In the season finale of AMC’s The Vampire Lestat, our main vamp is reckoning with some of his life’s greatest failures, including an inability to take over the in-universe Billboard Hot 100.
That failure notwithstanding, it was quite an undertaking for creator Rolin Jones, music writer Daniel Hart and actor Sam Reid to bring Anne Rice’s beloved vampire rock star to the small screen — even if, in their retelling, Lestat’s massive fandom becomes a modest cult following (and his album ends up as a fictional chart flop, bested by Drake).
Yet the character refresh didn’t stop there. While Reid…
