How INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Set Pop Culture’s Vamp Dynamic
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Interview with the Vampire hit bookstore shelves 45 years ago today, on May 5, 1976. Although first-time author Anne Rice’s novel was only a cult hit at first, its influence on vampire fiction slowly grew over the years. By the time the first sequel,
The Vampire Lestat, hit nearly a decade later, the book had become a paperback smash. So much so that the second and third novels in the series became instant bestsellers.
Interview with the Vampire wasn’t the first major portrayal of a sympathetic vampire in pop culture. The television series
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: As a fan of
The Vampire Diaries, what was your reaction the first time you read this episode?
KAYLEE BRYANT: Oh, I was so excited! I was so obsessed with The Vampire Diaries, and I ve watched it so many times. I feel like the past 5-6 years of my life have been in preparation for this. [Laughs] I got super nervous when they told me I was playing Elena. But the more that I realized it was me playing Josie and Josie who was playing Elena, the more I was like, Oh, this is okay. This makes sense.
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Netflix has just kicked off the month with some deadly news;
The Vampire Diaries has returned.
They tweeted, Update:
Totally our kind of thing.
Update: The Vampire Diaries has returned to Netflix UK/IE, if that s your kind of thing ✌️
Fans were devastated when the series was removed from the streamer November 1st 2020.
TVD ran from 2009 to 2017, and has been available to watch on Netflix for a number of years now.
At the time, one fan tweeted, Netflix really did look at 2020 and go what could make this worse??
Netflix really did look at 2020 and go what could make this worse?? and decided the vampire diaries could be removed pic.twitter.com/TRRXhcPRqr