i-want-my-iwtv:

cloudsinvenice:

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.

Exhibit A:

Claudia: “You MADE us what we are, DIDN’T you?!”

Exhibit B:

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