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It Tastes Different Playing Armand
Assad Zaman, the star of Interview With the Vampire’s audacious second season, guesses where his shape-shifting character can go next.
In a series that has explicitly used its titular interview to explore how truth, memory, and objectivity are malleable things, the unmasking of Armand as far from the nice guy he’s presented himself to be was a major moment and one that Zaman anticipated with equal parts obsequiousness and menace. Zaman’s performance is a marvel of control, with every minuscule head tilt, squint, and “serious theater director” arms-crossed pose conveying the belief that his centuries of experience allow him such maneuvers. There’s a pitiful quality to Armand’s seeming inability to understand love as an emotion that can’t be negotiated or strong-armed, and Zaman captures that aspect of the character in his soft eyes and pleading line deliveries, too.
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