#jacob/louis especially

[pynkhues]

Jacob and Sam are possibly the best on-screen kissers of all time (with each other I mean). Definitely up at the top.

They were made in a lab to grab each other's faces and lock lips with one another <3

[gilberttheguy]

Thank u to Jacob Anderson for making the vampires hiss like fucked up little cats. He had a vision and by god did it pan out.

Like i get that hissing made it easier to show the teeth, but there was truly no need for the noise! They could have removed the sound! It's just fun and sexy!

[theinfinitedivides]

wait. wait a fucking second i just realized this but Armand ripping the newspaper off the window and going 'it's morning!!!!!!!!' has the same energy as that one Vine with the pots and pans and auditory bludgeoning of fellow roommates. yk the one. Tanisha Thomas icon i didn't get no fucking sleep 'cause of y'all y'all not gon get no sleep 'cause of me type energy same to same

[thesizeofyoursoul]

Look, I love all the characters on this show and all these actors, I love all the episodes, I have enormous appreciation for scenes with each single one of them, I'm excited to see where everyone goes, I'm excited to see a bunch of new characters I love from the books, I love the idea of potentially having a show with queer, black, brown, dark-skinned, Muslim people, women, non-binary, trans and/or disabled people appearing as fleshed-out characters instead of stereotyped plot devices (I know they can't use everyone, but I hope they use as many of these characters as possible) I love to watch everyone's videos, I always want to know what everybody thinks, I love to see how they all love and praise each other at any given opportunity.

Putting one against another, trying to undermine person/character A to uplift B and any of that stuff won't work for me. I'm more than open to and already having meaningful conversations and discussions about the issues the fandom has, but that's NOT how I approach things. If you have a problem with that, you're more than welcome to block and leave my blog. I have room for multiple topics and love for all characters and actors of the show here.

[madzillus]

bleh have some ep 1 studies!!!

[lesbians4armand]

personally i find it deeply boring that amc iwtv is so insistent on the main focus always being on loustat/lestat himself. yes he is the narrator of the majority of the books and yes he is a major character, but iwtv is interview with THE vampire, the vampire being louis. the main character is louis. putting more lestat into s2 works well enough to transition from s1-s2 and as a visual means of literally haunting the narrative but amc is starting to seem like its making everything about lestat, when it shouldn’t be (at least not during the events of the first book and this particular interview) it’s about louis. louis’s life, his relationships- with lestat but also with others (claudia, armand, his own family, hell even DANIEL)

tldr i don’t like how lestat seems to be becoming more of the main character than louis.

[boopboop800-blog]

Ok new kink unlocked I guess

(Sam Reid whump because I say so)

An apt metaphor. I always took you for a dog, Lestat.

[pynkhues]

Sophie I would love to hear your thoughts on the Ha!!! in the Louvre as it seems all the rage to discuss it again. Were you a fan or do you wish it wasn’t there?

Oh, I love it, haha. It's awful, but I think it really taps into this kind of twisted thing deep in Louis that almost - - mmm, this isn't quite the right word, but I'd say sort of resents vulnerability in others. It kind of lives for me with the moment of him shutting Grace down for trying to talk about Paul, and Claudia for talking about Bruce (his 'I don't need that' lives rent free in my head!!), but also with him asking Lestat about the chains only to tell him 'I don't care', weaponising Daniel's Parkinson's, and taunting Santiago over his turning before he kills him.

There are different contexts for all of these beats, of course, and I think they're motivated by different emotions, but interestingly, I think it really deeply ties into Louis' sense of masculinity. I think with Grace and Claudia, it's very much about his own manhood and his feelings of not being able to care for his family in a way that removes his sister's worries, nor protect his daughter (and specifically, protect her from another man).

With the guys, I still think its about masculinity, but that it's not just about Louis' sense of his own, but his perception of others', and how that relates to power. I think he resents what he perceives to be fundamentally a weakness / lack of male strength, which is clearest with Santiago, who he's actively emasculating with the memory of his turning before he kills him, but I think it's pretty specifically there with Daniel too, in how Louis weaponises his illness to effectively render him impotent (because that is how a lot of men feel about that sort of disability, particularly as they age), and I definitely think it's there in those scenes with Armand and Lestat, as both of those scenes are ultimately about how they were both used and rendered powerless by other men.

