Warning: This article contains spoilers for Interview With the Vampire season 2, episode 3, “No Pain.”
Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Armand’s (Assad Zaman) relationship is definitely heating up, but Louis still isn’t over his toxic ex on Interview With the Vampire — and it’s creating some seriously fatal consequences.
Coven Tensions and Forbidden Bonds
In Sunday’s episode, Louis and Armand grow closer despite his refusal to join Armand’s Théâtre des Vampires coven. While Claudia (Delainey Hayles) gleefully joins, the coven won’t allow Louis to live without following their strict rules, so they order Armand to kill Louis. But Armand does the exact opposite — not only does he not attack Louis, he hooks up with him instead, fully knowing their shared history with Lestat (Sam Reid).
The Haunting Hallucinations of Lestat
What Armand doesn’t know, however, is that Louis can’t stop hallucinating Lestat.
It’s gotten to the point where Louis is making out with his vision of Lestat before violently banging his head against a rock wall, killing who he thinks is Lestat but is actually an innocent human. That violent hookup shows just how deadly Louis’ complex feelings about Lestat have become.
The Emotional Turmoil of Louis
Louis has got issues. He’s not okay,
Anderson tells Entertainment Weekly of that shocking moment. I don’t think he has sort of full facility, but he’s generally quite controlled. His true nature and his rage and like all these things that he has packed inside himself, he’s generally pretty good at keeping them hidden. But that is a moment where it all bursts out of him and he loses control.
A Behind-the-Scenes Glimpse
While Louis is really going through it in that moment,
it couldn’t have been more different for the actors while filming it.Shooting that scene with Sam was just really fun,
Anderson says. Whenever Sam was there was fun because he wasn’t there that much.
A Dive into Domestic Vignettes
And even though Lestat isn’t really there with Louis, Anderson loved filming all their scenes together because it’s such a different relationship than what they shot in season 1.You see them as friends or people that just enjoy each other’s company way more in season 2 than you do in season 1.
The Future Looks Grim for Claudia
Elsewhere in the episode, Armand reveals to Louis that Claudia’s mind will eventually break apart because she was made too young, foreshadowing a dark fate for his surrogate vampire daughter. Plus, we saw flashback scenes that showed the origin story of the theater coven and how Lestat abandoned both it and Armand in the 1500s.
A Photographer’s Passion Unleashed
Since Louis is now officially developing a new passion for photography while in Paris,
check out this captivating scene where he captures moments through his lens.
New episodes of Interview With the Vampire air Sundays on AMC.
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