#rolin jones explain!!! EXPLAIN!!!
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Something that does stick out to me about the way they keep referencing Alice within the show is that the characters only ever reference Alice. We know Daniel has another ex-wife, we know he has two daughters that hate him and don't speak to him anymore. Yeah, part of what brings Alice up is because of Daniel's book (like the dessert from Paris in season 1), but when it comes to weaponizing Daniel's memories against him there are other prominent people in his life that are never mentioned. It always comes back to Alice. We might learn more about his other ex-wife and his daughters in the next season but I think the fact that they are continually absent across two seasons during the Dubai interview (when the running theme is memory is a monster) says a lot.
#iwtv#daniel molloy#interview with the vampire#and because i genuinely dont have a better explanation:#armandaniel#idk it could be just a way of showing how little that 2nd marriage and his kids mean to him?#but that seems pretty lazy#daniel mentions failing his kids and i think thats genuine enough that it couldve been used to really put daniel in his place#maybe the writers just wanted to continue with alice where that past was established from season 1. who knows.#but i do think it's something that points to the 70s devils minion mindfuckery#like you have 3 other women who hate this man's guts why are you relying on alice to carry the load lol#why is it alice SPECIFICALLY in paris with the proposals that hurt him most?#rolin jones explain!!! EXPLAIN!!!
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gruntsandpoetry and pixielayer: Sam: "(trying to give the most PR-ish answear as possible about chemistry) "it's a team effort" Rolin: "JACOB AND SAM GO BOWLING TOGETHER" Assad: "And ice cream" Sam: "We eat a lot of ice cream and… we do a lot of sticker play…" Host: “care to elaborate on sticker play?” 🤯 Sam: "make it up" 💀
Source: Den of Geek - Will Claudia Have to Claw Her Way Back into 'Interview with the Vampire'? | SDCC
where are they sticking those stickers?
#jam reiderson#sam reid#jacob anderson#assad zaman#delainey hayles#rolin jones#San Diego Comic-Con 2024#I think he was just referring to them buying stickers but worded it awkwardly LMAO#the host gave him a change to explained and corrected himself but he chosen not to#mind you that he knows about the ao3 through TN showrunners so he have no excuses#it's his own fault for making everyone's mind went to the gutter#quoting tweets#Is that what kids are calling it now 🤭#sam condoning/encouraging jam fanfic?!#“rpf is okay” - sam reid#Sam this is not how you stop the allegations#how regular are the icecream dates that Assad brought it up...#I know eric is watching and nodding his head cos everyone carrying on his legacy of exposing jam 🙂↕️#Sam is unhinged when Jacob ain’t there! They got a little too giggly about that sticker play.#I think there’s a possibility the jam reiderson compilation videos may have been shared around the cast and crew#they were teasing each other 🤭 No way the rest of the cast and crew didnt have some inside jokes about them#when they were going out every other night to clubs and restaurants while jam were off on their nightly dinner chats alone together
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"Armand tells Daniel the story of how he came to know Lestat, and the origins of the Théâtres des Vampires as a result of that meeting, in the episode. Every snippet he shares, including the people involved in them, are carefully selected and serve his ulterior motives. The first flag on Armand’s unreliable narration is the fact that he tells this story when Louis is asleep and can’t contribute. You have to ask yourself why, and that question is undoubtedly running through Daniel’s mind, but Louis does eventually join back in."
#tv insider#I see a gag order has dropped away#thank goodness#kelli boyle#gabrielle de lioncourt#lestat de lioncourt#armand#rolin jones#sam reid#amc iwtv#iwtv#amc interview with the vampire#interview with the vampire amc#iwtv amc#interview with the vampire
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Immortal, bloodthirsty creatures that feed on humans - they have sharp fangs and a hatred for sunlight and garlic.
Vampires might not be the hero you typically root for, but they have transfixed us for centuries.
The first short story about the monster written in the English language was John Polidori's The Vampyre in 1819.
More followed, with Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1897 inspiring F.W. Murnau's silent film Nosferatu in 1922. This is now being remade by Robert Eggers and is set to be released in the UK in 2025, starring Bill Skarsgård, Lily-Rose Depp and Nicholas Hoult.
But what's driving our hunger for vampire stories?
For writer and actor Mark Gatiss, his fascination with vampires started early. The co-writer of BBC drama series Sherlock and Dracula has been a "horror obsessive" for as long as he can remember.
Gatiss went on from a childhood love of scary stories to star as Dracula in an audio production, made a documentary on the monster as well as a 2020 BBC series, which sees the Count (played by Claes Bang) venture to London.
