#the vampire Lestat

[fearwakes]

Another face, Another year, Another place, Another tear

[verymerrymart]

[creativelycomplex]

My rockstar Lestat season 3 outfit inspo is Gillian Anderson at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in 2001.

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

"I came to know Christ... in a monastery."

"I... wanted to be a priest. Just like you, Paul."

"And... under the discipline and the monks, I came to memorise both the testaments... the writings of Assisi. Aquinas, Erasmus, all the saints and scholars.

"My father... a vulgar man, did not think much of this education... and so he and my brothers conspired to pull me out.... lock me away, where, between beatings, starvations, and the failure of Christ to intercede the beatings and starvations.. I slowly forget about the testaments, Assisi, Aquinas, Erasmus, all of it.

"Louis: Stop-"

"And so to answer your boring question, there is an ocean between Christ and myself."

[gilberttheboy]

Lestat would hate Elon Musk because he has no style or imagination when it comes to spending his wealth, but Armand won't let him eat Elon cause he pre-ordered the cybertruck and doesn't want it to be delayed

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

He gave TEASERS ON MY BIRTHDAY (Dec Friday the 13th), praise, what is this magic.

NEW Sam Reid interview for TV Insider

It's mostly about The Newsreader S1, but at the end he teases about IWTV S3

link

[bloodofakashainme]

All I want for Christmas is to bear your children🎅🏾🎄

[kultklassicc]

'the old pianist' based off the old guitarist by p. picasso :)

[queerfandomtrifecta]

Rewatched the s3 teaser because the hypothetical Lestat and Daniel disaster dynamic has consumed me. But. when Lestat is making Daniel choke, sitting in silence for a while before he turns to the camera, he’s so totally saying something to Daniel telepathically, right? The facial expressions and hand movements are too pointed for that not to be the case. If I’m right, I neeeeed to know what that was meant to beeeee.

[junossay]

My contribution to Delainey Hayles fanbook!! The "Claudia's odyssey of reconciliation"

(Trying again f it to be noticed)

Its the poster + a letter

[savagewildnerness]

@toriangeli’s vampire trio 😍😍😍

[some-vagrant-child]

Louis was a sufferer, a thing that loved mortals even more than I did. And I wonder sometimes if I didn't look to Louis to punish me for what had happened to Nicki, if I didn't create Louis to be my conscience and to mete out year in and year out the penance I felt I deserved.

Lestat, The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

[miraculan-draws]

SO I gush about my hero Carol and the IWTV costume department all the time but in speculation for season 3, I would like to indulge in the MAKEUP intricacies in season 1, particularly in episode 1.

I can't be entirely positive, but I'm pretty sure human Louis is made up to look worn out/look older than he is? He has bags under his eyes/dark circles. He's a bit washed out in some scenes/a bit ashen, and glassy-eyed—probably to insinuate alcoholism. And it's pretty subtle, but I think maybe they do a little pass of face makeup over his lips to lessen the contrast of his mouth, which is an easy trick to make a face look more masculine at a distance but up close can begin to look sickly/a bit dead.

"it was as though I'd walked my entire life as a dead man, and now, dead ..."

Vampire Louis is definitely made up COMPLETELY DIFFERENT and it's so subtle and plays up this lovely "other-ness". No more dark circles around the eyes, but I think now we do a bit of darkening on the lashes for Louis. His complexion is a lot more lush, very "peachy" and warm. My FAVORITE PART is instead of trying to lessen the contrast of his lips, I think it's accentuated—with this like very plum/wine/cranberry color that looks natural enough to not be obvious but bold enough to look very "vampy", and it makes the green eyes pop without looking campy. (I think Jacob wears the contacts the best out of the cast)

AND IT MAKES ME WONDER

Because we've ONLY seen Vampire Lestat. So the makeup crew gets to work backwards and create the subtleties of a mortal Lestat and how they can make him look just different enough, because it won't be in the same ways they created mortal Louis. They lived completely different lives.

Because in what we've seen so far, Lestat is made up very "golden", like they don't darken the lashes or brows, they want them to catch the light in a scene—and if you're really looking for it, you'll notice Louis' memories of him are almost dreamy with how golden the light around him is. Sam has a perpetual "princess mouth", but I do think there is a bit of a pink wash of color added for Lestat to really accentuate it. His complexion has a glass quality to it.

MY PREDICTIONS FOR MORTAL LESTAT MAKEUP:

Red/ruddy cheeks, in a "been out in the cold air" kind of way, maybe a cooler complexion over all. Stubble, if not downright scruffy. (There is already a scene in TVL where he ends up with a legit depression beard). Straighter/lanky/limp hair, like all the texture is repeatedly brushed out and tied away from the face. Scrapes/cuts, bruising here and there. Lestat, despite having a noble name, is broke. He works. He hunts. He tends the horses, he raises dogs. I am VERY excited to see country bumpkin Lestat.

[sillystigmata]

[summerscaries]

rockstat and his gf btw in case you care