“I’d love to be a vampire. It’d be lovely to be a vampire, wouldn’t it? You’d get to be ancient and eternal, a creature of the night. And vampires get away with murder, quite literally.” — Tom Hiddleston
We were creating this kind of cocktail of Gothic romance,“ says Hiddleston. "And once all those elements were there, we just shook it up and started shooting.” Picture a post-millennial version of that glory-hog Lestat.