He says the opportunity to bring Stoker's iconic vampire to life felt "too good to be true".
"Like Sherlock Holmes, it's an imperishable myth and, really, if anyone gives you the chance to have a go at it - you have to do it," he explains.
Gatiss explains an image of Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes "silhouetted against a doorway when he comes back from the dead with his collar up" helped spark the 2020 Dracula series with Claes Bang
Rolin Jones is an executive producer and a writer on the TV adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice's collection of novels.
The series, available on BBC iPlayer, follows vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (played by Jacob Anderson) who shares the story of his life and relationship with Lestat de Lioncourt (played by Sam Reid) with a journalist.
He explains stories about the vampires "come back over and over again" because they "get in your bones and haunt you," with many raising questions of immortality, death and love.
The modern popularity of the figures can be seen on social media with #vampire having 2.7 million posts on TikTok.
Jones adds that each day he will see more people tattooing the characters' faces on their body, explaining "this is a rabid fan base".
"They're really tense and complex characters", Jones says
'Scared me to death'
While the characteristics of fictional vampires have changed throughout history - some burn to a crisp in the sunlight, others have famously sparkly skin - they have one thing in common: immortality.
Dr Sam George - an associate professor at the University of Hertfordshire who taught students about vampires in fiction - explains that part of the reason the monster endures is because they "get us to think about the big questions that concern us, ideas about ageing" as well as "what happens beyond the grave".
She adds that "the vampire's always been linked very strongly with disease, with contagion," adding that if we look back in history we can see that our interest in the immortal monster seems to pique around times of mass disease.
"When the first fictional vampire appeared in 1819, there was a strong link with tuberculosis," she says.
"Nosferatu is made to actually look like plague rats," Dr George explains
She adds that F.W. Murnau's silent film Nosferatu in 1922, centring on a character famous for the plagued rats he brought in his wake, came shortly after the Spanish influenza pandemic.
The academic adds that this is "really important to why vampires are so popular and on trend now, when you think of Nosferatu and its link to the plague, post Covid we're very interested in the vampire as contagion."
Executive producer Jones adds that a key point of interest for him lies in working out why vampires want to keep living. "You take mortality out of any drama, and it's quite interesting," he says.
Jones adds that Ms Rice herself wrote the novel after losing her daughter and that this sense of "grief and mourning" is "exceptionally articulated" in the book.
'They seduce you'
"There's this allure to them," Jones says of vampires - like Assad Zaman, who plays the vampire Armand and Jacob Anderson, who plays Louis de Pointe du Lac
While vampires may let us play out our fears about mortality and death, Jones adds that there is something else that draws us to the fanged figures.
"They're the sexiest, the most sensual of monsters," he says. "They seduce you."
Jones adds that when he first picked up the novel Interview with the Vampire, "it seemed to me what I was reading was this really repressed and really messy love story."
Dr George agrees, explaining "vampires have gotten younger and better looking over the years" and notes the difference between Nosferatu and Twilight's Edward Cullen (played by Robert Pattinson).
The academic adds there has been "a shift" in the way people read vampire fiction, explaining there has been a lot of interest in the topic of sexuality and vampires, like the "queer family" presented in Ms Rice's novel.
The combination of love and immortality, Dr George says, is also seen in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula, which ran with the tagline "love never dies".
For Dr George, the "sense that the vampire can address a number of questions all at once," from death to love is the reason it stays with us today.
This article made me curious (I haven't put combination of some/all as an option as 100% would vote for it, as of course it isn't just one thing... so I ask the *most* significant thing for you)...
Edit to add that this is very difficult even for me to answer and I created the poll. Now, I'd say existential questions would be my top answer, but when I first read the books, it was the exploration of the outsider/difference I think for me, so perhaps that's the truest answer?
#interview with the vampire#anne rice#amc interview with the vampire#lestat de lioncourt#the vampire lestat#amc iwtv#iwtv amc#iwtv lestat#iwtv louis#louis de pointe du lac
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More interviews with Sam, Assad, and Rolin (+ mention of Jacob ofc):
#interview with the vampire#iwtv#sam reid#assad zaman#rolin jones#jacob anderson#it's sweet of jam were working the ending with rolin#i remember jacob said he requested the contrition and reconciliation in other Interview#amc iwtv#amc interview with the vampire
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As Louis, Anderson has to be a mercurial actor, flexible enough to portray a man in his 20s, his 60s, his 80s, and, in the show’s present-day scenes, nearly 130. “We were able to shoot in sequence,” Anderson explained, “so I was able to sit down and think about who he was at any given time. I was able to talk to Rolin [Jones, the showrunner] a lot about every version of Louis.” He described some of the inspirations for contemporary Louis...people like Eartha Kitt, David Bowie, Grace Jones. “These are people that are deeply human, but there’s something that seems ethereal about them as well.” He described how often when Louis is vulnerable or upset, he slips back into his Creole accent; a Southern twang with a French lilt that Anderson has done a lot of work to get as right as possible. It’s a tell, and even Louis sometimes isn’t aware it’s happening. Anderson is British, and he manages the Louisiana cadence with more grace than he’s given credit for, in my opinion. “That’s fun though, that’s one of my favourite things about playing Louis, finding little moments to do that.”
