Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Celebrity | June 8, 2026
The third season of AMC's Interview With the Vampire, renamed The Vampire Lestat, premiered this month, and it is a masterpiece. I'm not just saying that because I'm an Anne Rice super-nerd and I got to review the show for TheWrap (read it here!) Seriously, it's that good. For those of us who never thought we'd see a non-nu-metal Lestat tearing up the stage then doing it with his mother, this was something else. AMC even let Sam Reid perform in-character for a concert in New York City, because sometimes this timeline is merciful. The cast clearly has the best time being on this show, but there are two actors who are having the most fun, maybe even more so than Reid and Jacob Anderson.
In The Queen of the Damned, Daniel Molloy, the interviewer of the vampire, and Armand, the gremlin 500+ year-old former Satanist turned nightmare boy, have a torrid and doomed romance, with the pair being nicknamed Devil's Minion. It's one of the most emotionally tumultuous parts of the Vampire Chronicles, with Daniel serving as a sacrificial lamb of sorts to symbolise how, regardless of desire or intent, not everyone takes to being a vampire well. For the TV show, those two characters have been radically reinvented. Armand is now a deviously competent schemer and Daniel is a 69-year-old journalist who bullies the undead into revealing their lies. It's amazing. In season three, Daniel is now a vampire, turned by Armand, but little else has been revealed so far. For the actors, this mostly means they get the chance to send the fandom into an absolute tizzy of shipping fantasies.
Assad Zaman and Eric Bogosian have been LOVING their time as vampires, and they love playing these characters. Zaman spent the entirety of season one letting Bogosian know that they were going to hook up. Their characters, I mean. They have already approved of Armand being Daniel's "daddy".
Now, they're out here on the red carpet hugging and biting and coming perilously close to "get a room" territory. Seriously, can't a guy hit on his Tony-nominated septuagenarian co-worker in peace?
What do you mean, "don't stop", Assad?!
Bogosian, for his part, has leaned in HARD, and not just for a nibble. Here's a totally normal selfie he shared of himself and his colleague, where the brought attention to their curly hair "comingling."
In a Reddit AMA that the pair did with co-stars Jennifer Ehle, Sheila Atim, and Delainey Hayes, Bogosian admitted that he often sends Zaman fan stuff from social media, including the naughty stuff. We all knew this because that man is extremely online and liking every Instagram post of your fanart. Oh, did you write a tweet about how you want Armand to get you pregnant? Eric's seen it and shared it in the group chat! Seriously, I love how the most online person in this cast is the old guy with the "respectable" writing career. Bogosian has said that playing a vampire was the one big thing he'd always wanted to do as an actor and now he's fulfilling his destiny. It's good to dream big.
I have a great soft spot for actors who lean in to their fandom's madness in a way that's fun but not creepy or invasive. With this, I think it's also just that Zaman and Bogosian really like one another and that being vampires is bringing out their goofy sides. The age gap is, of course, a concern. I mean, Daniel's 69 and Armand's in his 500s? Seems problematic to me.
