In the books, Armand’s birth name was Andrei, something we learned in 1998’s The Vampire Armand. The series has switched his country of origin from Russia to India, thus the name change.

Until then, the ancient vampire Armand (Assad Zaman) had been posing as human servant Rashid, attending to Louis and Daniel, allowing him to monitor the conversation.

The Armand of Rice's 1976 novel was a cherubic vampire that charms Louis de Pointe du Lac, but cannot distract him from the Vampire Lestat. The chaste longing that pervades the books has been ...

In Season 2, we glimpsed many chapters of Armand’s history after he joined Louis in spinning the narrative of Daniel Molloy’s (Eric Bogosian) “Interview With the Vampire,” but we’ve yet ...

This article was originally published on May 10, 2024, before season two of Interview With the Vampire premiered on AMC. The first season is now streaming on Netflix. Anne Rice’s Interview With ...

However, when Daniel’s life was in danger, on one of the many instances when he would run away from Armand, the 500-year-old vampire gave him what he wanted at last, and turned him.

Armand was revealed to be a lying duplicitous manipulator (I may be too invested here) in the season finale of Interview With The Vampire. How does actor Assad Zaman make sense of his character?

Expect Assad Zaman to play a bigger role in Season 2, now that we officially know his character's true identity as the vampire Armand, one of the most important figures from Rice's books.

Interview With the Vampire Season 2 Episode 2 “Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved By Death” finally reveals how exactly Louis de Point du Lac (Jacob Anderson) met the “love of his life ...

For some fans of Rice’s novels, while the details don’t exactly fit, they think the character could actually be Armand, a major figure from the Interview with the Vampire novel. In the novel ...

Assad Zaman, the star of ‘Interview With the Vampire’s bold second season, guesses where his character can go next. ‘There was an endpoint I wanted to jump off, and that was finding the ...

In the books, Armand’s birth name was Andrei, something we learned in 1998’s The Vampire Armand. The series has switched his country of origin from Russia to India, thus the name change.