Lestat's mother (As Anne Rice intended)
A lot of people are just now discovering the character Gabrielle (renamed Gabriella for the show) in The Vampire Lestat.
For starters, Gabrielle as her name was NOT a mistake by Anne Rice. The character has a French mother and was raised in a French occupied part of Italy. She could speak Italian but she wasn't obsessed with Italian heritage like Jimmy Pesto from Bob's Burgers.
Also she and Lestat were never sexual. The vampires in Anne Rice's novels don't / can't have sex in the traditional sense. Just like how they don't urinate (Weird that the show felt the need to add that detail). They would just burn all the components of the blood. We wouldn't get a sex scene with Lestat until he was temporarily made mortal in Tale of the Body Thief and it was weird and awkward to say the least.
The novel The Vampire Lestat was previously adapted into a musical by Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The San Francisco version of the play was VERY faithful to the book. If you can find a recording of the San Francisco version (The New York version is very different!) then yo can give yourself a crash course on Lestat's backstory though I do recommend just reading the novel if you are so incline.
In the play Carolee Carmello played Gabrielle. A much more book accurate version. This version would not want vampires to take over the world. She'd have no interest in The Great Conversion except to perhaps help try to stop it. She wouldn't sleep with someone just for resembling her son. And she wouldn't kill innocents if she could help it.
Gabrielle of the novel would never text or go "Glamping."
When she parted ways with Lestat in the novel she wanted to go off and explore the wilderness, feed on large mammalian predators, and roam the jungles away from society and technology. And she was NOT glamorous at all. She stopped wearing woman's clothing the night she became a vampire!
The next time we see her after she and Lestat part ways, it's when she rescues Lestat and Louis from Lestat's rock concert. Similar to the way it goes down in The Queen of the damned movie except Louis was there and Gabrielle arrives (having somehow learned to drive) and rescues Louis and Lestat from the chaos. "What are you waiting for? The Pope to declare it a miracle? Get in!"
Though they get away, that morning Akasha abducts Lestat and we are left waiting for the cliffhanger until you read The Queen of The Damned novel.
Gabrielle is one of the survivors of Aksasha's rampage, not because she sides of Akasha, as it appears she may do in the AMC show, but because she is Lestat's mother (now fledgling). Gabrielle joins The Coven of the Articulate (A few ancient vampires and Lestat's loved ones) as they plan on how to stop Akasha.
Gabrielle is not sex obsessed in the book. In fact Lestat notes that she bristles at being hugged. I figured she was either undiagnosed autistic or it was from years of domestic abuse making her timid about human contact.
This song that I have attached "Crimson Kiss" is Gabrielle parting ways with Lestat toward the end of act 1 of the Lestat musical. Lestat has begun a quest to find Marius (Armand's maker) to learn the truth about where the vampires come from. Gabrielle just wants to explore. Nicolas has just died so Lestat's in a bit of a funk already.
Music by Sir Elton John, Lyrics by Bernie Taupin. And it's probably the most intimate / sensual she gets but the kiss she's singing about is really just the transformation into a vampire.
By the way, if you can find it, her song "Make me As you are" where Lestat makes her a vampire, is really, really good.
I just wanted to get this out there so people could have a taste of what literary Gabirelle was like.
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