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The Vampire Lestat Interview with the Vampire Season 3 Episode 3
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00:00:00Watch The Vampire Lestat after dark on AMC Plus or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:00:10Previously on The Vampire Lestat.
00:00:14Ask for a child.
00:00:15The light's going out of your blue eye.
00:00:18His name was Magnus.
00:00:20He kept me for a week locked in a room full of corpses.
00:00:23It's my era now.
00:00:25Is it true you were a stutterer as a child?
00:00:27You ask this question every night.
00:00:29I won two pollicers.
00:00:31I'm taking this thing to camp.
00:00:33How did I get you?
00:00:34Sophia.
00:00:35Hello, Sophia.
00:00:37My maker called for his mama and I came.
00:00:40My first paramour, Nicolas Delafonte, a violinist.
00:00:43Il est sain et sauf.
00:00:44Il a saunier.
00:00:45Tu as la feuille de toi, Nicolas, l'un des noms.
00:00:48Trop fragile.
00:00:49There were four pages torn out.
00:00:51It was better when he broke my bones.
00:00:52It was when he had me pinned and he told me he loved me.
00:00:55That fucked me up.
00:00:56We would like you to take care of our problem in Detroit.
00:01:00I believe your Claudia spent a few nights with him once.
00:01:07You were listening to The Failures, album 22, side A.
00:01:12The vainglorious homogeny of the Toronto skyline is something to behold.
00:01:18An onslaught of impractical condominiums dominated by a 147-floor waterpick.
00:01:25Its banality is lost on the polite citizenry of Canada.
00:01:28To them, it's iconic.
00:01:29And what the friends and family of Avery Olsen and Natalie Bokel-Hyde confirmed as a must-see
00:01:35when the two planned their honeymoon and waited for Avery's divorce to finalize.
00:01:38Had they stayed within the realities of their budget and consummated their union in their
00:01:43home province, the marriage might have lasted longer.
00:01:47But love born from a speed dating event in Moosjo, Sakasachuan merited an unhurried commemoration.
00:01:54Can I offer my assistance?
00:01:56Oh, mercy.
00:01:57Aren't you the angel?
00:02:00It's kind of me, sir.
00:02:02My pleasure.
00:02:03I know these moments last a lifetime.
00:02:05Just make sure we're not in the center center and that the tower isn't coming out of his head.
00:02:09The rule of thirds, the golden mean.
00:02:12And thus, amenities from the Radisson Blue honeymoon package went unused.
00:02:17Exchanged as they were for a vampiric appointment in Samara.
00:02:23Gabriela's divine intervention had raised my raptorial spirits, and I channeled our kills into prurient
00:02:31performances, licking the underside of Lake Erie in Cleveland and Buffalo before rounding
00:02:36the shaft of Lake Ontario.
00:02:43Love her.
00:02:44Where are you?
00:02:46Where are any of us, really?
00:02:48Is that him?
00:02:49Huh, give me that.
00:02:50Hey, Justin Bieber.
00:02:52I got 40 fucking people here with their hands up their asses.
00:02:55Did you misplace something, Dale?
00:02:57I'm done chasing you, bust a coffin.
00:03:00I saved your life.
00:03:01You owe me.
00:03:02Perhaps.
00:03:03I do.
00:03:04I do.
00:03:06I do.
00:03:06You'd be a head mounted above a coven toilet if it weren't for me.
00:03:10Transformational trauma, Dale.
00:03:11He's with Sophia again.
00:03:12What do you know about her?
00:03:13Mystery vagina passed its sell-by date.
00:03:16What do you mean, perhaps?
00:03:17You assume death at decapitation.
00:03:19A study done in Budapest had two Class B vampires surviving separation for nearly two hours.
00:03:24A vampire of Lestat's breeding could last four to five times.
00:03:27Chuck's dad has the herps.
00:03:29Daniel Malloy.
00:03:31Delivered unto the world April 16th, 1953, into the arms of his mother in a hospital.
00:03:36I assume it's not something vampires ask one another, the details of their mortal existence.
00:03:41It's considered rude.
00:03:44Nurtured or not nurtured, nudged in San Francisco towards a career of distinction and moderate fame.
00:03:50After the can, Chief.
00:03:51Sorry.
00:03:52Murdered and reborn July 18th, 2022, by the gremlin Armand.
00:03:57He led a brief, incidental life as a vampire.
00:04:02Incidental.
00:04:04Is that the right word?
00:04:06He found me shallow.
00:04:08I gave him every reason to.
00:04:09I have regrets when it comes to death.
00:04:12Oh, sorry.
00:04:13Yeah, he's here.
00:04:28What's that on your lip, Yada?
00:04:30Okay, we're going to be using a new camera today.
00:04:32It's called an interrotron.
00:04:34I'll be sitting here, but you're going to see my face in the camera.
00:04:37We will be like we're talking face to face.
00:04:41And we are shooting this in color, and we're going to anchor it to all the black and white
00:04:45tour footage, okay?
00:04:47So, you were a stutterer as a child.
00:04:54Evening then.
00:04:55Happy to be here.
00:04:56Could you state your name for the camera, please?
00:04:59I'm the front man, Lestat.
00:05:02The vampire Lestat.
00:05:03I'm immortal, more or less.
00:05:07The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire, Jefferson's starship,
00:05:13grot-wielding coven members.
00:05:15These things might destroy me, but there again, they might not.
00:05:34I'm a little killer.
00:05:36I'm a lonely one.
