#c: daniel molloy

[madevampselle]

[dykesynthezoid]

It’s the same picture. You agree

[island-in-the-shadows]

Alice Theory A: Alice never existed, she was Armand the whole time. (And Daniel's daughters are from his other marriage.)

Alice Theory B: Alice did exist but some of Daniel's memories of her are mixed with memories that were of Armand because there was mindfuckery afoot.

Alice Theory C: Viewer loses all sense of sanity, pours over all the inconsistencies when Alice is mentioned and when Daniel's past is mentioned, wonders why the second wife is never mentioned but Alice is, creates Pepe Silvia board on wall to try to make sense of it, takes up shitty coping habit because the madness of wondering what the fuck any of it means and what a possible truth is is consuming your every waking thought, friends and family think you look twitchy, you add more to your Pepe Silvia board, you wonder how you're going to make it through episode 5 and indulge in your unhealthy coping mechanism, you re-read Devil's Minion and wonder if there's clues there, you think you spot a clue but you also think that's the madness talking, you rant out loud to anyone who will listen, you wonder if you should follow Alice down the rabbit hole because it's your merry unbirthday anyway...

[rijinks]

Now for something different; sad art featuring vampire Daniel. Marius is there.

After what we've seen in Blood and Gold, I imagine that once Daniel is able to face and order his thoughts, he will need to process some things emotionally. I'd like for him to have some catharsis.

This is before he and Marius are actually together. Please ignore the seeming height difference or imagine Daniel kneeling on an elevated surface or something.

[divorceblogger]

that 70 year old man is a newborn baby

[the-woman-upstairs]

Either Daniel decided “pivoting to video” was a brilliant move in his nascent career as a vampire journalist or Lestat only consented to an interview if he got to be on camera for it and I can't decide which is funnier.

[masteredinstinct]

❛ revelation . show my muse evidence of a lie they told . (from daniel?)

the recordings of his voice felt awfully alien . the seventies had not been that long ago --- what were decades in the eyes of eternity ? but louis couldn't recognise his own voice : the drawl he had carried with him for so long had been lost in this new era . no longer did he keep any souvenirs of new orleans with him ( none that were not written in blood ) . the anger and sharpness of his words felt jovial , reckless and rude . the louis in those audio files made choices the louis sitting before daniel molloy today would never make . and , of course , the louis de pointe du lac of the recording LIED THROUGH HIS TEETH ; portrayed lestat de lioncourt like some demon from the fiery pit . like a talentless fool . like a mad all powerful being incapable of pain or remorse or love --- emerald eyes fluttered .

he appeared frail and stupid to me , a man made of dried twigs with a thin , carping voice [...]

louis exhaled through his nose , lowering his gaze . the shame he felt was not owed to daniel molloy and , yet , it was he who sat before him , staring louis down as if expecting an apology ( as if a vampire such as himself would owe that boy anything ! ) . when louis' eyes met molloy's any trace of sheepishness had vanished . "does it upset you , daniel ? that my recollections at the time of our first meeting were exaggerated ?" there's a tilt to his head before he continues . "you were an addict looking to score . you used your profession as a pretext to smoothly slither through the doorway of strangers' homes in order raid their pockets and lives ." there's a flash of teeth . louis' smile is as cruel as his words . he'll regret it later . but to be judged by daniel ? OF ALL PEOPLE , HIM ? it was a surprisingly unbearable thought . and so , like any cornered animal , louis snapped his jaws at him .

"i could have told or done whatever i very well pleased with you . as long as there were rows of white lines to be cut , you would have nodded your head ." louis shrugs as if this is a fact . as if this is easy to admit to . he dares not lift the rug hiding the cellar door that would lead them both to deeper more meaningful truths about that night in san francisco , about who they were , who they had become to each other --- he shifted in his seat , carefully folding his hands upon his lap . LOUIS HAD NOT SPOKEN OF HIS FAMILY TO ANYONE SINCE LEAVING PARIS ; not until daniel showed up .

whether they liked it or not , that mere fact carried weight . to trust someone with your story , even if a bastardised version of it , meant something , right ? something earnest flashes across louis' features . he dares not conjure it . " if there is anyone in this room worthy of your disappointment , danny , it would be you . "

[aranostra]

Who can I confide in? Who can really hear? Who can keep my secrets? Who can see me clear?

