#anon perspective

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https://www.tumblr.com/vampirepressclub/819529078398926848/lestat-hiring-his-lawyer-who-he-is-also?source=share

I also believe Lestat lied.

I don't see them sleeping together 🤨🤨🤨

No? Interesting… why do you think so?

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A very reasonable and balanced take, Anon.

I think most people here (and many Jammers) are fandom folks. But none of us can forget the show is what brought us here and what should be at the center of our focus.

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how his family was killed by the French mob

What French mob? A vampire pair of Gabistat hunting down their own abusive family now counts as a mob? (Also, I think Gabriella would resent being referred to as French!)

1. I wrote that so as not to spoil lol

2. In the book, Gabrielle has sent Lestat’s father to him because he is blind and needs care, but the rest of the family was killed by a mob in the book

3. In the show, Lestat refers to the French mob that killed his family… but his memories tell a different story. We need to keep in mind that Lestat tells what he wants people to believe, often obscuring the truth. So, this is the first of many times we can expect this to happen in the show.

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Thinking that an actor or actress shouldn't talk about their personal life because it disrupts your fantasy or immersion is never a good thing; it opens the door to parasocial behavior, leading you to believe that these actors "owe" you something.

What an actor or actress does in their private life should NEVER truly affect you, because you don't know these people

Pretty much

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In response to: https://www.tumblr.com/vampirepressclub/819182241373618176/

Fair

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[H]ow does it work for actors from a PR perspective? Are the questions planned and reviewed by the team, and then some kind of script is prepared that the person later recites? Just a technical question.

For "real" interviews and interviewers, you generally send ahead a list of questions and topics that you want to cover and the interviewee/their team will approve or disallow questions ahead of time. Other questions might spring up organically, but the core questions are pre-approved. That's how late night shows like Graham Norton or Late Night with Seth Meyers get the little kid pics or past show clips. The interviewee looks bashful or demurs when that pic of them age 8 pops up, but it was one that they/their team cleared. (Now the interviewee may have broadly cleared that pic ages ago and not remembered it by the time it pops up, but they HAVE approved it and their team DOES have the legal usage rights to show it.)

This is also often how it works with print interviews, but not exclusively. That GQ interview where the interviewer hammered Joaquin Phoenix about his dead brother in advance of The Joker release stands out as egregious, but even then, as a respectable magazine they would have gotten Joaquin's approval to print it before running it. (And it made the interviewer look like an absolute tool while not harming Joaquin so there was really no reason for him to not approve it.)

There's an older NYT article with Daniel Radcliffe where he was doing some play about fact checking and as part of his prep for the role, he actually did the fact checking for a different article of theirs. Part of that was clarifying the spelling of something, part of it was a basic fact, but the salient part to this ask was clarifying the intent meant by a statement given by someone interviewed. This is common in print interviews that you'll do a fact checking round, but it depends on both the interviewee and the publication whether that round comes before or after the NIL (Name Image Likeness) release. — Basically, yes, you can use photos of my client and the interview you took if you take out XYZ Freudian slip or ABC mention of his mother calling cos it doesn't fit his image. And yes, you CAN publish your interview/photos without that final approval, but it will typically shut you off from that the rest of that PR firm's client (or network or manager or whomever set up the interview on the interviewee's behalf.)

Thanks for this, Anon!

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https://www.tumblr.com/vampirepressclub/819093277373513728/actually-anon-writers-room-has-women-queer?source=share

Some of the discourse is also coming from that fact that a lot of Black people are also just getting tired of talking about race. This was said about season 1 in particular because some people feel it has become trauma porn discussing "the drop" episode for the last four years.

And with someone going on in the world, some people really do just want a distraction.

I guess

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https://www.tumblr.com/vampirepressclub/818937591615340544/is-sam-gonna-be-holding-back-going-forward-and?source=share

I'm happy to see that many anonymous commenters on this blog have strong emotional intelligence and are noticing many details that weren't apparent before. The attitude has changed and there's really no denying it; it's right there in front of us.

To those reading this blog from the outside, I'd say this: many of us are neither naive nor stupid and precisely because we care about this person, we'll "see through it," as the saying goes.

I will continue to observe.

#IstandwithSam!

Thank you for your positive affirmation for Sam, Anon.

I stand by my assessment that this is not an attitude shift—it’s a behavioral one.