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You’ve been in the fandom longer than I have, so can you answer something I’ve always wondered? Did the Lestat fans go nuts when Rock of Ages came out (the movie)? Since its pretty much rock star lestat….

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Exhibit A:

^Basically rock star Lestat. 

Exhibit B:

More gifs/pics from RoA that I consider Lestatuesque.

As for the fandom reaction, tbh I’ve been a fan ever since the dark ages of speculative fic on geocities websites oh gawd i am old I survived the War on Fanfic from the 90’s... but I didn’t actually find the fandom as it exists now until after this movie came out (2012)!

At the time, I myself was excited along with a few RL friends who were my entire VC fandom at that time. We were pleased as punch.

I’ll speculate that the fandom ppl that loved Cruise’s Lestat (like meeee) were very psyched for RoA. Even now, I consider Cruise’s Jaxx to be an older, mortal, brunet, tattooed Lestat. That’s alot of AU there, but still.

In RoA, his character is similar to Lestat: that whole macho shell with a tender, bruised inside that just wants to be loved for who he really is. At the end of RoA, Jaxx ends up with someone who loves him for HIM, rather than the groupies who love his stage persona or want to bang him for his sexual prowess, or his money, or whatever. Same thing with Lestat. So many people want to fuck him, but very few put in the effort, or gain his trust enough to get to know who he really is inside. 

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Some RPers actually already claimed him for Daniel Molloy and I have to agree w/ them, he’s very Daniel!

However, I always thought of Daniel as being similar to Lestat in appearance, and upon further very scientific research, I think Jeremy Dufour could also work as Lestat. I couldn’t find a really decent pic of him smiling in a Lestatuesque way, but a great smile is necessary, too ;]

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merciful-death:

✞«ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ᴄᴇᴀsᴇ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇ ɪɴ ɢᴏᴅ ᴏʀ ɢᴏᴏᴅɴᴇss ᴀʟᴛᴏɢᴇᴛʜᴇʀ sᴛɪʟʟ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ. ɪ ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴡʜʏ. ɴᴏ, ɪ ᴅᴏ ɪɴᴅᴇᴇᴅ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴡʜʏ. ᴇᴠɪʟ ɪs ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ᴘᴏssɪʙʟᴇ. ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴏᴏᴅɴᴇss ɪs ᴇᴛᴇʀɴᴀʟʟʏ ᴅɪғғɪᴄᴜʟᴛ.»

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nodominion:

i-want-my-iwtv do you see Lestat now?

To me, Tom Cruise’s Lestat would have made a major difference if they used him instead of Townsend’s in that *atrocious* film titled Queen of the Damned. Tom Cruise’s Lestat was to me, the best adaptation of how I’ve always read him in the books. I’ve said something like that before, probably on this blog. But yeah, Tom Cruise’s Lestat would have made Queen of the Damned as a film for me more substantial and authentic. Lestat is the Brat Prince not Marilyn Manson wannabe. XP

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Well, dear, you are preaching to the choir, and we did actually just have this discussion 😉 
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 Clearly Tom would agree with us both that he was the better Lestat, he had a great time doing it! He seems to look back fondly on the character, even casual encounters like this recent Jack Reacher publicity thing when asked about Lestat, admits “that was a fun character.” 
I don’t know what the QotD director was going for, but he seemed to want a 90’s feel, from the fashion of everyone in the movie, and the music. Korn was one of the badass bands in the 90s. Maybe the director couldn’t get Manson and wanted him.
The whole of QotD was such a trainwreck that I don’t think even Tom could have saved it. Plus he was too old by the time that was made in 2002, he was 40. Not that he looked his age then, but he definitely didn’t look around 21, which is how old Lestat supposed to be. 
 
I’ll add though that as successful as IWTV was, it unleashed a storm of teh ghey rumors on Tom and I think he wanted to avoid encouraging those rumors by reprising that role in particular. Or taking any roles that seemed gay. I can’t think of any other characters he’s played post-IWTV that are clearly bisexual, even.  

Tom Cruise was the best Lestat. Townsend was a try hard.

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In short: YES.

Exhibit A:

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Exhibit B:

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However, Townsend’s fail is not all his fault. He was doing what the director told him to do, he was made up the way the director wanted, and he was working from a terrible script. Unfortunately it was a trainwreck of a movie.

IWTV had Anne Rice on the script, working closely with the director to keep her vision as close to the book as possible. 

Also, Tom Cruise did his homework. He read IWTV, TVL, (and presumably QOTD and TOBT bc at one point he was trying to star in and get TOBT made). He’s been at this longer, he’s a more practiced actor, he just *got* Lestat better.

DESPITE all those ppl who still complain that he was too short, bc honestly, to judge an actor by his height, something entirely outside of his control (he did wear boots w/ some vertical assistance) is so narrow-minded and other related complaints so don’t even get me started.

I don’t know what the deal was with QOTD, but they clearly didn’t care for canon. That was the real source of its failure, not just it’s terrible Lestat.