#AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire

[delioncourtss]

If I was Armand and experienced the “are you companions” “yes” “no” debacle I too would go ape shit insane and destroy my situationship emotionally, physically and mentally

[vampire-in-the-corner]

Queen of the Damned Chapter 4 - The Devil’s Minion

i was taking too many screenshots of this chapter so I’m just giving up and posting the whole thing. this might be crossing into illegal e-book territory but idc i need all the AMC devil’s minion fans to read it. ignore the music and pause to read lol

[bloodofakashainme]

Ended up joining the Jam Fic club. I wrote some RPF inspired by the unscripted marriage proposal kiss. I was not in my right mind writing this but check it out! It would be greatly appreciated🫶🏾🩸

[85% smut btw🫱🏻‍🫲🏾]

[purgatorygrl]

UwU more edits of this bbys ♡

[savagewildnerness]

Sorry Armand! I missed your birthday yesterday! BUT, IN HONOUR OF YOU, as your present, I asked ChatGPT “Describe The Vampire Armand in metaphors.” I feel as though you would approve of me doing this, Armand… and look at the answer I received!

“Armand is a shadow draped in velvet, a moonlit figure caught between life and death, forever yearning for the warmth he cannot touch. He is an ancient tree whose roots burrow deep into the soil of time, yet whose leaves wither in the unyielding frost of immortality. His soul is a still pond, disturbed only by the rare ripple of desire, and his heart a hollowed-out casket, echoing with the whispered regrets of centuries. Armand is both the flame that seduces and the ash that remains, an enigma carved from night itself, a creature of contradictions—fragile and immortal, innocent and wise, loving yet forsaken.”

Hehehehehe… I found it very funny - “He is an ancient tree whose roots burrow deep into the soil of time, yet whose leaves wither in the unyielding frost of immortality.” 😂😅💀🌌🌳 and also pretty apt…. I dunno… you feel more piano-y than violin-y to me, Armand, so let’s go!

PS I am totally doing this for every vampire in the future!!!

PPS I felt like doing this in the dark!

[mostlyvampires]

It just feels like a Devil's Minion kind of day. Enjoy! And if you want, you can still find them and their patterns at the link to my shop!

Hello Interview with the Vampire Fans, I come bearing Dolls! I am SO EXCITED to finally start posting these! I've been working on IWTV DOLLS since August and I finally have the whole set done, also, their crochet patterns! So if you crochet, you can make your own: look for the listings with "PDF PATTERN".

If you don't crochet, you can buy the doll: look for the listings with "CROCHETED (VAMPIRE) ART DOLL".

If the doll you want is sold out, commission me to make you one. Just message me on ETSY & we'll talk out what you'd like.

I'll be posting them in groups of three Today, Wednesday, and Friday of this week.

Please reblog if you think someone you know would be interested in these. They've been a complete passion project for me and I really want to share the love! <333

[hyohaehyuk]

thejamlore: jacob and sam behind the scenes of season 1

sam: is this the [chessboard] i threw across the room? jacob: *shows a voodoo doll* this scared the sh– out of me […] sometimes it's better to not know!

video: Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire: Behind the Scenes | Stream now on AMC+

[thenightling]

Interview with The vampire TV series

I have a theory... It's a weird theory mind you so bear with me. In season 2 of Interview with The vampire Raglan James is introduced. Those of us who read the books know Raglan to be The Body Thief. He tricks Lestat into switching bodies with him and than runs off with Lestat's powerful and immortal body so Lestat is forced to rely on his mortal friend, and head of the Talamasca, David Talbot, to help him get his body back. There's an odd line in season 2 of Interview with The vampire where Raglan James says to Daniel Molloy "If I had your body I'd be running The Talamasca by now." What? Why? Do the Talamasca find seventy-one-year-old Eric Bogosian hot? What does Daniel's body have to do with anything?