00:05:39I'm a sugar-dum-up-your-spine, telling you to run.
00:05:42I'm a little shadow.
00:05:45I'm a last line.
00:05:47I'm a past and the future, the last of the sutures, the coo-and-dum.
00:05:51Where the rock and roll is.
00:05:53Where the kids hang.
00:05:55Where the heart of me love and the face of the mother.
00:05:57Where the stupid rhyme.
00:06:00Bang, bang.
00:06:02Bang, bang.
00:06:03Bang, bang.
00:06:28Well, that was shit.
00:06:32You've said this thing to me a couple of times on the bus, backstage, that the songs are your story.
00:06:40Must be important if I repeat.
00:06:41Or it's a doorstop because you don't want to talk about yourself.
00:06:45I'll kick that door down, Dan.
00:06:47I'd bunk it down with my cookies and trauma.
00:06:49Exactly my thinking.
00:06:51So, let's run with this.
00:06:52Let's dig into these songs and see what we get.
00:06:55You have a song, Long Face.
00:06:57The lyrics are,
00:07:05What's the story behind that?
00:07:08Long Face is an agreement between myself and the audience.
00:07:11Permission disguised as anthem.
00:07:13Oh yeah, we're coming.
00:07:15Yeah, yeah, we're coming.
00:07:17Oh yeah, I'm coming.
00:07:19Ha ha ha.
00:07:20Ha ha ha.
00:07:22Ha ha ha.
00:07:28I'm an actor in my makeup.
00:07:30I'll get fatter if and when we break up.
00:07:34Performative vampire, and at the end they get the real thing.
00:07:37Black licorice.
00:07:38Structure and ritual.
00:07:39Judge undrained, thrilled and shamed, left one anymore.
00:07:42Well, that's great because the band thinks that the song's about...
00:07:45How the current culture has misshapen the mortal mind,
00:07:49and how easy and unsatisfying the bringing of death has become.
00:07:53You must have experienced this, Dan.
00:07:55The memories you take in as you kill.
00:07:57Life is an endless cachet of influencer videos, Russian dashcams, and shame-written pornography.
00:08:04Or are we still pretending that you're human?
00:08:06So not about sucking dick.
00:08:10Performative journalist.
00:08:13Were you a stutterer as a child?
00:08:18Oh, he doesn't like that question.
00:08:20Well, we can come back to it.
00:08:23Let's talk about what happened in Detroit the other night.
00:08:26Some vampires tried to kill you, yeah?
00:08:29Is it a question if you merely put yeah at the end of the sentence?
00:08:32Come in.
00:08:35Christine, what are you doing?
00:08:39You're a trapping.
00:08:43Mr. Dory, you probably see me with my ass.
00:08:50Did you promise him?
00:08:54I don't do promises.
00:08:56I've had 40 shows in 43 fucking nights.
00:08:59Nobody gives a fuck about what I was before.
00:09:01No one cares.
00:09:02No one seems to give a shit about you now, flatlining a thousand capacity venues.
00:09:06Let's take a walk.
00:09:07You're confused about the pursuit, then.
00:09:10It is not about asses on seats or streams on Pandora.
00:09:15It is about pure expression.
00:09:20Raphael's Three Graces.
00:09:22Brancuski's Bird in Space.
00:09:24Calvino's Invisible Cities.
00:09:26Cities.
00:09:33It's embarrassing.
00:09:36They're stuttering.
00:09:37Stop the cameras.
00:09:38No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:09:40Let them see.
00:09:43Let them see.
00:09:44I have had 40 shows in 43 fucking nights.
00:09:58No one cares.
00:10:27I'm the vampire Louis de Pointe-de-Lac, undone by your relentless questionings, Mr. Malloy.
00:11:03Hello, I'm making a brief call to share an important message with you.
00:11:07You got the wrong adju-
00:11:08The wrong adju-
00:11:15I'm looking for Killer, don't, don't do that, just think it.
00:11:20I'm a vampire, just like you, except I didn't disrespect my face like you done.
00:11:27What is that?
00:11:28Is that Jar Jar Binks dunking a basketball?
00:11:32Binks.
00:11:33Binks.
00:11:33Where's Killer?
00:11:55I'm looking for Killer.
00:11:57Killer?
00:11:58Cannot kill him.
00:11:59Okay.
00:12:00Oh, hey, y'all.
00:12:02Anybody see Killer?
00:12:08Someone's here, we got him on, he's still.
00:12:11And what?
00:12:12You see Killer?
00:12:14Very much.
00:12:23Killer?
00:12:28Oh, hey.
00:12:28I'm looking for it.
00:12:30I can't see the game.
00:12:31Still go, I can't see the game.
00:12:33I can't see it.
00:12:33The person.
00:12:33Oh, oh, oh!
00:12:36Oh, oh.
00:12:38Oh, oh.
00:12:38Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
00:12:40Out the door, through the fields.
00:12:47Keep straight five minutes.
00:12:49There's a car, a great dog.
00:12:52Don't look back.
00:12:56Eight wolves by yourself.
00:13:00Everyone always repeats a number when I say it.
00:13:04I had a pistol, a rifle, a dagger, a mastiff.
00:13:09The stuttering wolf killer.
00:13:11Well, that was the first name for our band.
00:13:14Hello, Fort Collins.
00:13:15We are the stuttering wolf killers.
00:13:16Are you ready to rock?
00:13:18From the ages of nine to 29, you...
00:13:21Stuttered.
00:13:22I stuttered.
