#christian slater imagine

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[mysharona1987]

This is horrible, tho. Imagine all the people who put such hard work into this show…only for it to a frigging tax write off.

And, yes, I know they all still got paid, but it must be so disheartening. Especially for all the child actors who had to take time off from school/leave home for a tv show they assumed would help their long term career.

Same thing happened to the lead girl from the Batgirl film. Her career was on the rise and she turned down a lot of other promising projects to do the film. And look how that worked out.

[lispektor]

okay but imagine 17-year-old dean in a dingy bathroom of some random motel with a name that had long faded from its sign, haphazardly smearing bleach all over his head, gloveless as his fingers burned, a magazine cutout of christian slater taped with gum on the dirty mirror. he’d found the box crumpled at a gas station clearance shelf, just next to the expired slim jims (he’d pocketed both), and it had read ‘frosted tips for men’, just like those nsync guys chicks dug and sammy secretly liked.

sammy himself had tried to put him off from doing it, told him it makes him look gay (because he knew it would rile dean up) and sat perched on his elbows on the stained bedspread, looking curiously into the small bathroom. he didn’t know what was worse, the stench of mould and stale cigarettes, or the offensive sting of the bleach. dean had taken off his prized lynyrd skynyrd shirt so as not to ruin it, despite that piece of clothing having more holes in it than any damage any chemical could do. sam would look for a bit too long at dean’s exposed back, sinewy muscles flexing as his hands moved, the white paste dripping in specks across his sunburnt shoulders, mixing with the freckles.

dean had told sam it was because the girls would go crazy over it. what he didn’t say was that he’d cried into his pillowcase the week before, when dad had told him he didn’t know when he’d lost those golden locks of mary’s, as he ran rough fingers through dean’s too-long hair, so close that his whiskey breath had made the little strands move. dean didn’t know when he’d lost them either, he hadn’t noticed until that moment; it was as if after a particularly rough hunt his hair had gotten matted with the dirt and mud so deeply that it never washed out.

dean’s hair had been too light for how long he’d left the bleach in, and instead of restoring the golden curls of his youth, he’d ended up with white, stringy strands. when john had come home later that afternoon he’d stopped for a second, his expression making sam’s stomach do flips, the slim jims too close to his trachea for comfort. that had only lasted a breath’s time, and john had then called dean a vain idiot and smacked the back of his head jokingly. after the fifth beer of the night, he’d grabbed the clippers from his duffle bag and dragged his eldest to the bathroom by the ear, shaving all of it off, uncaring whether he’d nick his ear or not.

dean would never grow his hair out again, resigning himself to light brown spikes, the only memory of his mother’s blonde being in the picture as faded as that motel’s sign. he didn’t know his features would be a memory in and of themselves, he’d already forgotten what she looked like. his dad hadn’t.

[mameeta]

Brad Pitt's fang test shots for Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan

I found this and then I thought, bro was he originally supposed to play Lestat? And Tom Cruise fought his way in? Because I can see Christian Slater as Louis and it would explain him being in the movie in the first place. The Interviewer role, or Daniel Molloy as we know him as now, was a small role most actors of the time could have played.

Christian Slater wasn't small potatoes in 1994. And That freewheeling Lestat vibe was totally Brad Pitts style, and still is. No wonder he felt miscast.

But "OFFICIALLY" Brad Pitt was never offered the role of Lestat, but who knows what's true in Hollywood?

Now I am stuck imagining the world where that was the cast of the movie.

[cringedog]

Can you imagine being one of the people who read queen of the dammed between the years 1994 and 2022 so your devil’s minion is christian slater and antonio banderas banging it out in the florida keys

[nalyra-dreaming]

Who is your favorite and least favorite IWTV series, movie, and book character and why?

Hey nonny!

