#TheVampireLestat star Sam Reid knew from the start that Sheila Atim was the perfect Akasha, thanks to a "genuinely terrifying" chemistry read together. "She has a mix of everything that you could imagine. I mean she's got a very vulnerable side to her Akasha, and then she has this incredible seduction in there as well, a great curiosity about the world. But she also is genuinely, genuinely terrifying."