[proustianrevelry]

i love that because of the way vampires reproduce, Lestat is cuckolding both of his companions in the two respective meanings of the word.

He is trying to dominate and humiliate Claudia by monopolizing Louis's attention and replacing her with a sexually desirable (white, looks like an adult) woman, and he is also laying an egg in Louis's nest in hopes this new chick will kill or drive out the original clutch.

[infinitusvoces]

❛ And rather than fix it like I should I run like a coward. ❜ ( daniel )

Daniel stood before him with his hands in his pockets, recently fed. His head tilts as he looks into Armand's eyes, own eyes bright as he looked on. It continued to remain incredibly complicated between them, this not helping matters in the slightest. There were a lot of ways Daniel could retort, and each of them would knowingly bring about a different aspect of the conversation. He had a lot on his mind. "And it leaves me to pick up the pieces, wondering when you're going to come back, or if you are. Running doesn't make it hurt any less you know. It just makes everything worse in the end." Quit running.

@devourcr

[retiredkat]

Great interview with Eric Bogosian

Vulture article

Eric Bogosian Would Get Naked for Interview With the Vampire 10:31 A.M.

Daniel Molloy is a fictional two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, bullshitometer, and sass-kitten, an aging journalist holding his own among monsters while conducting the titular Q&A at the heart of Interview With the Vampire. With clear-eyed wit and a dash of human vulnerability, Eric Bogosian gives Molloy a distinctly Anthony Bourdain–ish edge infused with notes of his own acerbic Talk Radio character Barry Champlain. In Anne Rice’s book and the movie that followed, Daniel Molloy is a cub reporter trembling over his tape deck. But in Rolin Jones’s brilliant AMC adaptation, which just wrapped up its second season, this isn’t Molloy’s first twirl around the vampire hoedown. The conversation takes place 50 years after that first interview ended in blood, gore, and sexual frustration (Luke Brandon Field plays the younger Molloy in flashbacks, including this season’s standout episode five). Now Molloy’s seen it all, has a loaded past with these vamps, and when he trembles, it’s from Parkinson’s, rarely nerves. Molloy’s the audience surrogate, cutting through Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Armand’s (Assad Zaman) competing narratives while ultimately shipping Loustat just like the rest of us.

This delicate dynamic got slammed into a concrete wall and lit on fire (complimentary) in the final minutes of the season-two finale, when Molloy was revealed to have been turned into a vampire by Armand, breaking the ancient vampire’s centuries-long incel streak. And boy, is it a reveal, with a cocky Molloy, riding high on his best-selling book, whipping off his sunglasses at night to reveal color-changing eyes while doing mental walkie-talkie with Louis. He’s even got a sick leather jacket to really hammer home that he’s a cool bad-boy vampire now. It’s an incredibly fun beat to leave this character on and opens up a world of season-three possibilities for Bogosian as a performer who, at 71, has always wanted to play a vampire.

Do you know how weird it is to be hitting record on my MacBook right now to interview you about playing a character who’s always hitting record on his MacBook to interview people?

It’s all weird to me. I’m from another century, so all these things are new to me.

This is suspiciously sounding more and more like an interview with a vampire by the minute! Which makes sense, considering where we last saw Daniel in the finale.

Since we have multiple narratives and jump around in time already, I don’t know where things are going. Personally, I’d love to see more of young Daniel, Luke Brandon Field. I think he’s terrific. I’d love to see more Claudia. I wonder whether vampires can time travel. I think they can move around in time. I’m not sure how much Anne Rice you’ve read, but Merrick can actually bring people back from the dead, so you never know.

What was your relationship to the books when you signed on to this show?