(There's two ways of reading your question, so I'm just gonna answer both versions^^)

My favorite is the new IWTV series, the revamping (ha, pun^^), of the characters, arcs, books in and by themselves while keeping the important bits and elevating it all to art is breathtaking. I love how clever it is, how much it subverts some tropes, how it plays with the meta level by giving us the books Louis reads, or what is laying around in the set behind characters. Hints over hints, and every friggin' line counts. Show of the decade, truly.

I will always love the 1994 movie, since it was what introduced me to the Chronicles, I cannot tell you the state I was in after I came home from the theater. I watched it daily as soon as I could get it on tape, I shit you not. (Easily Tom Cruise's best performance, too, imho, as a note^^)

And I waited years for the sequel... only to get Queen of the Damned. Ahem.

I am sorry, but that has to be my least favorite of it all, though Aaliyah was breathtaking. And the soundtrack was good.

Now character-wise...interestingly enough book-Louis came to mind immediately. He is (probably) my least favorite. And I say that as a fan *laughs* He is just... IDK. I know the history behind it, and I know the pain Anne must have been in (and which I do not dare to imagine), and I know why she had to leave him behind... but even though he has his reasons, too, they never really resonated with me. And neither did his backstory. As a vessel he works very well, because he is empty in IWTV, or he feels so for me, but as a character I do not feel him.

Thankfully the show version has completely eclipsed him for me, and I can finally enjoy who Louis truly is and who he will become - quite the feat I have to say, and I love, love, LOVE them for it.

All in all Lestat is probably the character who is my favorite though, not the least because he can be so capricious. There are... parallels to my own life, parallels the show will yet touch upon in future seasons. When I read The Vampire Lestat I felt those in my bones. It doesn't matter here if show, 1994 movie or book, though of course Sam... IS Lestat now. ^^ Season 1, filtered through Louis' (influenced) POV was only a hint after all, and... Lestat is yet to fully appear.

I do not really have characters that I don't like in the show - every character they have is very well cast, and very poignant in their function for the story, even the repugnant ones. They vibe. Maybe there will be a future show character I do not like in and by "themselves", but... I actually doubt it. They're so terrific at casting.

In the movie it is the same, on the contrary, I always remember here that Christian Slater jumped in for the late River Phoenix, and donated his salary, so there is always a warm feeling when watching him. For example. Antonio Banderas did have the gravitas and managed to... insinuate at least.^^ And watching that scene with the girl on stage in the theater, totally unprepared was something else. There was no sound in the theater. NONE. Absolutely breathtaking.

Now QotD of course... (the movie). Where should I start *laughs*. I said it before, but maybe the best thing that came of it was Sam getting into the VC through it. The worst was probably Armand there, lol. Not sure if he ever says anything in the theater cut (I know there were scenes cut), but... just...

So yeah.

Show characters and show have taken over^^. Will continue to take over, too, I bet. I cannot wait.

[blubushie]

BROTHER.

BRITISH JD OR AMERICAN JD.

QUICK. 🗣️🗣️🗣️

American. I've never seen British JD and school chain stabbings aren't as edgy as what JD tried to do. Grins

(Seriously, could you imagine if JD had pulled a knife in his introductory scene instead of a REVOLVER? THAT HE THEN FIRED? That's not anywhere near as crazy!)

Also I love OG cast JD. Christian Slater did an incredible job in the OG film and Ryan McCartan did a STUNNING job in his Off-Broadway role (and was also the singer for the official album).

[kevrocksicehouse]

Val Kilmer

1959-2025.

