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a place made for leaving

➸ wip [1/5] ➸ loustat au ➸ priest lestat & author louis

famous author, louis de pointe du lac, has been struggling with inspiration for the past years, battling depression after losing his daughter, he decides to move to a small village in rural france. still attached to his catholic values, which are more of a reminder of the life he left behind than something that he follows, he starts to attend the local church. there, ouis finds inspiration where he least expected.

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Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.03: NO PAIN.

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*kicking my feet n giggling* you're kinda scary

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iwtv is the definition of when you read a fic on ao3 that's better than the book and you're like wait this should've been the book, but instead of being a fic on ao3, it's just rollin jones going wild on amc with amazing actors who are just as passionate (and freaks) as he is

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toxic immortal yaoi :')

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good luck babe.mp3

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the fact that iwtv on amc managed to create an incredible compelling character such as louis out of the husk of a soul that was presented in the books is honestly amazing. tv show louis is my best friend. book louis watches paint dry for fun and i would hit him with a car.

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you're serving cunt... your family is on trial and you are serving cunt??!!

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I'm so glad iwtv didn't give in to the usual morally-grey-characteresque tendency to go down the "well no one's the bad guy" route and went down the "everyone's the bad guy actually" route instead

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i hope all gringos are feeling a disturbance in the force (x can be unblocked at any point now in brazil)

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interview with the vampire cast [6/∞] bonus:

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Jacob Anderson gets a lot of very well-deserved praise on his accent work in IWTV, especially in the sense that it goes back and forth— the thick NOLA Creole drawl to the sterile, stripped-clean, carefully blank American that he uses in Dubai, and then back again. If you listen closely, you can hear him very subtly letting that drawl "seep" back in during really intense Dubai scenes. It's absolutely phenomenal.

BUT! I would also like to give Sam some flowers that I don't see mentioned much. Mostly because we only hear it in two scenes, with very few lines: the reunion scene in 2x08, and the S3 Teaser. Sam is doing! Two completely different accents at once! And I KNOW it's intentional bc it's a book thing and our boy has a doctorate in Lestat.

In Louis' account of events, Lestat was fresh off the boat. The French accent is very thick, and he also peppers in a lot of French into his sentences. (Most fic writers tend to lean into this). But by our start date in 2022, Lestat has been living in Louisiana for over a century. In TVL, set in the 80s, Lestat describes LOUIS as the one having an accent.

So what is Sam doing with this?

FOR STARTERS. There are whole stretches of words, entire lines in those scenes even, where Lestat sounds pretty casually American: "shut up" like "shuddup", "and I thought, who better to carry on the great work", "Siri, pause". The French thickens a bit when the emotion intensifies, but even then it's not entirely present like it is in the rest of the show. The nasality and softened "T" of "nineteen sevendy three" "Did you hurt yourself?", the "I can't, Louis." THE WAY HE SAYS LOUIS' NAME SOUNDS DIFFERENT. not lew-EE anymore, but LOO-ee.

The teaser?? Very fun. The entire line "There's a goblet on the table." And "but, then again...it might not." AND!! Of course accents of all kinds tend to soften when singing, but in the song he only sounds French when speaking French.

And these HAVE to be conscious choices, they have to be planned and the ratios played with because neither of these are Sam Reid's speaking voice. He is doing two accents at once and it's so subtle but it's also doing so much to make Real Lestat distinct from Memory Lestat. What a GIFT what a TREASURE what SUBLIME leads we have for this show.

(Assad I see you scheming too, I will gush about you too)

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when s3 drops and i can finally use the infamous petekey “i’m sorry every single song is about you” audio that’s viral on tiktok for loustat edits

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source: InkyBlotPosts

More (Jam Reiderson) info about this scene posted by the same OP

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Interview with the Vampire Season 2 | Episode 4 "I Want You More Than Anything in the World"

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So for all you cowards out there talking shit, talking about taking a run at me, hear this now and hear it plain. I own the night.

Happy 147th birthday to The Vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (October 4th 1877)