How ‘Mayfair Witches’ Connects to ‘Interview With the Vampire’

The supernatural universe is increasing! Mayfair Witches is the second installment in AMC’s Immortal Universe franchise — and it shares just a few connections to the community’s Interview With the Vampire collection.

Like Interview, Mayfair Witches is predicated on books by the late Anne Rice, who died at age 80 in December 2021. The present follows Dr. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario), a neurosurgeon who learns she is the heiress of a robust household of witches. The solid additionally consists of Harry Hamlin as patriarch Cortland Mayfair, Jack Huston as the sinister spirit Lasher and Tongayi Chirisa as Ciprien Grieve, a brand new character created for the present.

Daddario hadn’t learn something by Rice earlier than taking up the position, however she knew that followers would have excessive expectations for the present. “I’ve been part of book adaptations and I’m well aware, as an avid reader myself, fans have a deep love of the story and characters and want it to be true to the books,” the White Lotus alum instructed The A.V. Club earlier this month, including that she in the end learn Lives of the Mayfair Witches earlier than and through filming. “The idea is to go in with the best intentions and try to be true to the story; it’s why they’re adapted in the first place. It’s how we approached it.”

The Baywatch actress went on to reveal {that a} crossover with Interview is an “intention,” however hinted that followers shouldn’t count on it in season 1. The first episode of Interview, nevertheless, included a short nod to Mayfair.

In the premiere, Grace de Pointe du Lac (Kalyne Coleman) will get upset when her brother Paul (Steven Norfleet) teases her about partaking in the people custom of “jumping the broom” at her marriage ceremony. Paul tells her there are “plenty of brooms down the street at the Mayfair sisters’ home,” which will get fun from Louis (Jacob Anderson).

Both Interview and Mayfair are set in New Orleans, although they happen in numerous time intervals: Louis’ story begins in the 1910s, whereas Rowan’s story unfolds in the current day. Though Mayfair doesn’t function any cameos by Interview characters in its inaugural season, it should probably reference particulars first talked about in Rice’s Vampire Chronicles guide collection.

Chirisa’s character, Ciprien, is a mix of the guide characters Aaron and Michael. Aaron was a member of the Order of the Talamasca, a secret society based to preserve observe of paranormal beings that was first launched in The Queen of the Damned (guide three of The Vampire Chronicles).

The first season of Interview ended halfway via the motion of the first guide, however it’s already been renewed for season 2 — and the interview parts between Louis and Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) are already set in the current day.

“I think that connection is the intention of the network and the creators of this world, but it’s one step at a time,” Daddario instructed Screen Rant earlier this month. “This show really stands on its own, while also being vaguely in the same world in order to be potentially combined in the future.”

Mayfair Witches premieres on AMC Sunday, January 8, at 9 p.m. ET.