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“The Vampire Lestat” is a study in nature versus nurture

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21.07.2026

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“The Vampire Lestat” is a study in nature versus nurture

Lestat may be a bitter star, but his brutal love is the meteor above it

Published July 21, 2026 12:00PM (EDT)

For Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) — a central character in AMC’s adaptations of Anne Rice‘s “Vampire Chronicles” who, in the third season under his own name, brings centuries’ worth of signature main character energy — the question of whether he was made into a monster or born one is trickier than it would be for other self-obsessed middle-aged men because he was born twice, and both births happened a long long time ago. 

When Lestat is made to reckon with what’s presented as “failures” in both his mortal and........

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