lmao the vc fandom doesn’t even need to make everybody queer
// Let me also add that these are also facts about the Vampire Chronicles:
There isn’t (nearly) a single character who wouldn’t do any of the other characters.
Monogamy is a unicorn.
So it’s just gay all over the place, mixed with blood and death. Blood and gay often feature together.
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Nostalgia has partially unfailed this casting for me, after all, I think they needed someone who would be more of a paternal/father figure (as compared to Lestat) for Louis, and a 17 yr old Botticelli angel might not have had that gravitas for viewers who hadn’t read the book.
Go read The Vampire Lestat
Literally if you watch interview and you’ve only read interview and h a t e Lestat
Go read The Vampire Lestat
And rewatch interview
And watch your hate go rigjt out the window
asavagegardenindeed: #ayyy i did this and the anger and fury that we see when he yells why should I know these things sends my heart shattering into a million little pieces
DITTO to both *cries a river*
TC read TVL in preparation for IWTV, BP didn’t, so TC actually KNEW STUFF LOUIS DIDN’T KNOW, AND KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING THROUGHOUT THAT MOVIE and probably especially in this scene. #PROFESSIONAL ACTING
[High res]
Read it and weep.
I asked the author. This is what I get. xD
……….. If your goal was to make me weep, then congratulations.
Anne………………You couldn’t even spell your own character’s name right…..wh )
// …Oh the (in)humanity
Did she really need to be so pissy about it?
Yes BC REASONS. HOW DARE U QUESTION MATER Re: CANON OMFG
Her instagram is “annericeauthor”.
It is indeed pictures of her cat, Sugarplum. hahaha…
And other things, too. It’s kind of interesting tho, bc you get to see where she travels, and visit inside her house this way… she’s always made Lestat (and other characters) quite fond of sumptuous but tasteful interior design.
If L/L had a pet, I think a kitty like this one would be a good choice.
Why does Anne even have an instagram, really? What’s she got to put there? Cat videos?
Does she do instagram? Send me the link, I didn’t find hers. She has twitter but it just feeds from/to her FB posts.
It’s weird, she has this role now at the helm of her divided fandom, both feared and adored. She has a kind of presence in social media now where she shares recs for things that interest her, and she speaks out for gay rights and other causes, which she really didn’t bother with before social media. She has these People of the Page who unconditionally adore her and everything she says/does, maybe that’s why she voices her opinion on things. She must have some idea of how fun fandom can be, bc I don’t think she needs to do it to sell books at this point!
…And then people on the other side of that, Off-Pagers (maybe there’s a better word for us) who are grateful for what she’s created, but also sort of afraid of her for the nuclear warheads of Legal Whoopass she broke out on us in the 90’s. That’s why everyone thought the VC fandom was dead; we weren’t, we were scattered and hiding our fanworks from her for a long time.
I went off on a little rant there, it’s not like I’m defending her at all, but she may see this blog someday, so I try to be diplomatic when I mention her. Fortunately for the whole VC fandom, it seems she’s less concerned about fanworks now, and even likes some fanart.
RDJ was AR’s pick for Lestat in 2010. Article here.
Knowing what I know now, I can totally see where she was going with that. Wrong for the part, yet also weirdly right…
Wow, is that ever the flip side of me celebrating that Cruise did _not_ get to play Tony Stark. Sheeeeez.
I… had never thought of it that way.
I didn’t know Cruise was even considered for Tony Stark! Apparently, yes. Dunno how reputable this source is, but PolicyMic offers an amusing reason why RDJ won out over TC (beware, triggering of TC fandom, tho!):
“…Tom Cruise was once slated to play Tony Stark in Iron Man… he demanded his face be entirely visible at all times, so the Iron Man armor would need a transparent visor. That was a little too much Diva-ness for the producers, so he got dumped. Instead, they went with this not-as-well-known actor called Robert Downey Jr. who wasn’t a sure bet because he was known to enjoy a little crack every now and then, but who nonetheless could act circles – and squares, triangles, and rhombuses – around Tom Cruise. Fortunately, that worked well for everyone, and now we have a Tony Stark for the ages, and Tom Cruise can live in a cave for all I care.
