There's a sequence that, I can't remember the lines, exactly, but what happens is... I read from my book and it's very intense. And what's happening is, when I wrote it, I didn't realize what I was writing, and when I read it I realize what it is I'm describing. And it's a really intense moment.
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Unlike some of the other iterations of this Anne Rice world, we... I get blended into the storyline as the season goes on, and it gets very complicated. And we end up going back to San Francisco in the 70s, where this whole story began. His story gets all like, kind of, inflated and goes into a whole other direction you didn't see coming, and it's pretty wild, very emotional.
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There is the headaches, and the flashbacks. (...) He was traumatized by these guys, there's no other way to explain, I mean, that's trauma. And he forgot about it, it was wiped from his memory, but, I mean... Not to make this all confessional and everything, but I had trauma in my life that I completely forgot about for like, 12 years, and was still affecting the way I was interacting with people. And you don't know, it's like a hidden part of you, it's like having a computer virus that's doing something extra all the time. (...) One of them is that, oh, I lived a whole life, wrecked a couple of marriages, and all kinds of things happened, and it all goes back to this. And that, that's intense and I do think that, rather than suddenly becoming a new person, he just embraces the... let's... okay, I got to get to the bottom of this (...) if it kills me, I have to get to the bottom of this. And as we proceed through the story, more and more little bits and pieces come to him, either by him figuring it out or by talking to Louis, or coming from, from the, the... I'm not supposed to say.
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