Now we’re having fun. AMC’s Interview With the Vampire revealed a thrilling new rockstar Lestat teaser (above) during its Ballroom 20 panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 — one that’s much more edgy in tone than the one revealed last year. In addition to the Season 3 teaser, the series announced the castings for highly anticipated book characters from The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, and confirmed the return of Delainey Hayles and Assad Zaman.
Interview With the Vampire Season 3 premieres in 2026 on AMC. The SDCC 2025 panel was moderated by TV Insider’s Damian Holbrook and revealed that Season 3 will be called The Vampire Lestat and featured stars Sam Reid (Lestat), Jacob Anderson (Louis), Eric Bogosian (Daniel), showrunner Rolin Jones, executive producer Mark Lafferty, and composer Daniel Hart, who’s writing all of Lestat’s music. Jones told TV Insider in our SDCC studio on July 25, “I feel very confident we have one of the great soundtracks that has ever been made.”
Panel attendees were given an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at The Vampire Lestat and new photos of the rockstar Lestat as well as casting news, including:
- The return of Delainey Hayles (Claudia) and Assad Zaman (Armand)
- Jennifer Ehle (Lioness), in the role of “Gabriella,” whose name is being changed from Gabrielle
- Ella Ballentine (Black Conflux), in the role of “Baby Jenks” from The Queen of the Damned
- Jeanine Serralles (Apples Never Fall), in the role of “Christine Claire,” who works with rockstar Lestat
- Christopher Heyerdahl (Under the Banner of Heaven), in the role of “Marius”
- Damien Atkins (Slings & Arrows), in the role “Magnus,” Lestat’s maker
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The teaser above also reveals that Schitt’s Creek star Noah Reid has been cast as a member of Lestat’s band, and a look at Anderson in costume as Louis, looking like Louis from the Season 1 New Orleans timeline. Could we be getting flashbacks? Or maybe even a Dream-Louis like Season 2 had Dream-stat? Claudia’s return following her death in Season 2 is noteworthy. It will be thrilling to see how she haunts the narrative.
To top it all off, the series debuted some of its music live.
Interview With the Vampire: The Vampire Lestat, Premieres 2026, AMC