Reports of  Val Kilmer’s death had headlines touting Top Gun, Batman, sometimes Jim Morrison so it would be easy to downplay the eccentric and haphazard path of his career from the laid-back wunderkind of 1985’s “Real Genius” (substitute cybernetics for laser physics and he’d define Silicon Valley bros at least a decade early), to Christian Slater’s imaginary Elvis in 1983’s True Romance (“I like you Clarence, always have, always will” and “Shoot him in the head”), The great moment in Heat (1995) where the marriage of Kilmer’s bank robber and his wife (Ashley Judd) ends wordlessly with a gesture (stealing the movie from Robert de Niro and Al Pacino in the process) to his version of Doc Holliday in 1993’s Tombstone where he imagines the alcoholic gunslinger as Tennessee Wiliams might have written him. As Jim Morrison in The Doors (maybe the first rock biopic to become a supersmash) he gave a performance as deliriously over the top as Oliver Stone’s direction, which is saying something. In Batman Forever he might have been the most colorless version of the Caped Crusader but bookended by Jim Carrey’s at full volume and Tommy Lee Jones’ worst performance he was a Balm in Gilead. As for Top Gun’s Iceman he gave a convincing performance as the only guy in the unit who didn’t think Tom Cruise was all that, which made him not the audience’s surrogate but mine. And when he reprised the role 34 years later in Top Gun: Maverick unsparingly showing what time and throat cancer had done to his face, it was the only moving part of the whole movie. A good career. He wasn’t always my huckleberry but when he was, wasn’t he a daisy.

[greensparty]

Remembering Val Kilmer 1959-2025

Actor Val Kilmer has died at 65. Total bummer.

Kilmer as Morrison in The Doors

I first became aware of Kilmer from his 80s comedies like Top Secret! and Real Genius. I was actually surprised he made the transition to drama and never made comedies like those again considering what great comic timing he had. But after playing Ice Man in Top Gun, he was going for leading man drama and action roles. I actually had his action figure from Willow when I was a kid too. His portrayal of Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s 1991 film The Doors is one of the great music biopic performances of all time. If ever there was a performance that should have been Oscar nominated and wasn’t, this was it. The fact that years later you saw actors winning Oscars for playing the likes of Ray Charles and Freddie Mercury but Kilmer wasn’t even nominated for his lived-in performance is astounding to me. Kilmer also played Elvis in a small scene-stealing role in True Romance too. As he became a bigger star in the 90s, the stories about Kilmer were legendary: he was difficult to work with, he caused Joel Schumacher to push him on Batman Forever, yada yada yada. That Batman wasn't as bad as people think. But I digress. At a certain point, he started doing more smaller indies and supporting roles notably Heat, Pollock, and Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. But there’s no denying the strong performances he has delivered. Even after his health issues, he had a very touching appearance in Top Gun: Maverick.

Kilmer and Christian Slater in True Romance

In 2021, he got to tell his own story in the documentary Val (read my review here), in which his son narrates his words. The doc address the rumors of him being difficult to work with. He saw it as perfectionism and not being a hostile collaborator. He aspired to one day work with Stanley Kubrick and actually auditioned for Full Metal Jacket (imagine that).

The link above is the obit from AP News.

[thesoulbound]

The way I lmfao’ing over Christian Slater in “Rites of Passage” and and and trying hard - but not hard enough - not to imagine JD “Heathers” surviving and continuing being a nutcase -dies laughing-

[crazy56u]

Guess who has two thumbs and only barely got out of bed in time to do this?

"Previously on Quantum Leap: Remember that relationship bullshit?"

And Ben winds up in Yellow Filter Egypt.

And Ben does the smart thing and immediately finds a wallet.

"You see that pyramid? That's how you know we filmed on location."

How much do you want to bet they didn't cut anything, and Raymond Lee actually did walk until the sun started going down?

"1961. You want an actual date. Fuck you."

There's a different world where that man slightly raising his newspaper was supposed to mean he wanted Ben to fuck off.

"When are we meeting?" "1PM" ...yeah, you're kinda late, there...

Ben, you've technically been a spy at least three times by now (fourth if you count undercover cops).

And cut to the life Ben should be living, just to tighten the screws.

And of course Tommy's about to propose. How much do you wanna bet that's getting flushed too?

Ian, you know damn well what she means by "a ring", don't be coy.

"You've never leapt out of the country before. It took Sam four seasons to get to Egypt."

Addison, not for nothing, but leaping is technically the same as espionage, given how you described it.