(And it's kind of an interesting beat with Armand and Lestat, and one of the ways they are two sides of the same coin, because those losses of personal power ultimately lead to great vampiric power).

Of course, what's happening with Armand and Louis in that scene is very much informed by Lestat's story about Magnus in s1, and Louis pretty clearly feeling that Lestat only told him about his maker/making to shrink himself small enough to squeeze back into Louis' coffin, ergo emphasising a moment of personal powerlessness to try and make Louis feel he has any power at all. Whether that was Armand's intention - - I don't think so? I think Armand wants to be understood, which is interestingly one of the ways I think he and Louis are alike (I don't think Lestat really wants to be understood at all, because I think - as Sam has effectively said - Lestat feels that at his gnarled roots, he's fundamentally unloveable), but there is a sense of wielding vulnerability as a power play there that I think Louis is hyper aware of.

It's a predator rolling over to reveal its soft belly and pretending it isn't still trying to trap you in its maw, y'know?

And I think that really intersects with Louis' feelings of not only himself having escaped a toxic and abusive dynamic with Lestat, but also his sense of his own masculinity and role in a relationship. He's soft and warm and starting to take ownership of himself, but he doesn't want to be played again, he wants to feel in control, he wants to be independent, he wants to be a man, but also I think that his dynamic with Armand is underpinned by that sort of resentment of vulnerability, and perhaps even a little bit of disgust at Armand for having the power that he has and never stepping into it as a quote-unquote 'man'. That's not about him subbing, that's about him shrinking himself, making bad art, working with (and I love the Coven, but - - ) bitchy, entitled hacks, and, I think in the context of that beat specifically, being a sex worker and - I'd say in Louis' summation as a Victorian/Edwardian man - 'allowing' himself to be kept by Marius and used again (to quote Louis what, 30 years later? - 'groomed into a little bitch!') when Louis, as a man, for a portion of both his mortal and immortal life, was a pimp.

That hah! to me is kind of the encapsulation of all of that, and I think it's messy and ugly and complicated, and I love that, just as I love him weaponising it in 2.05 just as he basically weaponises his knowledge of Magnus in the tower in 2.08. It's compelling to me, and honestly very Byronic.

[miraculan-draws]

Jacob Anderson gets a lot of very well-deserved praise on his accent work in IWTV, especially in the sense that it goes back and forth— the thick NOLA Creole drawl to the sterile, stripped-clean, carefully blank American that he uses in Dubai, and then back again. If you listen closely, you can hear him very subtly letting that drawl "seep" back in during really intense Dubai scenes. It's absolutely phenomenal.

BUT! I would also like to give Sam some flowers that I don't see mentioned much. Mostly because we only hear it in two scenes, with very few lines: the reunion scene in 2x08, and the S3 Teaser. Sam is doing! Two completely different accents at once! And I KNOW it's intentional bc it's a book thing and our boy has a doctorate in Lestat.

In Louis' account of events, Lestat was fresh off the boat. The French accent is very thick, and he also peppers in a lot of French into his sentences. (Most fic writers tend to lean into this). But by our start date in 2022, Lestat has been living in Louisiana for over a century. In TVL, set in the 80s, Lestat describes LOUIS as the one having an accent.

So what is Sam doing with this?

FOR STARTERS. There are whole stretches of words, entire lines in those scenes even, where Lestat sounds pretty casually American: "shut up" like "shuddup", "and I thought, who better to carry on the great work", "Siri, pause". The French thickens a bit when the emotion intensifies, but even then it's not entirely present like it is in the rest of the show. The nasality and softened "T" of "nineteen sevendy three" "Did you hurt yourself?", the "I can't, Louis." THE WAY HE SAYS LOUIS' NAME SOUNDS DIFFERENT. not lew-EE anymore, but LOO-ee.

