'You could be a lot of things in New Orleans,' he narrates. In this roaring city, Louis is not a white Creole plantation owner, as in Rice’s telling, but a Black businessman running a saloon in the red light district, where he wrestles with his sexuality and faces countless racist brutalities. Jones has taken other imaginative leaps with Rice’s novel: the bulk of the story is set not in the colonial New Orleans of 1791, but rather in 1910. That context exists in the AMC series, with an added layer from the mind of showrunner Rolin Jones: this time around, the frame story takes place when Louis invites Molloy to a do-over interview, determined to correct the record nearly fifty years after their first conversation. Rice’s 1976 novel unfolds as a conversation between reporter Daniel Molloy and Louis de Pointe du Lac, a tormented vampire who confesses his centuries-long life story. “Being in love is complicated and beautiful and messy.” “You have to know that these two people are in love,” Anderson tells Esquire. AMC’s adaptation is Interview With the Vampire as readers know and love it-opulent, graphic, and unabashedly erotic.

Co-starring Brad Pitt as Louis, the film has since gained cult status, but fans recognize it as a colossal failure for its watered down take on the novel’s bold eroticism reviewing Interview With the Vampire on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, Norm MacDonald panned it with the simple criticism, “Not gay enough!” No such criticism can be lobbied at the newer outing. Back in 1994, a splashy film adaptation of Interview With the Vampire ran afoul of Rice’s readers, with thousands gathering in the rain to protest the casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat. There’s good reason to fear that they may not.

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