The actor was joined by costars William Fichtner and Justin Kirk at a special premiere screening hosted by EW.

Anne Rice’s Talamasca star Nicholas Denton shares his secret to mastering mind reading — or at least faking it

The actor was joined by costars William Fichtner and Justin Kirk at a special premiere screening hosted by EW.

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Nicholas Denton attends the AMC and 'Anne Rice's Talamasca' premiere. Credit:

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Actors are used to conveying their character's inner monologue — but *Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order* star Nicholas Denton has to manage *multiple* voices in his head.

** gathered the *Talamasca* team together on Tuesday to celebrate the upcoming premiere of the latest expansion of AMC's Anne Rice Immortal Universe offerings (the first two episodes launch Oct. 26 on AMC and AMC+). Sitting on a panel with showrunners John Lee Hancock and Mark Lafferty; executive producer Mark Johnson; and costars William Fichtner and Justin Kirk, Denton opened up about his months-long audition process.

"It was kind of quite tight-lipped, this project, so I didn't necessarily know a huge amount about what it was when I was going in for it. But it was a really interesting scene that had a lot to do with [my character's] mind reading capabilities — feeling the anxieties and showing what was going on in his brain," said the actor, who stars as Guy Anatole, a new recruit into a secret organization called The Talamasca that monitors the comings and goings of supernatural beings like those on *Interview with a Vampire* and *Mayfair Witches*.

Mark Lafferty, Dan McDermott, Mark Johnson, Justin Kirk, Nicholas Denton, Kristin Dolan, William Fichtner, and John Lee Hancock attend the AMC and 'Anne Rice's Talamasca' premiere event.

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"I think it was important to not do too much," he continued on the panel at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Robin Williams Center in New York. "If you do too much, it ends up looking hammy and a bit stupid. It takes away from the groundedness if you go into superhero mode."

For Kirk — whose character, Talamasca member Raglan James, crosses over from *Interview with a Vampire* — it's a piece of wardrobe that grounds him into the character, no matter which Immortal Universe series he's appearing on.

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"When one of the shows calls, I reach out the costume department and say, 'make sure we have some blocky eyeglasses for me," Kirk said with a laugh. "You know, when Chuck Berry used to play shows, the venue in the town had to provide a band for him and the amplifier. He just showed up with his guitar...the glasses are the band."

The cast's camaraderie was evident both on the panel and at the afterparty around the corner at Spyscape. And Denton and Fichtner teased that their characters' dynamic will be on full display in episode 4 of the spy thriller.

"When they were saying how close they got, there's an episode later where I came off the set and Nicholas said, 'I think I just got a lot of bill spit in my mouth," showrunner and executive producer Lafferty said.

Justin Kirk, Nicholas Denton, and William Fichtner at the AMC and 'Anne Rice's Talamasca' premiere.

Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for and AMC

"There was also a fingernail in my hair at one point," added Denton.

Though it was lighthearted behind the scenes, don't expect a lot of laughs from Fichtner's Jasper onscreen.

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"He might be the only person that speaks the truth all the time, and that was really appealing," Ficthner said on the panel of what drew him to the character. "And the bottom line was, listen, it's a vampire — it's not like something I get to play that often."

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