#like sam's like can't wait to play beautiful romantic lead leilo

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I wonder if they'll go with Marius being physically monstrous or go with him NOT looking that unusual and emphasizing his inner monstrousness -- I could see it working either way.

Yeah, me too! I actually re-read Lestat's turning just the other day in the context of writing this fic, and the way Anne describes Magnus is so viscerally monstrous that it made me wonder how the show's going to handle him. Given this show's exploration of memory, I could see them maybe playing with that in the sense of what he did to Lestat being twisted up in Lestat's memory of what he looked like, especially given Lestat's so out of it for most of the time he's with Magnus.

The show does seem to like to play around with the horror elements of the show too - like things that are so horrific in the books, like the trial, are still horrific, but carry a lot of other tones and genre elements too, whereas things that you maybe wouldn't expect to be so horrific, like the original interview, go full horror. I'm so curious as to how they play it!

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#this is only semi-related but i do love that sam was so excited to play swamp creature lestat and rolin was like no the swamp is in the min#sorry we need you hot for the reunion everyone needs to realise the real reason louis fell in love with you#which is that you are a beautiful pathetic theatre kid with no sense of time or place#the fact that it's happened before too in the opposite direction lol#like sam's like can't wait to play beautiful romantic lead leilo#and rolin's like actually you are now the clown here's your little clown suit go spend hours in hair and make-up#and then sam's like can't wait to play lestat as a depressed ugly swamp creature#and rolin was like actually you're going to be like a beautiful unwashed norma desmond in an artfully dilapidated house with a plank of woo

I love all of this so much, I can stop laughing. Do agree that it's hilarious that Sam was so excited and Rolin was like NO YOU ARE MR. PRETTY FACE, WE'LL MAKE YOU KIND OF DRAWN-LOOKING AND WET CAT BUT THAT'S IT, DEAL WITH IT. I can hear Rolin saying "sam, the swamp is in the mind..."

(but yeah, better that Lestat looked, as you put it, like "beautiful unwashed Norma Desmond" -- he did genuinely look pathetic and unwell, but you're still like, I get it Louis. And Louis' there looking like it's Jacob's Vogue cover...

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Hahaha, Rolin saw the dearth of beautiful gothic monsters on TV and he's built the anchor series of a multiverse to fix it, nothing, not even the source material will send him off course!

(Yes! Louis' ready for his close-up while Lestat's needed in hair and make-up. 😞 That works for them though, Louis already had to give Lestat a makeover back in s1, haha).