Anderson is the first Black actor to portray Louis, whoās written in the books and movie as a white 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner; the AMC show is also the first adaptation in which the romantic relationship between Louis and Lestat is explicitly stated. In the television adaptation, Louisās race and sexuality inextricably inform the way he moves through the world across decades; his story becomes that of a man who was battling prejudice on the margins of mainstream society well before he was turned into a vampire. For Anderson, one of the joys of playing Louis comes from the fact that heās allowed to be as nuanced and messy and antagonistic as any white character on the show, or any white Louis from past adaptations.
āThe myth of representation is that all representation should be good representation,ā he says. āI think one of the exciting things about this show is that [non-white characters] Louis and Claudia and Armand are imperfect characters. They are incredibly rich characters and there is space to explore how problematic they are but also how beautiful and elegant and wonderful they are, but they donāt always have to make the right decisions. I think thatās something to celebrate. And itās not something thatās that easy to come by now, particularly at the moment. I feel like some of thatās backtracked in the industry, generally.ā
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You know how as soon as you complete something you realize there was something you meant to include and forgot. You review it a million times before submitting and miss the thing, and then you do an after-submission review and see it right away. And all you can do is slap your forehead because itās now too late.Ā
Thatās me right now. There was one idea I had in my original script but must have deleted when I edited it down for time and never realized until I watched my video of theĀ Glass Menagerie Hidden inside IWTVĀ after uploading to YT. I did mention the scene but forgot this specific and important point I wanted to make.
In the mirrored silhouette scenes of Louis and Lestat crossing in front of golden sunlight, with the bars of the bedroom frame for Louis and on the theater landing for Lestat, casting shadows that suggest both are caged by Armand as the Stage Magician. Well, I talked about the visual symmetry and what it's doing structurally. What I didn't get to was the clothing aspect.
Look at what each of them does in that scene. Lestat angrily throws his suit jacket on the floor. Louis puts his pajama top on.
Those are opposite gestures, and they're telling you opposite things. Lestat isĀ discardingĀ ā refusing the cage, fighting the frame, rejecting the performance being staged around him. He knows what's happening. He has always known what Armand is. His anger in that scene isn't just emotion; it's comprehension. He will not be dressed for the role Armand has assigned him.
Louis puts his pajama topĀ on. He is settling inā¦getting comfortable. Heās preparing for rest in a cage he doesn't recognize as one. His unawareness is embodied in that gesture. He is literally clothing himself in his own captivity.
The Stage Magician doesn't need to chain the bird who doesn't know it's in a cage.
I love the writers of this show and how they can tell such an important point is just the staging.
The Glass Menagerie Inside Interview with the Vampire ā And What It Means for The Vampire Lestat
Dropping this today with the premiere and concert in mind ā I've been working on something about the bird imagery in IWTV for a while and it felt right to have it out there on a day the fandom is all in one place.
Sam and Jacob have both said publicly they don't know what the birds mean. I found the source.
Hope you enjoy it.
Nobody in the Interview with the Vampire fandom has discussed it. No major critic has written about it. Yet once you see it, you can't unsee
Both Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson have said publicly that they don't fully understand the bird imagery in Interview with the Vampire. I do ā and the answer goes deeper than anything the fandom has discussed.
And everything in The Vampire Lestat trailers suggests it continues into the new season.
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Yes and No. The next series will be about the Starks and Florian and Jonquil is the centerpiece, but the first couple of episodes will not be about them. They will be set-up. I'll be jumping around to different aspects of overarching series, but F&J is at the heart of it all.
Daenerys Targaryen and Euron Greyjoy are the two most apocalyptically coded figures in all of #ASOIAF ā and they are moving toward each other.
In the series finale of Martian Queen, we ask the question, why is the woman with pale white fire standing beside him?
This episode builds the full case: the red weed from H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds mirrored in the Dothraki Sea and Melisandre's bloody tide; the deliberate parallel between Wells' London and Martin's Oldtown; the Fujiwhara effect as the structural key to the Dany/Euron convergence; the identity of the woman in Aeron's vision; the chilling echo between that vision and Tolkien's Galadriel temptation passage; and the moment in ADWD when Daenerys makes her choice ā and what that choice means for The Winds of Winter.
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This is the most hilarious and yet scariest SNL skit I've seen in years. And after watching, the thought popped into my head, "you know what would be amazing," The Vampire Lestat appearing as the musical guest on SNL.
