



‘Interview With the Vampire’ AMC Series Casts Bailey Bass as Claudia – Variety

Is Fandom Hell still a thing? Well, just in case, here’s something from my “Classic Loustat” file: Lestat and Louis reuniting in the 1980s.
(Based directly off an earlier illustration of mine–I wanted to show them kissing this time!)
Consider yourself lucky. In Paris, a vampire must be clever for many reasons. Here all one needs is a pair of fangs.
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Brad Pitt & Tom Cruise as Louis de Pointe du Lac & Lestat de Lioncourt
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
1994 | Dir: Neil Jordan
Louis and Lestat in Lestat The Musical (video credit)

I’m digging through a massive pile of unfinished art while I’m unpacking and I found this sketch I did a while back of Gabrielle and Louis. I feel like they’d get on really well–and bond about their love for (and frustration with) Lestat.

It was in that moment that Lestat knew that SadBoy de Pointe du Flash-A-Tit was destined to be his Forever Friend.
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles - 1994
Directed by Neil Jordan

This heartbreaker is from “Interview with the Vampire.”
I understand if you never want to speak to me again after this one.
sometimes I remember the existence of the musical The Vampire Lestat because it’s amazing like it was up only for the shortest time (bad reviews I think) and it was Weird, the soundtrack was made by Elton John of all people and while I only ever watched bits and pieces it seems like it would be a lot of fun live
Also it has one of my favorite things ever, which is Lestat and Louis cuddling in a couch while singing Embrace It (around the 1:19:49 in the following video mark if you never saw it, also there’s subtitles!)
The way Interview with the Vampire is about grief (for others and yourself) and loss (of closed ones, life, faith, love, happiness or salvation) but it’s also about self-discovery and confession and romance and religious trauma and free will and choices and repressed desires and alienation and mutual pining and internalised homophobia and fairy tales and communion and resurrection and biblical allegories and second chances and yearning and despair and forgiveness and rage and coming out and fluid morality and (strangely enough) about found family and domestic abuse and faith and longing for connection and childhood trauma and existentialism and blasphemy and homicide and questioning the principles and beliefs that you were raised with and rebelling against them and fighting your Creator but longing for Him all the same
The way Interview with the Vampire says, you feel guilty and unclean and God gives you a second chance, the only condition is you have to be as cruel as him - do you take it? What if blood spilling is the only way the divine can stay alive? You resent God but what if you had his power? Who will hold you accountable if you’re the most powerful creature that walks the Earth? How do you live with this guilt, this infinite loneliness? You pray for answers and receive none; you turn to Satan but his answers are unsatisfying. What if what you’ve been searching for has been right before your eyes this entire time? How do you define monstrosity? How easy is it to mistake a heavenly creature for a demonic one, and are they really so different?