


What does that mean? It means that when Daniel/me goes after the story, it’s with a lot more experience, savviness, and just knowing how to get the story, how to cut through any kind of duplicity that Louis may be throwing my way. I’m a veteran of my life and so is Daniel. Now, 47 years later, Malloy has Parkinson's so there's a palpable ticking clock with regards to his own mortality.īogosian says of his character, "He is a lot closer to who I am in real life. As a young reporter with addiction issues, Daniel didn't get much, nor does he remember much, of his first interview with the vampire. Aged up and given a very salty attitude, Eric Bogosian embodies Malloy as a man reuniting with Louis with a professional and personal axe to grind. In the series, Malloy is now a much bigger player in the narrative. In Rice's novel, the interviewer, Daniel Malloy, is a relatively passive listener to Louis de Pointe du Lac's life story. With the first two episodes of AMC's Interview with the Vampire now available, we've highlighted some major differences between the book and the series that make for some fascinating changes to the stories of vampires Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), and their circle of friends and enemies. RELATED STORY: How SYFY's 'Reginald the Vampire' bites into a new genre vein as a vampire comedy 2 on AMC, the 1976 book has been given an episodic overhaul by showrunner Rolin Jones that includes changing up some character arcs, locales and even time spans to freshen up the overall narrative and honor Rice's full The Vampire Chronicles mythology. In the case of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, which premiered on Oct. Sometimes those changes are cosmetic and sometimes they can be foundational. Any time a novel is adapted from the page to the screen, some liberties need to be taken in order to make the source material work for an entirely different medium.
