And a SAM interview, too!!
Sam usually has a lot of questions
He thinks that Lestat would be very encouraging of Louis trying to be an artist
There is a level of unbreakable trust between Louis and Dreamstat, Louis thinks Dreamstat is the only one who would give him the truth
It's a very complex things to show this deep love between these characters and be supportive and to use Lestat as a very specific device - the framework that Louis needs to discover more about himself
There's a lot of hyperbolic descriptions in the first book and he needs to feel extreme, on the fringes of what's acceptable, because he's processed through the stories of people that he's hurt
It allows the show to the perimeters, and Lestat is used at this device that pushes (for example in the scene with Armand and his backstory)
Louis knows he is in another bullshit relationship (which is what Dreamstat vocalizes)
They are always operating on a higher meta level
Them being vampires makes it easier to explore the dark parts (and makes them fun to explore)
Armand making Lestat a "Harlequin" was a very pointed choice within the tale - Armand sees Lestat as this hypersexual being which is also the superficial level of Lestat's trauma as well
Lestat is an object of desire to a lot of people and creatures, and through that he finds himself in a lot of shit situations
Lestat played this part (Harlequin) (in Armand's tale) that he never did (in the actual events (surmised))
"you are the thing you're pretending to be by saying you're not"
The theatre is a prison they created because the vampires are too extreme for society
Lots of parallels to society (doing the same)
Hannah Moscovitch gave Sam the original trial script(!!!) so it could be very clear to him
You don't always see all the hints, because it "would play the rug away from the deception", though Sam played it and it was edited
Alan Taylor said "do what you serves the story"
He realized he had to start feeding it what really happened
"Maybe he wasn't able to fully stand up, maybe there was something else going on"
You have to remember to give the characters agency
You want to make sure that Louis isn't just a "liar", you cannot go "everything he said was a lie"
The older "monsters" have a level of intensity and necessity for those they love to them - that is what he worked in with Emma Freeman as to the "why" Lestat was there at the trial - he just HAD to be there because of his love for his family
"That sparkly thing" that keeps Louis and Lestat together
After looking at Louis Lestat was improvising, because any previous negotiations with Armand flew out the window
Lestat had been told that Claudia was too young to turn
Lestat has experiences with turnings turn out badly
That is why he says what he says in the turning scene
"A vampire fledgling is not a puppy just for Christmas, it's eternal"
Claudia is actually the best vampire that could be
Lestat realizes on her death that he's messed up judging her
Because Claudia is the perfect vampire
Lestat apologizes in the trial, but not really in the reunion
Stuff happened when Lestat came back to NOLA that we don't know about yet(!!)
There's a vagrant part of the character that this turns up in the later books that they're bringing in there
Lestat is living in his personal ghost era
Lestat loves to feel, he is decadent in his feelings
There's some very fundamental "fucked up" things that happened to him, and that is why he cannot truly believe that he can be loved for who he is - and he was turned (into this monster) before he could actually learn to believe that
And Lestat tried to hide those parts of himself (from Louis), and they come out at these unfortunate moments
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