‘Mayfair Witches’ Trailer Reveals Ted Levine as Major Book Character (VIDEO)

Kelli Boyle October 31, 2024, 12:00 pm

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Child Lasher grows freakishly fast in the first official trailer for Mayfair Witches Season 2, which also gives the first look at Silence of the Lambs star Ted Levine as Julian Mayfair, a major character from Anne Rice‘s Lives of the Mayfair Witches books.

Premiering this January on AMC and AMC+, Mayfair Witches stars Alexandra Daddario as Dr. Rowan Fielding, who magically gave birth to Lasher’s (Jack Huston) human form in the Season 1 finale. The new trailer (above), fittingly released on Halloween, shows child Lasher growing into his full-grown form as the Mayfair family and those close to him struggle with taming his presence. The video also gives more in-depth glimpses into new characters played by Mad Men‘s Ben Feldman and Fatal Attraction‘s Alyssa Jirrels, hints that Rowan and Ciprien (Tongayi Chirisa) are no more, and shows Harry Hamlin‘s villainous Cortland Mayfair being released from the spell that turned him to stone, although he definitely seems to still be trapped in some kind of magical realm.

Chirisa, Hamlin, and Jirrels, along with showrunner Esta Spalding and Immortal Universe executive producer Mark Johnson, announced the Season 2 premiere date during their New York Comic Con 2024 panel on Thursday, October 17. The panel was preceded by a screening of the Season 2 premiere, and the panel gave more context into the Interview With the Vampire crossover teased in the San Diego Comic-Con trailer released this summer. The October 31 trailer doesn’t show the quick clip of Felix (Gabriel Freilich), the vampire seen in the IWTV Season 2 finale in present-day New Orleans, but it does show a woman vampire unknown to this franchise so far.

Here’s what we know about Mayfair Witches Season 2, including details shared by the cast and creators during the panel and first-look photos.

**When does Mayfair Witches Season 2 premiere?**

Mayfair Witches Season 2 premieres Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 9/8c on AMC and AMC+.

Who’s in the Mayfair Witches Season 2 cast?

Daddario returns as Rowan, with Huston as Lasher, Chirisa as Ciprien, and Hamlin as Cortland Mayfair, among other returning supporting cast. Jirrels plays Moira Mayfair, sister of Tessa, who was killed in Season 1.

Feldman joins the cast as Sam “Lark” Larkin, a book character connected to Rowan’s past, and Levine plays another book character, Julian Mayfair, father of Cortland and an extremely powerful Mayfair witch. As Cortland says in the trailer, Julian is dead. The patriarch seems to appear to Cortland in whatever spell he’s navigating.

Alyssa Jirrels — 'Mayfair Witches' Season 2 Episode 1

Alyssa Jirrels as Moira Mayfair (Skip Bolen / AMC)

What happens in Mayfair Witches Season 2?

Here’s the logline for the second season: “Based on Anne Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Season 2 of Mayfair Witches continues the journey of Rowan Mayfair (Alexandra Daddario) after she has unwittingly given birth to the demon Lasher (Jack Huston). She is determined to understand what he has become — human or monster? — and to use him to fulfill her purpose as a healer, but when tragedy strikes, she must put aside her own desires and fight to protect her family.”

The panel revealed a lot of juicy details, including information about the upcoming crossover with Interview With the Vampire as teased in the San Diego Comic-Con trailer. Felix, Lestat’s (Sam Reid) vampire rat catcher from the IWTV Season 2 finale, makes his debut in the third episode of Mayfair Witches Season 2. That episode is when we “really start to feel the connection in the world” of the universe, Spalding said.

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Johnson also revealed that the third series in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, The Talamasca (filming now in England), will have “considerable crossover” with Interview With the Vampire.

IWTV characters that viewers have “fallen in love with or fallen in hate with” will appear in The Talamasca, Johnson revealed. Johnson and Spalding made clear that Felix is the primary IWTV crossover in Mayfair‘s second season and that the bulk of their current Immortal Universe crossover plans exist between IWTV and The Talamasca.

Spalding said that “two of the things that I loved the most in the Lasher book,” which are the Julian and Lasher backstories, are in Season 2 of Mayfair. “Both of those stories make it into the show in different forms,” she said during the panel.

“Julian is demented,” Hamlin said in the panel, adding, “No better person than Buffalo Bill to play my father.”

The panelists also said that the last few episodes of the Season 2 are set in Scotland and were filmed in Ireland. Glimpses of those Scottish scenes are played throughout the new trailer.

Tongayi Chirisa as Ciprien Grieve — Mayfair Witches' Season 2, Episode 1'

Tongayi Chirisa as Ciprien Grieve (Skip Bolen / AMC)

As for Sip, Chirisa said his “main mandate is to get the child [Lasher] to the Talamasca.” Sip also “can’t quite trust his superiors” at the Talamasca and is now making “independent choices” for the first time.

When asked by the moderator, TV Insider’s own Damian Holbrook, if there’s any chance of Sip appearing with the Talamasca in London, Chirisa replied, “Maybe.”

New character Moira is the “black sheep” of the Mayfair family and she’s a mind reader, Jirrels shared.

Prepare for a supernaturally good time.