Interview with the Vampire (TV Series)

... After the Phantoms of Your Former Self (2022)

Jacob Anderson: Louis de Pointe du Lac

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• Lestat de Lioncourt : You'll see as your powers grow, you can see their thoughts, like a one-reeler almost. Dull, monotonous picture shows. It's a very distracting gift, the petty musings of meat.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Peel back on me then. What am I thinkin' right now?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : You'll have to tell me yourself. A sacrifice is made when the Dark Gift is shared.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : You can't read my mind anymore?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : The architects of our creation mean to humble us. We're at the mercy of the other's discretion.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Just like the meat.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : You're not one of them anymore, fledgling. You chase after phantoms of your former self. I'll break you of it.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : He had a way about him those first years, Lestat. Preternaturally charming, occasionally thoughtful. He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover and my maker -- all of those things at once.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : How many of us are out there? We can't be the only ones.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : How many vampires? Not many, I'm afraid. Maybe a hundred... A hundred and one.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : What's happening?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Your body is confused. Your lungs feel like water, your heart, fire. You feel as if you're dying... Because you are.

• Lestat de Lioncourt : When I first started learning English, I abhorred it. Every word felt like a doorknob falling out of my mouth. Chapeau was a hat, étoile was a star, a pamplemousse was a grapefruit...

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Killin' folks ain't a second language!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : ...but, but! When I started dreaming in English, that's when I embraced it. And now I have English consonants to thank for this astonishing jawline.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : You should just throw me in the incinerator, make another one.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : What a waste that would be. I have two centuries walked this earth and can report, you have no twin. No one as angry, as stubborn, as unaccommodating, as maddening...

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Sound like trash to me.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : ...as loving, as dedicated, as thoughtful, as imperfectly perfect as you've become. You're a challenge every sunset, Saint Louis, and I'd have it no other way.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : And music, that was where Lestat separated man from food. Music pierced his damned soul, and any humans who were involved in the creation of it existed on an elevated plane in his eyes. I was moved to see he too had his human attachments.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : 'Exceptional Negro.' 'Thank you, sir.' It was the call and response of my entire life. I had let them talk to me like that so long, I stopped hearing it. 'Yes, sir.' 'Of course, sir.' 'Subject-verb agreement, sir.' Smile, nod, 'yes, sir.' They all came from the same organ inside me. An organ unknown to science at the time because what scientist would look for an organ found only in Black men who use their weakness to rise? But I wasn't a man anymore. I was something else. I had powers now and decades of rage to process, and it was both random and unfortunate the man picked that night to dabble in fuckery. If not him, it would've been the next man.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : He had a way about him those first years, Lestat. Preternaturally charming, occasionally thoughtful. He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover and my maker -- all of those things at once. He didn't choose me to be his doormat. I knew he enjoyed it when I fought back, but there was present a kind of worship on my part. The earth beneath me always felt liquid.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : Why do you do this, Lestat?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Well, I like to do it. I enjoy it.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Well, I don't. You don't have to humiliate him.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : [shouts]  Well, I don't say that you have to enjoy it! Kill them swiftly if you have to, but do it! Embrace what you are! You are a killer, Louis!

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : Vampires are killers. Apex predators whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment, the ability to see a human life in its entirety, not with any mawkish sorrow, but with the thrilling satisfaction of being the end of that life and having a hand in the divine plan.

  Daniel Molloy : Don't expect every reader to swallow that one.

• Louis de Pointe du Lac : Two vampires walk into a church. That's where we left off.

  Daniel Molloy : Blissing out post-priesticide.

• [disposing of a body] 

  Lestat de Lioncourt : This was your man's esquire sent in his stead.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : I was hungry.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : A stone's throw from your place of business. What were you thinking?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : He disrespected me.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : How did he do that?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : He said I did a good job.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : You are a library of confusion!

• Lestat de Lioncourt : Here's an idea: let's take a holiday. How about Rome?

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Rome? Rome, Italy?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Would you prefer Rome, Wisconsin?

• Lestat de Lioncourt : A couple of parish priests go missing, people say, 'Fine. Most likely kid fiddlers.' But this, this was an important man in town. The police will be looking for this man, fledgling!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : [gesturing to the incinerator]  That's why we got this beast, yeah?

  Lestat de Lioncourt : No, you need to show restraint, fledgling!

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Oh, you need to stop using that word right now, 'cause it's soundin' a little like 'slave.'

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Don't say it...

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Well, that's what it fuckin' sound like. That's what it feel like sometimes.

  Lestat de Lioncourt : And the carousel comes around again.

  Louis de Pointe du Lac : Fuck you!

  Lestat de Lioncourt : Va te faire foutre aussi!