In the mid-’70s, when Interview With the Vampire came out, I was 20-something and reading that stuff and I loved it. Then I got distracted by life. When we started doing the show, I was going to read the first one again, but then I realized that the script and my character were quite different, so I thought, I better stick to the script.

However, I needed to know what happened next, so I started plowing through the books and it was amazing. The Vampire Lestat was a trip — that’s what they’ll be hitting next — and they just got trippier and trippier. I just finished the seventh, which puts all the stories together. I love Anne Rice because her imagination is completely unfettered and she plays with really deep themes in a way that’s not heavy. It’s not like you’re reading Ayn Rand; it’s more like Stephen King. She explores death in the guise of these vampires by asking, Oh yeah, you wanna be immortal? Here’s what immortal looks like.

I’ve always been a big fan of vamps. I lobbied Francis Ford Coppola to get a part in his Dracula in the ’90s. I guess I wasn’t a big star, so I couldn’t get a part in it, but he was nice about it and invited me to set. I’ve told this story in other interviews, but my wife was directing a play in Chicago, which, totally by coincidence, was written by one of our first-year writers. On the plane there, I was thinking about life, thinking, I’ve done so many things. What’s left? And I thought, Man, I still really want to play a vampire. And when I landed, I got a phone call: “Do you want to be on Interview With the Vampire?” At the time, it wasn’t like, “You’re going to be a vampire,” but I figured vampire-adjacent was good enough. And of course, it evolved, and as I got on set, Assad was explaining all of these things that were going to happen with my character. Sometimes I didn’t even want to hear about it because we never know what’s going to happen. There have been slight detours off the main story, particularly with my character.

What were those things you didn’t want to hear about your character that Assad was talking about?

I become, you know, under his spell in later stories, and there’s a whole relationship that goes on between us. I’m not entirely clear at this point how that’s going to shake out or if it’s going to shake out. I didn’t necessarily want to go waltzing into something where they were making me do anything weird or awkward or embarrassing to no particular end. I’ve done nudity and stuff like that a long time ago, and at 71, I’m not really big on getting naked and sexy onscreen.

However, having been around the genius of Rolin Jones for two years, whatever he wants to do, I’ll do it. When you’re around a master like this, it becomes a process of discovery. When I’m learning my lines it’s like, Oh, this is 3-D chess. There’s a lot going on here that I didn’t see the first time I read it. When I first got this job, I thought I was just going to be doing bookends every episode, like, “So, tell me the story,” and then it would be vampires the whole time, and at the end I’d be like, “Hmmm!” And then, “stay tuned for the next episode!” But Rolin had this idea from the beginning and it went deeper and deeper until it was insane by the end of the second season.

I would prefer not to be playing cliché. Sometimes I’m playing something that feels like a lot of other things I’ve done. Even in the service of a show that is terrific, like Succession or Billions, the things I’m doing on those shows are not things I’ve never done before. As a friend of mine said when I was doing Under Siege 2 with Steven Seagal 1,000 years ago, “They just want you to do that Eric thing you do.” My stage stuff is about being very big and very loud, and a lot of the stuff I do on-camera is like in Uncut Gems, being very angry and very broad. But this thing, particularly in the fifth episode, and going into the end — I have to go places that I’ve never gone as an actor before. The subtlety of episode five, where I am brought to tears, that’s new stuff for me, and I was really happy to do it. Not only working with Rolin and the directors but with everybody. The writers bring a lot of sensitivity, a lot of nuance to every scene.

I need to ask if you’ve seen this: Someone from the writers’ room tweeted a picture of a note card that was on the wall for episode five and it just says, “MOLLOY ASKS ABOUT 1973: DID WE FUCK?”

I love that beat. As much as I’m known for my verbosity, I love reaction stuff, too. Jacob and I are very in sync, and we’ve developed a good relationship. He’s not holding back, he’s not being cagey, and that allows you to trust the other person a lot. You’d be amazed how some actors … are actually not good actors. They’re thinking about what they look like and all this crap. Jacob can’t be thinking about what he looks like because sometimes he looks really nasty. He’s letting the emotions build out of him. And yet he’s always very adept at sculpting what he’s doing. It’s a great company. I never work with Sam, I just see him all the time on set, but that scene in the courtroom, and the scene in New Orleans … where’s that shit coming from? The emotion is wild.

