This article contains spoilers for Season 2 finale of “Interview With the Vampire.' Though he’s now the showrunner for AMC’s “Interview With the Vampire,” Rolin Jones was initially unfamiliar with the Anne Rice novels that the TV series pulls from.
We get there and we look at each other, and we all go “Delainey” immediately, and there wasn't much discussion. None of the other actors were giving bad performances, there was just some sort of magic you just felt. This is an actor you're gonna see for the next four years; we got the first crack at her. We all know Claudia is dead now. Was there ever a version where she lived? No. Anne wrote that book out of the mourning of losing a child.