Mon dieu.
Cruise was ideal for Lestat. Ideal. Creating the impression that a terrifying well of real madness lurks just underneath the surface is where Cruise does his best work. He’s great in Magnolia. I love him in Top Gun. He would have made a good Bateman. And possibly a good Nolan-Batman as well (oxymoron though that phrase may be). And he made a stunning Lestat, even if he was about ten years too old.
He would have been terrible as Tony because Tony is a cocky, rich asshole (whose trajectory is towards learning to not be an asshole quite as much, I guess), and not a cocky, rich actual sociopath.
I will take this moment to tell everyone that my friends and I have actually speculated about what it would be like if Tony and Lestat hung out, and the answer is “terrible”. Despite the fact that they both love capitalism and cheesy metal, Lestat’s perma-21 European foppishness would drive Tony crazy, and Lestat would get intellectually insecure and have a Rice Out about it. The evening ends in either a) full-scale combat or b) each of them retiring to their respective lairs for extended snarking. Am taking bets.
United by a love of capitalism and cheesy metal! That’s AWESOME.
I had not heard that story about Cruise diva-ing himself out of playing Tony Stark. I _had_ heard that at some point Favreau was hearing from the studio “We want Tom Cruise, and under NO circumstances will you cast RDJ,” because at that point RDJ was only barely starting to be considered trustworthy to hire, again. (He went through a few years where productions couldn’t get insurance if they hired him.)
I now see how Cruise was perfect for Lestat, because I know more about his eccentricities now than I did when I was a high schooler. *sigh*
Reading how bad queen of the damned is makes me want to watch it more.
devilsviolinist said:
I know right?? Well … hey, there are those movies that are so bad that they’re good, and this is not one of them.
But to be fair, people put in their time and effort making it, decent actors were paid to act in it (including Paul McGann apparently, and Stuart Townsend whose career is totally not over bc of it [half-sarcastic there but actually he has gotten work since QotD]), audio engineers were paid to record the foley for it, I mean, THINK ABOUT IT: hundreds of people not even listed on the IMBD page benefited from it in some way all the way down to the theater workers who earned a paycheck selling tickets for people to watch it!
I think this fanart of QotD!Lestat is awesome… maybe more Nicki than Lestat, tho.
FIlename says its by GabeRose but I can’t find the source ;A;
// I love Stuart’s face, though. So it’s a shame they didn’t just give him a wig or dye his hair blonde and pop in some contacts. Like was it really that hard?
Agreed. Well that would have been a good start. Maybe they spent most of the budget on that fabulous 90’s goth fashion on everyone!
His accent, I bet that wasn’t ST’s choice, either (but I haven’t watched the behind-the-scenes featurettes so maybe it was).
Rate my character of their attractiveness :
A+: Flawless/Sexy
A-: Gorgeous/Hot
B+: Beautiful/Handsome
B-: Pretty/Cute
C+: Cute/Decent
C-: Decent/Okay
D+: Okay/Umm…
D-: Ugly
F: HorridB+
I would say A+ because I think Claudia is flawless but cannot agree with sexy.
Not an RPer but I write Louis in fic and I fear Claudia would be just as conflicted about him in my writing as she is in canon.
I love Claudia and I love the conflict engendered by her character.
Agreed on this, vampchronfic. Claudia’s sensuality (well, whatever word we want to use for her inner romantic feelings, or lack thereof) is difficult to say the least. It’s very hard to get past the child-body issue.
I think they did it very well in the film when Louis refers to her as his child, and Armand corrects him, “You say so, yet you are innocent,” so Louis instead goes with, "My beloved.“ He does love her deeply, but it’s not enough for her.
Vampire bakery!
They could call it “Cake & Monsters”!
I-want-my-IWTV 
