So Teen Witch is on Logo, and there’s an advert for their holiday movie line up and the voice over says “We have Gay Apparel” (in reference to the lyric in “deck the halls”) and it cuts to Lestat jumping on top of the coffin, and Louis going “perhaps, yes.” and I aM DYING.
Wait WHAT? IWTV is in this holiday as in Not Halloween, like a happy upbeat movie lineup? Lestat is pleased.
I found out that the first prostitute that Lestat kills in the hotel room in IWTV was Helen McCrory and I still am just….Narissa/Madame Kali no.
omg, THIS prostitute?? Bad Lestat, killing Mrs. Malfoy. NAUGHTY *hits with rolled up magazine*
She didn’t even get any real face time, or lines. IIRC, we only see her face in this production still (and a few others from similar angles), which ended up on the cover of some magazines at the time.
“How to describe what humans look like to us! … you can’t imagine what it’s like for us to look on living flesh. There are those billions of colors and tiny configurations of movement, yes, that make up a living creature on whom we concentrate.
But the radiance mingles totally with the carnal scent. Beautiful, that’s what any human being is to us, if we stop to consider it, even the old and the diseased, the downtrodden that one doesn’t really “see” in the street. They are all like that, like flowers ever in the process of opening, butterflies ever unfolding out of the cocoon.“
– The Vampire Lestat
I love this quote bc it means that just being alive makes us ALL beautiful.
How does the fandom joke go? Every time X sound occurs, Lestat makes another fledgling?
But in movie!IWTV, if he really intended to turn Daniel (it seemed like he did, giving him the old “Brace-yourself-bc-imma-turn-u-momentarily” speech re: choices), that would only be the 3rd vampire we know of him making. Still, that dynamic of Lestat/Daniel intrigues me. Something tells me Daniel wouldn’t really be able to put up with Lestat’s diva-esque bullshit for very long.
Can I just add: the way Lestat tilts his head in that second gif,#he’s so curious, #catlike, #absorbing the whole experience, #being in a moving car, #delicious pulse of a fresh victim burning in his hand, #all served up and waiting, #like Holy Communion, #Daniel might be one of Lestat’s first human kills since reviving himself, #all those years spent healing mind and body reading comic books, #living vicariously through Sam Spade, #eating rats and alley cats in a filthy hovel, #which is normally repulsive to him on so many levels, #wearing an old moldy blanket, #rejected by Louis, #utterly alone, #hiding from all the evolving world and scary new technology #and now he’s IN IT, #he heard Louis’ voice from the street and followed, #lurked anxiously outside, #bc even in San Francisco a wraith like him could arouse suspicion, #picked the license plate number out of Daniel’s mind, #got into the backseat and waited in his car, #waited in the dark as Daniel tossed his leather jacket on him, #waited hungrily, #lips too dry to even close properly, #and now he’s ready to leap into the next big adventure, #… #just needs a good meal first.