00:13:24Yes, and every kill I have made is a response.
00:13:27My entire psyche is formed from the deformity.
00:13:30It's like being strapped down in a dentist's chair,
00:13:33opening your mouth wide only to have the dentist say,
00:13:35I'm not a dentist, as he lubes up a thick rubber glove.
00:13:37So, you be gentle, Dan.
00:13:42I think he's just bored by you.
00:13:45Try asking him about the great conversion.
00:13:48What happened at age nine?
00:13:51Hmm.
00:13:54I was taken to see witches being burned at a stake.
00:13:58Okay.
00:14:00Tell me about that.
00:14:03Marguerite Deray, Jeanne Baudin,
00:14:06the twins, Marthe and Aimée Roulay,
00:14:09seized their prayers and adored the devil in ceremony,
00:14:12said the torch-bearing priests.
00:14:14You remember their names.
00:14:17Teenage girls with the resonant voices of men,
00:14:20screaming and thrashing for hours till their jawbones fell,
00:14:23and the devil could sing no more.
00:14:25And you were nine.
00:14:28Oh, it's what moms did with kids before Lego and Peppa Pig.
00:14:33Looking back on it now,
00:14:35they were definitely witches.
00:14:36The twins, that is, Marguerite Deray, Jeanne,
00:14:38probably caught masturbating in a field with a few sick oxen.
00:14:42Two for four.
00:14:43It's not bad,
00:14:43considering it was a priestly-led sentence.
00:14:45What happened at 29?
00:14:56I heard music.
00:14:58So you made it to Paris.
00:15:03Eyes closed, mouth distorted.
00:15:07What struck my heart was the way that his whole body leaned into the music.
00:15:13Had I the ear I have now, I would have found a pedestrian.
00:15:16But I was an ape from Auvergne.
00:15:19And it sounded like a guard machine,
00:15:21played by an angel.
00:15:24Ah, merde!
00:15:26Take us to Excensurero next!
00:15:28I won't miss!
00:15:29Oh, it must be Al Mozart raising over all the disturb your peace, Madame Kindly.
00:15:33Peace off!
00:15:34This is Nicky, who you sing about in your song,
00:15:38Why Do I Have to Feel?
00:15:44Nicolas De L'Enfant.
00:15:47My first love.
00:15:49Tell me to piss off again!
00:15:51I am finished, Madame.
00:15:53I am finished.
00:16:02Nicolas De L'Enfant.
00:16:06Laisse-toi.
00:16:08Nicolas De L'Enfant.
00:16:12Nicolas De Valois.
00:16:15Time done your title.
00:16:17Wearing pantaloons.
00:16:22Trying to fit in.
00:16:24You know what's flying cloak, eh?
00:16:27Good luck with that.
00:16:31What are you doing in Paris?
00:16:32Yes.
00:16:36Eight walls.
00:16:38Impossible.
00:16:40It's stuck the heads in the square,
00:16:42and the children play hide the heads with them.
00:16:45Sounds like our village.
00:16:51It's my father's stitching.
00:16:54Hmm.
00:16:55He gave it to me before I left.
00:16:57And your address on the Rue de Montmoron.
00:17:00Montmoron, si.
00:17:03I haven't lived there for six months.
00:17:06My father's allowance barely covers the cost of my music instruction.
00:17:10Much less rent, food, and the bribes to keep me out of the National Guard.
00:17:16But peace, I don't know what you're saying.
00:17:23I don't know why.
00:17:23Yeah, I don't know why.
00:17:23I don't know why.
00:17:25Liberty, equality, fraternity.
00:17:29Pity is a treasure.
00:17:38You play beautifully.
00:17:44I play like a tailor's son.
00:17:54Did he say anything else?
00:17:56My dad?
00:18:02He said, um...
00:18:07Tell him I love him.
00:18:09And that I'm proud of him.
00:18:19What did he really say?
00:18:22He said, help him to be a man.
00:18:26But he said it without the stomach.
00:18:28Yeah.
00:18:33Are you gonna teach me to be a man?
00:18:36Just don't know if I want.
00:18:42It goes where you think it goes.
00:18:44All the old tropes and trapes of tortured and forbidden love.
00:18:47Blah, blah, blah. Bipolar brifling. Blah, blah.
00:18:49Fast forward.
00:18:51Stop. Vape.
00:18:54Check your phone. Press play.
00:18:56Oh, good. Now he's a vampire.
00:18:59But you're not a vampire.
00:19:00You're the stuttering ape of O'Vern.
00:19:06Any Quebecers here?
00:19:07Tongue twisters. Vocal exercises.
00:19:09Repeated every day for two years
00:19:11while I washed the floors and the empty chamber pots
00:19:14and the job I got through Nicky who worked in the pit there.
00:19:18Go pull up the song for him.
00:19:21Why do I have to feel?
00:19:24Oh, I love that song.
00:19:25The stuttering. You just bullied it out of yourself.
00:19:28Yeah, Nicky got me the job that cured my affliction.
00:19:31It was a first love, not a great love. Thank you.
00:19:39Buried yourself in the ground for a century over a not great love.
00:19:43Only thing you carry with you to New Orleans is a music box reminder of a not great love.
00:19:49I carried the box because I destroyed him, Dan.
00:19:52I carried the box to remind me what I was capable of.
00:19:56You perform her song.
00:20:08Can someone do something about this?
00:20:11Quiet on set.
00:20:12No.
00:20:15No.
00:20:18No.
00:20:19Yes!
00:20:23No!
