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AMC‘s Interview With the Vampire Season 2 ends with a wild revelation that might change how fans look at Louis (Jacob Anderson), Lestat (Sam Reid), and Armand (Assad Zaman) forever. Over the course of the last 15 episodes, we’ve watched as experienced journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) attempts a re-do on a fateful interview with Louis in the ’70s. What quickly becomes apparent is that besides being a wild yarn, Louis’s story is being told by an extremely unreliable narrator. The ultimate truth that Molloy uncovers isn’t so much an indictment of Louis, but a wild revelation about Louis’s most personal romantic relationships.
**Spoilers for Interview With the Vampire Season 2 Episode 8 “And That’s The End of It. There’s Nothing Else,” now streaming on AMC+**
In the last two episodes of Interview With the Vampire, Louis has explained to Molloy that he would have been killed, like Claudia (Delainey Hayles), by the Paris Coven at the Théâtre des Vampires were it not for his great love, Armand. We’re told that Armand psychically controlled the entire crowd to spare Louis’s life. When Louis eventually becomes free from his imprisonment, he hatches a plan to murder the vampires who killed Claudia and succeeds. Then, after mocking Lestat, he and Armand spend the next few decades together in domestic bliss.
However, with the help of the Talamasca, Molloy is able to prove this story is a lie. When confronted with the reality of what actually transpired, Louis’s world will be rocked forever.
So what did happen? Who made Molloy a vampire? And what do Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson make of the Interview With the Vampire Season 2 finale’s revelations? Here’s everything you need to know about Interview With the Vampire Season 2 Episode 8 “And That’s The End of It. There’s Nothing Else”…
Interview With the Vampire Season 2 Ending Explained: Lestat Saved Louis, Not Armand
Armand didn’t save Louis. Lestat did. And Molloy figures this out through the classic journalistic conceit of fact-checking. At the end of the interview, Molloy circles back to a scene from Season 1, where Lestat was able to psychically control a large group of soldiers, with considerable effort that is. This proves Lestat had the power to also save Louis. What really cinches it, however, is an original copy of the trial’s script, complete with marginalia from Armand proving he directed the whole thing.
Louis seems pretty shocked and horrified to realize that it was Lestat, not Armand, who saved him, but Interview With the Vampire star Jacob Anderson told Decider that “I think on some level he doesn’t find it hard to believe Lestat would do it.”
“Like, I think when, when he gets told — when Daniel’s pieced it together —I think he’s not surprised at all,” Anderson said. “I think that Louis, probably in the back of his mind, just knew that something was off.”
“The vibe was off. Armand had, like, you know…a secret. There was a big secret somewhere. And I think Louis also definitely knows that Armand plays around in his head, because I think there have been times that Louis is aware of having asked him to help him out with certain things.”
Anderson specifically called out the fact that Armand removed Louis’s memory of attempting to die by suicide in the 1970s. “I don’t think he had asked to have his walking out into the sun removed. I think that’s bullshit,” Anderson said.
Interview With the Vampire star Sam Reid explained to Decider that much like Armand’s involvement with the trial was misrepresented in Louis’s interview with Molloy, so was Lestat’s. He was not the vengeful participant Louis believed him to be.
“I think regardless, the most important thing ie the fact that Louis and Claudia are on trial and they are going to be killed,” Reid said. “So there’s no way that [Lestat] is not going to be there. He is going to be there if they die and he’s going to be there if he can save them.”
“I also believe that there is no world in which Lestat is not going to save Louis. It doesn’t matter what the situation.”
Reid explained that Lestat’s performance in the trial was all about captivating the audience. It wasn’t “the Lestat show.”
“Really he’s trying to get in the audience and control their mind. All he’s doing the whole time is going into the audience, going out to that sad man and touching him, getting out there, walking amongst them, looking out to the thing,” Reid said. “He’s making them laugh. He’s trying to get them on side, so they’re pliant so he can get inside their heads and, and, save him.”
“There’s no way, there’s no world, there’s no reality in which [Lestat] would let [Louis] die. No, you know, it’s just, it’s not possible.”
Interview With the Vampire Season 2’s Final Scene: Jacob Anderson Explains “I Own The Night”:
The final scene of Interview With the Vampire Season 2 takes us after the publication of Daniel Molloy’s best-selling book about his, you know, interview with a vampire. While humans are scoffing at it, believing the legendary journalist has jumped the shark, the vampire community is not happy their secrets have been exposed.
In a psychic conversation that reveals that Armand made Molloy a vampire after all, Molloy tells Louis every vampire in the world is gunning for him. Louis then addresses them all, mocking them and asserting he can take them all. The last thing he says is “I own the night.”
Anderson wanted to be coy about what this speech meant to Louis. “I think there’s things about that scene that I sort of want to keep for myself, which I know is not very satisfying.”
However he shared that it’s proof that Louis has “found peace that he’s never had in his life, in any of his lives.”
“It’s not to do with Lestat or Armand or Daniel,” Anderson said. “It’s about Paul and Claudia, really. They’re like the two great losses in his life. They’re the two beings he loved the most in his life and he’s never quite been able to reconcile the fact that he lost them and now he can.”
“Like that portrait of Paul and the dress in the case, in the display case, that’s him. That’s where he goes to meditate and he can look at those things and he can feel like it’s okay to hold this great sadness and also I’m building something new.”
Anderson said that Louis has now embraced his “vampiric nature.”
“He’s the Vampire Louis. And I think that’s the key thing of that scene. I felt really proud of him. That sounds weird. I think like, no matter the fact that he’s saying something that could seem kind of violent or like full of swagger, but actually I think it’s about love and oneness. Like, ‘Do what you want. I’m doing me.’”
So what comes next for the Vampire Louis?
Is Interview With the Vampire Cancelled? Will There Be an Interview With the Vampire Season 3?
Will there be an Interview With the Vampire Season 3? Yes, there will! AMC announced last week that Interview With the Vampire Season 3 would be an adaptation of the next book in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat.
“In season three, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller “Interview With The Vampire,” the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can—by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we can’t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified,” said an AMC press release.
“I think what Rolin’s done a really fantastic job of is like Interview with the Vampire, this show, is Interview with the Vampire, the book,” series star and hardcore Anne Rice fan Sam Reid told Decider. ” So I think progressively doing the books the way that they’re written I think is the right move. Rather than kind of retconning it and doing it in a different order. I think doing it this way is the fun way.”
However Sam Reid is also looking forward to potentially tackling a few of the stories further the l ine.”I think Queen of the Damned is a pretty good one. Pretty awesome story. I think that’s kind of like the ‘Avengers Assembled’ of the Vampire Chronicles,” Reid said, noting that it would be “a pretty wild, big thing.”
“But I would also love to do The Tale of the Body Thief and I’d love to play a human Lestat. I think that would be really interesting. Begging for his vampiric life back.”
At this point, Interview With the Vampire fans are probably just begging for their vampire show to come back as soon as possible.
