Sam Reid

Sam Reid plays Lestat de Lioncourt on Interview with the Vampire, scenery eaten productively in Rolin Jones's Anne Rice reboot. Toxic immortal marriage, New Orleans heat, queer romance without camp apology — Jacob Anderson as the other pulse. Reid sells a reinvention that respects the book while updating the bite. Horror romance with sentence-level style; the vampire is a husband with a microphone.

Sam Reid parks on Interview with the Vampire — AMC, 2022– — as Lestat de Lioncourt. s01e01 is the on-ramp: In Throes of Increasing Wonder as the Rice reboot contract: toxic immortal marriage, New Orleans heat, Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid eating scenery productively. Skip the clip farm; stay for the stance.

The interview is the frame; Lestat is the weather. On TV Flash Reid is 2020s genre craft: the immortal who made a reboot hour photograph as a marriage, then left the apology in another century.

Sam Reid photographs the weather shift at s02e08 after the handshake — And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else. as season-two period: Rolin Jones letting the interview form close a chapter without camp apology. s02e01 keeps a sideways coordinate — What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned as season-two launch. Co-lead. Interview with the Vampire is a two-stroke engine and Lestat de Lioncourt is one of the strokes — the other silhouette does not erase him. The hour has a job and he does it.

Sam Reid stays Lestat de Lioncourt on Interview with the Vampire — AMC, 2022–, 2020s catalog heat that still has a pulse. Watch s01e01 then s02e08 as stance, and keep s02e01 if the list has a third coordinate. The desk already told you the temperature; the hours prove it. Lestat de Lioncourt is the job, and Sam Reid still does it without a recap reel.