What do you think means Lestat was groomed from Sam and Rolin’s recent interviews? English is my second language so I am afraid I may not have understood somethings.
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Ah, you probably haven't misunderstood things, anon! It's still been pretty vague so far, but I think Sam having stressed both in his In Creative Company interview a few weeks ago, and on the SDCC panel last weekend that Lestat has been hypersexualised from a very young age, and not by choice, points pretty entirely to Gabrielle having been the one to sexualise him, especially as Lestat is fairly isolated for most of his youth. In the context of their dynamic as mother and son, that does lend itself to grooming, particularly when you incorporate the book dynamic of her being foundational in shaping the way he understands love as something that will be generally withheld from him, no matter what he does, and offered only as the other person chooses to give (or, in the case of Magnus, Armand and Akasha, try to take) it.
Here's the quote from the In Creative Company interview:
This guy is like a hypersexualised person not necessarily by his own design, but, y'know, when you try and find out - - when you're discovering things about yourself at very formative ages, and you learn that a lot of your power comes from like this - - the desire of other people, um, be that - - um, well, yeah, anyway, desire of whatever, I won't go too far into that one because, um - - but I think when we look at the Theatre, what we're really trying to show is that this is like a seductive being just walking around owning everybody else, which is how Armand sees him. So he's like prancing and preening and kind of writhing all over the stage and seducing the audience and you know, like, making him feel seen and making him want him and desire him, and that is like the superficial level of Lestat's trauma as well, but we don't really dig into that there, because Lestat is an object of desire to a lot of people and a lot of creatures, and through that, you know, want of him, um, you know, he ends up finding himself in some pretty shit situations.
And here's the little one from the SDCC panel:
Lestat is a hypersexualised character in himself, um, and will be, y'know, throughout his life, and has been, from a very young, young age, so I think it's like, very interesting to explore sex and sexuality through music.
Rolin hasn't really said too much about Gabrielle yet beyond her being the most important of the new characters this season, but there's something to the way he said in the EW interview "She’s coming in like an asteroid in season 3. She’s about to destroy everything in her wake." that really just feels like it underpins what Sam says, I thnk?
Lestat facing this reality of his sexual trauma only to be suddenly faced with one of the people who not only shaped him, but one of the first people who victimised him - a person who was simultaneously one of his abusers, a fellow victim to his father, and his lifeline for a huge chapter of his life - is really confronting, and I think the implication right now is that they're going all in on that.
