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  • How ‘Talamasca: The Secret Order’ Made Jason Schwartzman’s Character an ‘Unexpected Vampire’

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    Fans of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles know its world contains a wide range of vampire types. Interview With the Vampire‘s third season, retitled The Vampire Lestat, will give us a rock n’ roll creature of the night when it arrives next year. But AMC’s latest Anne Rice series, Talamasca: The Secret Order, has its own offbeat vampire variation in Jason Schwartzman’s character, Burton.

    The show’s main character, Guy (Nicholas Denton), is a new recruit into the Talamasca. He’s startled by his first meeting with Burton, an “unexpected vampire,” according to co-showrunner John Lee Hancock. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Hancock explained why the show wanted the offbeat character to stand out.

    “We’ve got this skeptic [Guy] who’s going to meet a vampire, and who is that vampire? I wanted it to be complicated,” Hancock said. “I didn’t want it to be a dark room with someone in a velvet chair, looking, and you see their eyes, even though I knew that would be scary. I wanted to meet it on its own terms. So who’s the unexpected vampire?”

    He continued. “The thing about that character is that he is someone who has sold out vampires. He is being put up in the Dakota in New York and has a wonderful life. Yet it’s lonely, and he doesn’t fully trust the Talamasca, even though they’re paying his way and bringing him gifts,” Hancock explained. “In my mind, all those televisions that are up on the wall—he doesn’t have a lot of friends, so he and the woman who runs his life, along with Helen [Elizabeth McGovern’s character], probably sit on Tuesday night and watch reality television on Bravo. That’s not a vampire that I’ve seen, and I like that.”

    Like those rigorously glamorous Real Housewives, Burton is also image-conscious, according to Hancock.

    “He knows he’s being presented. He’s the first vampire that [Guy] has ever met. How does he expect me to look? I told Jason, ‘Here’s the thing I can tell you about this character: he changed clothes five times in anticipation of this meeting to be just right.’ Jason said, ‘That’s a character I can play.’”

    New episodes of Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order arrive Sundays on AMC and AMC+.

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  • They have Eric Bogosian doing more promo for Daniel Molloy’s fictional book instead of this hit AMC series

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    Why does it feel like AMC’s social media is doing more to promote the in-universe book Interview with the Vampire than their critical darling television series Interview with the Vampire? The network woke up and chose hilarious bits (not bites) on the week that Talamasca: The Secret Order, the third installment in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, officially releases on AMC and AMC+.

    The fictional journalist has already had a PR scandal and neither Talamasca nor IWTV season 3, a.k.a. The Vampire Lestat, is out yet. As fans will recall, at the end of IWTV season 2 Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) published the book based on his interviews with the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and the vampire Armand (Assad Zaman), Molloy’s own independent research, and additional help from the secret organization called the Talamasca. The book became a bestseller, and the already prickly Daniel became a vampire. A televised interview in the finale ended terribly. It seems the optics have not since improved.

    What’s the occasion for this new content? Bogosian reprises his role briefly in the new Talamasca series, which premieres on October 24, 2025. Some of his scenes take at a book signing for Interview with the Vampire. So in order to lure IWTV fans over to Talamasca: The Secret Order, it seems, AMC’s social team has leaned into the concept of “Daniel Molloy on a book tour” hard. It started on October 20th, 2025 with this announcement, which links to the Talamasca‘s official website.

    #ItsGivingBook is giving Daniel’s manager a headache

    Then, on October 21, 2025 a series of social posts depict Daniel doing press for a fictional event called the “It’s Giving Book” festival. That title alone is hysterical. In the first clip, he reads “reviews” from readers. About 90 percent of them call the book a cry for help, calling out red flags and flagrant gaslighting. One praises fast shipping. (As much as I would like to believe that’s about certain OTPs, I’ve perused enough Amazon reviews to know that the person in this made-up review is probably talking about delivery.)

    Next, AMC posted a video in which Daniel walks out an attempt to go viral with a “this or that”-style game called “Spill the Tea or Bleed the Fifth.” Said game would, according to an off-camera voice, include increasingly personal questions. Molloy appears clearly frustrated by the kitchiness of the exercise. He also doesn’t look thrilled that folks are not taking his book seriously.

    To be fair to AMC, they did have Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid play “bite it or bury it” game about a month ago. They’re mocking themselves! I’m mostly kidding when I say that AMC didn’t promote Interview with the Vampire. I just think it should have have had a bigger awards season push.

    Finally, because of the “incident” above, the final video showed Molloy reading a pitch perfect NotesApp apology. It was forced and emotionless. Molloy did not take accountability, or whatever. He concluded by apologizing that someone was offended rather than that he offended someone. Typical! Someone should really cancel this Pulitzer prize-winning vampire. The audible sigh, presumably from his manager, at the end of the video is the cherry on top.

    If you check out AMC’s Instagram account for the Immortal Universe, you can see the “actual” NotesApp screenshot posted for 24 hours in their story. All of these details are so fun! More please! I hope they keep this type of in-universe social content up for The Vampire Lestat. The actors would likely be down. They clearly love their characters. For example, Bogosian did these three videos in character even though he wasn’t wearing his vampire nails! The enthusiasm is there. Fans eat it up. Both seasons of Interview with the Vampire are on Netflix. That means the audience is experiencing a growth spurt as more people start their binge and become obsessed. Let’s keep it going so that The Vampire Lestat gets the raucus reception it deserves.

    (featured image: David Gennard/AMC)

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    Leah Marilla Thomas (she/her) is a contributor at The Mary Sue. She has been working in digital entertainment journalism since 2013, covering primarily television as well as film and live theatre. She’s been on the Marvel beat professionally since Daredevil was a Netflix series. (You might recognize her voice from the Newcomers: Marvel podcast). Outside of journalism, she is 50% Southerner, 50% New Englander, and 100% fangirl over everything from Lord of the Rings to stage lighting and comics about teenagers. She lives in New York City and can often be found in a park. She used to test toys for Hasbro. True story!

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  • NYCC 2025: New Look at AMC’s Talamasca: The Secret Order

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    While the main draw in AMC’s Anne Rice Universe is still Interview With the Vampire—which forges into its third season, retitled The Vampire Lestat, in 2026—Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order is also gearing up to establish the supernatural secret organization’s role in all of it.

    At New York Comic Con 2025, the panel and footage gave more of a glimpse at the totally not Agents of SHIELD  supernatural spy police series. Talamasca follows Guy (Nicholas Denton), a new recruit whose special abilities make him a candidate to join the group’s shadowy ranks. The organization, led by the mysterious Helen (Elizabeth McGovern), keeps tabs on all matters pertaining to the vampires, witches, and other monsterkind to protect humanity… allegedly.

    Here’s the latest look at the show and how it sows the seeds of potential of interconnectedness with the rest of AMC’s Anne Rice Universe, including Mayfair Witches and Interview With the Vampire.

    Jason Schwartzman and Interview With the Vampire fave Eric Bogosian are guest stars in a cast that also includes William Fichtner.

    The Talamasca’s members might seem like they’re trying to keep the boundaries between the living and undead—but there might be, of course, some corruption calling from inside the house. We can guess that as those secrets unravel, Guy will realize he might be in too deep with a group that might be hiding as much as the very creatures they claim are the danger.

    Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order will premiere with its first two episodes October 26 on both AMC and AMC+. It will run six episodes in total.

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