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Sam Reid at THE VAMPIRE LESTAT panel @ SDCC 2025
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' [...] It is very hard to control because he's just like a ball of emotion. He's a tempest of his feelings. He's not very good at controlling himself. He's also not a planner; he just kind of feels it out and wings it. So it's all messy and chaotic. And this is the last place he wants to be. It's a lot of bad feelings, a lot of bad history, a lot bad blood there. '
--- Sam Reid, Entertainment Weekly.
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“He hates him. He’s frightened of him. He loves him. He wants to touch him. He wants to run away from him. All of those things are true, and actually that level of fear probably does draw those things out of you as well. You’re just completely bare. Maybe a smile creeps out.” — Jacob Anderson
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“I think they need some time apart now. But I think that they’re definitely sticking nearby each other. Yeah. I guess it is a bit like that,” Reid said. “Yeah, I mean, part of the joy is that if you live forever, you want to have that relationship with the person who can burn your entire life to the ground. You want to have that person who can literally give you a fresh start every time and can make you feel such extreme feelings.”
“You kind of want to be living at the extremes. You are a monster and you kill to live, and you live forever.”
Anderson, once again, agreed. “Whether it’s, like, platonic for a bit or romantic forever, you know, their relationship is always kind of slightly indescribable and also very describable. It’s love and hate wrapped up in one.”
“So yeah, I’m sure, Lestat and Louis just are like, until one of them perishes, they’re destined to dance forever, I think.” [x]
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“Going back to Armand was natural, because he was one of a trio with Louis and Lestat, and though their stories have been told in the first person, Armand has always remained a mysterious and maligned character, estranged from the other two, yet intimately involved.”
— A Conversation with Anne Rice | The Complete Vampire Chronicles
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I was worried about the trial. Hopefully it's one of those episodes that you can watch a couple of times and see there's a few different layers to it. There's a performance layer, there's a memory layer, and then there's bits where whoever's remembering it, you're like, well, why was he wobbling? Why couldn't he stand up straight? He is injured, but is the injury physical or is it psychological? I think it's more interesting, and Rolin probably thinks it's more interesting too, that all of the major injury is psychological because when they're so powerful, does it really take you 20 years to recover from a slit throat? So, it is more psychological damage, but [I was] always wanting to make sure there is a level that he is weak.
-Sam Reid. [x]
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IWTV Season 2 Sources & References
(The 1st 4 were cited by the Writer’s Room)
- The Ethnic Avante-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution by Steven S. Lee
- Paris Journal 1944-1955 by Janet Flanner (Genet)
- The Vampire: A Casebook by Alan Dundes
- Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles: An Alphabettery
- The Fly cited by Jacob Anderson
- King Lear by Shakespeare cited by Rolin Jones
- Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
- Sebastien Melmoth by Oscar Wilde
- Amadeus (1984)
- The Lost Boys (1987)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Batman
- Casablanca (1942)
- Now, Voyager (1942)
- The Third Man (1949) cited by Levan Akin
- An American in Paris by George Gershwin (1928) cited by Daniel Hart
- Moulin Rouge (2001)
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Les Vampires (1915)
- Dracula (1931) credit to @vampchronicles_ on twt
- Le Triomphe de L’amour by Pierre de Marivaux
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin cited by Jacob Anderson
- Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Vampire’s Kiss (1988) credit to @talesfromthecrypts
- Les Morts ont tous le Meme Peau by Boris Vian credit to @greedandenby
- The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Barclay Beckett credit to @rorscachisgay on twt
- An Enemy of the People by Ibsen
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Vie de Voltaire by Marquis Condorcet
- Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction by Edward Fullbrook and Kate Fullbrook credit to @iwtvfanevents
- Nightwood by Djuna Barnes credit to @iwtvfanevents
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
Artists and Salons Referenced:
- R-26
- Palma Vecchio
- Andre Fougeron
- Elsa Triollet
- Fred Stein
- Lisette Model
- Gordon Parks
- Miguel Barcelo
- Taxidermied Javelina by Chris Roberts-Antieau
- Ai WeiWei (wallpaper)
- David Hockney (Lemons)
- Wols
- The Kiss of Judas by Jakob Smits
- Salome by Louis Icart
- Ophelia by John Everett Millais
- Shelter by Peter Macon
- The Kiss by Edvard Munch
- The Vampire or Love and Pain by Edvard Munch credit @iwtvasart
- Ruiter on Horse by Reiger Stolk credit @ iwtvasart
- Portrait of Frank Burty Haviland by Modigliani credit @iwtvasart
- Self-Seers II (Death and Man) by Egon Schiele credit to @90sgreggaraki
- The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Goya
Movie & Play Posters on set (in chronological order by year):
- Tarzan and his Mate (1934)
- Avec le Sourire (1936)
- Les Deux Gosses (1936)
- Le Jour Se Leve (1939) about a man who commits murder as a result of a love triangle and locks himself in his apartment recounting the details as the police attempt to arrest him. Credit to @laisofhyccara
- Nuit de Décembre (1940)
- Mademoiselle Swing (1942) about a girl who follows a troupe of swing musicians to Paris.
- Les Enfents du Paradis (1945) about a woman with many suitors including an actor and an aristocrat.
- Fantomas (1946) about a sadistic criminal mastermind. This version includes a hideout in the catacombs where he traps people.
- Quai des Orfevres (1947) watch here
- Monsieur Vincent (1947)
- Le Cafe du Cadran (1947) about a wife’s affair with a violinist.
- La Kermesse Rouge (1947) film about a jealous artist who locks up his younger wife and a fire breaks out while she’s trapped.
- Morts Sans Sepulture by Jean-Paul Sartre (play) also published in English translations as “The Victors” or “Men Without Shadows” about resistance fighters captured by Vichy soldiers struggling not to give up information.
- Mon Faust by Paul Valery (play)
Musical Influences:: @greedandenby collected all music used in Season 2 here.
- Henry Cowell
- Meredith Monk
- Howling’ Wolf
- Shirley Temple
- Jason Lindner Big Band
- The Teeth
- Carlos Salzedo
- Alice Coltrane
- Thelonius Monk
- David Lang
- Caroline Shaw
- Gadfly by Shostakovich (for Raglan James)
- musical career of Martha Argerich
Season 1 here (these lists are updated regularly)
Season 3 here
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This Vanity Fair interview with Sam Reid is from November 2022, but it has some really interesting stuff in it and is still worth the read now. Here are some of my favorite bits of him describing Lestat- and even more fun thinking about how he’ll be going forward into s3/TVL territory