00:20:25No!
00:20:27No!
00:20:28No!
00:20:30No!
00:20:36so you perform a song every night by your abuser biggest fan abuser go go pull up the song
00:20:46liberator emancipator he says i want to give you everything i've got i know you're stubborn but
00:20:54you have to ask for it did magnus ask your permission before transforming you into a
00:21:01vampire i see it as an unbroken chain of similar songs in pop music herman herman's laying on a
00:21:07lamppost every breath you take by the police i love that one eminem stand according to louis his
00:21:14name was magnus he took me from my room in paris as i kicked and screamed locked me in a
00:21:21room with
00:21:21for a week with corpses they all look like me i mean does that even sound like me down my
00:21:27coloring
00:21:28where's the awful turn of phrase where's the assonance he fed on me for a week i thought
00:21:34for sure i'd become one of them but instead he turned me into this
00:21:42louis was not there when magnus abducted me but he was there in new orleans when you recounted it
00:21:47and i was not there in dubai to correct his faulty recall
00:21:52yeah
00:21:55you really caught my eye
00:21:59i think you're something special babe
00:22:03i wanna take you out tonight
00:22:08i think we got real potential babe
00:22:16and yeah that's me at your window babe
00:22:20we're gonna have such a goddamn good time
00:22:25i wanna be your crescendo babe
00:22:28don't let me catch you crying
00:22:34don't tell me the spell is breaking
00:22:37you're so perfect in that raging light
00:22:41i know i'm hard to look at sometimes
00:22:45but i'm here for the taking
00:22:48i wanna give you everything i got
00:22:52i know you're starting to do after
00:22:55you're a star but i can tell you everything i'm not
00:23:01yeah i'm a dog and you're my brave little wolf killer
00:23:10yeah i'm a dog and you're my brave little wolf killer
00:23:20i understood my maker
00:23:23if i had seen 19 straight performances of my lilio i would have abandoned all decorum too
00:23:29abandoned decorum he made you a monster and killed himself in front of you
00:23:36i was an actor at a second tier theater squatting in a beheaded nobleman's flat with a severely depressed
00:23:42i do you still bordering my beauty how was the kielbasa crafty
00:23:47in this very day and that's for the suicide it gave me a lightness that i would not have
00:23:51known had he looted the centuries beside me
00:23:54i see the burden written on your face stan
00:23:58when i say god and you say monster is it your absence but very much alive father
00:24:05walking around that gives you this lowly idea of yourself
00:24:08son of armand who needs another victim song
00:24:14exactly very rock and roll still it must have been hard keeping that from nicky armand got that
00:24:22part right in my book he confronted you on the street abducted nicky fed him to his coven
00:24:28and yet you hid your vampirism from him yeah question mark
00:24:35you're safe you are now a roomie in paris
00:24:39what am i weak delirium took you i've been your nurse mate you've been dull company
00:24:52what am i weak delirium took you to the doctor you slept through his head
00:24:58our favorite game you lie and i believe you remember me
00:25:04a month ago gone out of the window i saw nothing unnatural happened
00:25:10you were down wearing silk pictures
00:25:13god dear it's so patient lies on lies on lies sudden vanishings
00:25:19your changed eyes
00:25:23oh and your mother i wish she alive
00:25:28i brought her to rocamador procures a black madonna blessed
00:25:32ah your what your mother
00:25:40the vampire gabriella
00:25:46how what she followed me to paris her body was ready to die but her mind was not
00:25:56my first fledgling
00:26:00louie must have told you no
00:26:02i thought it was discretion that kept her out of your book
00:26:07my love was a small box that i kept him in no room for the many hours i talked of
00:26:11her i guess
00:26:13and she where is she now she's here right now
00:26:21right
00:26:24here
00:26:29she died vampire toddlerdom always the hardest years as you know or don't know dan
00:26:44what do you think about the great conversion oh
00:26:48the vampire thing vampire is taking over the world collaborating
00:26:53hmm
00:26:55fucking stupid can you get out of my eye line
00:27:03yeah
00:27:10your bones would be pieces what are you what is she
00:27:16mother outside the theater the ragged man calling wolf killer blackened passages and dog
00:27:23tooth tooth fiends you are gibberish
00:27:27i want to know you in this change form
00:27:29don't look don't look to her
00:27:31roger has brought you a house on the key i have opened a bank account in your name
00:27:35i could move to her there and then send clark don't buy me out
00:27:39don't buy me out
00:27:39don't buy me out
00:27:42don't bring
00:27:42speaks my thoughts before i speak them
00:27:46you gave this witchery to her
00:27:50she was an hour from death finally
00:27:54i admit it
00:27:59do you want me to murder you i want you to love me enough to give it to me
00:28:16you cannot do it you mustn't do it
00:28:29i've driven him mad
00:28:32i know i'll leave him to this madness
00:28:35you have used up your affection for him
00:28:38you know you have
00:28:40don't bring him into eternity
00:28:54his playing has greatly improved
00:28:56i cannot hear the actors over his improvement
00:28:59well i prefer his music to gustav's act
00:29:02well
00:29:03you can return to the role anytime you wish
00:29:06and have your cumbersome words in my mouth again
00:29:08no thank you
00:29:12are there the blood drinkers in italy
00:29:16excuse me
00:29:17are there covens like this one in roma venezia
00:29:22salerno
00:29:23does nicola know about us
00:29:24us
00:29:27what is this
00:29:28do you think you're the only one in the company he drinks from
00:29:31do you think i am the only one with disdain for his fledgling
00:29:34take him aside
00:29:35you're the active manager
00:29:37manage
00:29:38you're his maker make him
00:29:40is there an evil older than you
00:29:44you're a maker marius
00:29:45my maker is dead
00:29:46i've told you that already
00:29:48just check
00:29:51i'll give you the theater of the vampires
00:29:55the greatest spectacle of the boulevard
00:30:06he was dramatic as a mortal
00:30:08you'll find his way
00:30:09no he won't
00:30:10i believe you
00:30:12i love you lestana christ
00:30:17there's not room enough in this box for your desperation
00:30:24has anyone seen the letter open
00:30:26you don't need a letter opener nikki we don't get any letters
00:30:28you want to talk about your recent work in the theater nicola
00:30:31he's not in the chamber pot i left it there a week ago
00:30:33you don't like my music metro
00:30:35well it's not me
00:30:37it's my hands but i don't have my letter open anything the music
00:30:40will improve once i find the letter opener
00:30:44we think you should take some time away from the theater nikki
00:30:52did you two decide this in the wings huh or the box
00:30:56the place dauphine last sunday the hotel de ville and the feast of assumption
00:31:02and the night after
00:31:03don't stop look at me look at me
00:31:07i left it here
00:31:10as i warned his mind is critical
00:31:13how dare you open up my letter he pouted and shouted
00:31:17i was trying to make the opener happy i was trying to give it purpose
00:31:24here it is
00:31:27like
00:31:39can you cut the other
00:31:42i fear i won't be able to with only one now
00:31:46Can you help him, please?