The teaser?? Very fun. The entire line "There's a goblet on the table." And "but, then again...it might not." AND!! Of course accents of all kinds tend to soften when singing, but in the song he only sounds French when speaking French.

And these HAVE to be conscious choices, they have to be planned and the ratios played with because neither of these are Sam Reid's speaking voice. He is doing two accents at once and it's so subtle but it's also doing so much to make Real Lestat distinct from Memory Lestat. What a GIFT what a TREASURE what SUBLIME leads we have for this show.

(Assad I see you scheming too, I will gush about you too)

[thkmadame]

Louis looks so young in those Dubai scenes

Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Official Trailer

[akajustmerry]

also. can i say something. as someone who's thought about railing sam reid.....that is, i say this not in hate....but i can't believe he scraped up a critics choice nom for his work in season 2 specifically dkgndkndkfng dude was taking the piss giggling twirling his hair 80% of the time and the other 20% was just his PowerPoint sprint down memory lane through season 1. like......fr? you wanna look me in the eye and tell me that was a more significant supporting performance than delainey hayles????? delainey's performance ESPECIALLY in claudia's baby lulu sequences, or when claudia tells louis what happened to her when she left them? she's the heart and soul of the entire season! you want to look me in my EYEBALLS and tell me that sam reid singing silly songs is a more noteable supporting performance than assad zaman's, "my daughter was my sister was my throw pillow when he wouldn't look at me kindly?" and jacob anderson has delivered two of the most devastating monologues in tv history between giving a truly singular performance unlike anything that's been done before............BUT THE ONLY cast member in the whole show getting mentioned is the one doing a glorified guest spot version of his previous season's performance???? it's not even that i don't think sam does award worthy work because he does (pls watch the newsreader), but its qWHITE interesting as always how a white person's work is centered in art almost entirely carried by people of colour!!!

[astreetcarnamedkendall]

i'm obsessed with jacob's acting choices for the dubai era. every movement he makes has heavy sandbags attached. you can see louis thinking as he attempts to move his limbs "effortlessly." even his voice - intended to sound casual and unaffected - is taut like a live wire. i really loved jacob's acting during the scene in 2x04 where he realizes daniel was looking at photographs he did not take - especially the part where louis wants daniel to make sure he lets the readers know he was an adequate/amateur photographer. he tries to say it in a relatively indifferent way, like it's purely an accuracy concern, but you can see all of his anger in the way he clenches his jaw and purses his lips. i love how jacob utilizes control when he acts as louis; it's magnificent.

[krea2re]

im more annoying about this on twitter but iwtv fanartists have got to realize that louis is not that darkskinned. he's not darkskinned at all actually, jacob anderson is like. kind of hilariously lightskinned. this goes for (bailey) claudia too but since she is obviously lighter than louis people seem to recognize that a bit easier than they do for louis for some reason (but the problem still persists. it's just not as egregious because i rarely see depictions of her cross into darkskinned territory)

when youre a passive consumer of art and fanworks this can come off as more of a non-issue but when you're an artist depicting characters played by real people, it would do you good to stop and think about the choices you are making when you put pen to paper or tablet and colors to those drawings.

i know that likely a lot of artists go darker when depicting black characters or even lighterskinned black actors because of the general association of black person = darkskinned as well as out of a fear of possibly be perceived as whitewashing a figure if the values end up a bit off, but it is in fact still a colorist mindset to believe darker is better for someone who is not.

reiterating again that this is primarily about the depiction of LIVE ACTION CHARACTERS with real people

this is also a general plea for artists to stop drawing jacob, delainey, and bailey as random black person #73728

black features are not interchangeable and black features vary greatly if that wasn't obvious already from our cast. generalized depictions of black people in the spots of louis and claudia coupled with colorism ends up coming off as not only lazy but immensely disrespectful to the actors we are trying to depict. even moreso when people can easily nail lestats or even armands likenesses or put more effort into doing so, then on the other hand deliver unrecognizable louclaudias.