You all have incredible chemistry with each other, too. Knowing where your character might go with Armand, or what other buried history may or may not also be between them, how do you play that dynamic?

In scripted narratives, you’ve just got to play what the script is doing and let the audience try to figure out the rest of it. On Succession, I worked with Sarah Snook, and her character was never clear until the end. They were making it very hard to figure out what she was thinking. And I don’t know that she always knew herself what she was thinking. She was playing the script.

There are a lot of ways to look at it, and ask, What’s really going on here? Much of it is the audience putting it together. They hear the lines, they see my face, and an older actor’s face kind of has a narrative built into it. All of it gets put together, and what you don’t know becomes fodder for your imagination.

And this audience has quite the imagination.

I’ve never been through this experience before, exploring where the audience is at. I’m reading a lot of the blogs, and they make a science out of it. Rolin gives them all they can eat in terms of details and Easter eggs that are blended into the story. I think like 30 percent of our audience is really familiar with the books, so they’re constantly checking back and forth between Anne Rice’s story and ours. So far, Rolin’s been scoring pretty well in terms of being consistent with the original material.

But again, Daniel is a whole different ball of wax. The Armand thing is interesting, because it goes into all kinds of fascinating realms far away and weird. I had to get out history books and start reading about ancient Kyiv.

The fans aren’t even just pulling from the books; I’ve seen some draw comparisons from your work like Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. They’re finding all these crazy parallels.

That I haven’t seen. The character in this show and me in real life have a lot of parallels. Just imagine young Daniel in the show, that was my life. The funny thing is when I used to write and perform these monologues, in my mind they didn’t have anything to do with me. And then last year, Andre Royo, who played Bubs on The Wire, did one of my shows, Drinking in America, onstage. This was the first time that I’ve watched my own solo show, and he did a great job. I started to understand the biographical aspects of these monologues. It isn’t until afterward that I can look at it and go, Oh right, this is about that. Rolin told me that they were always thinking of me for this role. He didn’t know me, so this was coming out of his enthusiasm for a movie I did 700 years ago, Talk Radio with Oliver Stone. That was based on a play I wrote for myself. What I write about has to do with a certain kind of narcissistic personality, which seems to be the theme of this TV show — they’re all narcissists in one way or another.

I’m fascinated by my character. In episode five, when he’s in San Francisco, he’s kind of a loser. That’s what Armand says: “You might as well die right now. Where’s your life going?” And yet Daniel has two Pulitzer Prizes by the time he’s an older guy. What is that about? I would almost not believe it except that it happened to me. I was leading a really dissolute life in the late ’70s into the early ’80s. I didn’t win a Pulitzer, but I was nominated in 1987 and continued to be, I guess, “successful.” So it makes sense that it happens to Daniel. But you can also ask, What motivates this? It’s a way of fighting against the world or maintaining your sanity.

I think I’ll continue to play with the push-pull of this guy if I continue with the show. In San Francisco, he says, “Make me a vampire.” Later in Dubai, he says, “No, I don’t want it, because I’ll outlive my children.” He’s going back and forth. Of course, what we don’t see in the last episode is how did he become a vamp? Did he say, “Yeah, I want to do it?” Or did he get drunk with Armand one night and when he wasn’t looking, he became a vampire? I guess we’ll find out.

I’m sure it’s the subject of dozens of fan fictions already.

I’ve gotten so close with Assad. We’ve enjoyed spending a lot of time with each other. But when he gets on set, he turns into a different person. That’s some evil shit going on there. The way he ends up in that last episode, kind of smashed, he put everything into that. It’s a lot of fun. I never got into this business to do anything other than make believe and pretend. I feel more whole when I’m being somebody else than when I’m my own self, so the more deeply we can pretend when we’re making the show, the more deeply we can get into all of this, the higher I get from it. And when you’ve got guys like this who are ready to fly, I want to go flying with them.