00:31:48Are you Nicky?
00:31:51No, no. Nicky, stop.
00:31:52Oh, you're just on the way too, Sean, Denis.
00:31:53Stop!
00:31:54Would you point away? Thank you ever so much.
00:31:56Stop, Nicky! No!
00:32:05It's all a misunderstanding, my love.
00:32:08I wish to serve the god of the dark wood like the rest.
00:32:11Forgive me, my hands are much older than the rest of me.
00:32:19Forgive me.
00:32:29Gabriela went to Coffin,
00:32:33leaving us and Armand.
00:32:39I told Nicky that I loved him.
00:32:44From the first seconds I saw him in Paris,
00:32:50that I was drunk with his love.
00:32:56I was engulfed by it.
00:32:59Your maker would tell you I was being kind, but...
00:33:05in the moment...
00:33:08the words were true.
00:33:16I think...
00:33:22I remember the light...
00:33:27fireplace...
00:33:28reflecting golden onto his face...
00:33:34and his...
00:33:37bare arms.
00:33:43But I was not looking at the world.
00:33:46I could not.
00:33:53I, um...
00:33:54I, um...
00:33:57I couldn't do it.
00:34:02But I watched...
00:34:09as Armand...
00:34:11pushed him into the fire...
00:34:15and made sure he stayed there...
00:34:19with a poker in his chest.
00:34:29Nicky had a bemused look on his face as he burned...
00:34:34his mouth...
00:34:38formed into a...
00:34:43circle.
00:34:46And he made only one sound.
00:35:10as though he knew...
00:35:13that in death...
00:35:17it was a nothingness.
00:35:26I'm angry.
00:35:28I'm angry!
00:35:29Oh, yeah, kid.
00:35:29Can we get something that...
00:35:31Yeah, okay, we're cutting.
00:35:32We tried booking something called the Ryan Center
00:35:35in Kingston, Rhode Island.
00:35:368,000 seats.
00:35:37I thought this deep in we'd be able to fill it.
00:35:41We sold 2,500 including a papering service.
00:35:44Unlike your last vampire...
00:35:46there are no delusions here.
00:35:52Arduous...
00:35:52is to her...
00:35:55my ego.
00:35:58And still...
00:35:59it's not what I hunt.
00:36:02Never say I didn't give you anything.
00:36:04Keys.
00:36:04Tomorrow's venue is staying open so that I could sound...
00:36:06Let Larry run it!
00:36:10How is Czech me?
00:36:12Like...
00:36:12curlu vivari...
00:36:13fun for three minutes...
00:36:14and your longing for Prague.
00:36:16Prague is that way.
00:36:17You can dig yourself a hole in cork...
00:36:19and be buried in a matya the night after.
00:36:21Provoked.
00:36:22Bored.
00:36:23Ah, you'll run fewer reds that way.
00:36:26There's a shameful tiki bar...
00:36:28in a Parkdale.
00:36:30Rain check, Sofia.
00:36:31Yeah.
00:36:42Well...
00:36:43that took forever.
00:36:45Right?
00:36:47Run it back...
00:36:49about...
00:36:50I don't know...
00:36:50four minutes.
00:36:52Been trying to crack those cheeks for two months.
00:36:56Vampires...
00:36:57We're just like you.
00:37:00Okay.
00:37:01Let's see what we got here.
00:37:08What the hell?
00:37:10Go...
00:37:10go back a few more minutes.
00:37:11Please.
00:37:13Stop.
00:37:15Wait a...
00:37:17What am I looking at here?
00:37:19Did you go back far enough?
00:37:21Alright, let's...
00:37:22let's keep going back.
00:37:24Yeah, right about there.
00:37:25Stop.
00:37:26Can you get out of my eye line?
00:37:30Yeah...
00:37:31What?
00:37:35Where's the part where he talks about transforming Nicky?
00:37:40They...
00:37:41What?
00:37:42What?
