While Anne Rice’s novel Interview With the Vampire is set in the 1970s with a young reporter — later known as Daniel Molloy — interviewing the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, the iconic work of literature is very much just a starting point for AMC’s series of the same name. In the series, viewers see a much older Daniel meeting with the eternal Louis in the present day for what is revealed to be a second interview, with the book’s session now a part of the story’s past. And as viewers have come to learn, that first interview didn’t go especially well, which in turn leads to some strained interactions between journalist and subject and now, Daniel Molloy actor Eric Bogosian explains how that previous experience impacts the story — and how both Daniel and Louis are using that first experience to guide the new interview.
