To love Lestat is to know that he will disappoint you. It isn’t that the fandom excuses or rationalizes this behavior away. In particular, fans have taken to Sam Reid’s portrayal of Lestat, who plays the character with a recognizable, infuriating charm and a barely suppressed capacity for violence. For the large part, fans of the series have embraced these changes because the characters still feel so true to what Rice wrote. Instead of being a plantation owner, Louis is a Black man living in New Orleans as a barely tolerated brothel owner, already balancing his life between two worlds before he meets Lestat. Rather than being a plantation story taking place in the 1800s between the plantation owner Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt, the story is pushed forward in time to the early 1900s. In fact, you’re probably worse off as someone Lestat loves than one he hates: In AMC’s Interview, Lestat is so obsessed with his love Louis, he stalks him, emotionally manipulates him, and murders anyone that gets close to him, and that’s before Lestat makes him a vampire.ĪMC’s adaptation of Rice’s classic novel makes several radical changes to Rice’s text. He menaces characters as much as he charms them, especially the ones he proclaims his love for. When I say Lestat is the worst person of all time, I am not exaggerating.
It’s also the story of Lestat de Lioncourt, the worst person of all time and also an eternal object of fascination and adoration. Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire is an enduring tale of eternal love, the woes of immortality, and being frozen in grief.
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