#iwtv bts

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jacobanderson: LDPDL Esq. face dump

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It’s Mardi Gras! Which also means…

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Behind the scenes 💗

[samreiddaily]

just a girlboss building her empire

[heyitsmelouiss]

Bts of the backlot in season 1!

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AMC holding onto to these— I know you have more!! RELEASE THE BTS!!!!!!

[canonicallysoulmates]

I was reading an interview from a couple months back that the SFX makeup artist for IWTV, Howard Berger, did and it's such an insightful and fascinating read. I'm gonna include some excerpts of things that stood out to me but if you're interested in the special effects makeup of this show I highly reccomend giving the full interview a read, I'll link it at the bottom of this post.

Like y'all, they developed individual lenses for each character that changed with their moods that's 🤯

"Berger: One thing Rolin wanted was to go back to the source material regarding the color of their eyes because Anne Rice says what their eyes look like. At first, I was designing other things and I wanted all the vampires to have individual eyes. I didn’t want them all to be yellow eyes or red eyes. So we went back to the source material and did designs on the actors via Photoshop that were more accurate to what she had written. Once that was approved by Rolin, I had this idea to show their emotions, be it hunger or passion — or just ravenous killers. Their eyes would change — not the color, but the sizes, so their pupils dilate and their pupils constrict. Also in the hunger phase, we had lenses for Sam that were also super bloodshot. He’s just drinking the blood and his eyes are filling up. So I really wanted to play with that. With the help of Ted Rae, who was our VFX Supervisor, we were able to design everything so we could actually see the eyes dilate or constrict, and that just made it more animalistic, because animals obviously do that."

And for the blood they made the human blood look different from the vampire blood, and for the big drinking scenes the actors weren't actually drinking any of that blood which makes sense but at the same time it looks so legit:

"There are different bloods in this show. We have human blood and then we had vampire blood, and it actually is a little bit darker and has, like, a pearlescence to it. When they’re drinking the stuff, like in the Dubai sequence, Props had [created] an edible blood that wouldn’t affect them. If they had actually drank the blood we made, it’d be like drinking maple syrup. It would be horrible. We were really careful in the way we designed it because we wanted the blood to stand out and be different. We [also] have dressing blood. That’s [the] blood that just goes on clothing or on the floor. That, you don’t ingest, and we could use pearlescent powders. We did a lot of different blood tests [of] blood spraying out. For the edible blood, we ended up finding metallic cake frosting powder that was edible, so we mixed that in. It’s all these crazy things and you mix that in and then they were able to have that in their mouth and not be sick. [For] any of the big drinking stuff, we faked it, or [else] they would have stomach problems the whole show. They’re such good actors that they look like they’re drinking blood, but they’re not!"

And the way that Rolin describes vampires burning in this series is carbonization so that's how they came up with what Louis burning in the sun would look like.

"That was something Rolin came up with and we kept trying to figure out, like, “how is a vampire gonna burn?” Rolin used a word that made all the sense to me. He said “carbonization.”"

Oscar-Winning SFX Makeup Artist Howard Berger on Creating Blood, Bite Marks, and Beautiful Nails for Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire

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they’ve literally never done anything wrong in their lives

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The idea to have curtains between the coffins makes it so weirdly homely 😅

Also Armand having a red coffin.

Because of course it would be red.

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The official AMC account just posted this BTS photo of the Theatre des Vampires set.

Most interesting to me is that you can see they retained the “confessional booth” box seats on the ground floor sides which were a feature of the original Grand Guignol:

“Boxes for the audience in the rear of the theater drew similarities to those of confessionals with further ornate woodwork and iron meshes tying them to the rest of the neo-gothic experience. Even the seats were much like those of pews.”

BUT - if you zoom in on the BTS photo booths, the screen and the globe lights seem to match where Armand is sitting in the few frames from the latest trailer!?

GIF from @mademoisellebianx

So what do we think Armand is so distraught over in the Theatre timeline?! 🤔

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Some random behind the scenes from Interview with the Vampire (s1)

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Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson take in Storyville

[heyitsmelouiss]

Behind the scenes pt. 2

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Théâtre des Vampires.

(x) Levan Akin talking with Jacob Anderson during the shooting of the exterior scenes near Týn Church in Prague.

(x) A view of the interior set built in Toušeň Atelier near Prague.

*The atelier's current look:

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