00:37:43He just...
00:37:43he just...
00:37:44just sat there like a fucking blow-up doll
00:37:47and no one said anything?
00:37:48Nothing?
00:37:49You gotta be fucking kidding me.
00:37:51What is this?
00:37:52No, yeah, it was frickin' weirdsville
00:37:54to you to sat there for like half an hour, eh?
00:37:59He was crying fucking blood tears!
00:38:02Did no one see that?
00:38:03A mean-spirited telepathic prank.
00:38:06The price paid for amusing my muses.
00:38:09It brought poor Dan to his knees
00:38:11and seeded a hate for me inside him.
00:38:14There to be warded in the sunlight later.
00:38:17But what can I say?
00:38:19Serving cunt has its consequences.
00:38:25You are listening to The Failures, album 28, side B.
00:38:32You gonna carry me into the threshold?
00:38:34Yes, ma'am.
00:38:35Mm-hmm.
00:38:43Come here.
00:38:45I got you, man.
00:38:49You gonna make me a momma, man?
00:38:50I don't think it works like that for us no more,
00:38:53but we can give it a try.
00:38:57We're home!
00:38:58We're home!
00:39:05It's all these fools so shallow.
00:39:08You're trying to get back to my kids.
00:39:12Come on.
00:39:13I got you in the back.
00:39:18That don't happen.
00:39:20I got you.
00:39:30Surprise!
00:39:33Congrats on a happy day.
00:39:35I couldn't make it to the ceremony.
00:39:37I hope you don't mind me inviting myself to the honeymoon.
00:39:40You make that mess upstairs, friend?
00:39:43I did.
00:39:47Where's the food?
00:39:50I'll call a maneuver.
00:39:59What the fuck do you do to my husband?
00:40:08Amaya told the truth?
00:40:10You wanna tell me what that is?
00:40:12Oh, shit.
00:40:14This is...
00:40:15This is about the fucking little stat shit.
00:40:20Yeah, that...
00:40:21That wasn't my fault.
00:40:24I have these Gen Z fledglings,
00:40:26these righteous fuckers
00:40:28who thinks we ought to be in the sewers and shit.
00:40:30He's my baby Jenks, his baby...
00:40:32Shut up, Bruce.
00:40:34You call me Bruce?
00:40:37Because my name is killer.
00:40:55You and I have a friend in common.
00:41:00More wine.
00:41:04Cold tea they call it here, I hear.
00:41:08Hmm.
00:41:10Apples with a hint of...
00:41:13cowardice.
00:41:16Still in rags?
00:41:17Is this better?
00:41:21No.
00:41:23Same face, same smell.
00:41:25No hope for you, Father Max.
00:41:27Oh, not exactly forthcoming with the vampire journalists.
00:41:32Left out a few prickly details.
00:41:37Uh-oh.
00:41:39You forgot to put your blinkers on.
00:41:47Bruce walked back from the fire,
00:41:49leaned down over me,
00:41:51and for a second I thought I was gonna go right there,
00:41:55but no.
00:41:55It's going to be a Крас.
00:41:56Louis de Palm...
00:41:57He plucked me onto his motorbike
00:41:59And swish to his FRIENDLY self.
00:42:03The law is right hand!
00:42:04the law is right hand!
00:42:05The powerful role of
00:42:06знаюstander yeahish武器
00:42:07saw joy in victory.
00:42:09The law is right hand is not alone.
00:42:13There's no more of that in my presence!
00:42:15There's no more of that in my presence!
00:42:16But we'll live and proclaim what the law is done!
00:42:19The law is done!
00:42:19The law is done!
00:42:20It's not bloody things!
00:42:21Back inside!
00:42:24You got your song!
00:42:28When we got to his house...
00:42:30I guess my biggest question is,
00:42:32why are you checking me down now?
00:42:34I mean, we all read your little page turner.
00:42:36And it's all going dumb in my mind too.
00:42:39Crossed out?
00:42:41New sentence.
00:42:43You tipped over the collywobble shelf
00:42:46and took the cloth off the long table.
00:42:48We eat your soul at the long table.
00:42:53Sixty-eight courses so far.
00:42:56We keep waiting for the bill,
00:42:58but the plates keep coming.
00:43:00And we keep asking ourselves,
00:43:01when's he going to make an album?
00:43:05When we are ready!
00:43:09She entertains a lot of little French folks with her death.
00:43:14I don't do nothing that bad to her, Daddy Lou.
00:43:19Guess I don't have to tell you, dear diary,
00:43:22what it's like to have a person crack your spine,
00:43:25open you up and shove a pencil inside you.
00:43:28Very hard company at the long table.
00:43:32A hand.
00:43:34A finger.
00:43:36No.
00:43:37A drummer.
00:43:39No.
00:43:39A pimp.
00:43:40No.
