



kirsten dunst in interview with the vampire (1994)
“Thirty years had passed, yet her body remained that of an eternal child. Her eyes alone told the story of her age, staring from under her doll-like curls… with a questioning… that would one day need an answer.”
KIRSTEN DUNST as CLAUDIA
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994) dir. Neil Jordan
Lestat and Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan
“And I cannot say even now that I regret Claudia, that I wish I had never seen her, nor held her, nor whispered secrets to her, nor heard her laughter echoing through the shadowy gaslighted rooms of that all too human town house in which we moved amid the lacquered furniture and the darkening oil paintings and the brass flowerpots as living beings should. Claudia was my dark child, my love, evil of my evil. Claudia broke my heart.
And on a warm sultry night in the spring of the year 1860, she rose up to settle the score. She enticed me, she trapped me, and she plunged a knife over and over again into my drugged and poisoned body, until almost every drop of the vampiric blood gushed out of me before my wounds had the precious few seconds in which to heal.
I don’t blame her. It was the sort of thing I might have done myself.”
He lavished affection on her, there is no doubt about that. Perhaps, in the end, he did it because he was lonely too.