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Tom Hanks holds much of ‘Cast Away’ on his own
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Friends and lovers: Penelope, Colin cosy up for Season 3 of ‘Bridgerton’
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Horoscopes....................................................... 2 Now Streaming................................................. 2 Puzzles............................................................. 4 TV Schedules..................................................... 5 Top 10.............................................................. 6 Word wranglers: Needle Home Video...................................................... 7 drops on ‘Don’t Forget Comics..............................................................9 the Lyrics!’ Season 3
May 11 – May 17, 2024
Sink your teeth in: Horror series ‘Interview With the Vampire’ is back on the hunt
BY SARAH PASSINGHAM
For what feels like an eternity, horror fans have been antici-
This season, “Louis tells of his adventures in Europe, a quest
Anderson told Entertainment Weekly in a December 2023 inter-
pating the sophomore season of one of TV’s breakout series of
to discover Old World Vampires and the Theatre Des Vampires
view about Louis and Armand in the new season of the series.
2022. It’s about bloody time that “Interview With the Vampire”
in Paris, with Claudia” (per AMC). Claudia, portrayed this sea-
About their relationship, Anderson added, “Armand would
returns from the undead for its Season 2 premiere Sunday,
son by Delainey Hayles (“Holby City”), is a fledgling vampire
appear to be very different to Lestat, and I think he’s more than
May 12, on AMC and AMC+. Jacob Anderson (“Game of
bonded to Louis by their time in New Orleans.
Thrones”) is back as 145-year-old vampire Louis de Pointe
It’s now 1940 in Louis’ story, and he is about to meet the
du Lac, who sits down for a revealing interview about his life
vampire he calls the love of his life. First introduced as Louis’
in this adaptation of author Anne Rice’s acclaimed Vampire
ever-present servant Rashid (Assad Zaman, “Hotel Portofino”), it
Chronicles series of novels.
is revealed to Daniel that the vampire’s attendant is a vampire
Penning Louis’ life story is journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bo-
himself, over 500 years old and named Armand.
gosian, “Billions”), who had previously spoken to the vampire
The two meet in the city of love, so it is no surprise, given
in 1973 for an interview that ultimately went unpublished after
how Louis’ last great love turned out, that, according to AMC,
the sit-down turned disastrous. Daniel, now living with Parkin-
“their courtship and love affair will prove to have devastating
son’s disease, comes when called to Louis’ cavernous, contem-
consequences both in the past and the future.”
porary condo home in Dubai in 2022 to take another stab at telling the Creole vampire’s tales.
“Their relationship is really interesting, and it’s one of the things that I’m most excited about people seeing this season,”
a rebound, let’s put it that way. But there’s definitely residual trust issues and perhaps dynamics repeated, but not necessarily in the way that you think.” In the City of Light, Claudia is immediately taken by the theater — enraptured from her seat in the audience before taking center stage. In a trailer for the upcoming season, Armand enthusiastically tells Louis, “The coven has grand designs for her.” As Daniel dives deeper into Louis’ past, knowing how the vampire has lied to him, the journalist works to sort fact from fiction and determine why, exactly, he’s been asked back for a followup interview after all these years.
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