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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | THE VAMPIRE LESTAT — 3.07 “The Failures”

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the creation of adam (1508–1512) || interview with the vampire 3x05: new york (2026)

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Assad Zaman as THE VAMPIRE ARMAND

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.07 "THE FAILURES"

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Poor boy, Arun. You need a love that'll cradle you.

paticmak

armands

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hollowwaveremnant

I just want to cradle him 😭😭😭😭

thearmandthinker

assad, you are so insane. that tiny little face journey after louis' "love of my life was him" was so fucking raw and painful. all the fidgeting and moving and talking throughout all of his time in ep7 speak to just how thin of a line armand is walking between all this methodical planning and the panicked hurt he can't quite shrug off. that's literally a child, trapped in a teenager, trapped in an adult, trapped in an immortal vampire. assad zaman you were born for endless awards, i hope you get them one day.

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Sam Reid as LESTAT DE LIONCOURT

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.07 "THE FAILURES"

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2x08 // 3x06 It was enough that he showed up.

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Armand + hands

lioncunt

i cannot get over the visual of lestat's face screwed up, vomiting, and trying to speak through his vomit with the same rationalization of his abuse we have been hearing all season. i just can't get over it. the writing, the acting, the directing of that one moment is stuck in my head. we've heard these words before, but smoother in the past, the lestat pretending-everything-is-fine tone we've grown used to. to hear those same words shaking out between blood pouring from his mouth, tears in his eyes, the video still playing on the phone, that's not my mother, my mother is dead, she cannot be my mother, she is not my mother, she isn't, she isn't she isn't she isn't

lioncunt

the very idea that someone could sit down, watch lestat puke while still trying to rationalize the abuse, have a full blown panic attack over it when louis yells that there is no rationalizing this, and then go say it's consensual...that it's not portrayed as abuse...insane...

i also think a lot of people aren't really getting the *point* of louis' reaction. it's extremely harsh and judgmental and completely insensitive to the fact that lestat is being abused, but that is the purpose of it. the entire season is lestat attempting to justify it. this is louis saying that you cannot justify it. there is no rational way to justify that happening. and when lestat has a breakdown over it, they both sort of realize at the same time that this means lestat has been suffering incestuous sexual abuse for 200 fucking years.

it overwhelms lestat, and it clicks for louis. that's when he changes tacts, when he comforts lestat, when he gently tries to help him admit that it's been abuse all along in the bar. it's so realistic, such a necessary sequence.

i think there is unfortunately a knee jerk reaction people have to abuse like this, esp when it's mother/son, where it's just "gross", "weird", or "sick", as louis says. where the child is not taken to be a victim, somehow. i think the show is very honest in having this be louis' initial reaction, until he sees lestat's panic, until he properly thinks it through for a second. and then he gets it, and he feels horrible about what he said. again, it's just all very realistic and bittersweet. everyone involved did an incredible job with this storyline imo.

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additionally, that very instinct louis is informed by his own trauma from the 77 year abuse under armand.

they're both deeply traumatised individuals who kicked into defense mode simultaneously after that tape was leaked.

lestat, who always knew something is off about his dynamic with his mother, wanted to justify it and not face the ire of louis' judgement cause that would make him see the truth of the matter. his own mother, the person who made him, doesn't love him.

and for louis, who was fed lies and had memories altered to the point his sense of self is fractured, who had to live and be intimate with a partner who hid information from him, had to once again find out his first partner, who also had a habit of lying to him, might've deceived him for over a century in this regard. its in his specific words about having her portrait over their coffins (marital bed). the mother looming over them was alive and was actually intimate with lestat in a way louis was. that is his point.

the moment they looked at each other, it clicked and they reached one another. they're all that matters to each other at the end of the day.