I know you said you don’t really know what’s happening next season, but I look forward to your vampire adventures.

Rolin keeps sending me notes saying we’re gonna have an amazing time when we start shooting again. I can’t wait. It’s just that there’s a whole formal process of how this goes, and I’m waiting for my engraved invitation from the King of AMC to say “welcome back.”

[ariaste]

C & F for the fanfic ask for 'Daniel Molloy's Incredible Showstopping World-Famous Model Train Extravaganza for Children and Easily-Awed Vampires (Please Knock)' specifically <3

C:  How did you come up with the title to [insert fic]?

thought it was funny, and i was right

F: Is there a song or a playlist to associate with [insert fic]?

hmmm, more just associations with Devil's Minion in general, here are a couple song recs:

Ludo -- "Horror of Our Love" and "Love Me Dead"

5 Seconds of Summer -- "Teeth"

High Tea -- "Whole Lotta Lovin'" (heard this for the first time at a music festival and the band prefaced it with "this song is about 'what if the devil wanted to kiss you :)'" and I sat straight up and paid close attention)

Ye Banished Privateers -- "You and Me and the Devil Makes Three" (this one is allegorical; it is about a sailor who falls in love with something beautiful and deadly and VERY MUCH NOT HUMAN (in this case a cannon) and this great love dooms him to death and a romantic eternity. you get it. you see my vision)

Teddy Swims -- "Lose Control"

Depeche Mode -- "Personal Jesus"

Tom Lehrer -- "The Masochism Tango" (ok this one's closest to the comedy vibes of the fic specifically LOL)

[theinfinitedivides]

so glad i waited bc it has just been. blow after blow after blow scrolling through this tag the team behind this show is f*cking insane

i am not touching the IWTV tag until tomorrow bc i woke up with a headache and the feeling that a tractor drove over me so uh. no. i need to psych myself up for this one last time

[armandcock]

sometimes i get a little too ^ ^ about daniel molloy & just remind myself hes from 🤢c*lifornia

[failvillain]

daniel molloy's daughters went no contact with him, but if he KEEPS coming up on the news like "the pulitzer prize who started believing in vampires" maybe they'll have to check what the fuck is going on...

this is me asking, rolin. c. can we see them...

[len-scrive]

Rating: Mature

Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (tv show)

Relationships: Daniel/Armand

Characters: Daniel Molloy, Armand

Tags: Cosa succede quando Louis se ne va, Armand e Daniel parlano, Trasformazione di Daniel, Armand e Daniel lasciati da soli a casa

Lingua: Italiano

Sommario: Louis lascia soli Armand e Daniel. E questo è il racconto di quello che succede appena dopo. Almeno una delle tante versioni nella mia testa.

ooo

Louis aveva appena lasciato la stanza.

Dal momento in cui aveva incendiato il suo laptop a quando era sparito dalla sua vista era trascorsa una frazione di secondo impercettibile.

CONTINUA A LEGGERE SU AO3

ooo

Una veloce chiacchierata com’è d'uso dalle mie parti prima di augurarvi una (speriamo) buona lettura.

Il mondo creato dalla Rice non mi piace.

Chi mi conosce sa che per me è necessario sempre precisare certe cose, per la mia salute mentale.

In generale non mi piace il suo modo di scrivere, non mi piacciono molte delle cose che i personaggi da lei creati fanno e dicono e, nei libri, non mi riesce proprio di vederci quello che ci si dovrebbe vedere, che molti vedono. Le storie d’amore lì dentro ai miei occhi non sono storie d’amore e il racconto si concentra più su temi che per come vengono trattati sarebbe meglio non trattare affatto.

Non sto qui a precisare, ma ci sono scene all’interno dei libri della Rice che hanno risvolti e reazioni dei personaggi per me inqualificabili.

E partendo da quella base ho sempre fatto fatica a trovare interessanti sia dinamiche che personaggi delle Vampire Chronicles.

Quanto ho appena affermato cambia radicalmente quando andiamo a parlare della serie televisiva creata ispirandosi ai lavori della Rice.