#louis de pointe du lac#louis de pointe du black#werk it bish#interview with the vampire#applause#must see tv#the hype is real
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i really do hope we get sam reid in the writer's room, because i don't know if i can take any more lestat slander from some of the writers. the whole point of tvl is lestat telling his side of the story to louis. it's a love letter to him, explaining everything he couldn't while they were together. lestat isn't perfect, of course, but he's also generous and giving and awkward with some things. some of the writers have bought into the lestat self-hate, thinking that's who he actually is. hello!!! the man hates himself, thinks he's irredeemably evil, and in so doing, ACTS that way! hello!!! he isn't!!! it's been shown time and again from other characters that he's pretty great, if not a little insufferable at times. he is scared of being unloveable!!! WHEN HE IS SO LOVEABLE, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH, HE IS WORTH THE OCCASIONAL ANNOYING SHIT. you could spit in lestat's face, call his mother a whore, and then STAB him, and if he loves you he'd say "aww, someone's feeling grumpy : )" and then just keep going. THAT'S WHO LESTAT IS. (hi i have a cold and im thinking about him and all the missteps that happened in the show so far regarding his character).
heyo, sorry for the late(ish) response, and i hope you feel better now <333 drink some ginger and lemon tea, it always works for me (also lessen smoking if you do because it worsens the symptoms lol i speak from experience)
i basically agree with everything you wrote, like samuel is a true lestat understander in a way i feel some iwtv writers are simply not
like i wonder how they're going to adapt that part where he claims he seduced magnus and that's why magnus raped him into vampirism, if they take everything he says at face value
and yes his never ending tenacity and hope is one of his main traits, like he's literally "always turning the worst of a situation into something good" character embodied and it's what helps him survive all the shit anne puts him through in every book
like he got turned into a monster non-consensually and said "okay i'll be the best (i.e. the most a monster could be) monster you've ever seen"
also he simply does not give up on people no matter what they do to him!!! which is a coping mechanism but it's his whole thing!!! aaah i hope they translate this well on screen
yes he's a bit insufferable and does dumb shit some times (maybe a few more times) but what book or show character didn't?
anyways i love him your honour and i need tvl to be perfectly adapted or i'll be writing a strongly worded email to rolin jones (jk)
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“We were able to shoot in sequence,” Anderson explained, “so I was able to sit down and think about who he was at any given time. I was able to talk to Rolin [Jones, the showrunner] a lot about every version of Louis.”
He described some of the inspirations for contemporary Louis—the one relating his story to Daniel Molloy in Dubai—people like Eartha Kitt, David Bowie, Grace Jones. “These are people that are deeply human, but there’s something that seems ethereal about them as well.”
Article Here [x]
#jacob anderson#louis de pointe du lac#amc iwtv#interview with the vampire#iwtv#i was thinking about this again#thinking about jacob drawing inspiration from these particular people#and i got so dizzy i couldn't think for a moment#anyway i love him
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I don't understand why some people can't even entertain the possibility of Eric being not 100% straight when we have stuff like:
The young Daniel Molloy who we see in the show isn't that different from the young Eric Bogosian hitting New York in the mid 70s and also on one level kind of is willing to do anything, take anything, walk in any door -- I was always up for-- different stuff.
from the RT interview or
Much like Jones took the clear gay subtext of the books and made it explicit, the unreliability of Louis’ narration was always there to begin with. “Rolin takes the things in the books and presses them in higher relief,” Bogosian explained, before immediately diving into the queer layering without any prompting from me whatsoever. “The part that’s very interesting to me is Molloy. His subtext is there, but you can barely see the outlines of it in the original writing.” Bogosian compared the journey that this character goes on—recontextualizing and questioning his own experiences as a young journalist—to his own journey. “I’m at that point in my life where I am intrigued by my younger self. What the fuck did I think I was doing in 1975? That’s when I got to New York, and there were a lot of adventures to be had. There were a lot of seedy places just like that San Francisco scene in the book.” Bogosian was on a tear at this point, and I was just along for the ride. “I didn’t give a shit. I didn’t care if it was a gay club or a straight club. I didn’t care if it was heroin, cocaine, or what the hell it was. I just wanted to try everything out.”
