#AMC Interview with the Vampire

[claudianolastname]

From Emmy Magazine

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[verymerrymart]

#verymerrymart #interview with the vampire #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #amc interview with the vampire #iwtv fanart #interview with the vampire fanart #loustat #loumand #iwtv #iwtv armand

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Lestat in A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart

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[nalyra-dreaming]

Interview with Carol Cutshall!

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#carol cutshall #iwtv costume design #emmy magazine #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #iwtv amc #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #armand #claudia de lioncourt #paris

[suddenly-frankenstein]

just random Santiago sketch, yeah

#he is so ugghh #ben daniels thank you for your service #once again was really lazy to draw something more but drawing little portraits is always fun yeah #interview with the vampire #iwtv #iwtv santiago #iwtv fanart #amc iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #vampire chronicles

[roxxyhoney]

Has anyone ever spent a huge amount of time just watching old Jam interviews because they are absolutely amazing and beautiful and have the cutest friendship? They are legit soulmates and hearing all the wonderful things they have to say about each other, as well as the way the cast and showrunners talk about their bond just drowns me in all the feels. Plus, there’s no denying the chemistry between them♥️

Love that someone put this compilation video together a year ago.🥰

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[inkyblotposts]

If they do revisit episode 5 in #IWTV season 2, what do you think will they show happened upstairs, in the part that Claudia didn't see? What do you hope they might they add to that sequence?

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[savagewildnerness]

Love all the moral discussions we have around this all, when here’s your S1E2 facts: Lestat aroused by how strong Louis is & Louis, barely a vampire; immediately so violent he can (& desires to!) throw Lestat across a room. Mmmmm! Embrace it! Embrace it all say I! What is gothic fiction if NOT for exploring these dark, complicated feelings?

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[elisaintime]

Woah, I must have missed something, why are people jumping down your throat?

From what I can gather at this point, it seems like they feel like anyone who likes Anne Rice herself and the books better than the show=automatically racist. Even if they ALSO enjoy the show and support the race change of the characters and all the racial conversation the show incorporated into its adaptation.

Personally, I think it does a disservice to the fandom to assume that the only reason one could like the books over the show is because of racist reasons. Anne's books speak to so many people in so many ways, especially those who have ever felt like outcasts or apart from mainstream society, and many fans have extremely personal connections to the books for a huge variety of reasons.

Like I said in my videos, I was excited and intrigued to see this AU version of the story (I love AUs!) but my complaints with the writing of the episodes mostly came back to when the show was trying to stick TOO MUCH to the books.... Because the show was really making its own thing with its own versions of the characters and all these new ideas, but then suddenly it would shove in a scene/dialogue straight out of the books which would contradict or make no sense with everything else the show had already worked to set up with the new direction it was taking itself.

Critiquing sloppy/weak writing does not mean I or any other fan who feels the same is doing it for racist reasons. Much of my criticism was about how the scripts changed Lestat's character to make him so much worse than he was in the books (which would be fine, it's their story, whatever--except the show runners told us over and over again that the whole reason Louis was doing a second interview was so that this time we could see the real version of Lestat and how Louis felt about him instead of the mean, insulting version he gave in the first interview). There was a lot promised by the showrunners about what their adaptation would be like that was not delivered ("closer to the books than the 1994 movie," "true to the spirit of Anne Rice" etc). The entire reason I made my videos was to evaluate how well the show measured up to those promises.

Worse than making Lestat so irredeemable, the way the first season ended in a way that made so many fans believe that Louis might have been lying about everything didn't sit well with me at all--it's a harmful stereotype to make the black man a liar, especially when it comes to abuse. I know the "the DV didn't actually happen and black Louis was lying or mind controlled by his evil non-white boyfriend" became a running fan theory, but I personally don't believe it one bit. But I can see why so many fans do--again, sloppy/weak writing on the show's part.

Like I said in my video, the only thing Louis actually lied about in ep7 (and he was lying to himself, not deliberately lying to Daniel) was the depth of his love for Lestat at the end. And that's entirely canon for Louis to deceive himself about--admitting how much he truly loves Lestat always came hard for him. I personally don't think it's going to turn out that anything Louis told us in season 1 was a lie. I think the show would have revealed that at the end of the season, not waited another season (or two or three) to reveal that. And the theme of season 2's promotional material has all been about memory, not honesty. I don't think Louis could mistakenly remember getting dropped from a mile in the sky and the months/years of recovery afterward, so I personally think all those memories were real.

