Marius is the the guidance counselor that was mysteriously fired from…
redversaillesrose said: #I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED, #IM GONNA TATOO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GLORIOUS WORDS ON MY BODY, #THIS IS IMPORTANT IN ALL THE LEVELS, #I WANNA CRY, #YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I YELL ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL YOU GUYS ARE, #THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS, #I HOPE YOU ALL FIND MONEY ON THE STREETS, #BLESS YOUR DEPRAVED SOULS, #I LOVE YOU.
Okay, so my boyfriend thinks Lestat would be Raoul (dashing hero, bit hot-headed) and Claudia should be Christine… only she’d sing Shirley Temple songs.
Claudia as Christine…There’s a scary, yet very fitting, thought.
Should we have Marius as the Phantom? Only he wouldn’t wear a mask – He’d refuse to hide all that beauty.
Alright, wait, in retrospect Claudia as Christine would be kick-ass. There wouldn’t be any of the “Oh, I think I’m in love with the Phantom,” quivering. She’d choose him, kick his ass, and make him her own. Claudia takes no prisoners.
It’s funny you should say that, because my boyfriend just made this photoshop of Louis as the phantom… and of course, Claudia has that moment in IWTV where she says that Louis had to live, rather than Lestat, because he’d be the more controllable of the two…
…or AU in which Lestat finally gets Louis to wear a nice bright suit (in exchange for letting him cut his hair short) and Louis was just too damn attractive.
So my boyfriend got thinking again about how they’d have cast Interview with the Vampire if it’d been made in 1940, complete with the fact they would probably have insisted on making Louis into “Louise” (then I told him about Anne Rice’s putative genderswitched version with Cher and his head exploded).
Anyway, he figured that, after Wuthering Heights, Laurence Olivier would be a shoo-in for Lestat, while Vivien Leigh would be the inevitable (if horribly miscast) Louise. And Claudia is always and forever Shirley Temple…
Your boyfriend is so awesome, can you please make copies and distribute them? His VC thoughts are priceless.
This idea of his is especially interesting because, if Louis became Louise, Claudia might not have felt so connected to her, because Louise would have the very body Claudia wanted to have for herself so badly… it would have introduced an entirely new angle of hatred from her… would she have killed Louise instead of Lestat? Hmmm…
At any rate, your casting choices are great and you made me do this.