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I always wanted David Bowie to play Lestat. I don’t even know how well his face fits the book description, but I’d pay a fortune to see that!
Yeah, I would have wanted that, too… ;A; young David Bowie as Lestat, or older David Bowie could have been Lestat’s father, the Marquis!
Physically, even as a younger man, I think Bowie was a little too masculine for my headcanon of Lestat, but I truly believe he could have pulled a Tom Cruise and convinced us all that he was worthy to play Lestat bc of his acting!
This gifset is worth seeing in motion but still, this is SO Lestatuesque:
Fortunately for us all, David Bowie DID play a vampire in The Hunger (which also stars Catherine Deneuve as a vampire, she’s a fandom fave for Gabrielle!), check out @hyperbeeb‘s review of it [X].
[Excerpt of @hyperbeeb‘s review:]
This movie is fucking great. It’s got vampires, lesbians and David Bowie. It’s atmospheric and creepy and overall fucking brilliant. The last scene is a bit disappointing because there’s a lame bit of sequel bait but I can live with that because the film overall is so damn quality. Go watch it.
HQ- Miles McMillan // 2016 Polaroids/Portraits – FW ‘16
Cole Sprouse as Jeremiah
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Have you seen the youtuber “boyinaband” ? He would make a wonderful Louis, that hair! 😱
Oh this is that guy from the Don’t Stay in School vid, I remember him! What a powerful vid this is. Still gives me chills.
I do really like his look, but idk about him as Louis. I’d still screentest him for another role, a different vampire maybe. One of the Fang Gang maybe, or a theatre vampire.
There is a lot of debate about Louis’s hair, and I’ve done it publicly and privately (recently w/ my fanfic co-writer/collaborator @wicked-felina!) this dude’s hair… it’s more of a fanon thing for him to have long silky straight hair, canonically, Louis has “wavy, curly” and “black” or “raven” hair “curling just under his ear.”
^X by @i-see-light, probably more canonically accurate for Louis.
We all picture him differently, I think that’s part of what will make it so hard to cast an actor for this role. Some ppl headcanon his hair as long and more of a chestnut-color (like in movie!IWTV), or shorter and curlier (like in Lestat the Musical), or dark, longish and silky (which I think is influenced by
movie!IWTV but trying to pay some homage to canon), or something else entirely!
We all apply our own ideals of beauty (which are influenced by our own cultures, art, families, romantic partners, and/or friends, etc.) onto these fictional characters.
I enjoy the different interpretations in
VC cosplay and fanart, for the adaptation(s), it’s more important to me if he can act like Louis, so I’ll accept hairstylings I wouldn’t normally like for the sake of good script writing from the writers, and strong ic acting from the actors ^_____^
weweremadeforeachothersherlock:
Present for @i-want-my-iwtv as a thank you for casually ruining my life with a single post. Terrible edits but the look works, doesn’t it…
Look it’s a Fassbender!Marius! thank u @weweremadeforeachothersherlock!
But the blame for ruining your life should really be directed, at least partially, to @sheepskeleton, who suggested it to me first! ;D
[X another Fassbender!Marius by @sheepskeleton, hit the X for larger vers.]
OT but you’ll have to indulge my venting. If they’re doing the whole Vampire Chronicles, I can’t imagine anyone else doing justice to the patrician grandeur of Marius but Ralph Fiennes. The guy even paints! A white-silvery mane of non-human hair buoyant as his paintbrush. Picture it! The intense sweep of the eyes dissecting the other characters like portrait compositions…. restrained power.
Lemme just say: your description of Marius was so lovely! Whoever is cast, yeah, we’re going to need magnificent hair and we’re going to need to see him actually painting ;D
@sheepskeleton‘s fanart (which is based on Michael Fassbender) is more Marius than Ralph Fiennes, for me, tho…
[^X @sheepskeleton has a bunch of Marius pieces, this is one of my faves.]
Does Feinnes really paint? That’s pretty cool!
Feinnes is 54 and Marius was turned at 40. Movie/makeup magic could make him look younger, but I think we’d need a Marius who wouldn’t age through the course of a TV series that could last for several years. He’s going to be 60 in 6 years 😛
^Idk when this gif is from but I gotta say, yes, he’s got this great fatherly quality and Roman enough features… but the age thing… *sigh*
[X] I’m more into Michael Fassbender, 39 yrs old,
^or Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, 46 yrs old.
… or even better: someone new! Someone less expensive than all those dudes 😉
Skåll blood brother!! Do you know if there is rp blogs for Thorne ? Bonsoir ! Et merci !
//ooc; my Lestat never interacted with a Thorne, so mun will answer for him.
@nordic-thorns is the only Thorne RPer I know of (thanks for reminding me, @maestroderomanus! I remember seeing them on the dash but I couldn’t recall the name), not sure if they’re currently active. You can peruse their archive tho 😉
“A woman approached me on the street and called me “fine”. I am fine. I don’t need mortals telling me how I feel inside.”
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They used to RP with @redhairedtwin, that mun may know their whereabouts.
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