This awkward line was probably just to throw the hint that Raglan is the body thief but it's still an odd way to do it. Daniel, in this version of the story, seems to have an understanding of Lestat that Louis and Armand lack. This version of Daniel is intuitive and now a powerful psychic (thanks to vampirism). David Talbot was a mind reader. I'm wondering if Daniel is going to be merged with the character of David Talbot the way Ciprien Grieve is a combo of Arron Lightner and Michael Curry in The Mayfair Witches show.

I suspect if the show makes it to the Tale of the Body thief story (as they seem to want to do for season 4 or 5) that Daniel Molloy might be the one who helps Lestat get his body back instead of David Talbot. This also adds to the reasoning of having Daniel Molloy be older in this version (David Talbot was eighty) instead of just having him get the interview for first and only time. I also wonder if "Real Rashid" is the young body Lestat gets tempted with and who David Talbot's (possibly Daniel's) soul ends up in by the end of the story. This would also lead to him being re-vampirized by Lestat and could mess with the Armand / Daniel ship of the books. By the way, I'm pretty sure Louis and Armand were going to make Daniel into their fledging that night before Daniel exposed Armand's dark, dirty, little secret. That's what the special dinner was going to be, and part of why Armand turned him anyway. It wasn't spite, it was love.

[lestatthevamp]

[murfpersonalblog]

Thank you for the video! I ran it through a transcriber:

Daniel Montgomery: Rolin Jones, you are the showrunner for Anne Rice's Interview with The Vampire, which aired its second season this past year.... The two seasons are based on the first book, Interview with the Vampire. What did you most want to capture from the novel over the course of these two seasons?

Rolin Jones: Yeah, a very particular romance. The strange war that happens between a 78-year-old man and a 148-year-old man, who still have some stuff to figure out. I wanted Anne's language to make an aggressive appearance; the prose that's so lovely in there, which is sometimes the thing that falls first when you're adapting. And then, yeah, I wanted an almost operatic experience for an audience, as well, to go with it. Emotions are really, really heightened. And yeah, I don't know. Just general, you know, I wanted it to be a nervy, vibrating, weird-ass show. God bless AMC for letting us make it.

DM: And how do you decide where to deviate from the source material, you know, what to expand on, what to leave out? Like, you know, I imagine those are difficult decisions in any adaptation.

RJ: Well...there's a lot of wonderful stuff in our book, a really beautiful book to work off of. I think the challenges were a little bigger in season two, mostly because there was a lot less plot in that book. The book is almost like five meditative conversations between vampires, and then some crazy events, and then, and then you're out! And we had to kind of create a lot of plot out of that. But for the most part, yeah, we try to put as jam as much Anne as we could in there. And the basic, the basic changes you make for anything that was beautifully written as a novel and the choices that you'd have to make to turn it into something that is, you know, for actors to speak. And for it to cut over 15 episodes. I don't know, I think we cannibalized that book! There's like, there's not a lot left. It's a couple of characters that fell off, for this reason, or that reason. We made some decisions about the timeline. But I'd say, I think it was done with a lot of love. And a lot of collaboration with Anne, who is no longer with us.

DM: And Season Two, you introduced the vampire troupe led by Armand. What most excited you about bringing those characters and storylines from from the book to the screen and, you know, folding that in?

RJ: Oh, well, anytime you can shove theater into the face of TV viewers is always a good thing! I hire a lot of playwrights, and a lot of actors from the theater. So I think if there's anything we were just trying to restrain ourselves from making a lot of insider dumb theater jokes that nobody could care about. I think, we always kind of had the specter of the movie behind us ,and they did that part really, really well in the movie. So a lot started out just as, like: Oh, how are we, how are we going to do it? How are we going to justify doing this again? I think there was a caveat from AMC too: Don't repeat the movie! We've seen it! It's beautiful, it's out there! Our timeline really opened up a lot of opportunities to make it a grittier, dirtier, slightly more dangerous Theater of the Vampires than the movie, or even in the book. And the joy of actually setting something in post-war Paris. You see Paris going over the war, you see a lot of Paris during the war, and then you don't see a lot of stuff done in those those first four or five years afterwards. Which was, I think, for all of us, was a nice way to feel like you were, you know, coming into Paris in some kind of a side door. And also just numbers! We had a season one was like a chamber drama between three characters. And we got to expand it, not only with just the bodies, but in space and time to with, you know, what was going on with Dubai; and what what Louis was coming to realize was his truth along the way. So, you know, I got to cast Ben Daniels again! Ugh! <3 Best!