i also find it extremely outrageous seeing drawings where louis is noticeably darker than armand even after we got the line of claudia very specifically making a remark about armand being darker than louis.

i also implore non-artists and artists alike (especially if you are nonblack) to point out when they see stuff like this happen in fanarts. obviously in Good Faith and without Hostility or Dogpiling.

no excuse can reasonably prevent someone from trying to adapt a persons ethnic features into their own style. there is no excuse other than laziness or other deep-seated resentments one might avoid acknowledging.

ive seen people draw louis with MY skintone and below is a picture of me and jacob anderson to hopefully drive home the point of how egregious that kind of depiction of louis is in practice

flex^

[chevelleneech]

The more I get into iwtv, the more I understand Lestat and Armand. Louis is ruin-your-life-level-crash-out worthy.

Don’t know if it’s Jacob’s face or the way he carries craziness behind his eyes to show off Louis’s fight to keep himself in check, but either way, it digs under the skin. And if I were a fictional vampire in the Anne Rice universe, I too would want mister golden hole. Especially after the book dropped and he sent out a cocky, telepathic messages telling folks knuck if you buck.

[obaaaa]

I've been thinking about Jacob...

I'm very sad about how his recognition has limits, not having the privilege that allows him to be nominated when the show is finally recognized in a major award show. Don't get me wrong it's very sad for everyone involved, the ensemble is impeccable and iwtv deserves to be in these awards without much effort. but i say especially Jacob because he carried the series for two seasons as a lead, shining in every moment of his performance, with his work and dedication, making us feel all kinds of emotions in brilliant moments... But still not good enough for a mainstream nomination! And the way we can still find some weirdos ignoring his role as a lead or questioning his talent... it's heartbreaking.

In the two major awards so far, only one black actor in each, has been nominated as lead drama actor, with the two being different actors… this means that Jacob would need to be the black celebrity who stands out the most in front of voters, which is very sad and unfair! Critics Choices bothers me the most because they watched enough to nominate the series and the supporting actor and not the lead when he would easily fit in among those nominated. In theory, Sam and the show are being rewarded for their work since the first season and Jacob is not. he deserves to be part of this symbol of prestige, especially because his character is the one with the most uncertain future of all, he is the one that the fandom tends to appreciate least and if they writes him off i feel a lot of people wouldn't care, but I really hope that Rolin maintains the promise, I still want to see a lot of Louis being relevant and moving the world of theses vampires and who knows, maybe this recognition for Jacob will eventually come... Anyways i just wanted to vent

Now take the opportunity to vote for him please:

[arnimus-san]

People don't really understand what depression is. For many, it is a very dramatic image of a necessarily beautiful person lying on a bed, sadly propping his head up with his hand and sighing heavily at how difficult and unbearable it is for him. It doesn't look like that in real life. Louis is a man with severe depression. Every year it tightens it more. Sometimes he can leave the house, eat normally, and talk. And sometimes, like in episode five, he literally can't get out of bed. The fandom likes to say, fuck you, get up and do something. You can say that to Lestat, who, when sad, goes to fuck his mistress. Louis is sick. Believe me, he himself wants to get up and start living a normal life, but depression is not the thing that will allow that to happen. You really like to justify all the actions of Lestat and Armand by saying that they had a difficult childhood. But when it comes to Louis, such arguments don't work on him. You don't justify his apathy by saying that his life was ruined and his daughter ran away from home. Her escape made his condition much worse. He really doesn't want to be like that. But he can't cope with his illness. Especially back in the day when it wasn't even considered a disease. Depression is when you can't get out of bed. When you don't want to talk. When you don't want to eat. When everything around you is overgrown with garbage, because you don't have the strength to clean the house. When you show aggression towards someone who is trying to help you. When you don't leave the house. If Lestat had set himself on fire in front of Louis, he really wouldn't have cared, it just became another reason for his condition to worsen. Depression it's not as romantic as people imagine. It's not pretty or romantic. It's scary. Thanks to the creators and Jacob for showing such a terrible thing as depression so well.