What is time to an immortal? “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire” cannot help but ask versions of that question as it applies to individual figures or encapsulates the species’ dilemma.
In the TV adaptation’s second season, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) fixates on memories of his unnaturally long lifetime in human terms as a function of trying to recall the details with conciseness. Centuries-old vampires like his current lover Armand (Assad Zaman) or his maker Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) take a longer view: once all natural means of mortality are removed from the moral equation of living, day-to-day and year-to-year particulars cease to concern them.
