may the bridges i burn light the way

Compilation of all interviews with TVL cast & production team, the week of Episode 3 (June 28 - July 4).

(Disclaimer: These interviews can contain spoilers for unaired episodes.)

Interview Count: 22

June 28 - TV Fanatic - The Vampire Lestat's Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles & Eric Bogosian on Daniel & Armand's Bond & More! [YouTube] - Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles and Eric Bogosian

June 28 - IGN - The Vampire Lestat Creator Says Dipping Into Queen of the Damned and the Devil’s Minion Duo Needed the ‘Same Sort of a Weirdness to Their Manifestation’ as in the Book - Rolin Jones

June 28 - The Wrap - Sam Reid Goes Deep on Lestat and Armand’s Sick Symbiosis: ‘They Give Each Other Meaning’ - Sam Reid, Assad Zaman and Jacob Anderson

June 28 - ScreenRant - The Biggest Difference Between The Vampire Lestat's Claudia and Regina [YouTube] - Delainey Hayles

June 28 - Gold Derby - How ‘The Vampire Lestat’ served the vampire Armand a musical smackdown: ‘Armand’s response would have been really bad’ - Assad Zaman

June 28 - TV Insider - ‘The Vampire Lestat’: Assad Zaman Is Hungry for Armand’s Full-Tilt ‘Chaos’ - Assad Zaman

June 28 - Nerdist - Assad Zaman Talks Armand’s Addictions, Confessions, and Intentions in THE VAMPIRE LESTAT - Assad Zaman

June 28 - CBR - The Vampire Lestat Star Reveals How the Show Honors Anne Rice's Vision - Assad Zaman

June 29 - The Encore with Autumn Brown - Of Love and Letters with Assad Zaman [YouTube] - Assad Zaman

June 29 - AMC+ - The Vampire Lestat: After Dark - Episode 4 [YouTube] - Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles, Rolin Jones, Mark Johnson and Eric Bogosian

June 29 - TV Insider - ‘The Vampire Lestat’: Jacob Anderson & Delainey Hayles Explain ‘Really Sad’ Regina Story - Jacob Anderson and Delainey Hayles

June 29 - Sydney Morning Herald - Sam Nearly Chucked It All to Become a Farmer. Now Fans Are Screaming For His Shows. [Subscription Required] - Sam Reid

June 29 - Entertainment Weekly - TVL Black Carpet Premiere [Instagram] - Jacob Anderson, Eric Bogosian, Sam Reid, Assad Zaman, Delainey Hayles, Sheila Atim and Jennifer Ehle

June 30 - Emmy Magazine - Playing a Vampire Rock Star Is a Humbling Job, According to Sam Reid - Sam Reid

June 30 - The Wrap - ‘The Vampire Lestat’ Star Assad Zaman Teases a ‘Greater Plan’ for Armand: ‘His Mission Is Singular’ - Assad Zaman

June 30 - The Set Set - How Smeared Glitter & Ironic Braids Chart An Onstage Unraveling In ‘The Vampire Lestat’ - Tami Lane and Stefanie Terzo

June 30 - Whatever Nevermind - The Vampire Lestat Soundtrack and Its ’80s/’90s Power Ballad, MTV, and Pop Influences - Daniel Hart

July 1 - Vulture - Assad Zaman Reveals the Cut Gabriella-Lestat Scene He’s Dying to Film [Subscription Required] - Assad Zaman

July 1 - The Encore: Behind the Curtain with Autumn Brown - The Costumer with Lex Wood [YouTube] - Lex Wood

July 2 - The Daily Dead - Interview: Composer Daniel Hart Gets the Band Together for THE VAMPIRE LESTAT - Daniel Hart

July 3 - 10 News - Why 'Doubt' Is Still One Of The Most Powerful Plays Ever Written [YouTube] - Sam Reid

this part made me CACKLE.

because it wasn't even like. taunting an enemy.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.