A teaser for the new season of Interview With the Vampire is all about Sam Reid’s Lestat. And now he’s annihilating the fourth wall and feuding with Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift has found a new rival: Lestat de Lioncourt, aka the fictional vampire first penned by Anne Rice and currently played by Sam Reid in AMC’s Interview With the Vampire.
For context, over the weekend AMC released a first clip of the upcoming third season, wherein Lestat becomes a rockstar (as he will in the third season; more on that below). The little teaser showed Reid as Lestat sitting down for an interview and generally acting like a bit of a diva. Reid is already masterful as the theatrical Lestat, but this short video shows just how perfect a rockstar Lestat truly us.
Here’s where things get fun. In a since deleted X post, a fan juxtaposed images of Lestat in this clip with some of Taylor Swift in her “Blank Space” music video, with the lyric “I’ve got a long list of ex-lovers, they’ll tell you I’m insane” — a reference to Lestat’s toxic relationship with Louis, which fuels the first two seasons of the show.
