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I hate to bother you and preemptively thank you for your time– but I’m having trouble finding a piece of fan art. I’m pretty sure it’s Louis and Lestat, and Louis’ drawn to look like Tom Hiddleston. But it’s not the IWTV poster by Derlaine8. I think Lestat’s posed to bite Louis? I figured if anyone would know what I was looking for, it would be you.

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Not a bother at all! If there were a collector of fanart who might possibly know what you’re looking for… I would be that one. I definitely know the @derlaine and @reapersun collab, it’s amazing [X]! I can only think of 2 other fanarts that fit what you’re looking for… 

“I will be your one true sun.” by @wantstobelieve (I think this is the one you’re looking for… I’m not reposting it here in thumbnail or detail bc I think the artist strongly disapproves of doing either); 

Or it could be this one, since Lestat’s the one biting, but Loki doesn’t really look like Tom Hiddleston:

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Thor vampire X  loki. by @10000ta (please reblog from the link or the source!)

Otherwise, try my #thorki tag, bc in some fanart, the resemblance to L/L is uncanny. Does anyone know of a fanart that fits anon’s description?

Hey I saw one of your posts about Armand’s accent, and Kiev was actually part of Russia until the 50s. Over half the people in Ukraine are Russian. Also, Kiev is actually known as the “mother of all russian cities.” So it’s Kiev, Ukraine now, but I guess AR says Russia because back when Armand lived there it was still Russia. (:

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Thanks for clarifying! I was confused about that. [Anon refers to this post]

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BTW, there are some gr9 reblogs/comments on that post about his accent, worth checking out. The general consensus seems to be that it depends upon what point in canon you’re at and accept, bc it changed over time (I’m going to reblog from smne on the chain after it has a little more time to get more responses).

ahhahh I nearly died watching the iwtv bts video. That was pure gold omg. Tom cruise upset that brad pitt is taller than him and wanting risers. Brad pitt just leaning there like “where did I go wrong” and anne’s cringey 90’s look all made me laugh so hard.

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That BTS video is a new fandom treasure and like, back in the 90′s, Tom’s publicist Pat Kingsley would have tracked the source down and made them delete it. ;A; * I love that we’re getting stuff out of private collections now! 

^I think this is one of my fave shots of Brad “where did I go wrong” Pitt from that movie… which is why it was so great to see him go from that to this BAMF later in the movie:

^YISSSS PLZ

^Height issues aside (and yeah I’m sure that was an issue!), here’s my take Tom Cruise’s eyebrow concerns. The lighting is different but you can still tell the difference in his makeup/hair. On the left is a still from an earlier scene that was shot and probably had to be discarded bc the blond was too bright, orangey, weirdly smooth (I think they were going for “pampered” and “golden”). Looks like they changed it to highlights and lowlights of blond and a mussier texture to mesh better with Tom’s own coloring. So he had good reason to be concerned about his eyebrows, he probably didn’t want more footage to be wasted.

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^anne’s cringey 90’s look: Hey that was in style then bc BELIEVE ME I LIVED IT! But yeah she looks a lot better these days, current 90′s-inspired looks are very different from some of the actual 90′s looks.

*Even though it wasn’t an interview specifically, it was unauthorized bts footage.

Amy Nicholson, How YouTube and the Internet Killed Tom Cruise, America’s Last Movie Star.: 

“Kingsley was adamant about keeping Cruise out of the tabloids. At press junkets, she demanded that journalists sign contracts swearing not to sell their quotes to the supermarket rags. Then Kingsley expanded her reach and insisted that all TV interviewers destroy their tapes after his segment had aired.” 

Ok so this has been bugging me for a while so I thought I’d get someone else’s opinion. What kinda accent is Armand supposed to have?

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In movie!IWTV, Armand’s origins aren’t explicitly stated, just that he’s an Old World vampire. He could very well be Spanish, that’s Banderas’ actual ethnicity. So we don’t know. Just bc Louis and Claudia meet him in Paris doesn’t mean he’s French; he tells them he’s 400 yrs old, he’s probably lived elsewhere.