From Lin Codega interview https://gizmodo.com/interview-with-the-vampire-eric-bogosian-assad-zaman-1849792499
YEAH honestly, I feel much the same about this!! I don't like speculating about people's sexualities and personal lives so much, but I can say I'd honestly be shocked if Eric isn't queer of some variety.
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the vampire lestat reread, pt. 1 (lestat and nickistat)
also known as "i decided to reread tvl after the season finale because some takes i've seen online give me the impression i read a completely different book two years ago". i've finished it two days ago, and turns out i have more than 5000 words of notes that significally exceed tumblr character limit. so, i had to split them into three parts.
here is part one, all about dramatic theater kids full of love, sad violinists of infinite beauty, and friends-to-lovers romances doomed by the narrative.
i love lestat.
i forgot how fun and likable tvl lestat is from page one. and how different he is from his fanon characterization!
lestatposting is fun, i get it, but i am starting to get annoyed at the amount of fanfics where lestat needs someone to help him adapt to modern times. he is doing fine on his own, thank you. it took him less than two weeks to start a rock band.
(and the whole iphone thing from "prince lestat" is more about him not seeing it as something useful since he has a mind-skype ability to talk to any vamp on planet earth, and they cannot decline the call.)
lestat is not stupid. impulsive? yes. stubborn? of course. but clever, resourseful, and cunning when he needs to be. all of this makes him a great hunter! also, really thoughtful when the mood strikes, and his quiet, existential moments have some of the best prose in that book.
i wish someone smarter than me wrote a good meta about lestat & social class because he really seems to buy into the idea of "noblesse oblige" i.e. the belief that aristocrats are obliged to take care of those less fortunate. it's present in the way he kills the wolf pack for the villagers (who live on his father's land), and later takes responsibility for the theatre troupe & remnants of armand's coven, even though he doesn't owe them anything.
also, characterization of lestat as someone socially cluesless is simply untrue. sure, he plays dumb on occasion (and hates it every time because early life illiteracy trauma), but he is also good at reading people. like, he got a pretty accurate read of armand behind the angelic facade during their first face-to-face meeting. the only people he has trouble reading are those closest to him because he heavily projects his abandonment issues on them.
lestat's struggle of being "too much" contrasts nicely with the struggle of never being enough which is so crucial to louis. hashtag made for each other.
and juxtaposition of lestat's desire to be loved for who he is and louis's struggle with identity is also delicious.
this time i also related so much to lestat's "malady of mortality" and his search for meaning in the world. which ultimately fails because he is forcibly turned into a monster, and now every ounce of happiness he might bring into the world (and lestat desperately wants to do good!) is outweighed by him killing to survive.
and marius later reinforced the belief that vampirism has no higher purpose, and no wonder that nola!lestat is a shell of his former self.
lestat's turning is the most classic horror moment of the vampire chronicles to me. the mina harker of it all. the creature of night shrouded in terror snatching an innocent victim from the arms of their love right before bleak november sunrise.
also, all the implications of what magnus has done to lestat were even more clear during this reread, and i wonder if that was the reason rolin "i-love-narrative-parallels" jones added bruce into claudia's story.
the book also explains perfectly why lestat is so well suited for vampirism. his curiosity, thirst for new experiences, and adventuring spirit are his eternal engine on the devil's road :)
however, the downside of that personality facet is that lestat steamrolls over his trauma telling himself "this is fine! look, satan, i am making the best of it", which in turn leads to the iwtv nola mess.
and i feel like this constant search for positives in vampirism (that unwilligly turned lestat & claudia share) is why they can't really relate to louis, who chose it for himself. if these two start to get too existential, the temptation to throw themselves into the fire might become unbearable.
lestat equating his loneliness with his evilness is interesting, but i have nothing to say about that for now other than equation being there.
lestat's explosive temper is also present in the book. there is a constant pattern of lestat doing things he regrets the most (like the theater performance fiasco or eating people at notre dame's steps) when he is angry or upset.
let's talk about nicki. i love him, despite half of fandom hating on him for some reason.
lestat has a type, which is "good catholic boy" with narrow view of good and evil. except louis is of a parent's favorite, conforming variety, and nicki is the rebellious one, driven to the utmost cynicism by religious dogmas.
