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That’s so interesting because often when I talk to cast, they talk about pulling from their own life experiences, so it's so fascinating to me that there's a completely different technique of acting where you're purposefully not doing that. Yeah! Yes, I've been 14. Yes, I'm Black. But besides that, Claudia has a way more pessimistic mindset than I do and her thoughts are very, very dark — that's just not who I am. So, the easiest way I could have stepped in her shoes was to really think, "Okay, what has Claudia gone through?" I made a very, very big backstory for her on her parents and how they treated her. I always held this image of who Claudia was before she was a vampire, and that was just a girl wearing probably the same outfit every day that was dirty, and she did not care. She had her only blanket that she would take with her from house to house, and she would just run around barefoot with the kids in the neighborhood. Even when you see Claudia in the other episodes, I tend to carry that through. I love what you're saying about building her backstory because I was curious about that too. Obviously, she mentions her aunt who died in the fire, but you're right, we don't really know much about her parents or her backstory. As an actor I always ask "why?" All the whys need to be answered for me in order to play the character fully and truly. I asked, “why is it so easy for her to just quickly fall into Lestat and Louis being her dad and uncle?” That's a bit odd. But the reason why it's so easy for her is because she never had a loving parental figure. Her parents were not in her life. She lived with a mean aunt, who didn't really see her as a person but more as a tool. That's the backstory I made up. She would do all the cleaning and just anything her aunt would want her to do. Her aunt would belittle her, which is why this freedom of her running around and hanging out with kids her age is so special because it's not an experience that Claudia had all the time. Now she gets turned into this vampire and there are these people in this big house. She's never even seen a house like this! Never even stepped by it, walked by it because she didn't even live near it, and now she's in this house. She has all these clothes, and she enjoys playing dress up. It's not until later in the episode that she realizes, "Wait, there's more to life than this."

Today, after the ceasefire agreement was reached, after my pharmacy was destroyed as a result of the cursed war, and after the occupation withdrew from the location of my pharmacy, I decided to start over by opening my pharmacy, as I am in dire need of your humanity, support, and donations 🙏

After all the fire, all the horror… we just want to live.💔🫂 Years of bombing, hunger, and fear have passed — and now, among the ruins and tears, we’re trying to begin again. Gaza is exhausted… we are exhausted.

The Seventh Displacement