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Interview with a Vampire star Eric Bogosian spent two hours shouting at the showrunner when he first read The Vampire Lestat's first script
Eric Bogosian, who is The Vampire Lestat's own Daniel Molloy, had (passionate) feedback for the AMC hit's showrunner
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Eric Bogosian plays Daniel Molloy on The Vampire Lestat (and its predecessor, Interview with the Vampire), but he doesn't stray too far from his roots as a playwright even when he's acting on the show.
At ATX TV Festival 2026, The Vampire Lestat showrunner and executive producer, Rolin Jones, revealed that Eric Bogosian had buckets of feedback for him when he first received the scripts for season 1 of the new show.
"I sent it to my eight actors and said, 'What do you think?' Boy, did I get beautiful, beautiful emails and texts, 'Oh my god, this is so exciting.' And then I got one phone call from Eric Bogosian. And he lit into me for about two hours, oh my god. And he was right," Jones began.
"That's what we do on this show, right, we have really, very fluid conversations with our actors about writing. They're always the first to get the scripts. It drives [producer] Mark Johnson crazy, but we do it anyway," Jones said with a laugh.
Bogosian wrote the play Talk Radio, which was a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama before it was adapted to the big screen the next year. Since then, he's appeared in films like Uncut Gems and on shows like Succession, Billions, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It's safe to say that when Eric Bogosian calls with feedback on your scripts, you better listen.
The Vampire Lestat is streaming now on AMC+, with new episodes dropping on Sundays.
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