however, despite being a self-proclaimed cynic, nicki practically drowns in catholic guilt, almost reveling in the fact that everything he does, from playing violin in the boulevard theater to having an affair with lestat, is wrong. there is no meaning in anything, and he is doomed to die a sinner's death.
he is doomed! by the narrative though.
lestat and nicki's philosophical difference seems to be that nicki (unlike lestat) does not believe in inherent goodness of the positive emotions. for him, "sin always feels good", therefore happiness they bring performing = sin.
but still, nickistat's love is so touching. after lestat ghosts nicki to protect him, he still trusts lestat's love for him and the troupe, thinks best of him, and shuts down all nasty rumours. in turn, lestat equates all the good that was in his mortal life, all his hopes and dreams with nicki. he is a symbol of everything magnus took from him.
AND THEY COMMUNICATE THROUGH MUSIC, AND IT'S THEM AT THEIR BEST, AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
nicki almost became lestat's charlie. when they meet face to face for the first time after lestat's transformation, he can barely contain his hunger magnified by attraction.
the most terribly sad thing about nicki is the unfairness of all that happened to him. he had seen lestat being shot right before him, then he disappeared with dying gabrielle, then the coven kidnapped and tortured him until he lost his mind.
and for nicki, the dark gift is a confirmation of everything he believes in being true. the meaninglessness of it all. evil being the only certain thing in the world. the way to fall into a deeper, darker abyss than the one that was before the mortal him. and it is a confirmation that lestat's inner light he loved so much will eventually burn out.
(his spark in the dark, if you will.)
(and lestat's dream before turning nicki hurts, because he dreams of growing up and growing old together, of maturing past magnus's eternal lelio with sunlight in his hair and summer sky in his eyes. oh, the lesdaughter of it all.)
there is certainly a parallel between nickistat's bitter "in darkness, we are equal now" vs loustat's comforting "in the quiet dark, we were equals".
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Rolin Jones getting possessed by spirits while narrating scenes and literally jumping over caskets to explain it only for jacob "calls the dents on the casket as slam reid" anderson to turn to his scene partner Sam "actually a vampire" reid and whisper "rolling Jones, get it?" explains so well why iwtv is so good.
pleeeeeease. need to know which scene rolin was having visions about
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I think that, of the endless fascinating and wonderful choices that Rolin Jones has made, one of the most fascinating and wonderful of all was writing Father Matthias to be kind. hear me out here folks
vampirism in media has often been presented as either
“literal manifestation of being manipulated and drained by someone until you are a shell of yourself forced to stay that way forever”; often likened to sexual assault and/or painful illness; something to be feared
or
“mysterious counterculture that gives true power and freedom; despite what society says, you may finally leave your repression and become what you were always meant to be”; often likened to queerness and/or sexual liberation; something to be desired
and part of what makes iwtv so damn good is that it’s kinda BOTH.
basically, it would have been so easy for Father Matthias to be written as this straight-laced, hardhearted priest who acted with outright homophobia and racism towards Louis, to make him-and therefore the church, by way of symbolism-a representation of all that Louis longed to escape (the characters who are indeed that way do not die until later), to have Lestat coming in as a hero of sorts to destroy the authority figure and the repression he stood for (which of course would have some really rough white-savior-ness attached). that would have placed it firmly into the second category, while an entirely violent Lestat who did not wish for Louis to embrace every part of himself-and to have any choice in the turning-would have placed it firmly in the first.
instead, Father Matthias-the little we see of him-is shown at every opportunity to be a generally kind, understanding person. when Florence accuses Louis of driving Paul to suicide, Matthias gently attempts to steer the conversation away from blame. he makes certain to let Louis know he is always welcome, and at least seems quite genuine in it. and he makes a point to refute Louis’ self-deprecation of shaming his father and failing Paul. the small glimpses we see at Grace’s wedding, with Paul and Louis in the first church scene, everything, show us a good man.
and yet, between his mother and the church as it stood as a whole, Louis picked up enough catholic guilt throughout his life to say later that his budding friendship with Lestat was the first time he ever confided in a man who wasn’t Paul. so, either Matthias was not truly as welcoming as he seems, or that inner turmoil stopped Louis from ever being honest about it. again, it could very well be both.
“be all the beautiful things you are, and be them without apology” is my favorite quote of the series. it is probably my favorite quote of all time, tied with That One Mr. Keating Monologue. i have needed to hear it time and again, i would paint it on my college apartment wall if i could. and, somehow, it is a thousand times more powerful when, in the context of the scene, those “beautiful things” include not only love of the opera and doing one’s best for one’s family, but also violent tendencies and the harm that louis admits causing with the career he holds.
rolin has explained that monologue as a sort of “here is the worst of me. i see and adore the worst of you. and i want us to be together through all of it, if you’ll have me.” and honestly i think that’s why gothic romance has appealed to so many for so long-we all want to be seen fully and loved wholly.
