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00:00Anne Rice's contribution to the horror literary world is tremendous in that she took these 18th
00:12century really romantic gothic vampires and situated them in the modern day. That was true
00:19of the books. It was also true of the movie. Obviously Interview with a Vampire was a blockbuster
00:24smash success that really brought that romantic vampire into the public consciousness and it
00:30captured a subculture. Anne Rice really felt that Rucker Hauer from Blade Runner should play the
00:37character of Lestac as that's who she was picturing and to be honest she was quite outraged when she
00:43found out that Tom Cruise had been cast. She felt that Tom Cruise was too big of an A-lister and he
00:49had never played a villain up to this point. For me Tom Cruise is the perfect Lestat. So much of the
00:56fun and the campiness of this film and the real thrill is seeing an actor like Tom Cruise who had
01:02only ever really played these very straight heroes be this evil and this malicious. Tom Cruise is
01:10somebody that plays cocky very callous young men who were sure of themselves but kind of going through
01:17some type of crisis that they're going to just power through through sheer force of charisma and
01:22honestly that's much of what Lestat does and I think it really worked here that kind of complete
01:28self-absorption that he radiates was very perfect for the part and pitch perfect against Brad Pitt and
01:36how he plays Louis with all this self-pity and remorse and pathos and at the heart of all of those different
01:45relationships is Kirsten Dunst as Claudia and Claudia is a woman you know she's she has the mind and
01:52emotions of a woman but she's eternally trapped in a seven-year-old's body and to portray that type of
01:57maturity and kind of world weariness as a very young actress must have been such a feat for Kirsten Dunst
02:04and she carries it off beautifully.