#jacob deserved better assad deserved better delainey deserved better

[crowleysfall]

here’s the thing. interview with the vampire is primarily about LOUIS. from season 3 onwards, lestat is going to be the main character. yes sam is an amazing actor and yes he deserved his nomination, but jacob deserved one too. when the show flips the switch to revolve around lestat when season 3 comes out sam reid is going to be getting award after award MARK MY WORDS. people expressing hurt about the main black lead getting snubbed by every award show for two seasons is absolutely justified. jacob anderson has given one of the most outstanding performances television has seen in years and he deserves recognition for it. delainey hayles joined the project under difficult circumstances and was given only a FEW DAYS to prepare and still gave a fantastic performance as claudia. assad zaman made armand his own and some of his most memorable scenes are the very first ones he shot in episode 5. not one single nomination for any of them. deeply disappointing.

[bitchywillgraham]

The iwtv fandom has become way too comfortable with how they talk about (and to!) the cast/crew of the show.

The way people were recently speaking to Lin Codega (a trans person) who works in the writer's room was disgusting. The way people have been discrediting Jacob's opinions and feelings about his character by saying he's not allowed to speak on his own character (!!). The way people were asking Jacob in his recent tweet if he let Sam fuck him. The weird ass questions that people asked Sam in preparation for that Michael Lucas interview. The way people have talked in a negative and gross way about the cast aging, specifically Assad and Sam. The uncomfortable comparisons between Delainey and Bailey. The gross colorist comments about Jacob, Delainey, and Bailey. The pervasive transphobic/terf rhetoric (e.g. saying someone with a body/face like Sam could never be a trans woman. How tf do you think the trans people in this fandom feel!? This is terf rhetoric!!) when talking about the cast's appearance. The constant Sam hate and lies (people have literally called him an abuser because of the character he plays!!) and now the literal stalker behavior with trying to look into his family tree because they hate him. Fucking psychotic. And the way people speak about/to the people that get close to the show like Autumn Brown interviewing the cast/crew. The list goes on and on and on.

This cast/crew deserves better than this fuckass fandom.

[ileftmysoulinnorway]

We all had a tough end of the week, so I thought I would put together something about my IWTV set lurking experience in Prague, hopefully to cheer someone up and show you that the people working on our little show are incredible, everything is well thought out, and we have a lot to look forward to.

Locations

I am confident that Prague will be a good substitute for Paris. I love this post comparing Prague's Théâtre des Vampires location with a real Le Grand Guignol in Paris. But similar care is given to other locations as well.

I like to joke that I enjoyed a month-long tour of Prague's most famous landmarks, only to have the actual filming take place in nondescript alleyways right next to them. But it makes perfect sense. They want to capture the nicer and older parts of the city that suit them, but not anything that would tell you it's Prague.

Production design, costumes

I saw them build everything from scratch on several sets. And I'm in awe. From putting up posters that will probably only appear in the background of a single shot, to street names that fit the exact topography of Paris and make sense in the context of the scenes that take place on them, to storefronts that they really didn't have to pay that much attention to, or a menu at Le Dakar Café that you could only read up close, but someone took the trouble to make it anyway?

And maybe this attention to detail is normal, I don't know, but I still think Mara and her team deserve all the praise they get.

S1 showed us how much attention is paid to the costumes. I can assure you that has not changed. All the hats, coats, capes and dresses. I can't tell you how many times I've been pleasantly surprised. By the choice of colors for Lestat. By how beautifully all of Armand's black clothes come to life with little details.

People

There are so many people (and I mean SO many) working on the show and they all know exactly what is expected of them, everything runs like a well-oiled machine. I haven't seen any problems, any conflicts, any excesses.

I'm not under any illusion that everything was trouble-free, but really the only complaints I heard were about the horrendously hellish schedule (I guess that's normal) and then the occasional person wishing they had finished earlier (they never finished earlier).

They are all heroes to me.

