#alan taylor

[kblupeach]

When the actors say they "ask Rolin or Hannah" when.you ask them about a scene and the director speaks out, you know the problem falls right on Rolin and Hannah.

[vorreitenertiqui]

KATIE: Seeing Paul back again -we'll stay on that now that we're there- oh, it was so heartbreaking but good at the same time. That's something again that a lot of people have talked about because... you're at this like, 'I'm sorry I killed you' soirée of Lestat's or 'I'm sorry that I wronged you' soirée I suppose you could call it. And I've seen people deliberating and debating, 'Well Paul was there, so is he lumped in with everybody else Lestat has killed?' I took it as a like, he'd either been wronged, or that he was popping down from heaven to be like, 'Lestat get your shit together 'cause my brother needs you.'

ALAN: Right. No, it's funny. I have a few thoughts about that. I remember when we were shooting the scene on the roof when Paul goes off the edge back in episode one, it was a question for me as to whether Lestat had gotten into his head and driven him crazy enough to do that, to get him out of the way so he could have full access to Louis, which is a perfectly Lestat kind of thing to do. I remember we all talked about it and we all decided that was not what happened. I think we all felt that was one step too shitty. (Laughs) No, I don't think he killed him, and I don't think he's there as an emissary from the heavens either, because I'm sort of comfortable with the idea that everything we're seeing here is a 'Lestat dying projection' and everything is being provided by him. So for me what that creates is that– this was the only way that Lestat could finally hear and believe that Louis loved him, was to bring this character in. Because you know as much as Lestat had antipathy for Paul, I think he respected him as a kind of innocent sort of right and so I think the only way he could really hear it would be coming from this person. If anybody else said it it wouldn't carry the weight. So I think in my mind the way I saw the scene was that Lestat knows he's dying. It's kind of a final self-kindness that he does, to hear that he was loved and it's probably the last thing he's going to hear before he  dies and then to our surprise he's saved, partly because Armand pulled the plug on the whole experiment and it times out nicely. But so to me I don't think you have to go to heaven to explain. But yeah, the nice thing about it is you can believe anything you want, you can believe that Paul's up there in heaven and that list really is seeing eternity with all the silver threads and stuff. But to me I'm comfortable with the idea that everything we experience is some projection of Lestat's mind, which is thematic because one of the huge things is if you can have empathy for others and if you got empathy for yourself then you'll be okay. And that's sort of what was– Louis manages an incredible feat of empathy for Armand, and Lestat manages incredible feat of empathy for himself at the very end. Selfish! but you know, isn't it the ultimate generosity if you can find way to see your own humanity.

[nalyra-dreaming]

(My key) Takeaways from Katie's interview with Alan Taylor:

Sam would insist on more takes till he thought he got it right

Lestat is in the twilight at the end (not direct sunlight)

They're aware that everyone's favorite episode is episode 6

the butcher shop was a new set

Alan's director's cut was very different (I believe he said "more romantic") but Rolin recut it into the "fever dream" we have now

Paul was not a spirit but also just a hallucination

Alan loved the transitions in his director's cut, and most of those did not make it into the episode

There was a slightly longer Loustat moment in the bus, but it got cut down as well.

[cliozaur]

Iconic BTS from IWTV S102

When IWTV meets Arrival

[the-breath-in-air]

Okay so, Alan Taylor directed the season 3 finale. He also directed the first two episodes of Interview with the Vampire season 1.

Mike Phillips is the editor of the season 3 finale. He also edited the season 2 finale of IWTV, as well as S2E3 "No Pain," and the TVL episode, S3E3 "Toronto."

Hannah Moscovitch is the credited writer, and of course she's a co-showrunner and is also the credited writer for seven other episodes, including S2E5 "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape" and S1E5 "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart."

I am often interested in seeing what other episodes a writer, editor or director has been involved in...especially for something like this season finale which has a lot of bold choices.

[in-love-with-movies]

Terminator Genisys (2015)

[hotdaemondtargaryen]

“He does probably love his brother, but he also would benefit by his death and he also has contempt for him for not being the leader that he knows he could be.”

ALAN TAYLOR — about aemond in episode 4, season two.

[pynkhues]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzNwcw0VRQc

Around 38:40, interesting that Alan Taylor just talks about the next season like it's a given rather than doing the "If we get another season" dance. Which I suppose could be him just assuming, but hmm

It does sound positive, anon! And ah, I need to rustle up the time to watch that interview in full, even just that bit at the end there is really interesting.