Lestat says he brings death to those deserving; to him, apparently, any face of the religion that has hurt him-that he also sees hurt Louis-is apparently deserving. (killing Lily was purely selfish, though, and I WILL FIGHT FOR HER, THAT’S MY GAL RIGHT THERE, JUSTICE FOR MISS LILY.)
anyway. that monologue would have rung far differently if it had been presented to the audience from the start that those two priests were unquestionably “deserving” of death; the audience would have been less unsettled, Louis’ decision would have been far easier; etcetera. but, of course, as this show is a masterpiece, it is not that simple. while some very important things are unquestionable, as they should be, not very many things are; naturally, the act of questioning is a large portion of the undead beating heart of iwtv.
Louis’ deeply human need to be seen fully and loved wholly is so strong that, as he says, Lestat’s words make the rest of the scene entirely melt away. and while some of the blood is from someone the audience never met, some of it is from a genuinely sympathetic character. a kind man has been ruthlessly murdered, which in many circumstances would not be typical to let go of. and yet, when Sam earnestly stares barely to the side of the camera lens and promises Louis-and us-the chance to be free from all expectations on heaven and earth, to have all eternity to find and live as your truest, deepest self, to be adored for every flaw and societally perceived failing…we let go, too.
as Sam said, it is stunningly framed as two men kissing under Jesus Christ like they’re supposed to be, despite the horrid carnage that occurred just minutes before, and it is beautiful and tragic and euphoric all at once. I’m willing to bet that much of the audience, myself included, would pale at the idea of losing their families in the way Louis loses his, of never again seeing the sun, of never knowing what lies beyond the grave. but I’m also willing to bet that much of the audience, myself included, longs to know what it feels like to have fangs in your neck, to taste a thousand lives flowing through your bloodstream, to open your eyes and find entirely clear vision, to call all the best and worst parts of yourself beautiful, lovable, worthy of eternal companionship and glory.
i am fairly sure i have moral ocd, and that has been quite thoroughly helped along by most of the fiction i’ve consumed all my life. this existence on earth, for everyone, is a constant lesson in the fact that people contain multitudes, and i’ve contemplated the ethics of forgiveness and accountability enough to make anyone’s head spin. and so, for me at least, to “let the tale seduce you”, to be swept up in this desperately human story of so many truly terrible creatures who are not only deeply loved and even sometimes forgiven in-universe but also empathized with by their audience, all told in such a compellingly thoughtful way…it is absolutely remarkable.
to conclude: rip father matty boi, gone too soon. give jacob anderson eighty seven thousand emmys. rolin i am begging please let me be on your show. lestat lestat lestat lestat. thank you for coming to my ted talk
#tv tag#interview with the vampire#amc interview with the vampire#iwtv#iwtv amc#amc iwtv#interview with the vampire amc#rolin jones#louis de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt#loustat#jacob anderson#sam reid#my loves#my faves#my life
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KTLA 5 - Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid preview Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire Season 2
Unfortunately the one that is on their official channel on yt is not completely but someone uploaded the full version on yt
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KTLA 5 - AMC's 'Interview with the Vampire' returns for 'guts out' second season
Interview:
KTLA: How would you describe this season compared to the first? Jacob Anderson: It is a very felt season. Everything is heart, guts out, tears in your eyes. Extreme emotion. Sam Reid: And it’s a bigger season, too. It’s just bigger. It’s more vampires, it’s like the world has opened. You saw a little crack of it last season and this season, this is the world and it only gets bigger.
KTLA: Jacob, who is Louis this season compared to last? Anderson: I think in this season Louis is reckoning with who he really is, what is his nature. I think in season one it’s very much about coming to terms with how is he gonna hold onto his human nature in the face of becoming a monster or a vampire. And this season is about him coming to terms with… the other side of his nature and figuring out how to do that on his own terms. But it’s quite a trial to get there, if he gets there. Yeah. A lot of things are bubbling up.
KTLA: You welcomed a new actor into your cast right at the meaty crux, this tender point in their journey. What was it like working with Delainey Hayles, who brings this fierce and tender Claudia to life? What was that transition like? Anderson: It’s kind of remarkable. She just fits like a glove and was incredibly—from day one—was just game to do [and] try whatever. Amazing. She’s amazing. We’re very lucky to have her. Reid: It was a great gift we were given that Delainey joined us. She’s so, so phenomenal. We’re really lucky. Anderson: She will break your heart and terrify you at the same time.
