his own life experiences, bringing it all together to create what he called a “complicated” character.
