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[cupcake_goth]

 Having seen the full trailer for the AMC Interview with the Vampire show:

• Awww, precious Murderbaby Claudia!
• Yep, excellent casting for Louis. 
• Oh wow, they ARE going for some of “yes, they’re lovers” text with Louis and Lestat. (They’re my Murder  Husbands v1 OTP.)
• Stiiiiiiiilll not convinced about the casting for Lestat. Yes, I have various issues with the casting of Lestat in every adaptation, but this actor looks too … lantern-jawed action hero. Yeah, Lestat killed a pack of wolves at the start of  The Vampire Lestat, but he’s also canonically stunningly handsome. This guy looks like he came from a central casting factory. 

But yes, I’ll still give it a try, because I have been waiting most of my life for something like this. 

Comments

[staxxy]

ooooo

[melchar]

I hope it does not disappoint.

A related digression: when the movie was made, Lo these many years ago, I -hated- that Tom Cruise was cast as Lestat. This is in part because I do not like his acting/did not like his acting in anything I had seen**. The movie comes out and Cruise was, IMO -perfect- for the part. He turned out to be my favorite part of the movie, whenever he was on screen.


**That said, I still dislike his acting in most roles. Loved him as Lestat. -Loved- him in 'Collateral' & 'Edge of Tomorrow' [not just for the fact that he gets killed again and again and again ^_^]. 'The Mummy' was also entertaining.

[staxxy]

side note - I largely just abhor the way his crazy oozes off the screen, but I really enjoyed his role in Tropic Thunder (a move that is intentionally kind of terrible but as a spoof of hollywood stereotypes is kind of awesome).

[melchar]

It could be that as he ages ...badly... [as in he must have a painting aging for him, hidden away somewhere ^_^], his crazy bothers me less & less. The crazy was really annoying 20 years ago. It seems about the same level now - but in the interim - maybe the world has become more annoying as well, so his crazy is easier to accept now.

[silverusagi]

The trailer was better than I'd expected. However, I have not been paying attention at all, because I had no idea they'd changed the time period.

I would assume if this was a success they'd want to adapt/bring in other aspects of the books, so changing the time period from the get go seems like it could complicate things later? IDK.