00:44:07A woman
00:44:10stuffed full
00:44:12too wet
00:44:13feeling down there
00:44:17like I was packed with
00:44:19dirt
00:44:21and I hope
00:44:23one day he feels this
00:44:26small
00:44:27and cornered
00:44:30and crushed like it can
00:44:33but then there were the parts
00:44:36where he brought home kills
00:44:39and I
00:44:40sat with him
00:44:42and ate
00:44:44I just
00:44:45said
00:44:47what he wanted to hear
00:44:52ask for it
00:44:53child
00:44:54and it ain't easy to like myself
00:44:57cause of it
00:44:59oh the light's gone out of your blue eyes
00:45:02I even once felt a twinge
00:45:04of something
00:45:05nice
00:45:06as if all the summer days
00:45:09are gone
00:45:09no
00:45:10and not the worst thing
00:45:12ever
00:45:13no
00:45:16no
00:45:17no
00:45:18no
00:45:18no
00:45:18no
00:45:18no
00:45:20no
00:45:21no
00:45:21no
00:45:21no
00:45:21no
00:45:21cause I seemed
00:45:22cause I seemed
00:45:23small
00:45:24and it looked like he'd won
00:45:26and he did win
00:45:28cause I want
00:45:30nothing
00:45:33to be
00:45:34nothing
00:45:36and say
00:45:38nothing
00:45:39and do
00:45:40nothing
00:45:43you know
00:45:43you know
00:45:44you know the stupidest of all
00:45:45dear diary
00:45:46I thought I was the thing lurking in the shadows
00:45:51I thought I was
00:46:02that's it
00:46:03to God
00:46:04that's it
00:46:04that's it
00:46:05that's it
00:46:25I imagine you naked in your gold, gilded bed, wondering why it didn't end on the highway.
00:46:33How I got on stage the following night to another feverishly modest audience.
00:46:39I couldn't pretend anymore that we were a ticketmaster must-have, or that I wasn't having
00:46:44a nervous breakdown, or that psychosis wasn't the exhilarating, horrifying byproduct of romping
00:46:50and stomping around the hippocampus.
00:46:52But here's the thing, I loved the music, I loved it.
00:46:58It was compelling me forward, pulling me through the perennial walls of my psyche, and I thought,
00:47:04why not ride it to blindness, cause it seemed possible.
00:47:09This was the muddy bottom, and on the other side, a marble floor, polished to the horizon.
00:47:16Music in its purest expression would make me worse, and then make me better.
00:47:23Bring on the music.
00:47:26You can't fuck away, the loneliness, it'll wait till you're done, till you come.
00:47:38Like a vampire, you can't drink away.
00:47:47The loneliness, it'll wait till the next day, like a headache.
00:47:55Sucking you dry, you can't escape this loneliness.
00:48:07It'll say, what a mess, how could anybody ever love you?
00:48:21Don't hide it all away.
00:48:28Don't bury those feelings.
00:49:01Don't
00:49:02You get what you wanted out there.
00:49:06Yeah.
00:49:08Yeah.
00:49:32This love will fade, and you stay, and you stay, and you stay, and you stay with me.
00:49:41Zippers, you can't escape this loneliness.
00:49:51It'll pray, it'll press.
00:49:54How could anybody ever learn?
00:50:05Don't hide it away, don't bury those feelings, don't wash it fine, break dirt on your own, don't burn alone.
00:50:32Hi, you okay? I'm gonna get you anything else.
00:50:34I'm good, thank you, Regina.
00:50:46I'm good, thank you.
00:50:53Oh, my God!
00:50:55Oh, my God!
00:50:55You see what you call me?
00:50:57Oh, my God!
00:51:15So they're about there, killing it, every night, and I'm following them, you know,
00:51:22on my phone, refresh, refresh, refresh.
00:51:28They're blowing up, you're going to hear about them soon, if you haven't already.
00:51:35I'm stuck here in Monroe, Ohio, of all places, you know, no offense, and God, I just want
00:51:47to drink, and feel sorry for myself, yeah, thank you for giving me another way through.
00:52:04So, who else wants to share tonight, hmm?
00:52:11Come on, guys.
00:52:13I will.
00:52:15I'll share.
00:52:17Um, hello.
00:52:22My name is Arun.
00:52:26Hi, Arun.
00:52:27I am Arun.
00:52:28Hello Arun, and I am an addict.
00:52:40Listen to tracks from the Vampire Lestat, wherever you stream music.
00:52:47I am the toxic bitch, God Lestat.
00:52:52Oh, come on now, you filthy little plastic beast.
00:53:00Hi, what can I get you?
00:53:02Lestat is going to get us all killed.
00:53:04I've got five more shows.
00:53:06I'm getting bored.
00:53:08Shall we do it?
00:53:09Shall we scorch the mortal world?
00:53:16The stuttering wolf killer, the Vampire Lestat.
00:53:20Evening then, happy to be here.
00:53:23You really caught my eye.
00:53:26Malloy is a deft investigator, but he's never investigated anybody like this before, and
00:53:32that's going to become really clear in this episode.
00:53:34Were you a stutterer as a child?
00:53:36It's a really wild interview scene.
00:53:38I mean, there's like 300 things happening at one time.
00:53:41You perform a song every night by your abuser, Magnus.
00:53:46Biggest fan.
00:53:48Abuser.
00:53:49I wanna give you everything I got.
00:53:53I know you're starting, but you have to ask for it.
00:53:57You see the music video of how Lestat wants to portray his transformation,
00:54:03and he's like, I'm going to write you my, you know, sweet little Taylor Swift pop ballad song.
00:54:10Make a fool out of my maker.
00:54:17He wants to think about it as like, he was my fan and he made me.
00:54:21But of course the truth within that episode asserts itself.
00:54:29We cast Damien Atkins as Magnus.
00:54:32He's a terrifying, vulnerable creature.
00:54:36And the transformation that he inflicts upon Lestat is incredibly violent.
00:54:43Ready, and action.
00:54:46We were trying to really make it as brutal as we possibly could,
00:54:50so that had a real contrast to his kind of gilded music video version that he wanted to show.