Directors

Levan is the only one I saw. He seems so focused and professional. His "rolling...and action" is unforgettable.

Actors

After six locations and about fifteen scenes (and countless rehearsals and takes), I think I managed to get at least some idea of them, and yes, they really seem to be such nice people.

- Jacob, I don't envy him at all the emotional strain of playing Louis, but at the same time I love his portrait of Louis so much.

- Sam's transformation into Lestat is something to behold.

- Assad was the only one present on every set. I don't think we've fully realized how big a role he's going to have (at least in S2).

- Delainey, Ben, Roxane and everyone else 💜

Scenes

They were far from finished when the strike started, but at least (in my opinion) they got to the last block of episodes. 

I'm not going to pretend to have a concrete idea of what to expect from S2 based on what little I saw. But I do have a few guesses, and I'm insanely excited and thrilled. And, in the case of the 1700s flashbacks, totally confused. I can't believe they're going to do so many unexpected things, or other things so soon.

I truly believe that S2 will not disappoint any of us. We just have to wait a little longer. But if this strike means that everyone gets a better deal and the studios are forced to change their ways, it will be worth the wait.

[slapjacq]

I am ill. Not okay. I’ve cried and thrown a tissue box at the wall. Then proceeded to scream at said wall for twenty minutes. Yes I am melodramatic, no I don’t care. I am still in therapy for a reason. Nevertheless, this episode was bonkers, off the wall batshit insane. Like genuinely so good that it almost adds to the tragedy of it all.

Here are my immediate and unfiltered thoughts from my post episode freak out that I have to put somewhere because if I don’t, I will, in fact, explode.

Warning: spoilers up the wazoo, a lot of profanity

First and foremost: Daniel, old Maniel, I can count on you to always keep it a buck, and for that I thank you.

Armand you piece of fucking shit I swear on everything that is holy, you are no longer babygirl, you bitch ass hoe, go stick that fucking doe eyed face up someone else ass you stupid fucking piece of shit. “i cOULD nOt pReVEnt iT” FUCK YOU MEAN YOU COULDNT PREVENT IT YOURE 500 YEARS OLD, YOU SOLD THEM OUT TO BEGIN WITH. YOU STOP TIME, CAN CONTROL BODIES, PLANT IDEAS INTO PEOPLE HEADS, READ PEOPLES MINDS AND THE BITTY BABY VAMPIRE ARMAND COULDNT DO ANYTHIGN ABOUT IT? SUCK MY DICK AND KISS ME MERRY GO TRH THAG SHIT ELSEWHERE (shout out Assad for really giving his all with the whole puppy dog eyes this entire episode 10/10 would fall for them if not the circumstances). I can’t believe I actually was defending this dude a few episodes ago, I literally can’t defend anything else from here moving forward.

Claudia and Madeline deserve to watch these assholes burn and the fact they died such painful deaths should warrant the gods to set the sky alight with constellations of their love. They were allowed NOTHING but a small taste of happiness before it was shredded away from them. No one is EVER gonna villainize them, not to me, not ever. Roxanne absolutely was incredible, and Delainey, in the coming future, better up there as an A-list actor because she has been that astoundingly good. (That goes for everyone here honestly, but Delainey and Roxanne really deserve their flowers here).

Santiago has a special place in hell. I simply cannot wait to watch him die. Decapitation is too kind for him, put him through pain and fury before sending him to hell. Ben Daniels you son of a bitch you played the villain so well. I damn near jumped through the screen when he began to read Claudia’s diaries with a shitty NOLA accent, I have never been so livid in my life.

The rest of Theatre: “All of you motherfuckers, fuck you, die slow.” -Tupac Shakur

Louis GET UP LEAVE YOUR WIFE DUDE YOU KNOW ITS BULLSHIT and honestly I’m not even going to rag on him this episode because the poor man has gone through too much. Jacob was absolutely brilliant in all of this, and honestly I literally will never stop talking about the performances in this show. Regardless, the upcoming rage is justified and I when get to watch him massacre these assholes, I will cackle with the same glee a schoolboy has after he disintegrates ants with a magnifying glass.

