When Anne Rice Season 2 Witches of Mayfair premiering Sunday, January 5 on AMC, fans will be introduced to two new characters played by Alyssa Jirrels and Ben Feldman.
During an exclusive screening of the season 2 premiere that he hosted Entertainment Weekly at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Thursday, Dec. 5, the two actors revealed that they eased into their roles and the show’s witchy world.
Jirrels, 24, plays Moira Mayfair, a character based on Mona Mayfair from the books. Moira is the sister of Tessa (played by actress Madison Wolf), the witch who perished in the penultimate episode of the first season. Before jumping into the role, Jirrels seems to have done her homework.
“I read something from another book. I watched the first season,” Jirrels replied after EW host and senior writer Maureen Lee Lenker asked how she prepared for the role. “And, I’ve said this before, it’s an amazing group of people to walk into as a rookie. It’s a really fantastic environment to be in and wild.”
“I think Moira doesn’t feel welcome and she’s also quite an outsider, so there was a lot that I kind of tapped into in that capacity,” she adds.
Actors Tongayi Chirisa, Charlayne Woodard, Dimitri Hamlin, Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, Alyssa Jirrels, Jen Richards and Ben Feldman attend the Los Angeles Premiere of AMC’s “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches” Season 2 at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever on December 5, 2024 .in Los Angeles, California.
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Feldman, 44, joins the cast as Sam “Lark” Larkin — a successful CEO of a genetics startup who is also the ex-boyfriend of neuroscientist Rowan Fielding (played by Alexandra Daddario). And not having access to his inner witch made his job somewhat easier.
“[Jirrels] had a harder job than me because she has to do with this world and part of this family and these powers, and I’m just a guy who shows up,” Feldman said of his initial impressions on set. “So it was relatively easy for me. I was just kind of playing around because my job was to ask ‘What’s going on?’ ”
Similar to Interview with a vampireanother AMC show based on an Anne Rice novel, Witches of Mayfair was shot on location in New Orleans. For Jirrels and Feldman, exploring the area was a highlight during the filming of Season 2.
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Cast members Harry Hamlin and Alyssa Jirrels work on the Mayfair Witches panel.
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“I think it’s really important to me to go drink and eat, and make sure everyone does at some point,” Feldman recalls when asked if the cast ever went out and partied on Bourbon Street.
“Every day was just a parade,” adds Jirrels, who also admired some of the area’s culture and festivities. “I was sitting in a yoga class and they were talking about the Easter procession and the procession the day before Easter, the procession the day after Easter, the procession on the Tuesday after Easter and Sunday morning. It was just ridiculous.”
“And all parades have themes, like one where they throw vegetables at you,” she said, before joking that they avoided the Mardi Gras madness altogether. “We went and saw jazz. We were very sophisticated.
Watch Witches of Mayfair when it returns to AMC on January 5.
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