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Romance sitting aside darkness: How Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire blends love and horror
Interview with the Vampire writer Hannah Moscovitch says the show is successful because it finds a way to blend romance and darkness
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If there’s one thing Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire has done, it’s shown us that romance and darkness blend together better than any of us thought. The AMC gothic horror series has shown us the romantic (and sensual) side of vampires, making for some spicy television.
“I often get tasked on the show with writing romance, and with writing dark, and I go probably a few registers darker than anyone else, and so I get given that material,” Interview with the Vampire writer and producer Hannah Moscovitch tells Popverse’s Ashley Victoria Robinson during a New York Comic Con interview.
“I think for me the relationships that [showrunner Rolin Jones] established between all these characters are so deep, and complex, and toxic, and fucked up. And so, there’s a huge pleasure to writing them because there’s so many registers you can go after. And that romance can sit alongside darkness is so good.”
For more on Interview with the Vampire, check out the full interview (no pun intended) below:
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