He’s that tall? He seemed so tiny in CMBYN (at 22, he more than passed for 17, he seems like one of those actors that will always look boyish). I guess it’s just the other actors there were taller (Armie Hammer is 6 ft 5, and an older looking 31 year old playing a 24 year old, so maybe that helped Tim look like a small teen in comparison – though I do think they should have cast younger for Oliver).
I suppose that means whether he fits as Armand is how tall he looks in comparison to the rest of the cast. If the actor playing a 6 ft tall character is taller by a 5 inches then Armand can be taller. There seems to be a lot of very tall actors.
I guess we will have to see.
Yep, according to IMDB he’s that tall! But you bring up another point about him that I like, which is that he is 22 and looks so boyish. I would LOVE for them to cast someone, like him, who is 18+ and looks younger, so that it can be close to canon-compliance without the underage/adult ship issues.
They aged Claudia up for movie!IWTV and I think that was a change for the better. I hope that they do that again if Claudia appears in any future adaptation.
I wonder if he’s read VC or would have interest in being involved with it? I feel like he would!
Not to burst your bubble too hard, and I am sorry to do so at all, but it feels like a good time to mention that some fans have commented that he’s too tall, apparently! He’s 6 feet tall. In
TVA Armand says: “I was perhaps seventeen years old when Marius made me into a vampire. I had stopped growing by that time. For a year, I’d been five feet six inches.” Maybe they could do some camera tricks to make him look shorter, but idk, might be easier to just cast someone shorter 😛 It sucks for height to be a dealbreaker, but I respect the fact that some fans really want a canon-compliant Armand in this adaptation.
Also, if Timothee wins an Oscar for CMBYN, he’s going to be extremely expensive ;A; He’s probably already in enormous demand just for the nomination. So he’d have to WANT to be part of this, probably.
Apparently he’s in pre-production on a new film, and VC casting is a year off, but maybe he’ll be available by then?
I suppose that means whether he fits as Armand is how tall he looks in comparison to the rest of the cast. If the actor playing a 6 ft tall character is taller by a 5 inches then Armand can be taller. There seems to be a lot of very tall actors.
I would be fine with them casting other actors all taller than him to make it work! But in scenes with him in crowds and in wide shots
where you might not have enough 6′5′’+ tall people, some special effects would be fine, IMO, if they want to invest the time/effort/money. I think it’s partly in the styling, too. Clothes, makeup, lighting, etc. can make a person look bigger/smaller/older/younger/etc.
@wicked-felina said: Louis is just under six ft (I guess he was wearing heels the day Daniel interviewers him lmao) but yes!! The point stands
He might have been, he was wearing a whole special outfit, knowing it could be described and included in the record of the interview. But I don’t think his height is specified in IWTV, I skimmed it, didn’t find that. Here’s a compilation of descriptions of Louis that @i-see-light-blog put together.
Lestat says in TVL:
I’m six feet tall, which was fairly impressive in the 1780s when I was a young mortal man.
But I don’t think we get Louis’ height (other than “tall”), until Armand’s description in TVA:
I can’t find it rn and so I can’t remember if it was an ask directly sent to me or just a post I reblogged… 😛 sorries… but someone had reported that they and their friend (significant other maybe?) were in a funeral parlor, owned by a relative I think, and were allowed to climb into a few coffins to test that question, and YES, two full-grown adults were able to fit comfortably in a standard-size coffin. Louis and Lestat are both 6 ft tall with Lestat being slightly taller, so yeah, that’s a lot of person when doubled. It was also unnaturally tall for that time period.
^IDK if the coffins in the movie were accurate to the time period, probably yes. That one looked plenty big enough for them to both get in and why didn’t they!!! but I didn’t see any cushions at all, that might have made the fit a little tighter.
Currently, ppl can have custom coffins made, it would be easy enough to order one of any size 😉
Louis de Pointe du Lac, already described above but always fun to envisage: slender, slightly less tall than Lestat,…
^Could be as little as an inch (US) or a few centimeters (non-US) difference *shrugs* I should have said that Lestat is 6 ft tall and Louis slightly less than that, that would have been more accurate.
I hate to be that guy (it’s a great illustration) but Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater are both 5’8" and Vincent Perez is almost 6’. *ducks*
To be fair to the artist, we never see those three stand together in the same movie, so these height choices fall under artistic license for comical value; since fanon-wise, Daniel is significantly taller than Armand ;D I don’t remember if it’s mentioned in canon how tall Daniel really is.
It looks like Antonio!Armand and Slater!Daniel are in the foreground in the second panel, so there may be some perspective stuff happening in addition to a not-flat ground.
They might not all be standing on flat ground, either, it’s blank space… and Antonio!Armand might be wearing heels, or elevator shoes…
It’s neither here nor there, but Daniel was supposed to be played by River Phoenix, who was 5′10″.
It’s so fun to see at least this shot from the other side of the door, lol…
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
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!
Hide and Seek sounds like a fabulous #Coven Game Night activity. Not as violent as paintball, less strategy than Poker… Louis, being a very strategic kind of player, is also excellent at Hiding altho sometimes if he hides somewhere too comfortable, he ends up just taking a nap bc Louis likes taking cat naps.
“Louis de Pointe du Lac… slender, slightly less tall than Lestat, his maker, black of hair, gaunt and white of skin, with amazingly long and delicate fingers, and feet that don’t make a sound. Louis, whose green eyes are soulful, the very mirror of patient misery, soft-voiced, very human, weak, having lived only two hundred years, unable to read minds or levitate, or to spellbind others except inadvertently, which can be hilarious, an immortal with whom mortals fall in love”
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