The first three episodes of season 1 made Louis's struggle with race its primary focus, and the series description began with how Louis was chafing at society as a black man. But then from episode 4 on, the focus of the show shifted entirely. Obviously racism still existed in Louis's world, but the show pushed it all entirely to the background with little things, like segregation on the bus, and we saw the characters quietly taking in stride, not making any plot out of it. Suddenly all of Louis's character-driving moments weren't about that anymore and we were in a whole new story, when his battle against racism had been the entire theme of the first three episodes. This was something I noticed and pointed out in my videos--I didn't say it was a bad thing (after all, seeing people be racist to Louis on screen, while "realistic," isn't exactly fun for anyone, and we'd already seen plenty), but I did think the sudden dramatic shift in story focus weakened the show's themes and throughline.

Again this comes down to writing, and the premise/script was written by white people. I think they could have done much better with much more non-white involvement on the writing level. I think the show could have been stronger with some more care taken to create consistency and smoother transitions between episodes (like when they take Claudia out to feed in episode 4, suddenly all the race riots are gone, when everything was on fire 2 hours ago). It's common for shows to have each episode written by a different person, even though they all collaborate in a writer's room, but to me it felt like the show lacked efficient script supervision to make sure all the scripts flowed into each other without any contradictions or inconsistency.

When I talked about these things in my videos, when I said I would have liked the show to do better with the way it missed the mark sometimes in handling racial aspects (even though other parts I commended as being great), and the way I critiqued the inconsistencies and contradictions, some people took that to mean I hated the show entirely. The point of my videos was to see how well the show measured up to Rolin Jones's promises that it was so faithful and respectful to the spirit of the books and that all he wanted to do was honor Anne's work. I know the books back and forth, enjoy having a ND hyperfixation that gives me near-encyclopedic knowledge of the texts and Anne as an author. So people ask me questions about them all the time, especially in comparison to the adaptations. Who better to make videos evaluating how well the show measured up to RJ's promises and claims of faithfulness? But some people took me comparing the show to the books to mean I thought it was a bad thing that they weren't the same, and I hated the show entirely for not being the same as Anne wrote it, and therefore that meant I (and anyone else who loves the books) was racist 🤷

#amc interview with the vampire #vampire chronicles #maven of the eventide

[iwtvfanevents]

Rewind the tape —Episode 7 highlights

One of our favorite outfits is...

…the suit that Claudia wears to their meeting with Anderson. This is the first —and so far only— time we see Claudia wear a suit. Combined with her hair, which she started to wear pulled up in episode six, and her grown woman’s purse, this is the closest she gets to shedding the facade of youth while in public —but, of course, Tom’s “little girl” reminds us that she can never fully access womanhood.  But she’s trying, and the suit symbolizes her new position in the family structure, the attempt to make herself into an equal: at the start of episode five she was still the daughter left home while her parents went to meet Anderson, now she not only attends the negotiations, but is an active participant, handing Tom the list that ends up defining his decision. The palettes of their outfits seem heavily symbolic too: Claudia, in beige, brown and red, stands apart from Louis and Lestat’s blue suits, but Louis keeps “a little shelf” for her, a touch of red in his tie that matches her crimson shirt.

What's a favorite look of yours? Claudia's high-waist pants and cape from the New Year party? One of their Mardi Gras outfits? Armand's unsubtly vampiric coat?

Reblog with your highlights, or make a new post with the tag #vampterview to join the conversation! And, if you're just getting caught up, learn all about our group rewatch here ►

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[sunray-sunray]

🦇 🎭 🦇

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[neverswungonswingingstars]

Lestat in A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart

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[nalyra-dreaming]

Step into the spotlight

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #I know I‘m late posting but I haven’t seen it yet?! #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #claudia de lioncourt #armand #santiago

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

Claudia: Where's Lestat? Loius: Upstairs on the hotel balcony throwing a melodramatic fit about a fight we just had Lestat, wailing into the midnight sky before letting his body tumble two stories down into the street, making the humans skitter terrified around his splatted (for now) body: Loius: See? Loius: He'll be back up when the crowd disperses. Wanna go to the theater? Claudia: I was just going to ask you that

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[rebel-revenant]

What Vampire Era y'all in right now? I'm Lestat in his dirt nap years preceding rock star status. I'm moldy gator vomit NOW but just you wait all I need is some sleep and then it's vive la révolution.

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[perseruna]

let the tale seduce you, just as I was seduced 🩸🗡️🕯️

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