the prodigal son

things I know will never happen in the show but that I personally think would be very funny

bonus close up of lestat (inspired by yet another måneskin fit)

theres this quote running around from jacob anderson where he talks about how historically black people have been removed from period dramas and how, as suggested by the interviewer (w/ blueiight embellishment ofc), the very few times black charas would show up in these period pieces theyd be side characters delegated to a raceblind narratively incoherent plot to placate an audience ashamed with / of the nuances of blackness. i rly like how he said louis’s character represents both a ‘black and very human story about a vampire… [Black people] do not usually have the opportunity to play such complex and fluent characters’. i think that brings to heart a lot of why this show has my heart, as an armchair historian and r.n. (dont ask what that stands for). u racebent characters in a way that coheres, situate ur black characters in a specific context, and the story never deludes us into thinking the mere existence of an interracial relationship is enough to end racism. in e2 louis literally says “fledgling sounds like slave, dont call me that” and e3 starts with louis telling lestat the history of dismembering runaway enslaved ppl & placing their bodies on the gates of of jackson square.. in his initiation to vampirism, louis is moved from the historically Black creole treme area he grew up in & is placed into lestat’s townhome in the very white, french, old quarter. vampirism as hes initiated into is a loving, powerful, cruel, and isolating existence for louis. bc of vampirism he is able to kill a racist person and not be lynched for it, hes able to echo the historical dismemberment on the alderman by placing his body on the st louis cathedral, but he is unable to kill racist groups & systems that initiate race riots. his connection to claudia in s1 is not so much by the oedipal, but by both their connection as lestat’s fledglings and as Black [creole] people placed in a part of the city largely alien to them both. this connection can be broken down even further. louis saw claudia as his joychild of sorts, ‘[his] redemption’ for his 5 years of pimping but a big part of her tragedy is that a child being made into a vampire cannot redeem anyone, much less redeem an individual from what was a historical inevitability. claudia is adopted into such a stature that she wouldve otherwise never reached by virtue of being made a vampire, but even then that is conditional. claudia is rendered inert from being anyone’s ‘wife’ forever trapped in the confines of immaturity as a ‘daughter’, only hoping at best to be louis’s ‘sister’ and isnt that resonant to bw.. she’s selectively infantilized both a child ‘meddling in the affairs of her parents’ , ungrateful, arrogant, and adultified - presumed powerful enough to ‘poison louis against [lestat]’ , taking on the role of louis’s ‘knight in vengeful white black’ .. the response lestat has to claudia is characterized by him continuing the cycle of abuse he once faced toward her and with a black claudia who was once a poor girl now adopted into this immortal luxury it takes on a racialized element. “bach is beyond you” and claudia bites back with “yes this french music is hmm. not made for these mongrel ears”. the absence of metaphor is striking!! literally the fact that this show does not shy away from the era its set in is why its so good.

What a cliffhanger 😳

This is now officially my favourite scene ever

Variety’s Best TV Performances of 2022: Pairs Edition Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid (Interview with the Vampire, AMC)

Stepping into the iconic Anne Rice roles of Louis and Lestat must have been, at the very least, incredibly intimidating. But in AMC’s refreshing twist on the original novel, Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid rose to the occasion with unforgettable style. Reid unleashed hell as the perpetually hungry Lestat, prowling the screen like a lion waiting to pounce. Anderson, portraying a Louis of decidedly different roots than the one Rice first wrote, gave one of the year’s point-blank best performances, as ferocious as it was viscerally wounded. As Reid and Anderson embody Lestat and Louis, it’s all too easy to understand why millions remain so invested in this romance, vicious and doomed though it is.  

folie à deux

𝕯𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖑 𝕸𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖞 & 𝕯𝖗. 𝕱𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖉 𝕭𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖎 INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.06: LIKE ANGELS PUT IN HELL BY GOD.

You dance that close, you ought to be married.

i kind of skimmed through that ‘interview with the vampire: claudia’s story’ comic, i don’t have the attention span to read it really but the art is very good. much better than those other VC comics from the 90s lol

Lestat’s arc in season 1 of Interview With The Vampire

Lestat's arc in every book he's ever written

Black hair appreciation on IWTV

AMC's Interview With The Vampire does such a great job showcasing the beauty and versatility of black hair. These are some a few of my favourite black hair appreciation moments on the show:

Bonus points for them styling Jacob's real hair instead of using cheap looking wigs like some other tv-shows do.

Why is this so fucking funny

Brad Pitt in Interview With the Vampire (1994)

I will now introduce the leaders of the Council.

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