#vampterview

[submersero]

[v4mpgrrl]

I felt really — I really felt very strongly that I didn't want Louis to kneel. I didn't want him to kneel at Lestat. I didn't like the optics of it. And it wasn't scripted. It was scripted that 'he pleads' with Lestat but I was just, like, I can't — I can't — I don't want that image. I don't want Louis, like, bending in that way to Lestat and being like, "please", and the begging. It just felt like a betrayal of Louis. But then when we rehearsed the scene I was like, that's exactly what it has to be. It has to be the most uncomfortable feeling. It has to be — again, you're, like, seeing a version of Louis that I never thought when we first started, you'd ever actually see. And it is this, like, fear and this kind of, like, little boy version of Louis and the Catholicism coming in as well, the Catholic guilt and the idea of, like, kneeling and prostrating yourself… it was really confronting. And I remember actually saying when we finished shooting, I said to Rolin I was like, "I didn't want to kneel," and he was like, "I didn't tell you to." He was like, "It was right but I didn't tell you to." Yeah.

Jacob Anderson on 2x07: 'I could Not Prevent It'

[harbingersecho]

you will regret this for the rest of your life

[littlegirlinvisible]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.08: And That's The End of It. There's Nothing Else IWTVTwT Version.

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

[idontwikeit]

It's all creeping back. Paris and the, uh, what, what, what? But there's… all of it coming back. There's, uh, Paris. Paris. Can you hear that? Can you hear that, hm? Can you hear her? She's calling me.

Interview with the Vampire 2.05 // 2.07

[brotherconstant]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE BEN DANIELS: This was one of the first jobs I’ve ever done sight unseen, just because it meant working with Rolin. From the outset, Rolin called up and said, “Listen, are you OK if we don’t make Santiago queer?” I was like, “Yeah, I can sort of see it.” But as the script started to come in, I thought the only way this level of vitriol that he has works is if he’s in love with Armand. There is this extraordinary psychological term called reaction formation, which is what Iago has for Othello. It’s a defense mechanism whereby your impulses are so unacceptable to your ego that they’re replaced by this opposite, exaggerated behavior. Santiago finds Louis incredibly attractive. Because Armand killed Santiago’s maker — who I think he was in love with too — and also finds Louis attractive, the whole thing must be destroyed. It gave such a drive to his hatred. It was just something ruminating in myself that drove him forward in a very aggressive, mad, extreme way.

[bicreature]

But as the script started to come in, I thought the only way this level of vitriol that he has works is if he's in love with Armand. There is this extraordinary psychological term called reaction formation, which is what Iago has for Othello. It's a defense mechanism whereby your impulses are so unacceptable to your ego that they're replaced by this opposite, exaggerated behavior. Santiago finds Louis incredibly attractive. Because Armand killed Santiago's maker — who I think he was in love with too — and also finds Louis attractive, the whole thing must be destroyed. It gave such a drive to his hatred. It was just something ruminating in myself that drove him forward in a very aggressive, mad, extreme, way. – Ben Daniels [X]