On my recent post about Antonio!Armand, @slow-read shared this opinion: “I would like to add that Antonio’s accent also gives one a sense of age, otherness and it sounds (or sounded) exotic to the audience? It was perfect for Armand-the-oldest-living-vampire-in-the-world. *-*” The

ppl behind movie!IWTV might have chosen Banderas and made the character this way rather than a more canon-compliant actor bc they wanted him to be more convincing as

Armand-the-oldest-living-vampire-in-the-world to audiences who had not read the books. Filmmakers then (and now) want a movie to appeal to wide audiences. I was a kid then, but it seems to me that fandom (and specifically, trying to please the fanbase as a primary objective) wasn’t as much of a consideration at that time. 

In the books, Armand comes from a place called Kiev, which according to AR is in Russia and according to the google is in the Ukraine, but idk. Then he spent years in Italy which is where he got most of his mortal education, so he may have picked up some of that accent from his teachers and friends… and then he lived in Paris for many years so he might have consciously tried to pick up some of that accent in order to blend in. 

Anyone is welcome to answer this with what you think Armand’s accent is like!

Lestat, valentine’s day is coming, you will earn some good money if you put yourself for rent that night…. taking girls to dates and pretend you are the boyfriend.. HAHA (Louis please share your man and dont be jealous… he got a lot of love to give ♡ ) We Love you Petit Lion ♡

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♛Not that I need the money, mon cher... but yes, I’m sure I could earn plenty, and I wouldn’t limit myself to just girls, you know. Louis should take me out on a date that night, why do I always have to be the chivalrous one? It’s his turn.

“Petit Lion”? I’m a big one, darling *fangy grin* Happy Valentine’s day to you.

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Ableism!anon here! Thanks so much for your reply, it was very very helpful, and so sweet, I really appreciate it! Also, ♛lestat, I appreciate your response as well, and I understand that you have a particular schedule to keep! I hope my hugging you wasn’t untoward (and that none of your gorgeous clothes were rumpled or anything!) Merci!

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[Anon refers to this reply] 

♛*hugs anon* Darling, not to worry at all, I can handle a little clothes-rumpling. I destroy most of my clothes anyway, sadly, it’s part of the job *winks* 

Be strong, ma petite. Remember to hug yourself, too. Sometimes we have to be our own head cheerleaders.

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//ooc; Thanks for coming back and telling us this,

Ableism!anon! It was a difficult topic to address and I’m really glad Lestat and I were able to help you. 

If you have to remind yourself every day, then do it: F*ck the haters.

This is super random but I was listening to my vc playlist on shuffle and was getting lestat the musical songs alternating with savage garden songs, so now I have this weird hybrid in my head going, “break me, shake me, make me as you are…”

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That’s a great combo bc Savage Garden got their name from VC! 

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Two of the members, Daniel Jones and Darren Hayes, split off from their original band, Red Edge. Their new duo together was called Crush, and then “was renamed Savage Garden after a phrase from The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, “Beauty was a Savage Garden”.” [X]

Lestat loves Savage Garden. Definitely. Idk what he thinks about Lestat the Musical but I would guess that he would be pissed that they didn’t just hire him to act as himself. Not that he would audition. Or that they would know how to reach him. But still! 

I love you

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The feels, they are mutual, I’m sure!

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I almost didn’t answer this bc I feel like ppl are going to think that I sent it to myself, so if you wouldn’t mind, anon, plz do come back and message me privately off-anon, or send another message telling me what u love about me so that this looks less like I sent it to myself!

OMG! I just found behind the scenes footage of Interview with the Vampire. It shows mostly Tom Cruise, a little bit of Anne Rice and a little bit of Brad Pitt. The video was uploaded by WalrusRider and the video is called Tom Cruise – “Interview With a Vampire” On Set Footage. Not sure if you’ve seen it already but if you haven’t check it out.