KTLA: Sam, the last time we saw Lestat, he was in the dump, munching rats. What do you think his takeaway is at this point? Has he learned from that experience? Reid: Well, I think you will find that out. I feel like it would kind of be a mistake to explain it at this point, but I think, somewhere deep down, Lestat knew that he had to die. And I would say definitely he was proud of Claudia. I think he spent a lot of time thinking about what happened, but I think he and Claudia are a lot more similar than either of them would like to admit. I think he spent a lot of time being very proud of Claudia [and] ashamed as well.
KTLA: We’ve been told that memory is to be questioned and that the Lestat that we’re seeing is maybe not a full picture. As an actor, how do you make choices knowing you may be playing different versions of this guy? Reid: With great pleasure. (laughs) It’s very fun, you know. That’s one of the great joys of this character. I don’t have to stick to any form of continuity, so I feel like I can change things up. Particularly when you get some new perspectives coming in, which we have this season, a whole other point of view. I can go, “Well, what’s that version? What’s that guy like? What is it like to be his ex? What’s he like there?” So it’s a very fun thing to do. And also the majority of the season he’s a vision through Louis’ imagination… Anderson: That was giving Jeff Goldblum. Reid: (laughs) …Louis’ imagination. I’m also playing Louis, as well. They’re so intertwined. Lestat can also be a part of Louis, because he is a part of Lestat. So yeah, it’s a great joy.
KTLA: I read that you once wanted to study clowning in Paris, and we see a bit of Lestat’s history as a stage actor. Was this your showrunner Rolin Jones’ Parisian clown school? What was it like playing this Commedia-style, period actor? Reid: I actually always treat Lestat like a clown. When I did study acting, clowning was one of my favorite things. And I do see Lestat like a clown. I see him like an auguste clown, which is like a clown that’s kind of high status… Anderson: (laughing) Reid: (laughing) I think he’s funny, I think he’s… Anderson: I can never hear you talk about clowning and not think of, like, clowns… (laughing progressively harder as Reid earnestly explains theatrical clowning) Reid: Yeah, so… it was kind of funny. It was fun for him to do that scene as a clown. But you know, the fun thing about it as well is that he’s playing Harlequin, he’s not playing Lelio. So why is he playing that clown and who’s put him in that clown costume? That’s kind of the joy…. Anderson: (laughing) KTLA: It’s been a long day, I can tell. Anderson: No, I just find the idea of clowns hilarious. [To Reid] It’s not what you’re saying. Reid: Jacob has a fear of clowns. Anderson: I don’t. I’m not afraid of clowns. Reid: He can’t actually say the word without… Anderson: I find serious clowns very funny. Like, the idea of earnest clowns. Anyway… no disrespect to the clown community.
KTLA: We’ve met Armand (Assad Zaman) and we know he’s a powerful character. Who are Lestat and Armand to each other? Reid: They have a really wildly complex relationship and I think one cares more than the other. I think if Lestat had a choice, he would never see him again and would be very happy to have no interaction with him whatsoever. And doesn’t think much of him. But he’s one of those characters that just, because he’s so old and so entwined with all of vampire life, keeps turning back up. So they’re like foes—foes, is that the word? Yeah, but I can imagine that when Lestat found out Louis and Armand were together, I can imagine that he would have been pissed but not surprised in the slightest.
KTLA: Louis and Armand’s relationship in this season was very potent and surprising, and it’s complicated in a juicy way. Jacob, how did you and Assad carve out this distinct relationship when both the characters and the audience are in the shadow of a relationship from season one? Anderson: I don’t think we really thought about it that much. We didn’t really talk about it. Before we started shooting, we just said the one thing that’s really important about their relationship is to not try and replicate Louis and Lestat’s relationship. The minute you try and do that, it fails. They have such a different dynamic from each other and it’s based on such different factors. Those characters are in such different places compared to where Louis and Lestat are when they meet each other. There was just never any point in comparing. In terms of how people who watch the show think of Louis and Lestat, and Armand and Louis, I genuinely don’t think too much about that, because I think then you can sort of try to play up to things too much that don’t really serve the story. You want to tell the story that you’re telling and not try and play up to anything else. So we didn’t really talk about it so much, we just tried different things. They have quite a gentle relationship in the beginning. Or certainly it seems that way.
