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Neil Jordan and
Kirsten Dunst on set, Interview with the Vampire
Oh dear, Lestat. Would you consider marrying me?
♛Sweet little Anon! I’m so very touched that you think I’m marriage material!
It’s no secret that I have difficulty with monogamy. I like the idea of marriage, I like the concept of the ceremony that goes along with it, and all of the accompanying elements. Flowers! The fashion! Bridesmaids! Groomsmen! Vows!
Ah, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t sidestep the question so much. It’s a serious one.
I would have to love you so much that the chance of losing you would be too much to bear. Thinking about it now, that was the reason I brought over each of my fledglings. Well, most of them. Going to leave out naming those it didn’t apply to, I think you can figure that list out yourself.
Alas, Anon, I’m not truly suited for marriage. But thank you again, I am touched, deeply, that you would have chosen me.
This is almost a sequence:
Lestat: hoe don’t do it-
Louis: *knocks over the candles*
Lestat: *as the fire spreads* oh my god
was Tom Cruise wearing a wig when he played Lestat or was this his real hair dyed blond?
I answered this more fully in this post right here, but just concisely:
Yes, Tom Cruise was wearing a wig. Thinking about it now, I think it was a partial wig and blended with his own hair somewhat.
Admittedly it wasn’t the “glorious mane of pampered yellow hair” as described in book!IWTV, but I think his performance really made up for any of his physical shortcomings (pun intended, lol), like not being blond enough.
New thoughts, too:
In fact, he was a brighter blonde as we can see in some stills from what appear to be cut scenes, and they modified his hair and makeup, so that may be a reason why those scenes had to be cut. This one looks oversaturated but you can still tell that his hair is very different from the movie, and his eyebrows are bigger and brighter. Pastier white skin, too.
^I think this would have been the scene Lestat makes Louis watch him take a victim to make sure Louis reeeeeeally wants to vampire. Or it’s the scene Lestat bashes open Louis’s wife’s coffin to show him the decaying corpses of his wife and child to remind him what death actually looks like and it’s hella not fun.
Compare the above to the hair and makeup he had in the movie before the murder attempts:
What’s kind of tragic and beautiful here is you can almost see him thinking about Doing the Thing:
Am I really going to do this again? Try to bring someone over and hope that they’ll stay with me? I can’t let Louis have too much time to consider it, he’s really trying to kill himself and he’s going to do it. Soon.
Such chemistry. Wow. [X]
#the resemblance is uncanny
#seriously tho Louis #that is a TON of fabric #and this is the yearround heat of New Orleans #plus the humidity of a swamp #so there is NO WAY you are cold enough to need to do this w/ your cape #and no that is not going to protect your clothes from getting gross #IN A SWAMP #as if u cared about that anyway #youre just upset that you just got steamrolled into helping dispose of the body #of someone you had alot of feelings for #positive and negative #a murder you condoned with your passivity #NICE JOB COPARENTING THERE. #as pixellated as this image is you can see that Louis is 110% DONE #frack #”is this swamp big enough for two?” #”I should follow Lestat’s desiccated corpse” #you know what Nah
Louis confesses his true feelings towards Lestat. [X]
i absolutely love you and this page and i have a question i know that vampires dont smoke but what does lestat think about smoking and cigarettes?
Thank you so much! And I love YOU, random citizen ;D
Re: Cigarettes:
Lestat quite enjoys smoking.
He likes to do it to pester Louis, who finds cigarette smoke distasteful. Lestat also does it for the oral fixation aspect. It calms him to have a cigarette to fidget with, and it gives him a reason to carry a cool lighter around.
Louis dislikes smoking bc he has a much stronger sense of smell. The Scent Gift, if you will and yet, he doesn’t mind sitting around in sewers in the movie… maybe he’s punishing himself extra when he was doing that…
Also:
- Lestat has perfected the art of smoke-rings, too.
- Cloves are also something Lestat likes, for their scent.
- You didn’t ask this specifically but I was thinking about it: marijuana and other smoked drugs have to be decanted in the blood of their victims for it to have any effect on them, but that doesn’t apply to cancer. Conveniently, vampire physiology setup rejects tumorous growths but accepts hallucinogenics!
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