And finally Lestat. He rose on the third day and served cunt and made me ball like the mommy issues toting bitch I am. Sam, my man, you knocked it out of the fucking ballpark. Magnificent. Lestat, fucking bastard. You messy bitch. When you get out of whatever the Theatre is doing to you big man, I better see you read Armand to filth. I better see the same from the other. They both deserve to be dragged to hell and back.

Also Daniel Hart is a genius, just really fills your soul with dread this entire episode, I mean the score was filthy, vivid, and hauntingly gorgeous. The violins at the beginning were nasty work and had me fully hypnotized for the entire 50 minutes.

SFX is killing it, everytime, making it all believable and absolutely the worst someone could imagine it to be. I full body contorted at the sight of the sliced ankles.

Shoutout costume department also did its thing. Santiago’s costume was top tier camp. And Lestat’s suit was absolutely everything. Gender envy 11/10.

I could sit here all day and go on about how all the cast and crew did a fucking fantastic job. Like you can really tell they put their heart and soul into this episode.

I mean dear god I’m going to be in shambles for the next two years this episode was insane.

[danlous]

Fr I think Sam is great but when a show with mostly poc for the main roles who are all excellent and none of them get nominated it really sucks and it's just the white actor (again love Sam but it just jumps out), especially when looking at who was nominated in those categories and Jacob, Delainey and Assad definitely went toe to toe and stepped on a few too.

Yeah i love Sam and of course his performance was amazing but nominating the show and a white actor who had a minor role this season while snubbing the black lead and non-white supporting actors who had a much bigger role than Sam is a blatant sign of racism in the industry. Jacob's snub is particularly egregious but Assad and Delainey deserve better too. This show unquestionably has some of the best acting of the past decade, most shows don't come even close

[pynkhues]

maybe my favourite performance from Assad in the entire series?

YES MINE TOO. He's excellent in the whole season (Jacob and Sam are my absolute favorites if I had to pick, but everyone in the cast with a significant role--Assad, Delainey, Ben, Roxane, Eric, Luke--was just fantastic, if there were any justice in the world they'd get the SAG Ensemble nom b/c no ensemble deserves it more), and I love the fight season (particularly for seeing a different side of Louis/Jacob), but for Assad/Armand, this scene with Daniel is IT for me.

"It just creates such a powerful juxtaposition"--YES. The easeful sense of absolute power and barely contained insanity he brings to this scene does juxtapose so well with the wounded deer quality he brings to so many other scenes, which is very fascinating. But yeah, I really really really love that scene. If I ever meet Assad I'm going through that scene line by line with him and telling him what I love about him in it. I'm doing that with Jacob and Sam for the reunion scene and the 2.7 flashbacks and like six other scenes and Delainey for her trial lines/monologues if I ever meet them too lol.

(It's probably better if I never meet them)

(x)

As you should, anon!! It's a brilliant performance in a brilliant episode in a brilliant season of TV.

[hismercytomyjustice]

Fffuuuccckkk

Made the EXCELLENT choice to rewatch IWTV 2.05 and FUCK

Even better the second time ( ༎ຶ⌑༎ຶ )

I will never financially recover from it

What did we do to deserve Assad Zaman? Jacob Anderson? Eric Bogosian? Luke Brandon Field? Sam Reid?

And I know they weren’t in the episode, BUT WHAT DID WE ALSO DO TO DESERVE Bailey Bass? Delainey Hayles? Roxane Duran?

I desperately want to rewatch 2.07 too, but idk if my heart can take it yet. (o̴̶̷᷄ ᯅ o̴̶̷̥᷅)

GodDAMN.

I will never get over this show. I am so desperate for Season 3. I am apologizing a year in advance for the person I will become when it drops.

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