Published Oct 28, 2026, 7:30 AM EDT
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Dimitri Belikov is a difficult character to get over. Readers of Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy books already knew that before Kieron Moore put on the leather duster, but Peacock’s adaptation gave them another reason to get attached. Unfortunately, its cancellation after one season meant saying goodbye long before the source material ran out.
Moore has been keeping busy, and his latest movie puts him back in supernatural territory. Vampire Carnival casts the actor as Eric alongside Jason Isaacs, trading the academy for a considerably more sinister attraction. For viewers who have been missing their favorite guardian, however, the project comes with a particularly bittersweet connection. During an interview with Collider’s Maggie Lovitt, Moore discussed returning to Pamplona, where he also filmed Vampire Academy. Asked about finally getting to wear fangs, he called the experience “a dream.” The familiar location made the opportunity especially meaningful:
“It’s kind of like . . . I don’t know. It’s like a full circle moment, and I think I’ve kind of come to the terms of the fact now that I may not get to be [Dimitri Belikov] ever again.”
He immediately left a little room for hope, adding, “My phone’s available, if they ever want to do a backstory.”
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Romance Is Your Favorite? Harry & Sally · Love & Basketball · Heated Rivalry · Titanic
Four great love stories, and four completely different ideas of what love actually is. One is a friendship that took twelve years to admit itself. One is two people who refuse to stop competing. One happens entirely behind closed doors. And one lasts five days and never stops mattering. Eight questions decide which one is really yours.
🍂Harry & Sally(1989)
🏀Love & Basketball(2000)
🏒Heated Rivalry(HBO Max)
🚢Titanic(1997)
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01
How does your love story start? The first scene tells you what kind of story this is going to be.
AWe are friends for years before either of us says anything. BWe want the same thing and neither of us backs down. CNobody can know, including our closest friends. DOne look across a room and everything changes.
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02
What do the two of you keep arguing about? Every great romance has one fight it has over and over.
AWhether this is actually happening, and what to call it. BWhose career comes first this year. CWhether we will ever be honest about this in public. DNothing small. When we fight, it is about everything.
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03
How do you show somebody that you love them? Grand gestures are easy to write. This is the harder question.
AI remember every single thing they have told me. BI show up to the things that matter to them. CI keep their secrets like they are my own. DI would give up something enormous for them.
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04
What is actually standing in the way? There is always something. Which something tells you the genre.
ATiming. We keep finding each other at the wrong moment. BAmbition. We both want big lives and they do not match. CThe world. It is not safe to be open about this yet. DEverybody around us has decided this cannot happen.
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05
Which romantic moment gets you every single time? Be honest. There is one that works on you and you know which.
ASomebody running across a city to say it before midnight. BSomebody in the stands who stayed until the very end. CA look across a crowded room that nobody else catches. DSomebody promising to hold on, and meaning it.
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06
What would you actually risk for the right person? Every romance asks this. Most people find out far too late.
AA friendship I could never get back. BThe plan I have had for my life since I was a kid. CMy privacy. All of it would become public. DEverything. I would not think about it for long.
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07
Where are the two of you in ten years? Some love stories are about the meeting. Some are about the staying.
AStill talking. We have never run out of things to say. BBuilding something together, both of us still ambitious. CFinally open about it, after years of being careful. DApart, and I still think about it constantly.
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08
Which of these sounds most like something you would say? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your romance.
AI would rather talk to you than anybody else, forever. BI am not giving up either of us. We find a way to have both. CThis is mine, and I am not explaining it to anyone. DI would do the whole thing again, even knowing how it ends.
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Roll The Credits Your Romance Is…
Four love stories, four completely different ideas of what it means to be somebody's person. This is the one that matches how you actually fall, and what it would ask of you.
Harry & Sally
You do not fall for strangers. You fall for the person you have already been talking to for years, which is the slowest and by some distance the most durable way anybody has found to do this.
- When Harry Met Sally made the case that the best romance is an argument you enjoy, conducted over a decade, by two people refusing to admit what is happening.
- You want to be known rather than swept away. Somebody who remembers your worst story is doing better work than anybody arriving with flowers.
- The film is unusually honest about timing. These two are wrong for each other repeatedly until suddenly they are not, and neither of them engineered it.
- You would still be talking about everything at eighty. That is the entire promise.
Love & Basketball
You want a partner, not an audience. Somebody who wants their own life as badly as you want yours, and who would never ask you to be smaller to make the relationship easier.
- This is the rare romance where both people have a real career and the film takes both of them equally seriously.
- You would rather be pushed than protected. The right person for you is also a bit of a rival, and that never entirely goes away.
- It understands the actual problem in ambitious relationships. Not whether you love each other, but whose turn it is this year.
- You would still be competing at forty. That is how you would know it was working.
Heated Rivalry
The intensity was never the problem. The secrecy is. You are drawn to a love that lives entirely in private, and to the particular ache of wanting somebody you are not supposed to want.
- Heated Rivalry runs on the oldest engine in romance: two people on opposite sides, meeting in secret, getting far more attached than either of them planned.
- You keep your private life genuinely private, and something in you finds hidden things more real than public ones.
- The tension is not only between the two of them. It is between what they have and what it would cost either one to say it out loud.
- Years of this, and the whole story is really about whether either of them will finally stop hiding.
Titanic
You do not do this cautiously. When it happens for you it is immediate and total and it rearranges everything, and you would not accept a smaller version of it.
- Titanic gave us the biggest romance in film history and then made it last about five days, which is precisely the point of it.
- You measure love by intensity rather than duration. A few days of the real thing beats decades of something merely comfortable.
- The film is not only about the romance. It is about a woman who went on to live an enormous life afterwards because of it.
- You would still be telling this story at a hundred years old, and telling it exactly the same way.
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Kieron Moore Still Gets Recognized for ‘Vampire Academy’
Image via PeacockReturning to the same filming location wasn’t the only reminder waiting for Moore on Vampire Carnival. Eric’s wardrobe also included a leather duster, an item that comes with some fairly significant associations for Vampire Academy fans. Moore admitted, “The only thing I was worried about was the leather duster because of, I guess, Dimitri and the Van Helsing aspect.” Seeing the costume on the monitor settled that concern: “That’s really cool. That’s really cool.” For all the familiar clothing and supernatural connections, it’s the people still discovering Vampire Academy who give the role its staying power. When Lovitt asked about the show continuing to find viewers, Moore said, “It’s just an honor, really.” He added:
“I learned how to be an actor on that job, really, and how lucky am I that it’s this cherished character, you know?”
The affection hasn’t disappeared as Moore’s resume has grown. “I still get stopped for Dimitri now, which is so nice,” he shared. As for leaving the series behind, he said, “It’s hard to say goodbye to something always, and it’s just always a shame because you’re like, 'What could that have gone into?' But it’s really rewarding when you meet people that appreciated what it was.” There’s also the possibility that each new project will send another audience back to the academy. “Like when Boots came out, people went back and watched Vampire Academy because of me and Max,” Moore said.
Moore's latest vampire role gives those viewers another destination, with Vampire Carnival arriving on VOD October 30. Stay tuned at Collider for more.
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