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I HAD NOT SEEN IT THANK U! 

It’s so fun to see at least this shot from the other side of the door, lol…

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I’ll transcribe it somewhat for y’all:

The narrator is all about the *~secrecy~* like of course Tom Cruise wanted to keep the secrecy of his costumes and makeup and whatever, so as not to spoil the surprise! We have closed sets all the time these days and back then. I don’t think that was just Tom, I think everyone involved in making the movie wanted that secrecy.

  • The narrator pronounces his name the way AR prefers, not the way it’s pronounced in the movie
  • Claudia at 0:15!
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  • Makeup touch up!

^X Bruh. 

Hit the jump for more, cut for length.

  • AR wasn’t pleased about the casting at the time of this video, but when she saw the movie, she was thrilled with Tom’s performance.
  • Tom said: “The negative criticism? When it starts out, it kind of hurts your feelings and then I just go, well, I can’t help myself, y’know? I wanna play this character.”
  • Other actors AR had preferred to see in the role: Daniel Day-Lewis (he turned it down), Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich. She named River Phoenix, but I don’t think she meant as Lestat. But he had died by the time this video was made, and Christian Slater had taken his role as Daniel.
  • In the video John Preston (Anne’s friend, and therefore an authority?) said, “Tom Cruise will not allow himself to be photographed kissing a man,… he’s evidently very upset that Brad Pitt of all people looks taller than he does and we’re told that he’s wearing risers.” Yeah well Lestat is supposed to be a little taller than Louis. Heels were in fashion for men then, anyway.
  • Narrator: “There is word that Tom has insisted that a makeup person be on the set at all times” Well yeah, those contacts are uncomfortable, apparently, and with all that action the fragile prosthetics and fangs probably needed to be put back in place every few minutes, “to make sure his eyebrows look right.”  Well that’s a valid concern! They actually weren’t all that happy with his makeup at first, as far as I know, some scenes were cut bc they changed his makeup, made the hair darker.

  • Narrator:

    “But some insiders say this behavior is just another example of Tom Cruise’s well-known perfectionism, a perfectionism that proved wrong those critics who thought he was too light-weight to star in Born on the Fourth of July. He ended up getting an Oscar nomination for it.”

  • Tom Cruise: “I’ve gotta wake up every day and play this role. Is it going to be exciting? And I want to commit six months of my life playing the character.”
  • Narrator: “In the end it all comes down to this: with a [the audio sorta hiccups but I think it was a $40 million dollar] budget at stake, the fate of Interview with the Vampire is going to depend on Tom Cruise, his looks, his acting ability, and his demands.” Like they’re such unreasonable demands and he’s carrying the whole movie himself? He’s not even the vampire that gets interviewed!

It’s been a while since I’ve read the VC books (the older ones) and I’m blanking on Lestat and Armand having sex in a chapel. When did that happen??

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Well, not “sex” in the way we usually think of it. Armand did bite Lestat and drink from him in The Vampire Armand, when Lestat was in a coma in the chapel of a former convent (St. Elizabeth’s) in NOLA (even in that unconscious state, he had been defending himself, but allowed Armand that brief intimacy). 

According to AR, blood sharing is the Ricean vampiry equivalent of sex:

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It’s described as being more intimate than human sex, feeding and being fed from is not just about the physical liquid, it’s an all-consuming experience.

When things seem to be accepted as canon/fanon, we get a little playful with word usage… if blood sharing = sex, then we sometimes just use the word “sex” when it doesn’t mean the penetrative sex we usually associate with the word for humans. Keep in mind that there are humans in relationships who are unable (or do not want) to experience genitally-penetrative sex, and they can still be sexually intimate with each other in other ways. So it’s partly in how you define sex and intimacy.

For more on Ricean vampire sex talk, I have these tags: #asexuality, #asexual, #sex, #sexuality, #lets talk about sex.