The Vampire Lestat Episode 2 “Toledo” on AMC finally gave this specific Interview With the Vampire fan what she personally wanted: Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat (Sam Reid) dramatically arguing like the divorced (but not over it) couple they truly are.
**Spoilers for The Vampire Lestat Episode 2 “Toledo,” now streaming on AMC+**
About halfway through The Vampire Lestat Episode 2 (aka Interview With the Vampire Season 3 Episode 2) former lovers Lestat and Louis find themselves seated in an extremely mundane conference room with their lawyers to hash out a legal matter. However, it’s clear that Lestat is less interested in the case at hand than he is with complaining about Louis’s various love affairs.
“Armand? You want to get into Armand?” Louis asks, referencing Assad Zaman‘s slippery vampire.
Lestat begins to sarcastically cackle. “Santiago, I could understand. At least he had a presence,” he says. “But Armand?“
“I’m happy to discuss Armand if you think that would help you, Lestat,” Louis replies.
“Is it true that you had a second home in Sausalito with him?” Lestat says “Did you take turns driving across the Golden Gate Bridge, who held the wheel harder?”
“Yeah, writing numbers on each other’s back and pretending to guess them wrong,” Louis says.
“I bet,” Lestat says. “I bet!”
The scene is classic Louis and Lestat, full of dramatic line readings and passionate subtext. It’s so juicy that showrunner Rolin Jones included it in a sizzle reel teasing the new season over 8 months ago. However, according to The Vampire Lestat star Sam Reid, this scene — the Sausalito scene — was “never supposed to see the light of day.”
“Yeah, I mean, the crazy thing about that scene is that it was interstitial dialogue that came to us very late,” Reid told DECIDER. “I mean, like the meat of the scene — but then once you start getting into Sausalito and the, you know, yeah, driving across the bridge and all that kind of stuff — that was interstitial dialogue.”
“It was always going to have a voiceover over the top of it, so it was never supposed to be seen. So we were just kind of like just having fun. Very silly, like having fun just bouncing around.”
It seems that the freedom that Reid and Anderson felt in the scene — assuming that it was just supposed to be b-roll and not a real part of the show — made it too good for Rolin Jones to cut out.
“Rolin sort of fell in love with that and then decided it was the best thing he’d ever written and it was staying in the show,” Reid said. “So it’s always confronting when you see that… I always feel like that was never supposed to see the light of day, you know?”
“It’s great,” Jacob Anderson, sitting next to Reid, said.
“Yeah,” Reid said. “It’s so much fun. It’s so much fun. Yeah.”
The Vampire Lestat Episode 2 “Toledo” is now streaming on AMC+. You can watch the all-new episode tonight on AMC at 9 PM ET.