KTLA: What do you enjoy most about playing these characters? Reid: The show asks a lot. It gives us the opportunity to do a lot. It’s very rare when you get a role where you get to do all of the things that we get to do in the show. It’s so much fun— Anderson: Every day you’re like, “What? Is this my job? Is this what we’re doing today?” Reid: Obviously it’s a lot of drama, beautiful dialogue, you’re going through the 500 degrees of every emotion. And it’s also funny and it’s also lots of action and we’ve got blood and we’ve got crazy contacts in. It’s fantasy and it’s raunchy. It’s just like, wow, it’s a bit of everything. It’s a mixed bag, you never know what you’re gonna get. It’s a joy. Anderson: I feel like that as well about, specifically, playing Louis. He is so many different people. I don’t just mean the difference between 1910s Louis and modern-day Louis, [or] 1945 [Louis]. I just mean Louis’ brain is a storm and sometimes you get to go to the different stages of that storm within a few minutes and that’s very fun. And he’s not clean. He’s not a clean-cut character. He’s not easy to pin down. He’s complex. And he behaves in ways that I don’t love sometimes. And he also does things that, you know, he… I love Louis. Although it’s heartbreaking.
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i would like your opinion on something.
You know how show!Louis wasn't really into the open relationship but in San Francisco he changed and had relationship with many men while still being with Armand ? Fans are using this to say that by living for century Louis has opened to things he was not into before.
So i'm wondering is there a chance for him to have Merrick as a paramour? Or it would be seen as offensive to make him from a gay man to a bisexual? It's not like it's impossible,when you see Lestat he is 300+ years old and doesn't care anymore about labels and for vampires after living for centuries labels are not important .
Does Rolin Jones explained why he changed that aspect of Louis making him gay instead of bi?
How will they introduce Merrick? Someone supposed that Lestat would be her maker and it's bothering me a little bit.
Do you see Louis having another fledgling?
A lot of questions sorry 🤦🏻♀️
All good.
I… don’t really see the titular “Merrick“ in the show, despite the Mayfair connection.
I think the writers have taken what they wanted from that book already, and they made it clear that crossovers are minimal, at least for now.
Louis isn‘t bi, he‘s gay, and his acceptance road for exactly that is an importance aspect of it all. It ties with the accepance road of vampirism - both are not aspects of himself he can change - he has to accept them. I think that is why they made him explicitly gay in the show, because this is part of Louis‘ arc. (I have a vague memory of Rolin commenting something similar, but I am not sure where).
It might also be debatable if Louis was bi in the books - the vampires book canonically do not “care“ anymore. But the show added sex (back) in, so that is important for them.
Lestat has always been bi, book canonically. He doesn’t care “anymore“ - he‘s never cared. That is a bit of a difference.
Also.
Merrick forced Louis to turn her, with a spell. He never cares for her after, in fact it is Lestat who tries to save her and tried to strengthen her.
Louis never wanted her as a fledgling. And she definitely was no paramour either.
I don’t think she will be so on the show, even IF she will be on it, at least as it stands now.
And: I don’t think he had an “open relationship“ with Armand - I think Louis just didn’t care for the one he had with Armand anymore - at all, at least at that point. He tried to run away regularly(!), drugs and sex and find a way to contact Lestat after all.
That’s not “open to things“, imho, it’s spiraling. And it ended in a suicide attempt, too.
#anonymous#ask nalyra#merrick#interview with the vampire#iwtv#amc iwtv#amc interview with the vampire#louis de pointe du lac#armand
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Hayles explains that final look, and it wasn’t to punish Lestat. It was “for help,” Hayles says. “She trusts him the most out of everyone in the room even though she hates him. They’re familiar with each other, so she’s turning to her parent to help her.” Anderson covers his face with his hands as he says, “Delainey! That’s so sad.”
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Hayles remembered how much the narrow vision provided by her vampire lenses helped in the moment: "When you face forward, the stage lights are staticky, you just can't see," she said. "And then when I turned to him, away from the light, it was the first time that you could see somebody, but [it was] an outline. And I was concentrating so hard on his face, and it was so sad." She understood Claudia's last look to Lestat as how any child would look to a parent in a moment of distress. "The way that she looks is like all hope is lost, like, 'Dad, I need you.'"
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#feeling fine and normal thank you for your concern#Delainey Hayles#Jacob Anderson#Claudia#Lestat de Lioncourt#Interview with the Vampire#Interview with the Vampire Spoilers#Jagged Jottings
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Why That Major 'Interview With the Vampire' Character Was Left Out of Episode 3
#as i expected they'll highlight gabrielle more than nicki 💅#sam's point about power battle b/w loumand in that scene is interesting#interview with the vampire#iwtv#amc interview with the vampire#amc iwtv#rolin jones#sam reid
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