INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022—)

1.07 "The Thing Lay Still" 2.01 "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned"

I had taken 7,000 souls by then. But Lestat was the only one that felt like murder. Semantics, surely, but it's how I felt. He came by invitation. My distraction from the monochromatic landscape.

im enjoying the dubai scenes a lot

btw consider cheking my priest au over here <3 this episode blew my desire to write about iwtv

LOUIS, ARMAND & DANIEL

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2024) 2.01 – What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned

Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2.01) “WHAT CAN THE DAMNED REALLY SAY TO THE DAMNED” Adapted from the series “The Vampire Chronicles” by Anne Rice

"I think there is also a kind of intellectual current that runs through Louis and the way that Louis speaks, which a lot of it it's like a front in season one, it's like a front for this detachment and it all kind of breaks down to what's underneath the skin, particularly in Dubai, it's like "how do you really feel?"" - Jacob Anderson INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1X01 | 2X01

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE  2x01 | What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned “Why they shooting up coffins? Windows shuttered, doors bolted.” “Like every other village we seen.”

thirteen's era appreciation: 397/?

So you and Sam, you guys shared so much screen time together last season. Not so much in the beginning of this season... (x)

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

2.01 | What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned

i'm sorry, my baby, ndicel'uxolo (i'm so sorry) ndikuxolele (i forgive you) my baby, you didn't mean it, ndisak'thanda mna (i still love you), i said i miss you, i really miss you, i'm so sorry now, ha eh ya uvus' abalele (you bring those resting to life)

Jacob Anderson on Behind the Scenes of Episode 1 | Interview with the Vampire Season 2

I have to do a post for just this image too though.

In an art gallery, it would be entitled “You & me? Poignancy”… (& from me, added - thank you AMC… okokok, I confess, enjoyed how AMC rhymes with “me” & “poignancy”! Immortality also rhymes! Teehee! SO in fact does poetry!!!)

Anyway, I distracted myself from my point with silly rhymes (& if that’s not a metaphor for my existence, what is!?!)

But…

Claudia, looking to Louis; desperate to believe she is all he needs - enough to survive eternity with… but… deep down, she knows… the tragedy is, she knows Louis as maybe he doesn’t know himself…

But oh… Louis wants his words to be true… exactly as simultaneously he contradicts it, in Lestat’s presence… shimmering like an Angel, looking on Claudia with all the benevolent compassion & sorrow that is Louis’ compassion. But, it is Lestat’s compassion too, whether Louis & Lestat know it or not…. But love, compassion are not enough.

I once watched an interview with a child who had a severely disabled twin. They were both only around 10/11 at the time, but the interviewer asked the boy who was verbal what he thought love was & he answered “Love is action.” Love is not the words you say, but what you do. Love is what you give. And in action, poor Claudia is not loved enough. Oh, she is loved, yes. But Claudia deserves to be someone’s world entire. And is she? No.

Oh, it’s a tragedy alright. And yet, out of fairytale, who of us are ever anyone’s world entire? I know I am not, never have been & never will be. And actually, the concept of being anyone’s world entire fills me with incomprehensible dread & terror! And yet, I am human, as are you, so of course I also feel that pull towards completeness of it. Just as I can imagine myself a vampire, existing eternally, uncaring that I have to kill to survive… ignoring the fact that I cannot even squash a spider, for I feel its life.

Why oh why must I feel one image & it can take me into a full essay on it?

How lucky are we to have these actors playing these roles, these writers creating this show? S2E1 was written so poetically! I felt it deep within. The music is so gorgeous - the first 10 minutes, I could not skip a moment: the music is too beautiful. I had to watch a second time to even hear the words, the music was too overwhelming on first listen! But Delainey I adore already: Claudia’s internal pain sings from her: her poignant mix of directness, closed-off-ness, desperate anger & pure hope… Louis already so broken this season. I loved Jacob’s summation of Louis in a recent interview & how he is able to look at the darkness in Louis that Louis is afraid for the world to see. And Sam is infinitely eloquent in the smallest of looks. How joyous Dream-Lestat already is. Without words or even Lestat’s self Sam can express so much… and this moment here made me cry… and it’s this look that really did it. Just a wordless look…

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2x01, "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned"

that show is a comedy → 1/?

Louis getting what he wants from his husbands S01E02: "After the Phantoms of Your Former Self" S02E01: "What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned"