Is that interview still going on? That vampire is chattier than a character in a Kevin Smith movie.
The season directly adapts “The Vampire Lestat” the fan-favorite second novel in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. It heavily features Lestat’s rock star era and includes vital characters from the source material
Amaka Umeh is a classicly trained actress who played Hamlet in the Stratford Festival a few years ago. Yes, she played Hamlet, not Ophelia, and yes, she is an African-Canadian woman. Surprisingly, she is not the first black, female Hamlet.
The first Black woman on record to play the titular role of Hamlet is British-African actress Zainab Jah. She made history portraying the Prince of Denmark in a groundbreaking, contemporary-political interpretation directed by Blanka Zizka at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia from March to May 2015.
Amaka considers herself gender-fluid. Based on that and her appearance (muscular, very small breasts), I assumed she was a trans-gender woman, but I looked that up and I was wrong. She’s not “feminine” in the traditional sense, but is a biological female. She does seem to have a woman’s butt, as seen below, and she actually has a very feminine and sophisticated voice, as you might expect from a trained Shakespearian. She also seems to be exceptionally intelligent, based on the acute analysis and extensive vocabulary she demonstrates in interviews. She doesn’t talk like an actor, but more like a professor. The only other actors I have heard who can offer the same level of literary analysis off-the-cuff are Peter Weller and Armand Assante.
This nudity is a return to form for the series. There was some nudity in season one, then none at all in season two.