But Cortland can, and eventually, so will Rowan. “A dark entity spirit,” is how Huston describes his character, explaining that Lasher “belongs to each one of these Mayfair Witches that inherit him, or he picks, or he chooses.” Alluding to his “great power” and an “ulterior motive” he carries “throughout the show, which later comes to light,” Huston explains that not everyone can see Lasher. “1,000 pages, you’ve got to get through it,” she said.ĭaddario’s Rowan, and the characters that Hamlin, and Huston are playing, Cortland and Lasher, aren’t just directly lifted from Rice’s books, but they share an otherworldly connection, as well. Apparently, it was common to see the actress carrying around at least one book at all times. But I think, in order to make a show that might go on for years and years, they would have to open it up, and they have.”ĭaddario later explained during the show’s panel that she took the research seriously and delved head-first into Anne Rice’s library.

It’s not exactly the book, word for word. “It’s interpretive,” Hamlin, who plays Cortland Mayfair, the matriarch of the family, added: “Some of the characters have been amalgamated. “I think when you’re making a show like this, I think you have to be quite picky about what you can exclude.” “It’s a very large book with a lot of different characters,” Huston, who plays Lasher in the series, said. As star Jack Huston, who was joined by castmates Harry Hamlin and Tongayi Chirisa during an intimate chat with Rotten Tomatoes before taking the stage for the show’s official panel at New York Comic Con, explained, the new show takes creative liberties where it can. As she attempts to reconcile these powers, and this newfound lineage, Rowan is faced with an unfamiliar world and a supernatural presence that has haunted the Mayfair family for generations.īased on Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, the series follows the same beats of The Witching Hour, the first book in the series. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario), who discovers she has special abilities and is directly related to a family of witches.

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is the next series on the docket for AMC that aims to further expand the network’s small-screen universe inspired by the iconic author’s work, first established by Interview With the Vampire, which premiered earlier this month.Īt the center of the story is brilliant neurosurgeon Dr.

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