The time jump happens in two parts. Itās likely about a year since their reunion. Within that time, Lestat moved to Montreal and Louis back to Dubai and or is travelling to places unknown to āacquire art.ā They seem to be back on a good footing during that timeā¦possibly even on a romantic one, if not on a fully committed level.
This is hinted at with Lestat invite and him saying he has a free room above that needs a piece of artwork, as well as Louisā flirty response. Or maybe, they are not there yet.
It can be done faster, but with most publishing companies, it takes a year on average to go from manuscript form to published book. So, letās say a year has passed when we pick up the conversation and Lestat finds out about the publication of the book.
During Danielās interview at the end of season 2, he says that the book has sold millions of copiesā¦donāt remember how many off the top of my head. However, it takes time for that to happenā¦at least a year. And there you would have your 2-year time jump.
Louis says he just found out a month ago that the book was coming out and Daniel is in the early stages of his press tour, and so it aligns that an additional year passes between Lestat finding out and the end of Season 2.
In that time since the publication, the vamps have come out of the woodwork to threaten Louisā¦hence his challenge response at the end of season 2. Lestat upon reading the book immediately recognizes the threat to Louis from not just regular vampires, but more ancient ones, and so decides to draw the attention to himself as he did in the booksā¦hence him starting the band, who like in the books, are still next door.
It never made sense to me for them to have fully gotten back together and then divorce because they still have so many issues to work out both individually and together. Louis also likes to avoid thingsā¦until itās no longer possible.
Plus, Lestat was in a very fragile place as obvious from the condition he was living in when they reunited and that was no doubt a consideration in Louis not speaking up then. But probably the simplest reason Louis didnāt say anything is just like he said, he never considered the Cloud, and so didnāt think it would come back to bite him in the butt.
If things hold true to the books, except for Benji (if he ever shows upā¦hope he doesn't, but he likely will if we get that far), the vamps are fascinated with technology but have no understanding at how it works. š
This is why I told my sister when the divorce scene came out that I didnāt think it was real, and it was just the writers giving the fans something to salivate over. I just couldnāt see them putting out such a spoiler filled scene even before they finished filming. JMO, but I admit, I could be wrong.
Also, Lestat was obviously trying to get tickets to the Cowboy Carter tour, which was the summer of 2025. Looks like they are going the meta route and if we assume that the timeline in the show will be the Summer of 2026 to align with the Mockumentary theme and the in-show Lestat concert, the scene in the preview of him discovering the truth happened in 2025ā¦either early 2025 or between April and July when the Beyonce tour occurred. The meta-angle aligns with the book.
The second option would be that we get a time jump from where Louisā Dubai scene ended. I think that is also a possibility, but if so, I donāt think it would be a long oneā¦probably no more than 6 months.
Re-blogging to add that as Lestat is showing Louis the neighborhood via his iPad camera, it means that Louis has never visited. This may further support my theory that the divorce scene was just a promo piece for fans and won't be in the show.
While they maybe married in their hearts, they are not legally married, and so have no property to split. It also may put into play a theory I've had since the end of last season that I think I'm going to do a video on.
Also, I don't think that Louis has issued his challenge to vampires yet. The book was just released and it is likely just now hitting their radar as it did Lestat.. Daniel's tour just started. The people in the book store are employees and so had access to the book, but the big publicity campaign hasn't started yet.
The book has not yet sold the millions of copies Daniel mentioned in his interview with the reporter or Lestat would already have been aware of it.
So, I think that the Montreal scene with Lestat is about a year after the reunion in Nola, but a year prior to the Louis /Daniel conversation at the end of season 2.
Also, while Lestat can't hear Louis' thoughts, he will know immediately when Louis makes the challenge because he will have already heard the other vampire threats and will certainly hear their thoughts about Louis in their heads about his challenge to them and him literally telling them where he is.
I think that Lestat is already on tour with the band when Louis makes the challenge, but it's the challenge that makes him agree to the documentary to draw them away from Louis and towards him. The reasoning is slightly different than in the books, but it still makes sense.
I always knew that this season was going to be good, but now I think that it will be even more so.
The time jump happens in two parts. Itās likely about a year since their reunion. Within that time, Lestat moved to Montreal and Louis back to Dubai and or is travelling to places unknown to āacquire art.ā They seem to be back on a good footing during that timeā¦possibly even on a romantic one, if not on a fully committed level.
This is hinted at with Lestat invite and him saying he has a free room above that needs a piece of artwork, as well as Louisā flirty response. Or maybe, they are not there yet.
