Alexandra Daddario said she was intrigued by “Mayfair Witches” author Anne Rice: ‘She was in and out of the church, but really believed in God. She also believed in ghosts.’
The Emmy nominee stars in “Mayfair Witches,” a new AMC series based on the“The character was very cool, and Anne Rice was someone … I hadn’t read her, but I had heard about her. I felt it was a cool learning opportunity to figure out what motivated her to write these types of stories. It was fun for me,” Daddario, 36, told The Post.
Premiering Sunday, Jan 8 , the supernatural drama follows neurosurgeon Dr. Rowan Fielding , who is unaware that she’s secretly the heiress to a powerful dynasty of witches haunted by a sinister entity called Lasher .Daddario said that while she wasn’t familiar with Rice’s work before, she dove into reading about“That was incredibly helpful in developing the character.
“This is a very complex character,” she said. “I was intrigued by Anne’s relationship to the world around her. She lost a child at a young age. She was in and out of the church, but really believed in God. She also believed in ghosts [and] she got involved in studies of the supernatural. That helped me understand these stories and the out-there nature of a lot of it. She wrote erotic novels; I didn’t know that.
“Sure, yeah. I don’t think that’s where the show is going, I think it’s an anthology except for [Jennifer] Coolidge,” she said. “But if Mike White had a great idea for something and asked me, I trust him. But I’m so grateful to have been part of it at all. I’m happy leaving it where it was.”
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