Interview With the Vampire Season 2 Episode 2 “Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved By Death” finally reveals how exactly Louis de Point du Lac (Jacob Anderson) met the “love of his life,” the Vampire Armand (Assad Zaman). More pertinently, though, in the present day timeline of the AMC show, Armand decides to start crashing Louis’s interviews with the journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian).
The sight of the two immortal lovers intertwined on the sofa, staring their human guest down have an intensity to them that borders on the erotic. That is, the shot of Louis and Armand staring at Molloy has the same energy as the “We Saw You From Across the Bar and Really Dig Your Vibe” meme.
When Decider chatted with the stars of Interview With the Vampire during the Winter 2024 TCA tour, we asked Jacob Anderson if that was the “come hither” energy he and Zaman were trying to capture.
“Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,” Anderson said. “It’s totally that vibe. I haven’t seen the meme, but that’s totally it.”
Anderson went on to further elaborate Louis and Armand’s strategy in this new phase of the interview. “Yes, it was like a mind game. Yeah.”
“I guess in a sense, it’s a seduction, but it’s — I wouldn’t say it’s a seduction in the same way as Armand and Louis of Daniel. Yeah, because obviously I am very aware of, like, the chapter [in Anne Rice’s book Interview with the Vampire] that people might be thinking of,” Anderson said. “And it’s not exactly that.”
“Maybe a bit that, but, like, I think that really they’re joining forces in order to win the interview back. I think that Armand is trying to save face a little bit and try and protect himself.”
Anderson explained that at this point, “Louis has lost it.” In the Interview With the Vampire Season 2 premiere, Molloy was able to gain the upper hand, leaving Louis confounded.
“Like what he wants has changed in the course of Episode 1,” Anderson said. “I think he’s realized that there are things about his relationship with Claudia that he didn’t know he blocked out.”
“So I think the mission really is to like put Malloy back in that place he was at the end of Episode 2, Season 1. It’s like to get him back to that frightened, lower status thing because at the end of [Season 2] Episode 1, he’s pretty cocky.”
And what can make a cocky man feel unsettled? How about having not one, but two vampires staring at you in such a way you can’t tell if they want to kill you or have you.
