‘The Witches of Mayfair’ Announces Season 2 Cast Members
The Witches of Mayfair has announced new cast members for its upcoming second season.
The AMC Networks series stars White Lotus actress Alexandra Daddario as a young neurosurgeon who discovers she has supernatural powers and is the heir to a family of witches.
New additions to the show’s next season include Hocus Pocus star Thora Birch, as well as Fatal Attraction’s Alyssa Jirrels and Big Sky’s Ted Levine (via TVLine).
Burch will play Gifford Mayfair, who is described as “a self-deprecating tarot card reader and wannabe bohemian who has been spending a lot of time at her lake house lately.”
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Jirrells will play series regular 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, the father of Harry Hamlin’s character Courtland Mayfair.
In addition to Daddario and Hamlin, series regulars include Jack Huston as Lasher and Tongayi Chirisa as Cyprien Grieve.
The eight-part series, based on Anne Rice’s bestselling trilogy of novels, was acquired by 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, executive producer of both shows, said last year during the AMC TCA press tour that “conversations are ongoing” about a potential crossover.
“You’ll see a lot of connections, both in terms of characters and in terms of geography… I think it’s almost like Easter eggs. We really want to tie the worlds together in a way that makes sense,” he said.
“Of course, on the one hand, they are completely different, but thematically and in terms of how Anne Rice handles the characters, we want to find a way to have that happen across different shows.”
Mayfair Witches season 1 available to stream on BBC iPlayer. There is no release date for the second season yet. Interview with the Vampire airs on AMC in the US and BBC Two in the UK.
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