Season 3 will bring Akasha, the Queen of the Damned, portrayed by Sheila Atim, into Lestat’s origin story. Akasha is an ancient Egyptian queen and one of the first vampires who became a statue. The showrunner is already planning for more intense future seasons featuring Akasha more prominently. The creative direction also aims to reach later themes from Anne Rice, including Catholic-inflected material. A potential adaptation involves Lestat drinking Jesus Christ’s blood from Memnoch the Devil, where Lestat is guided through heaven and hell by the devil. The novels frame mutual blood-drinking as a sexual equivalent, adding a provocative dimension.
"“It's just a taste of a level of ferocity and intelligent rage that is at a precipice ready to strike into the show and alter it,” Jones told Polygon. “You will feel a landscape-changing energy from her.” Akasha is an ancient Egyptian queen/one of the first vampires, who became a statue and, well, it's a whole thing. But stone vamp queens are only the tip of Anne Rice 's freaky vampire iceberg."
"“It's always a humbling experience to read her books because there's so much raw gold in there,” Jones said, “and there's so much thoughtful prose, and you can feel what Anne is going through as an individual, as a human, while she's writing those things.” At the time of Memnoch the Devil, Rice was going through the end of her atheism and the beginning of her return to the Catholic church."
"The LestatXJesus crossover takes place in book 5 of the The Vampire Chronicles, Memnoch the Devil. In it, Lestat is taken on a journey through heaven and hell by the devil, and Jesus offers his blood to Lestat to drink. And remember that in the original Rice novels, vampires can't get hard and thus mutual blood-drinking is their equivalent to sexual intercourse. So that could be fun to see."
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