There was a tunnel to get Tom!Lestat to and from set. I had heard that before, but not that it was HIS idea. That they just wanted to keep control of spoilers.
The pic with this article looks like a shot someone took of him on set. Not an official production still, a paparazzi shot. So they did catch him outside the Tunnel of Secrecy?!
Lestat has always loved being photographed but probably not when he’s all swampy, so that was just Tom being IC ;]
“Focus Features has revealed the first trailer for The Young Messiah, the upcoming film about the early life and upbringing of Jesus…based on the novel “Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt” by Anne Rice”
WHAT DO YOU THINK? ARE YOU GONNA GO SEE IT? DO YOU HOPE SEAN BEAN DOESN’T DIE? HE’S IN IT! WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THEIR ACCENTS?
WHAT DO YOU THINK OUR VAMPIRES WOULD THINK OF THIS? ARE THEY AWARE OF THEIR GHOSTWRITER’S OTHER SERIES, AND IF SO, WHAT DO THEY THINK OF THEM?
Though Swinton had worked with Jarmusch before, for Hiddleston it was the first time. The actor recalls his first contact with Jarmusch’s work, remembering the very theater in Oxford, England, where he saw 1999’s “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,” and has been a fan ever since.
In getting in sync with the director’s sensibility and the gothic melancholy of the character of Adam, Hiddleston took in Jarmusch’s suggestion to think of Pink Floyd’s raven-haired, wild-eyed former frontman Syd Barrett while re-reading “Hamlet.”
“We did find a commonality, because it was always about specifics,” said Hiddleston, on the phone from a movie shoot in Toronto. “What kind of music does Adam make? What does he like? What doesn’t he like? Through those conversations I began to get a sense of Jim’s palate, his speed, his tone and his style.”
Both Swinton and Hiddleston draw a comparison to Jarmusch’s recent work as part of the band Sqürl as a reflection of the collaborative nature of his work, how it can be singular while he remains so seemingly open to others. The movie is a reflection of his own broad-ranging interests, across literature, music, art and science — “I’m a real nerd,” said Jarmusch, noting his recent pursuits as an amateur bird watcher and studier of fungi.
“That’s what’s so great about working with him, is his passions rub off on you,” said Hiddleston. “He loves the music that Adam loves; in a way there is some of Jim in Adam, but there is also so much of Jim in Eve, and the things they love are the things that he loves.”
“I’m neither of them, but I’m both of them. It’s not a portrait of me in any way,” Jarmusch said. “I feel very close to Adam in a lot of ways, and Eve I aspire to be more like. I wish I had more of her qualities as I get, I don’t know what the word is, older. Or more confused.”
He did hate it! But that’s part of what made him so perfect!
In no particular order, some of Brad’s grievances were:
He was miserable with the filming schedule which basically demanded filming at night and sleeping during the day. Seasonal affective disorder maybe?
Much of what he loved about his character in the book was different in the script, which he didn’t even see until 2 weeks before filming started.
IIRC, he didn’t get along with Tom but more bc Tom was absent than that he was difficult. Apparently, Tom would show up to film his scenes and not stick around before or after to socialize with anyone (remember, he had 2 young kids then, so I would assume he wanted to spend time with them).
For a little window into Brad’s experience, in his own words, hit the jump.
Brad Pitt, in an article by Mike Scott, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune:
“I’m telling you, one day it broke me. It was like, ‘Life’s too short for this quality of life.’ I called David Geffen, who was a good friend. He was a producer, and he’d just come to visit. I said, ‘David, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it. What will it cost me to get out?’ And he goes, very calmly, ‘Forty million dollars.’ And I go, ‘OK, thank you.’ It actually took the anxiety off of me. I was like, ‘I’ve got to man up and ride this through, and that’s what I’m going to do.’”
…Still, he says he doesn’t necessarily regret “Interview with a Vampire.”
“I don’t lament the failures,” he said. “The failures prepare you for the next one. It’s a step you needed to take, and I’m all for it.”
“Another big problem was the script, which was written by Rice herself, taking her first shot at writing a screenplay. Pitt hadn’t seen it until two weeks before shooting started. When he finally did get a copy, he realized that everything in Rice’s book that was interesting about his character … was gone.
And so here he was, a rising young actor and budding sex symbol, stuck in an uninteresting, passive role.
“In the book you have this guy asking, ‘Who am I?’ Which was probably applicable to me at that time: ‘Am I good? Am I of the angels? Am I bad? Am I of the devil?’ In the book it is a guy going on this search of discovery. And in the meantime, he has this Lestat character that he’s entranced by and abhors. … In the movie, they took the sensational aspects of Lestat and made that the pulse of the film, and those things are very enjoyable and very good, but for me, there was just nothing to do — you just sit and watch.”
“You gotta understand, Tom and I are … we walk in different directions.” says Pitt. “I always thought there was this underlying competition that got in the way of any real conversation… it bugged me a bit.”
The film is slated to hit cinemas in 2018, but before that Boone is working on The Vampire Chronicles, a reboot based on the Anne Rice novels that were turned into Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
ooc; Hidden in this article about X-Men. Interesting to see mention of the VC films, since we were teased about the Tale of the Body Thief movie that never happened for several years. (via merciful-death)
Am I the only one who saw Lestat, Louis, and Claudia in that “One Unfulfilled Idea of Family” in Hannibal, Will, and Abigail? Or am I just one of those helpless cases of VCians who can easily find reference to VC just anywhere and everywhere? 0_o
It’s definitely not just you. I know I’ve talked to adirotynd and wicked-felina about this very phenomenon. There’s a hell of a lot of common ground between the VC and Hannibal: perverse yet more-intense-than-anything-ever intimacy based on mutual experience of (committing) violence; heightened sensuality; a fine line between black comedy and high-flown philosophy… and then of course Hannibal is in itself a fanfic-like remix of the Thomas Harris canon, which is interesting to look at, considering the fanon that has grown up around the VC over the years.
I was surprised-yet-not-surprised when I found out that Bryan Fuller was a huge IWTV fan growing up – there’s a Nerdist podcast in which he describes how, at the age of 13, he phoned Anne Rice because he wanted to work on the IWTV screenplay. The story is a gem and starts about 32 minutes in, but the whole thing is really great:
Edit: basically what I’m saying is, if you’re a VC fan who can handle looking at gore, there is a very good chance that Hannibal will be right up your street. Meanwhile, if you are a Hannibal fan who enjoys historical settings and can cope with a canon that gets increasingly bizarre as the series progresses, you might find a happy home in VC fandom. Hey, I like to matchmake.
I-want-my-IWTV 