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Dear Lestat: Do you still ride? Do you currently keep any horses?

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♛Yes, I do ride, it’s a thrill to race them, have that level of connection with such magnificent animals. Louis rode with me the last time… the scent of the animal on him later is always deeply nostalgic for those times we shared when horses were the primary means of travel. And he also knows it’s kind of a huge turn-on *winks*

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He kept horses then, I remember a favorite he called Clemence. But we do not keep horses now. They’re daytime animals, and need daytime care… I suppose I could pay someone to keep a stable for me but it’s not the same as the love you get from caring for an animal with your own two hands, you’re always perceived as a visitor to them. So we borrow them and return them.

*sighs* Pets in general, that’s a sensitive topic for me, because Mojo was in a way my furry son, and we had to make the hard decision to give him mercy at the end of his life. Letting him go was painful, to say the least. As I’ve mentioned, however, he was a unique soul, most animals instinctively reject me by nature. It takes some effort to calm a horse enough to ride it, and even then, there are moments where it remembers it’s carrying a predator. 

Interview with The Vampire script

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@aafmun​ submitted:

Okay, I know that I already submitted stuff to you before, but I think I have discovered something really cool. It seems to me that it’s the original script for the movie. However, I have not dug deep research into it.

Anyways, it’s very VERY morbid compared to the movie and in some parts is more like the book (and others, especially in the beginning, aren’t but are intriguing??).

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@i-want-my-iwtv​ replied: Yes! I’m aware of this version of the script, April 1992, second draft (allegedly, but I bet there were a lot more drafts). Pretty easy to find, and this is the one that is probably most commonly printed out for the actors to sign, when you see autographed copies up on eBay.

It is a really fun read, even w/ the slightly ooc dialogue at times, but I can understand that AR was trying to shoehorn in as much canon as she could and I can’t fault her for that goal! And yes, it includes scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut. Some weren’t even filmed 😛

It has little gems in it like the names of Louis’ wife and child who died:

“DIANNE DE POINTE DU LAC 1763 – 1791
INFANT JEAN MARIE – 1791”

^Dianne would have been a little older than Louis, if she died at 28 ;A; And really, “DiANNE”? Nice author cameo, AR. Very smooth ;]

Fortunately for us, some of the filmed scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut still had production stills taken which were used in pre-release publicity (collected them in my #cut scenes tag) like this one:

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^I think this was another early Tryna-Get-This-Dumb-Fledgling-To-Kill-People scene, before Louis ran off to chill in the sewers for a bit.

This version of the script also has a rewrite of the Lestat/Gabrielle waking-up-inside-a-crowded-church scene, but Louis and Claudia w/Lestat instead of Gabrielle!

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lunchiemunchies: #I WOULD’VE LOVED TO SEE THIS EXCHANGE #BECAUSE LOUIS IS LAUGHING AND THAT MAKES LESTAT WANT TO LAUGH #IT WOULD’VE BEEN SUCH A CUTE LITTLE MOMENT #AND A FUNNY SCENE SINCE THEY’D SCARE THE PEOPLE #INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

Interview with The Vampire script

Re: science. As for yourself: you’ve been talking about this for 30 years. Don’t you want to know? Hey- know what you could do? You could surrender to mortal science. Why don’t you surrender?

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♛As Louis once said, as much as your offer might appeal to me, I must regretfully decline.

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I’m only interested in surrendering myself to our own in-house scientists, anyway. Viktor is proof enough of that.

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This is almost a sequence:

Lestat: hoe don’t do it-

Louis: *knocks over the candles*

Lestat: *as the fire spreads* oh my god

Source: sofplanet

was Tom Cruise wearing a wig when he played Lestat or was this his real hair dyed blond?

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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.

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^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:

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#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