have you seen this: x . com/iwtvsource/status/2067362515642687728
At this point, I'm still hoping they're just showing gabi thru lestat's perception. But Jennifer's comment in the screenshot is truly mystifying me.
I hadn't, anon! Thank you for the link! And mm, I think I get what she's saying? Especially after watching her interview with Autumn (I hadn't seen many interviews with Jennifer before, and she's kind of a funny one in a lot of ways)?
It's not that who Gabrielle is as a character isn't important, but in terms of the story that's currently being told, how she functions in the narrative is that she's a catalyst Lestat's responding to. Who she is matters, of course it matters, but the season isn't about her, it's about how Lestat responds to her, and that's compounded by the fact that Lestat, as a character himself, doesn't really understand her, which is a pretty key underpinning of their dynamic and already featured pretty pointedly, in my opinion, in 3.02.
Gabrielle withholds herself from him, from everyone, her interiority is hers alone, and a huge part of that manifests in the way that she both neglects him and takes possession of him. It makes sense to me that in a season that's centred on who Lestat truly is beyond other characters' perceptions of him that we'd also be put in a position as an audience to have to deal with how he perceives others, and I can see a pretty big part of that in being all the ways she's unknowable to him. They can really commit to that for this season too creatively because Gabrielle's not a character with a death sentence like Louis' family was or the TdV vampires or even Claudia. They've got time, and they've all talked now about this season as the first part of a longer journey for her character.
So yeah, I think that's probably what she means, especially given some of the other things she talked about in her interview with Autumn.