Interview with the Vampire Season 3: The Vampire Lestat Front and Center

After two acclaimed seasons of gothic drama, blood-soaked romance, and immortal moral reckoning, AMC's Interview with the Vampire is back — and this time, the spotlight belongs to the most theatrical vampire who ever stalked the night. Interview with the Vampire Season 3, also known as The Vampire Lestat, will release on June 7, 2026. Screen Rant The wait is nearly over, and everything points to this being the boldest chapter yet in Anne Rice's Immortal Universe.

Here’s everything we know so far.

What Is Interview with the Vampire Season 3 About?

Seasons 1 and 2 of Interview with the Vampire centered on Louis de Pointe du Lac's perspective — his transformation, his tortured romance with The Vampire Lestat, and his devastating interview with journalist Daniel Molloy. Season 3 flips the script entirely.

Season 3 will shift to Lestat's perspective as he tells his life story, with showrunner Rolin Jones promising that the season will feel like Lestat "hijacked the show." TV Insider Furious about how he was portrayed in Louis's memoir, The Vampire Lestat takes the most dramatic possible form of revenge: he forms a rock band, goes on a world tour, and tells his own side of the story — loudly, publicly, and with maximum flair.

According to AMC's synopsis, in the upcoming rock-and-roll-centric season, the Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by "muses" from his wild and rebellious past. As his band's popularity and star power rise, so does Lestat's influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with his power in the face of the Great Conversion — an unnatural surge in the vampire population. The season adapts Anne Rice's second Vampire Chronicles novel of the same name, and the title change reflects exactly that — a shift in both narrative voice and aesthetic energy.

Confirmed Cast Members for Interview with the Vampire Season 3

Returning Cast

The core ensemble of Interview with the Vampire is back for Season 3. Sam Reid reprises his role as Lestat de Lioncourt, a powerful and dramatic vampire who becomes a rock star. Jacob Anderson returns as Louis de Pointe du Lac, Lestat's former lover and a reflective, morally torn vampire. Assad Zaman stars as Armand, an ancient vampire, and Eric Bogosian returns as Daniel Molloy, the journalist documenting the vampires' stories.

Delainey Hayles is also confirmed to be appearing in Season 3, despite Claudia's brutal demise at the hands of the Paris vampire coven in Season 2 — though it hasn't been specified whether Hayles will be reprising the role of Claudia or playing a new character entirely.

Other returning faces include Christopher Geary as the vampire Sam Barclay, Gopal Divan as Louis's doctor Fareed Bhansali, Justin Kirk as Daniel's Talamasca insider Raglan James, and Joseph Potter as Lestat's former lover and fledgling Nicolas de Lenfent.

New Cast Members

Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire introduces a wave of significant new characters, many of them drawn from deeper lore in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.

Jennifer Ehle plays Gabrielle, Lestat's mother. Damien Atkins plays Magnus, the ancient vampire who turns Lestat. Christopher Heyerdahl joins as Marius, the elder vampire who guards Those Who Must Be Kept. Sheila Atim, known for The Woman King, was cast as Akasha, the Queen of the Damned and mother of all vampires. The inclusion of Akasha is particularly exciting for fans of the books — it signals that the show is already seeding storylines from the third Vampire Chronicles novel, The Queen of the Damned.

Ella Ballentine plays Baby Jenks, and Jeanine Serralles plays Lestat's lawyer, Christine Claire. Lestat's band members are played by Noah Reid, Ryan Kattner, Seamus Patterson, and Sarah Swire.

When Will Interview with the Vampire Season 3 Release?

AMC has targeted a June 7, 2026 release on AMC and AMC+. As of March, AMC has released a poster for the Interview with The Vampire Season 3.

The Devil's Road finally has an end in sight. Or, perhaps, a beginning. #TheVampireLestat debuts June 7 on AMC and AMC+. pic.twitter.com/b9A0fht79e

— The Vampire Lestat (@AMCsAnneRice) March 13, 2026

Teasers and Poster

A teaser poster released by AMC in May 2025 shows a microphone wrapped in blood-dripping wires, with “2026” scrawled in bold type.

Now the latest season poster is here.

Interview with the Vampire Season 3 Episodes

Season 3 has the shortest episode count in the series so far at six episodes. Season 1 ran seven episodes and Season 2 ran eight. The tighter episode count doesn't signal a smaller story, however — with Akasha's introduction and deep dives into Lestat's origin story, every episode will be doing heavy narrative lifting. International viewers in select markets will be able to stream it on Netflix after its AMC debut, under a renewed licensing deal. UK audiences are expected to get it on BBC iPlayer, which partnered with AMC for the first two seasons

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