Yes, keep loudly talking to ghosts in the middle of the trailing mission, that never ends poorly.

["That's right, you sit there for a minute, and you think about how you fucked up, son."]

You got bluffed by a Zippo, Ben, you are bad at this.

Yeah, I'm willing to bet we ain't leaving Egypt this leap, ma'am...

"The traitor from your embassy." ...not to get conspiracy theory-y, but given how Ben's waitress friend returns this episode...

"Nomad's a myth." Confirmed. [Inside joke.]

I swear to God, I keep thinking this guy is played by Christian Slater, even though he isn't.

Sir, that was a shitty-ass fake sneeze, you better hope no one actually noticed that.

"Ben, you're gonna get fucking killed if you fuck up today. Pep talk over."

Annnnnnnd der she is! Not having aged a day since 1947!

[Seriously, I'm still on the "Hannah is a secret leaper" camp, this is the third episode where she got involved on a leap where Ben was some form of government agent doing some form of government agent shit, there's a connection here...]

[If there's nazis in Egypt this time, I swear to God...]

"I waited a long time to see you." ...it's been six years, though. Last time, it took you 8.

"How do you feel?" "Alive. Waiting for renewal."

Ben, I'm willing to bet Hannah is the reason you're here, and not to get conspiracy theory-y, I think we both know what I mean by that...

"...Hannah, my hologram-ex just indirectly gave us the okay to pretend to be married this leap, you in?"

"Darling, are you enjoying our honeymoon, which we are both on?" "Yes, we are definitely married and on our Egypt honeymoon, this is natural conversation."

Well, Ben, maybe you can slip in the backdoor and undo your fuckup...

Ben continues to suck at Metal Gear Solid, so in comes Suddenly Southern Hannah.

I am actually fucking impressed that this gong show worked.

"Okay, kid, you scored." That terminology existed in 1961?

Hannah, there's 34 minutes left, unless this is a multi-leap episode, you ain't done.

"I told you to photograph the meeting. You sent in a Southern woman, and slipped me a recorder. How did you fuck this up?"

...well, ma'am, to be fair, Ben kinda sucks at this spy shit...

I love how Addison left after Hannah's sales pitch.

Oh, that's because Addison's heart broke, I don't wanna laugh, but dear God, this makes me want to so bad...

Imagine if they decided to hard cut from Ben and Hannah kissing to Addison sobbing in the break room, dear God, this plot twist is so damn funny, I'm trying to not be like this, but dear God...

"No, Ben, you are the nomad." And then, Ben was a zombie- wait.

And cut to Addison getting drunk in Magic's office.

"Be true to your present, Addison." It will be doubly funny if it turns out my theory about them undoing the time skip is still in the cards...

...why does this double-break up feel like Addison telling Ben she quits?

"Like I said, she's a pro." "She's gonna make it." Annnnnnnd three... ...two... ...one...

Ben, time to make like a tree, and get the fuck out of here.

"Look, while you were off having a romantic subplot with that Hannah lady, I had to do my goddamn job, even if that meant blowing Layla's cover!"

Oh, don't fucking tell me we're having Layla be killed offscreen, that's dirty fucking pool, episode...

"Annnd... Fade to black. Whelp, that was a sad way to end it, but hey, maybe people won't mind-" "Frank, there's still 20 minutes left in the episode." "But, I- we- where the fuck do we go after killing Layla?!"

"Maybe this is why we kept crossing paths; sooner or later, I was gonna fuck up big time..."

[And it is around this point I am reminded of them discussing the grandfather paradox during the trailer for this entire {chunk of the} season...]

Addison, don't act like the solution isn't having someone leap into Layla to fix this...

...

...I swear to God...

...

...okay, I am actually annoyed, you don't make us think Layla died offscreen, only to pull the "Just foolin'" card, THAT is dirty fucking pool

Oh, hey, they remembered Ben got a phone number at the start...

And so we have a chase scene in a mosque. But at least the bad guys know to take their shoes off.

