Yahoo News Mayfair Witches announces cast additions for season 2
Mayfair Witches has announced the cast additions for its upcoming second season.
The AMC Networks series stars The White Lotus actress Alexandra Daddario, who plays a young neurosurgeon who discovers she possesses supernatural abilities and is the heir to a family of witches.
New additions for the show's follow-up season include Hocus Pocus star Thora Birch, as well as Fatal Attraction's Alyssa Jirrels and Big Sky's Ted Levine (via TVLine).
Birch will play Gifford Mayfair, who is described as a "self-deprecating tarot card reader and wannabe-bohemian who lately spends a lot of time at her lake house."
Related: Interview with the Vampire reveals season 2 premiere date
Jirrels will portray series regular character Moira Mayfair, a "mind reader who holds her family and Lasher responsible for the death of her sister Tessa," while Levine will play the "diabolical" Julien Mayfair — father to Harry Hamlin's character Cortland Mayfair.
As well as Daddario and Hamlin, returning series regulars include Jack Huston as Lasher and Tongayi Chirisa as Ciprien Grieve.
The eight-part series, which is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Anne Rice, was acquired for BBC Two and iPlayer in November 2023.
The acquisition follows the success of Interview with the Vampire, another Rice adaptation.
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Mark Johnson, the executive producer of both shows, revealed last year during AMC's TCA press tour that there are "ongoing conversations" about a potential crossover.
"You'll see a lot of connections, both in terms of characters and in terms of geography... I guess almost like Easter eggs. We very much want to tie the worlds together in a way that makes sense," he said.
"Of course, they're completely separate on the one hand, but thematically and in terms of how Anne Rice deals with character, we want to find a way to have that flow throughout the various shows."
Mayfair Witches season 1 is available to stream on BBC iPlayer. Season 2 doesn't have a release date yet. Interview with the Vampire airs on AMC in the US and BBC Two in the UK.
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