"We're really using each other's spaces physically, but we're trying to, in the first season of this show, have only these very, very selective Easter eggs for the audience to pick up on," Spalding said. And when not filming at that location, they pulled off a lot of the shots using a set shared with AMC's "Interview with the Vampire" production that came before it.ĭuring a panel for the Television Critics Association prior to the premiere of "Mayfair Witches," creator Esta Spalding and Executive Producer Mark Johnson revealed that they had to paint over the wallpaper in one of their shots as it was visibly the same as what was used in interior shots for "Interview." Jumping on a flight to New Orleans, a place she believes to be visiting for the first time although, unbeknownst to her, she was actually born there, she learns that the Mayfair house is associated with witches, but what she doesn't know yet is that she is one of them.Īnne Rice's journal archives point to issues she would have had with AMC's "Mayfair Witches"Īlthough "Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches" was not able to film in the actual house Rice describes in her books – where she lived with her husband, poet Stan Rice and son, writer Christopher Rice – the production filmed a good portion of it nearby at the Soria-Creel House, an 1875 mansion with a similar exterior. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) seeks out this house after the death of her adopted mother Elena (Erica Gimpel) unfolds a personal backstory that makes her ability to kill people with her mind a little less confounding. In the second episode of "Mayfair Witches," titled "The Dark Place," Dr. Held in a near catatonic state in an effort to keep her from Lasher, the entity tied to her family name for generations, Deirdre sits stoic on the balcony of the Mayfair residence, aging along with the beautiful mansion in the Garden District of New Orleans inspired by the very home that Rice herself lived in for 15 years. In Rice's 1990 novel "The Witching Hour," the first of the series this latest adaptation is based on, we're introduced to the character Deirdre Mayfair, played by Annabeth Gish in the show. I'm referring to the Mayfair house itself.
In " Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches" - AMC's second adaptation of Rice's work after acquiring the filming rights to her "The Vampire Chronicles" and "The Lives of the Mayfair Witches" series shortly before her death - many of the main characters live beyond the standard rules of humanity, and one main character is not a human at all.
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