



Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: The Vampire Chronicles
1994 || dir. Neil Jordan
“It was my idea, that kiss. I remember that we were at a hospital rehearsing, and we came to the scene where I am coming running just to see what happened to my lover. Finally we embraced, and it was missing something. I said to Tom, “Tom, we should kiss here.” He said, “What?” I said, “We should kiss.” Jonathan was there and he looked at both of us and then Tom said, “Absolutely. Yes. Absolutely. You’re right. What the fuck? Yeah. You are right.” So we did it. It was just a little kiss but it was important for Hollywood that we got that — that little sparkly moment where you see two people from the same sex kissing on the screen” — Antonio Banderas talks about the kiss with Tom Hanks for Philadelphia (1993), dir. Jonathan Demme
They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret. And you can teach me this? Yes. To be without regret? Yes. Then what a pair we could make, but what if it’s a lesson I don’t care to learn? What do you mean? What if all I have is my suffering, my regret? Don’t you want to lose it? Why? So you can have that too? The heart that mourns her, her that you burnt to a cinder. Louis, I swear that I… Ah, but I know you did. I know.Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