DM: And what was it like writing for him? Ben Daniels, in the role of Santiago? You know, that character being such a highlight of the season?

RJ: Well, we knew that's our that was our guy from the day one! Even if he was already scheduled to go be on Lord of the Rings and our dates weren't working out to begin with. He is somebody we had up on the wall. I worked with him on a TV show previously about like seven or eight years ago, seen his theater work, and know what he can do. He's just one of those really wonderful actors that can sort of turn on a dime, and take something that is very, very funny and then make it very sinister, just like that. The instrument is really huge. And we had a really hammy role for him! Which was, you know, he's just he's one of the really delicate butchers--just the right slice of ham on top of given circumstances and stuff, what a joy. And he also acts like a naughty 14 year old boy when the camera is off too. So it's a nice energy on on Sam. And he gets it like, you know, sort of like the grandad of our theater trip because they were all a bunch of theater actors who had known him growing up in the theater too. So that was a treat. You'd see it on stage. I mean, you see in the camera, there's a lot of joy. There's a lot, it feels like a theater company there. You know, nice to be with it.

DM: Now, there are more than a dozen books in The Vampire Chronicles. You're going into Season Three, you know, and you'll be covering The Vampire Lestat. Would you cover them all if you could, or is there like a specific endpoint that you have in mind?

RJ: I mean, like anything else, you're supposed to take a really good hard look at yourself and go: Do you have anything left to say about vampires? And, you know, they pay you to do this. So that's hard. And I have a three year old child and all that stuff. And who doesn't want a swim in the pool? But I think if you're really honest with yourself, you've got to say: Can you still bring it with the same energy that you brought it the first time? And for Season Three, I believe I can. And I believe our staff can. For 12...for TWELVE books!? Man! I think somewhere along the way, you got to hand that thing off. Because you're just, when you're up to writing the 540th scene of Louis, uhhh...you really need some new blood in there. I think that's a while off. You know, if I had my brothers, we'd do this, figure out Queen of the Damned, Tale of the Body Thief, maybe Memnoch? Somewhere there. And at some point, there will be somebody who already says: Oh, it clearly should be this person. And also! Vampires was--I mean, by that time, who knows how old Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson will look! They might not even look like immortals anymore! So we're just going to try, as long as AMC gives us the dough. We're trying to make aggressive things with it--we're very privileged to do it. But yeah! Look, I'm in the heat. It's hard for me to talk about Season Two, I'm in the heat of Season Three right now! I got Season Three Head in here right now. So I think I hopefully none of this all sounds really canned. It's just that I'm already in the next season.

DM: Now the show is getting a spin off about the Talamasca, who tied into Season Two. Does it complicate the storytelling process to have to factor in storylines that are happening in the same universe, but on another show?

RJ: It's fun, we're communicating with each other. You don't want to be the person that says: You can't do that, you can't do this. You want like John and Mark who are working on the Talamasca show to have as much freedom as I had. That being said, we have a couple of characters that are crossing over. So there's some communications between the two about, like, what those characters need to do in the next season of Vampire, and make sure that those things don't conflict. If anything, make sure that they can help build a better story. Like I'm reading the scripts, and grafting on the given circumstances of their show into ours. And that's cool! That's fun. And they're lovely guys too. So that makes it easy.

DM: Well, I want to congratulate you on your work on Seasons One and Two, going into Season Three of Interview with a Vampire. And thank you so much for talking to me about it!

RJ: Oh, a pleasure! A pleasure! *kisses* Gold Derby!

Interview with Rolin Jones.

Full video here 👇🏻

[delioncourtss]

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RIP Armand you’d love working in fashion ❤️

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[bloodofakashainme]

Never kys🙏🏾🩸

[stella-grier]

they are so funny 😄