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I couldn’t sleep the night before, and then came the day. I was like, “Okay, this is really gonna happen.”
– Tom Cruise on the plane stunt in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Okay but is this not Lestat “I’m Gonna Do the Thing” aka “Adrenaline Junkie” aka “Look What I Can Do!" de Lioncourt:
"I kind of thought that was a one take but he did it eight times.”
How would you describe IWTV to someone who has not read the book or seen the movie?
(I struggle to describe it to ppl, I usually cater the length and depth of my description based on my audience, for example, to describe it to my 7 yr old cousin (who loves vampires and was a vampire princess fairy for Halloween): “It’s mostly about a happy vampire family with 2 dads, and they don’t always get along with eachother or the world.”)
As Tom Cruise put it so eloquently, “The movie is not for everyone.” No value judgement there; it’s just not everyone’s cup of tea, so I don’t try to sell it.
I will try to describe the story in the language of tumblrland:
“How would you describe IWTV to someone who has not read the book…?”
“How would you describe IWTV to someone who has not read the book or seen the movie?”
“How would you describe IWTV to someone who has not read the book or seen the movie?”
“How would you describe IWTV to someone who has not read the book or seen the movie?”
“How would you describe IWTV to someone who has not read the book or seen the movie?”
You can also try my vc synopsis tag, but there be spoilers there!
….That last gif is also tribute to antoineandthepiano who loves that gif! And it’s appropriate here, bc if I think the person might actually like it, I do tell them to #READ THE BOOK in the hopes that I can make them one of us ❤
When Claudia starts her assassination plot by bringing him a human gift, Cruise’s eyes show Lestat’s surprise that someone has finally done something nice for him for the first time in the film… In that moment, we realize that while Lestat is capable of love, he’s never been loved back.
Amy Nicholson, Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor
You’ve probably already been asked this but have you seen Tom Cruise’s lip sync battle with Jimmy Kimmel?
I have! But thank u for telling me in case I’d missed it. It’s so #mortal Lestat AU ❤
(Well, that’s the tag I’m using for that now, but really it should be #mortal brunette older modern-day Lestat AU.)
And he actually can sing, too (*cough cough* Stacee Jaxx *cough*)!
I want some moar…
is it true that brad pitt hated doing interview with a vampire? did he not get along well with people? whats the story there?
He did hate it! But that’s part of what made him so perfect!
In no particular order, some of Brad’s grievances were:
- He was miserable with the filming schedule which basically demanded filming at night and sleeping during the day. Seasonal affective disorder maybe?
- Much of what he loved about his character in the book was different in the script, which he didn’t even see until 2 weeks before filming started.
- IIRC, he didn’t get along with Tom but more bc Tom was absent than that he was difficult. Apparently, Tom would show up to film his scenes and not stick around before or after to socialize with anyone (remember, he had 2 young kids then, so I would assume he wanted to spend time with them).
For a little window into Brad’s experience, in his own words, hit the jump.
Brad Pitt, in an article by Mike Scott, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune:
“I’m telling you, one day it broke me. It was like, ‘Life’s too short for this quality of life.’ I called David Geffen, who was a good friend. He was a producer, and he’d just come to visit. I said, ‘David, I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it. What will it cost me to get out?’ And he goes, very calmly, ‘Forty million dollars.’ And I go, ‘OK, thank you.’ It actually took the anxiety off of me. I was like, ‘I’ve got to man up and ride this through, and that’s what I’m going to do.’”
…Still, he says he doesn’t necessarily regret “Interview with a Vampire.”
“I don’t lament the failures,” he said. “The failures prepare you for the next one. It’s a step you needed to take, and I’m all for it.”
“Another big problem was the script, which was written by Rice herself, taking her first shot at writing a screenplay. Pitt hadn’t seen it until two weeks before shooting started. When he finally did get a copy, he realized that everything in Rice’s book that was interesting about his character … was gone.
And so here he was, a rising young actor and budding sex symbol, stuck in an uninteresting, passive role.
“In the book you have this guy asking, ‘Who am I?’ Which was probably applicable to me at that time: ‘Am I good? Am I of the angels? Am I bad? Am I of the devil?’ In the book it is a guy going on this search of discovery. And in the meantime, he has this Lestat character that he’s entranced by and abhors. … In the movie, they took the sensational aspects of Lestat and made that the pulse of the film, and those things are very enjoyable and very good, but for me, there was just nothing to do — you just sit and watch.”
“You gotta understand, Tom and I are … we walk in different directions.” says Pitt. “I always thought there was this underlying competition that got in the way of any real conversation… it bugged me a bit.”
But they clearly get along now at least for the cameras but it looks pretty legit. they were even talking about working together on a movie about a year ago.
#Louis was gonna leave us he was gonna go away but NOW HE’S NOT – snort – NOW HE’S GONNA STAY AND MAKE YOU – and me – HAPPY
takemetocoffin-or-losemeforever:
“Why do you say such things?”
I think
it’s my favorite scene in the movie, because it’s the one where – when you are
blank of later stories portrayal – you realize that Lestat is not this
one-dimensional villain. This scene is so symptomatic of his attitude:
first he’s all flame and rage, then he casts a bard, and
while fiercely smiling over his “victory”, he already regrets what he just said.
He does have a conscience, whatever kind of nasty or stupid things he can come up with, and he’s genuinely affected and
struggled by what he’s inflicting on his loved ones. He’s without any shadow of a doubt an unbearable brat, but also so much more than that. It’s not that this
dork has no affection for Louis and Claudia – he indubitably does – it’s just
than he doesn’t know how to hold a close/family relationship without being sometimes unfair and/or cruel.Big shout
out for Kristen Dunst and Tom Cruise here, by the way. They are both amazing.
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