this is the man, mind you, who read all of the vampire chronicles growing up, auditioned *FOR* lestat de lioncourt, re-read the books after landing the role, grew out his hair, learned to play piano, took french lessons, etc to become lestat.
sam reid i love you
Imagine if this is the last clip of S2 and it’s Daniel asking Lestat, “so what really happened?” and Lestat just laughs… then BOOM 💥 S3: THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 😈
this scene is so sad when you think about the fact that all lestat wanted was to be in theater & to be adored by a crowd, and it was all taken from him, and here he is hundreds of years later taking louis to an opera so he can share the pure joy it gives him 🥺🥺
thinking about how lestat gave louis the choice he never had & louis said yes to the dark gift, but later throws it in lestat’s face by saying “you took my life” to him 🥺
lestat’s life was literally taken from him. he had no choice. imagine how hearing those words felt for him💔
i loved this subtle detail in ep4 of louis & lestat sitting & having a casual conversation as an old married couple while raising claudia
i know it’s not much, but seeing that we didnt get to see very many happy moments between them, it made me smile
i rlly mean it with my whole being when i say i have never seen better chemistry than what these two bring to the screen
i really think thats what originally got me hooked on iwtv. yes their love story is toxic but the love that loustat has for each other is like nothing else…
fine, yall asked.
i don’t think antoinette is that evil of a person. i think she was also a victim of the circumstance.
am i totally defending her? absolutely NOT.
but in the first few episodes, lestat led her on like he really wanted to be with her. its also sad from her pov.
remember when sam apologized to jacob bc he felt bad filming the scene where lestat drops louis from 10,000 ft in the air?
i just hope jam was okay filming this scene 😭:
s01e06 louis says to daniel this is the part of my story where you said give it to me make me a vampire now daniel says in the eyes of a 20yo you were wasting the gift id give it to you now a still hand time to watch your daughters marry says louis+
#iwtv
#InterviewWithTheVampire
my roman empire is that claudia was lestat’s “little doll” and he’d dress her up & buy her dolls for years, even when she was mentally past the age of 30, 40, 50, 60 🥺
so far on the iwtv repetition bingo card, we have:
• of course, of course, of course, of course
• lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat
• i do, i do, i do, i do, i do
yall ever just stop & think we are getting armand in s2
THE vampire armand ??!!
THE SICKO VAMPIRE ARMAND ?!??!?
we are so in for it, this is gonna be crazy
“depollute me, pretty baby
suck the rot right out of my bloodstream
oh, dilute me, gentle angel
water down what i called being grateful
you kissed me just to kiss me
not to take me home
it was simple, it was sweetness
it was good to know”
i love that sam made this point!!!
dreamstat is the “goodness” in lestat that louis ignored for so long and we never had those moments until lestat discussed them in TVL.
** TVC/MERRICK SPOILERS **
i gasped. the fact that claudia’s diary revealed that she plotted to kill lestat bc she wanted to make louis her “servant”/totally dependent on her 🫠 oh… this changes things
does anyone else ever just stop and think about how gabrielle was trans but is forever stuck in a female’s body and when she realized she couldnt cut her hair to look like a boy she sobbed in lestat’s arms
bc it haunts me
is it just me or is armand hesitant to look up at daniel when louis reveals who he actually is?
is he afraid daniel will remember? is it painful for armand to be revealed, to be reminded that he let daniel go & let him grow old?
so many thoughts 🥺 maybe i’m just spiraling
thinking again about how louis never says i love you lestat, despite lestat saying it time & time again to him
(“i love you”, “i have loved you with all myself”, “i love you louis, you are loved”)
S2 EP1 SPOILER WARNING !!!
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After seeing the episode and how much Claudia is growing to resent Louis, I definitely think they’re going to take the Merrick route, and I mean specifically Claudia’s diary. I think her true feelings towards him—
ok ok but hear me out,
in 1994 iwtv, during loumand’s break up they are walking amongst paintings
and in the rolin cut, louis is looking at armand in an art gallery (?)
is this louis attempting to break up w armand??
do yall get what im saying??
never forget that this is
ANNE RICE’s interview with the vampire
a woman whose writing changed so many lives. a woman who gave so many young lgbt people a safe space within her novels. 🤍