In The Vampire Lestat — an adaptation of Anne Rice’s book of the same name and a continuation of AMC series Interview With the Vampire — Lestat, played by a possessed Sam Reid, nearly wasn’t a rock star.
Instead, when season one of IWTV was in production, showrunner Rolin Jones had originally planned for modern-day Lestat to be an orchestra conductor. “It was a big discussion,” says composer Daniel Hart, the architect behind the show’s musical identity. Eventually it became clear that, for their grand plot designs, the vampire needed to perform a popular form of music — though not popular enough to…