Chi ha letto le mie impressioni sulla serie (se vi interessano le trovate su STIGAMES) sa che il discorso è molto più ampio di quello che posso fare qui, ma in sostanza la serie mi ha stregato.

La serie ha finalmente creato, per me, dei personaggi interessanti, pieni di sfaccettature e soprattutto NON DI GIOVANISSIMA ETÀ, cosa che in un vampiro io NON posso concepire.

La serie ha corretto certe cose, ne ha tolte altre, ha modificato al meglio altre ancora.

Come Hannibal nei confronti dei libri di Harris, anche la serie di Interview with the Vampire è una lunga fanfiction ispirata ai lavori della Rice.

E quello ha cambiato tutto, per me.

Continuo a ripeterlo perché il PER ME è importante.

Queste sono tutte opinioni personali.

Inoltre la serie mi ha dato anche la curiosità per andare a leggermi parte delle opere originali di cui ho elencato solo alcuni enormi difetti, ma che non avrei mai letto altrimenti.

Le varie versioni di Lestat e Louis conosciute finora non avevano mai destato il mio interesse.

La serie ha cambiato anche questo.

Veniamo ora a ciò che ho scritto io.

Riguarda Daniel e Armand che, al momento, trovo la coppia con le dinamiche più affascinanti.

Perché per me Louis e Lestat sono risolti, la serie è stata perfetta in quel senso e non sento il bisogno di aggiungere nulla.

Su Daniel e Armand invece c’è ancora TANTO da dire. E non vedo l’ora che la serie lo faccia.

Nel frattempo però sono qui a chiedermi che cos’hanno combinato quei due che noi non abbiamo ancora visto.

Anche in questo caso mi riferisco al Daniel e all'Armand della serie e, non serve specificarlo ma lo faccio lo stesso, il Daniel non giovane, che io trovo un personaggio infinitamente più interessante e affascinante della sua versione giovane nella serie stessa.

Perciò per me sono questi due personaggi ad interagire sempre e comunque.

Io spero tantissimo di poter vedere una versione riveduta e corretta di Devil’s Minion fornita dal team di sceneggiatori della serie che fino ad ora ha fatto un lavoro egregio. E il mio desiderio è che il Devil’s Minion della serie cominci dal punto in cui siamo adesso, senza andare a toccare mai più il Daniel giovane.

Questa è la mia speranza, poi si vedrà.

Ma tutto quanto scriverò riguarda loro due, perciò chiaro che chi ha deleterie ed infantili idee sul fatto che quel Daniel è troppo vecchio per quell'Armand o cavolate tristi di questo tipo può astenersi subito dal leggere perché al mio Armand quel Daniel lì piace e piace pure tanto.

Anche perché, vorrei vedere, cosa c'è che può non piacere?

Stabilito ciò poi c'è da dire che per me il mondo delle fanfictions è creatività a tutto tondo e spesso mi prendo libertà per quanto riguarda regole e ambiente che circondano i personaggi; anche perché la serie è meravigliosa e chi vuole immergersi nel vero racconto può guardarsi quella, ciò che scrivo io è solo un minimo tentativo di mettere nero su bianco quello che mi gira per la testa e mi piacerebbe vedere su schermo.

Ma sono certə che questi sceneggiatori mi stupiranno immaginandosi le cose cento volte meglio.

Nell'attesa della terza stagione questo è il mio contributo al rapporto tra Armand e Daniel.

Ne ho altre nella mia testa di versioni possibili di quanto accaduto a Dubai dopo che Louis è uscito di scena, ma al momento ho messo giù solo questa, la più breve e la più "ragionata".

Mi piace dare la mia personale versione della vampirizzazione e dei poteri che hanno i vampiri e quindi troverete alcune capacità vampiresche di cui non ho assolutamente la certezza o che ho inventato di sana pianta perché mi facevano comodo.

Come mi piace sempre ricordare: qui non c’è nulla di vero tranne i sentimenti e le emozioni.

Buona lettura!

Len