It can be done faster, but with most publishing companies, it takes a year on average to go from manuscript form to published book. So, letās say a year has passed when we pick up the conversation and Lestat finds out about the publication of the book.
During Danielās interview at the end of season 2, he says that the book has sold millions of copiesā¦donāt remember how many off the top of my head. However, it takes time for that to happenā¦at least a year. And there you would have your 2-year time jump.
Louis says he just found out a month ago that the book was coming out and Daniel is in the early stages of his press tour, and so it aligns that an additional year passes between Lestat finding out and the end of Season 2.
In that time since the publication, the vamps have come out of the woodwork to threaten Louisā¦hence his challenge response at the end of season 2. Lestat upon reading the book immediately recognizes the threat to Louis from not just regular vampires, but more ancient ones, and so decides to draw the attention to himself as he did in the booksā¦hence him starting the band, who like in the books, are still next door.
It never made sense to me for them to have fully gotten back together and then divorce because they still have so many issues to work out both individually and together. Louis also likes to avoid thingsā¦until itās no longer possible.
Plus, Lestat was in a very fragile place as obvious from the condition he was living in when they reunited and that was no doubt a consideration in Louis not speaking up then. But probably the simplest reason Louis didnāt say anything is just like he said, he never considered the Cloud, and so didnāt think it would come back to bite him in the butt.
If things hold true to the books, except for Benji (if he ever shows upā¦hope he doesn't, but he likely will if we get that far), the vamps are fascinated with technology but have no understanding at how it works. š
This is why I told my sister when the divorce scene came out that I didnāt think it was real, and it was just the writers giving the fans something to salivate over. I just couldnāt see them putting out such a spoiler filled scene even before they finished filming. JMO, but I admit, I could be wrong.
Also, Lestat was obviously trying to get tickets to the Cowboy Carter tour, which was the summer of 2025. Looks like they are going the meta route and if we assume that the timeline in the show will be the Summer of 2026 to align with the Mockumentary theme and the in-show Lestat concert, the scene in the preview of him discovering the truth happened in 2025ā¦either early 2025 or between April and July when the Beyonce tour occurred. The meta-angle aligns with the book.
The second option would be that we get a time jump from where Louisā Dubai scene ended. I think that is also a possibility, but if so, I donāt think it would be a long oneā¦probably no more than 6 months.
So, just let me get this straight. The reunion was (apparently) real but they did. not. talk. about. the. book???????? (reminder: that was always my biggest issue with the reunion, that I would have expected Louis to talk to Lestat?!)
WTF LOUIS.
No wonder Lestat is so pissed and hurt after this. Like, this is even worse than getting the book randomly NOT having made up, but if the reunion really happened like that and this flirty communication is the new normal, WT EVERLOVING FUCK did Louis think would happen?!?????
GNAAAHHHHH.
And it seems they will keep Lestat starting the band to shield him (nonetheless), and WHY THE HELL DID YOU NOT TALK ABOUT THE BOOK
I think it makes sense for the show. As I said in another post, while the reunion is disputed by Lestat in the books, it is such a seminal moment for the show that it wouldnāt have made sense for them to suddenly say it didnāt happenā¦especially when most of the viewing audience have never read the books.Ā
I knew it was going to be real. I mean, that reunion scene received such accolades and press. It would be like pulling the rugs out from under the audience for it not to have happened.
As for why Louis didnāt say anything, I think itās like he said in the preview. He didnāt know about the Cloud and thought it would just go away.Ā
But you and Lestat are right, he should have said something once he knew the book was happening. I suspect he would have if he had ever read the ARC that Daniel sent to him, but he didnāt, and so thatās on him. Louis is a runner, and there is a cowardice to him on some level. He likes to avoid complications unless unavoidable.
And it looks like they have made Louis the non-tech savvy one unlike it being Lestat in the books.
I was pretty confident that the reunion did happen in the show, and this confirms it. It wouldn't make sense for it not to have happened based on how things played out and how the season ended.
The overwhelming majority of those who watch the show have never read the books, and so they don't know that there was a dispute of whether the reunion happened or not.
The scene on the show was a seminal moment for the viewers, and so, I couldn't see the writers dragging the rug out from under them to say it never happened. And it looks like that is the case.
It happened and how they are handling it seems to stay true to the spirit of the book, which I love.
Have a few videos planned that I hope to get out before the season premiere in June.
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