Lestat de Lioncourt

What's up?

I'm just happy to be here as we cook my least favorite Lestat.

Wait, I didn't even think about that.

Oh, I wonder if he's sitting in his room like, I did it better.

Born on the Fourth of July, crushes it.

Lestat.

Anne Rice said she was mad.

And then she went and saw it and took out a full-page ad newspaper in New Orleans saying, I apologize to Tom Cruise.

Let me tell you, this show is weird and witchy with a capital W.

It stars Noah Reed from Schitt's Creek, the vampire Lestat.

Hudson Williams is actually playing two characters.

Of course, Hudson from Heated Rivalry, which I covered here.

But in this new iteration, I definitely enjoy, regardless of how the viewer may feel about interracial couplings or whatever, because I know I have an issue, not with the interracial of it all, but in the presentation of They're always being an interracial gay male relationship and not as many monoracial black male relationships.

But that doesn't take away my excitement for Louis and Lestat.

But I say that to say I do enjoy and I did enjoy seeing him Occupy this space specifically as a human where I'm the head of this family Yes, he's quote-unquote a punk and he's you know, doing whatever in secret DL for a bit, but he Was running the family and running the business although less favorable in the eyes of his mother Once he was turned and was able to live his soft girl life.

I enjoy seeing this black man be in that softer space yes it was toxic and chaotic and terrible we're not going to ignore that but that was definitely little miss bush queen getting her you know knight in shining armor who could take care of him in ways that and when i say take care of him i don't even specifically mean money i mean take care of him in a way that he was not able to let loose because you are the man of this family in the 19 what teens and you had to appeal a certain way and then it was creole and and all this other shit so i that definitely there that's that young lady got the man of her dreams um three times over so that's the bush queen you definitely saw her on jack tuck along i'm just um and then lastly but not leastly maximilian that motherfucker was a strong man black man he says That man came from, what was it, Jamaica on a boat to find his woman, and that was the focus of him from sunup to sundown.

You know, I didn't remember that.

Yes, she played Claudia, which was the infant vampire created by Lestat.

And yeah, I mean, it's Anne Rice.

You can never go wrong with it.

Because del Toro, he's actually very interested in the way that the vampire has shown up in other ways, right? By a time when he was, not during 92, but like I think 10 years later, right? or perhaps this generation, when they think of vampires, they think of like the Twilight vampires, like the shiny ones.

There's a generation that thinks of, like you said, Interview with the Vampire with like Lestat played by Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas.

Was it? There's three of them.

Antonio Banderas, Brad Pitt, and Tom Cruise.

Interview with the Vampire, the book that started it all.

Told through a modern-day interview, Louis recounts his transformation by the charismatic and cruel Lestat.

It's a story of grief, guilt, and the burden of immortality.

Claudia, the child vampire, remains one of horror literature's most haunting creations.

The novel was praised by scholar Norbert Spinner for its radical humanization of the monster.

Then in 1985, The Vampire Lestat.

Here, Rice flips the perspective.

Lestat becomes the narrator, revealing his origins in 18th century France and his rise to power.