And so Ben knocks out that Bill Burr looking motherfucker.

...Ben, you are so close to doing the full Kyle Reese, just say the line properly...

Plot twist, Layla was secretly Hannah, was a shock!

Yeah, get fucked Bill Burr, say bye bye to your car!

"Look, we're sorry about lying about Layla getting killed offscreen, how about we have her drive off into the sunset instead, we good?"

Hannah, call me totally nutty, but I think you'll see Ben again this season.

"I spent more than two dozen leaps looking backwards. From now on, I look forwards" Translation: #RenewThisShowForSeason3.

"So, Ben almost fucked up the leap, but turns out he didn't, that's wanna see me propose?"

...goddamn, this is a plot-twist heavy episode.

["Whelp, we ran out of pre-strike episodes! See ya next year!"]

And to think, I almost missed this one.

[butchybats]

you’re stranded on a desert island with Christian Slater Daniel. what will you do?

Syl I love you so much

I would go woah you’re literally christain slater daniel molloy thats so cool!!!!!! And then we’d gay kiss because we’re both t4t he/him lesbians and id ask to wear his silly little vest and asked him where he shops. Ummm I would make him recite to me the entirety of iwtv and and then i would ask what it was like to be attacked by both louis and lestat like damn how did homie survive that????? And then I’d ask about armand and if devils minion is a thing or if he’s with lestat like can you imagine 1994 iwtv lesdaniel thatd be monumental and then i would hope that we’d get rescued soon after because i don’t want to have to eat him :(

[doyelikehaggis]

If Bobby and Freddie ever got into a romantic relationship.. how do you think both Ian and Peter would react??

Christ. Well, we saw Ian's face when he was scrolling through the pictures of the two of them. A bit surprised, but sort of shrugged it off like "weird, but fair enough." He may be a bit... off about it at first, but I do think he'd come around. He didn't mind Christian. Most of the time. Plus, I think his main problem would be with WHO he's dating more than anything.

"I'm not being homophobic, son, I'm just saying that I know you can do better!" Under his breath, he adds: "Most people can do better than the Slaters."

“Dad, didn’t you sleep with Jean?” Peter rightly points out.

I'm honestly not sure how Peter will react. Every variation of Peter has had a slightly different personality and it has been a while since we've had Thomas, who was the softest Peter (and still seems to be). If it was Dayle playing him, he wouldn't react well. He'd probably be snide about it whenever they had an argument, or make little jabs that upset him. I want to imagine that Thomas's Peter will be softer with him, especially if Ian doesn't react well, but it is hard to tell right now because we haven't had any interaction between Thomas' Peter since before Lucy died. He's a better person now from what we saw in yesterday's episode, and he did say that losing Lucy has made him realize how important other people are, but now that he's closer to Cindy who is obviously still mourning Lucy, I'm not sure what his and Bobby's relationship is going to be like. If they get onto good terms, I think he'll do his best to support him.

[baddingtonbitch]

christian slater's older brother in this movie is played by brad dourif imagine hearing an argument in their house growing up

[portablefrailty]

I wasn't aware of Shannen Doherty until Beverly Hills 90210. Heathers was huge back in '88 but Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Kim Walker cast such big shadows that I didn't realize Doherty was one of the other Heathers until Brenda infected my brain. (Incidentally, Walker, Slater's then-girlfriend, who rocked her appearance as the diabolical Heather (Chandler), also died way too soon from a brain tumor that claimed her life in 2001).

Thing is. I hated Brenda. She was always so angry. So judgmental. Brenda and Dylan were nauseating. The perfect TV couple--too cool to ever smile. Their pregnancy scare (set to "Losing My Religion") was an early 90's culture moment that cannot be purged from my cultural memory.

