We still haven't seen a full trailer for the second season of AMC's adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire, but an extended clip was screened at the network's New York Comic-Con panel, and has now been shared online.
In the sneak peek, we see Louis and Claudia join Armand and his Théâtre des Vampires on a hunt. Santiago displays an impressive skill when he pokes his finger through a security guard's brain and finds out how many people await their grim fates at the party raging behind them.
As Claudia and the others feed, Louis and Armand flirt outside, and the latter mentions Lestat, who was seemingly laid to rest for good by Lois and Claudia in the season 1 finale. However, Louis prevented Claudia from burning his lover's body, thereby giving him the opportunity to regenerate.
After she stole every scene in the first season, fans were disappointed to learn that Bailey Bass would not be reprising the role of Claudia for season 2, with Delainey Hayles stepping in to take over as the ruthless child vampire.
"Delainey is extraordinary. She is a beautiful actress, and I think what she's brought to Claudia is exceptional," Lestat actor Sam Reid said of his new co-star during a recent interview with EW. "It's different and it's a change, but it's also, it's such a beloved character and I think Delainey really makes it her own. I can't wait for people to see her in this role."
Check out the clip in the player below, and let us know what you thought of the first season of Interview With the Vampire in the comments section.
“A sensuous, contemporary reinvention of Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Chafing at the limitations of life as a Black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat de Lioncourt’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion. “But Louis’s intoxicating new powers come with a violent price, and the introduction of Lestat’s newest fledgling, the child vampire Claudia, soon sets them on a decades-long path of revenge and atonement.”
No exact premiere date has been announced, but the show is set to return early next year.