00:55:00And then Damien's got this incredible like, neck blood pump, you know,
00:55:05that I'm getting rained on beneath and blood going into my eyes.
00:55:10And we tried to make it as gruesome as possible
00:55:12and really show that it was an actual assault.
00:55:15And that is something that Lestat like completely carries through his life
00:55:19as his transformation was a full-on kidnapping, assault.
00:55:25He's got to reconcile that on a daily basis.
00:55:33And what happened at 29?
00:55:37Nicolas de l'Enfant.
00:55:38My first love.
00:55:41Don't bring him into eternity.
00:55:49Disaster, my son.
00:55:51Gabriella cannot bear Nikki.
00:55:53I think she really is being honest, and I think she's absolutely right.
00:55:56She knows that Lestat doesn't really want to spend eternity with Nikki.
00:56:00Does Nicolas know about us?
00:56:02Us.
00:56:04What is us?
00:56:05This is one of those scenes that I was really interested to see
00:56:08how they were going to revisit the theater.
00:56:11Je t'aime.
00:56:12Je t'aime aussi.
00:56:14This is basically a revisit of Armand's story to Daniel in episode 3 of season 2,
00:56:22but now it's through Lestat's eyes,
00:56:24which arguably is maybe the more truthful version.
00:56:27I love you, Lestat.
00:56:29Christ.
00:56:30And there's also the dynamic of Gabriella.
00:56:33Oh, she doesn't like Armand.
00:56:34Do you think you're the only one in the company he drinks from?
00:56:38Do you think I am the only one with disdain for his fledgling?
00:56:41Armand is like the consummate third wheel.
00:56:43In every situation, Louis and Lestat are Armand.
00:56:46Gabriella and Lestat are Armand.
00:56:47And Armand's jealousy really shows.
00:56:51God!
00:56:54He knew that Nicky couldn't withstand what it takes to live this life.
00:57:00He was already unstable before he became a vampire,
00:57:02and Armand has seen vampires succumb to the madness.
00:57:06So he's not surprised when it finally turns.
00:57:11I couldn't do it.
00:57:12But I watched as Armand pushed him into the fire
00:57:17and made sure he stayed there.
00:57:23Molloy thinks he strikes gold.
00:57:26As it turns out, that's an illusion.
00:57:30What am I looking at here?
00:57:31What is this?
00:57:32No, yeah, it was frickin' Weirdsville
00:57:35to you to sat there for, like, half an hour, eh?
00:57:37It is a mean-spirited prank in the fact
00:57:39that Molloy didn't get it on camera.
00:57:41But he is talking truth to Molloy
00:57:43when he gives him his telepathic story
00:57:45about what happened there.
00:57:47It's more of a shared experience between the two of them.
00:57:50The anger is deep.
00:57:51To some degree, Lestat is bullying Daniel.
00:57:54And I don't respond well to bullying.
00:57:56And I will push back hard.
00:57:59We would like you to
00:58:01take care of our problem in Detroit, Mr. Dulac.
00:58:05The coven leader's name is Bruce.
00:58:08I believe your Claudia
00:58:09spent a few nights with him once.
00:58:12At the end of episode two,
00:58:14Raglan James tempts Louis
00:58:16with this getting revenge on the guy
00:58:18who hurt Claudia.
00:58:20And Louis has a big hole in his heart.
00:58:24And he feels like doing this will fill it.
00:58:27Making a brief call
00:58:28to share an important message with you.
00:58:29You got the wrong ad.
00:58:30The wrong.
00:58:32That first section
00:58:34when he's trying to get to Bruce.
00:58:35He's doing his job.
00:58:36What?
00:58:37I'm looking for killer.
00:58:39You're not killer.
00:58:40Bester!
00:58:41Okay.
00:58:41He's become so adept at doing this.
00:58:44He's very efficient.
00:58:45And also, he's held himself back a lot
00:58:48from having that kind of killer instinct.
00:58:51So then when it comes out,
00:58:52it, like, it explodes.
00:58:56The thing I actually found creepiest about that set
00:58:59was the bathtubs
00:59:00and the people lying in there fully clothed.
00:59:04And I was talking to one of the people
00:59:06that was in the bathtub.
00:59:07I was like,
00:59:07is that cold or is that warm?
00:59:09And they were like,
00:59:11it's warm.
00:59:12I was like, okay,
00:59:12so it's like a bath.
00:59:13It's still horrible.
00:59:16No!
00:59:18He wanted Bruce to understand on some level
00:59:21a degree of the pain
00:59:23and of the suffering
00:59:24that he put Claudia under.
00:59:27You and I have a friend in common.
00:59:31I personally had a kind of complicated relationship
00:59:34with Louis reading Claudia's diary entry
00:59:37because I sort of felt like
00:59:39that's not really his place.
00:59:41But I think Louis thinks
00:59:42that he's speaking on her behalf.
00:59:44And it looked like he'd won
00:59:46and he did win
00:59:47because I want nothing
00:59:51to be nothing.
00:59:54It's just important
00:59:55that before he dies,
00:59:56he can hear it for himself,
00:59:58the hell that he created.
01:00:00And then it's done.
01:00:14I think one of the most poignant moments
01:00:17of this season up to this point
01:00:19is the museum in that diner.
01:00:21I think he realizes almost immediately
01:00:23that it can't bring her back.
01:00:25It can't undo the pain.
01:00:28Kai, you okay?
01:00:29How can I get you anything else?
01:00:30I'm good, thank you, Regina.
01:01:02I'm good, yeah.
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