Doherty's performance as Rene in "Mallrats" single-handedly changed my perception of her. Her character is dramatic without being moody, angry (but in a sexy way), and funny as hell. Prior to Mallrats I couldn't imagine self-righteous Brenda shimmying into a pair of tight jeans to sneak out the window of her boyfriend's basement bedroom in his parents house or screwing in a mall elevator. Smith's dialogue also alludes to her character performing a strip tease to the theme of Mighty Mouse on Brody's birthday and being subjected to a mid-blowjob fart. Hilarious as either prospect sounds on its own, the notion of Shannen Doherty doing either of those things convulsed the minds of 1995 audiences with cognitive dissonance.

I grew up in Kevin Smith land: Monmouth County, NJ. I went to Leonardo Grade School (Joey Lauren Adams wears a Leonardo Elementary t-shirt during a scene in Chasing Amy) and Bayshore Middle School is literally a five minute walk from the Quick Stop where Smith filmed Clerks. Smith's movies explored the mindset, geography, and culture of the insular corner of the Garden state that I called home. Smith put my beloved Red Bank on the map. He peopled his universe with live action comic book characters: romantic underdogs like TS Quint and slacker heros like Jay and Silent Bob or Brody Bruce.

Jason Lee graduated from skater personality to full fledged A-lister (or B) by playing Brody, Rene's ex and future boyfriend. That transformation (and Mallrats writ large) would never have happened without Doherty. Despite being the only bonafide star in a low budget Indie movie set entirely in shopping malls, Doherty threw herself into the role of Brody's fed up, oft-neglected, self-doubting girlfriend. She convincingly plays disgusted, furious, regretful, aroused and ultimately resigned and in so doing brings Rene's inner conflict to life.

And yet, despite the huge difference in star power, Lee's sad clown persona--vulgar, over the top ranting and juvenile antics punctuated by whiffs of introspective regret and epiphany--proves a perfect foil. Seen together, Brody and Rene are a classic case of attracted opposites--a story element confirmed by their ongoing flirtatious banter and elevator tryst (despite their recent breakup).

Even the visual contrast is striking. Seeing Doherty juxtaposed with Lee's towering, lanky figure made me appreciate how tiny she was. Her petite stature ultimately serves to emphasize the stakes of the contest for her hand between Brody and Rene's date for the day, "the asshole from fashionable male," played by a still-obscure, hulking and yet oddly pudgy Ben Affleck. A sexual predator in guido preppy disguise (who likes to fuck girls in that uncomfortable place that's not the back of a Volkswagen), the Asshole scorns our hero's mall-squatting, low ambition ways and threatens Bruce to back off Rene (later brutally assaulting Brody for not heeding the warning). In the middle of said beating he taunts Brody with his clandestine buggery plans for Rene.

This threat hangs over every scene in which you see Doherty framed between Affleck and Lee like a diminutive, long-lashed doe between two massive 12 point bucks. I can't emphasize enough the cognitive dissonance Gen-Xers like me felt at the thought of Brenda getting fucked in ass. It ultimately ennobles Brody and TS's comically chivalrous quest to win back their lost loves.

On merit alone, Shannen Doherty rocked her performance in Mallrats. Such was her star power, however, that her mere presence wordlessly broke the fourth wall to hilarious effect.

Though not considered Smith's best work, Mallrats has always been one of my favorite movies and changed minds among latter day audiences have raised it to cult status. As he did with Clerks, Smith imbued the film with a philosophic wit that more than compensates for the film's low production quality and simple premise. It's also chock-a-block with future stars from character actors destined to shed that designation, like Affleck and Michael Rooker, to virtual unknowns like Lee and Claire Forlani. It even features Stan Lee's most memorable cameo outside the MCU.

And yet, despite the buzz around Smith as the next thing in Indie movies, and the phenomenal casting, the principle reason a risk-averse Hollywood was willing to greenlight the picture was the participation of Shannen Doherty. That's how big a deal she was.

We'll miss you, Brenda. Rest in peace, big sis.

Shannen Doherty as Rene in MALLRATS (1995) dir. Kevin Smith

[riverphoenixsgothwife]

can christian slater dance because imagine him in dirty dancing... hot