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God just found my easily-25-years-old copy of the script of IWTV … and that scene we never got to see in the movie … so eerily close(r) to the trial and what we still might see of it in s3 …

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No way. I was scrolling too fast and I had thought those were zombies. The Great Conversion! OMG I'm so excited.

Some creepy, bloody vampires captured on the set of AMC’s Talamasca by @kieran.photo on Instagram! Looks like the Conversion sure is getting to be Great…

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Claudia from Interview with the Vampire.

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Listened to Sunlight by Hozier while making this.

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I hope the show gets more seasons so they can adapt the 4th book where Lestat burns Louis' house down, but before he burns the shack down he saves all the artwork ofc.

And Lestat is like

Peak romance. Who's doing it like them.

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The fact that there are only like 3 Lesmand pictures is a travesty.

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"i followed him for weeks. his rejections only inflamed me." - armand de well-adjusted

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insanely talented and sam reid being in the same sentence is very likely

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What is with this hostility. It's just a ship. And Nicki is literally dead. Nickistat has no competition with Loustat. Loustat is canonically endgame.

And as you stated OP, the show has made the main ship Loustat and has made the other ships darker than they were in the books like Loumand and I'm guessing soon-to-be Lesmand and Nickistat.

do you ever shut the fuck up about nickistat

pay me and i'll shut the fuck up (i won't)

also damn let a girl enjoy a ship before amc inevitably ruins it for the sake of loustat

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Personally, I think this line serves several important purposes:

First, it's a fun Easter egg for fans of the book (and for QotD movie fans too).

Second, it acts as foreshadowing. For viewers unfamiliar with Akasha, Lestat's emphasis on her name and the fact that her blood makes him immune to burning implies three key things: she’s very important and very powerful and we're going to hear about her again. It’s a clear cue to the audience to remember her name, because she’s likely going to matter later on.

Third, it lays the groundwork for a future revisit of this scene or for added context in a different scene. Lestat says that because of Akasha’s blood, he can only die by fire if he wants to die from it. That’s an odd detail to drop unless we’re going to see it come into play. I think this means that a scene where Lestat burns is inevitable, either as a revisit to this scene or in a separate scene.

Then there’s the question of how Louis knows about Akasha. According to Sam Reid, Lestat told Louis. The episode script is available online, and in this scene, Lestat is speaking directly to Louis, he tells him that it's Armand who doesn’t know who Akasha is. In Sam's interview with Autumn Brown, he mentions a cut scene from 1x05 in which Lestat and Louis are in the air before the drop, and Lestat reveals that Akasha’s blood gives him this monstrous rage/power that he struggles to control. It's not entirely clear if Lestat explained who Akasha is to Louis beyond saying she's powerful and that Lestat has her blood. If that cut scene appears in S3+, it would clarify how Louis knows of her if not about her.

However, it's also possible that the cut scene will stay cut and that Louis really hasn’t heard of Akasha at all. Maybe Lestat mentioning her was meant to mock Armand (or Louis does know about her and Lestat is still mocking Armand). At this point, Armand has just killed Lestat’s daughter and (imo) kept Lestat prisoner like in the book. Perhaps Lestat’s comment was a calculated jab, because he feels so powerless: Armand doesn’t even know about Akasha, but Lestat does. And how would Lestat know? Marius. It’s a verbal knife to the gut, because Armand doesn’t know that Marius is alive, but Lestat does and he knows Armand doesn't know. Marius entrusted Lestat with secrets, like Akasha, but withheld them from Armand. This moment will sting once Armand learns the truth in S3+.

Finally, Lestat’s line might be doing double duty by laying further groundwork for the Armand/Marius/Lestat dynamic. So far, Armand is the oldest vampire the audience has met. Yet here’s Lestat implying that Armand doesn’t even know about one of the most powerful vampires in existence. Why? It suggests to the audience that Armand’s knowledge of vampire origins is incomplete, and raises the intriguing question: how does this younger vampire (Lestat) know more than Armand? This moment sets the stage for deeper revelations and a complex triangle between Lestat, Armand, and Marius.

Why did Lestat say that he had Akasha’s blood in him? Armand and Louis doesn’t know who she is because in TVL, Lestat talks with Armand at the end of the book but doesn’t tell him her name nor Louis. He has sworn to secrecy by Marius to not tell about Those Who Must Be Kept to any few fledglings he creates.

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The only person I want playing Wolfkiller Lestat is Sam. Sorry. I think Liv Hewson is very talented and it would be lovely to have them on the show as a relative of Lestat (hell, maybe Liv could even play Viktor, aka Lestat's son, one day if the show adapts him) or even teenage Lestat, but I will not accept anyone else playing those pivotal scenes except Sam.

The Wolfkiller scene is the most pivotal scene for Lestat's character. The audience needs to see Sam doing that scene.

Besides, the show has aged up all the characters. Lestat gets turned in his 30s in the show unlike in the books, so I'm guessing the Wolfkiller scene will happen while he's in his 30s as well. It's just unnecessary to hire a younger actor for those scenes.

Liv is clearly such a fan of the show and of Lestat's character and I really would love them on the show because they're talented and such a fan, but not as the Wolfkiller. No.

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lesmand rival politicans (who kiss) au

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the first image posted of sam reid as lestat in season 3 will cause tectonic plates to shift and cause a cuntquake with a magnitude of 9.7 on the richter scale

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rockstar lestat this rockstar lestat that i'm interested in the mundane and the ugly. lestat blowing off the top of a wolf's skull then vomiting in the snow lestat sleeping between slobbering dogs lestat rubbing his skin raw in lieu of a bath lestat ugly crying lestat violent temper tantrum lestat writhing in disgust underneath a dracula lestat licking up dead blood then throwing it back up lestat laughing so wildly he shatters glass lestat cartwheeling in the dead of the night lestat crushing loneliness lestat biting through his tongue then feeding the blood into his mother's mouth lestat beating the shit out of a beautiful man lestat giving up on nicki lestat playing a shaky lullaby on his plank for ghostdia and then well. then he can hump the stage i guess

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thinking about sam saying it was easy to fall in love with jacob………..yeah

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I miss them together so much 🥺

we’re about to get so much homosexual activity and workplace soulmatism from jacob and sam to make up for the lack of content from s2……….oh my god

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Interview with The Vampíre (2022—)

And I cannot say even now that I regret Claudia, that I wish I had never seen her, nor held her, nor whispered secrets to her, nor heard her laughter echoing through the shadowy gaslighted rooms of that all too human town house in which we moved amid the lacquered furniture and the darkening oil paintings and the brass flowerpots as living beings should. Claudia was my dark child, my love, evil of my evil. Claudia broke my heart.