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00:05He looks so beautiful in that shot, and he's just done the most evil thing.
00:10What is terrifying is you ran editing, and for a second you start looking at the end,
00:13and you're like, did it stop? Did we run a freeze frame? And it's just,
00:17Assad is so in control of his physical body. He's just absolutely frozen for a natural long time.
00:25Natural freeze frame? He's really very good at that.
00:28All right. Well, that's another. You're killing us with these cliffhangers.
00:35A moment of silence for Larry. Larry's dead. How could you do that?
00:40I don't know. He's a very good actor, too.
00:42Yes. Noah Reed, who in fact we're actually going to talk to in this episode.
00:46Oh, what? Amazing.
00:48We're going to talk to the whole band. We have a lot coming up. This is a really fun one.
00:51We don't just have the band. We also have Akasha.
00:56Sheila. Yes.
00:57Beware. Beware. Beware.
01:02I'm Lizzie Bassett. This is the Vampire Lestat After Dark, and we're talking episode five,
01:08with Sam Reed, Jacob Anderson, Rollin Jones, Mark Johnson, and Delaney Hales,
01:14with special guest, Sheila Atten, and the entire Vampire Lestat band.
01:22Let's start with maybe one of the most what the f*** scenes in the whole series, which is Louis'
01:29little dinner with Madeline and Regina, or not Madeline and Regina. What's going on here? What's going
01:37through Louis' head? I think he's just, like, he's just tiptoeing, dipping his toe into, like, the worst,
01:46the worst waters you really could in this context. But I think he's starting to feel a little queasy
01:53about it now. I think he keeps, like, trying a new thing. He's just, like, he's just really pushing it.
02:01And it's pretty gross. It's pretty upsetting.
02:07Yeah, Rowan... But there is something sweet about the off-Broadway Madeline thing. He's just, like,
02:13maybe if I can... Who am I? I don't know.
02:19Yeah, we found those the most, like, probably the most, two most chilling scenes of the season. We
02:23actually had them in the script, um, out of order of what it ends up. We had, we thought on
02:29paper the
02:29Madeline thing would be worse, but there was something about your performance when you froze,
02:32it was, uh, Fradia and, uh, and touched her. Fradia? I've never heard that. That's amazing.
02:38Fradia, yeah. Fradia.
02:40Fradia, yeah.
02:41Um, you know, there was just something in the performance when we were looking at it of him,
02:44when you touched the hand, that felt like that was the darkest and deepest place. So we just,
02:48we ended up inverting them. Yeah.
02:50Well, let's talk about Fradia. Lestat, Lestat warns Louis. So I'm curious, what does he see? Like,
02:57what does, because that, the way that moment plays, at least for an audience member, is a little ambiguous
03:02when he goes in and sees her, it's like, does he see Claudia? And then he comes out and says,
03:06not her. So I'm curious, kind of, what's going on for him?
03:09Well, uh, yeah, and obviously it instigates him, like, changing his entire musical style,
03:13um, based on that moment. So I think he, he obviously recognizes that she is identically looking,
03:19identical looking to Claudia. Um, and, you know, that, you know, brings up this big resurgence of
03:27emotion and feelings, you know, how he feels about that whole situation and how everything went down.
03:31Um, but it's not Claudia. It's like, clearly not her. And then, and, and I think that's the point,
03:35is that, that like, it doesn't read Regina. Regina? Yeah. Sorry.
03:42My brain.
03:44You get the Fradia. What is their name?
03:47Through you off. Um, yeah, because Regina doesn't have Claudia's eyes.
03:51She doesn't have the eyes. It's the spark in the eyes, um, or the stained glass eyes, and which
03:57is that, um, that beautiful song by Daniel Hart that he, that he creates after that.
04:02But I think it's very painful as well for Louis to like bring back this sort of Claudia lookalike and
04:08like bring back all the trauma of their, of their, you know, life together. And, and, and Louis wanting
04:14to go back down there and go back into the space and wanting to talk about it again. And, you
04:18know,
04:18like Riley said, which I, you know, I, I, I sort of understand why he didn't call Lestart when he
04:25gets
04:25shot, but Lestart is very upset that Louis, that he got, he got shot and Louis doesn't call him. And
04:30then he only calls him when he's like in trouble and he wants, and, and Lestart does, you know, walk
04:34out of the album in which he's locked himself inside to go and, go and help.
04:40By the way, that's the first time I realize I am sure it's not Claudia. Up to then, I don't
04:47know. And
04:47you come back and you give two specific reasons why she cannot be. And for some reason, I believe you.
04:54Hmm. Oh, good. Good. Yes. The, the murmur of the heart and, um, and the gate, which suggests,
05:01uh, what was it? A foot injury of some hip injury, a hip injury that she never, she never sustained.
05:07Yeah.
05:07And, and the eyes. And it's good acting. Mm-hmm. From both of you. Yes, very. In this episode,
05:14we meet Marius. Mm-hmm. So, Rollin, talk to me a little bit about bringing this character
05:19into the mix. Yeah. Well, big one. Mm-hmm. And I think, um, you know, there's, there's, uh,
05:26I don't know, out in fandom or whatever. It's a controversial character, right? Yeah. He plays,
05:30um, and... I don't f*** with Marius. Yeah. I don't f*** with him at all. Um, in the books. Yeah.
05:37I, I think we, we have a, a long-distance sort of idea about Marius that is, like,
05:43for all these characters, complicated. And we, he has been introduced a certain way in this show.
05:50Mm-hmm. Um, and, uh, you should wait to see what else we have planned for. We have a wonderful,
05:56wonderful actor. Yeah. Um, and this, this was, this was an audit, things were aggressively auditioned
06:01for a lot of auditions for it. And it was very clear the second we saw that audition, like,
06:06wow, Chris just, just, Chris, Chris has it. Um, and he has, though, you know, he has a brief
06:12appearance this, this season, but he's obviously being set up for something, something larger. When
06:16we read the, the, the, the whole Akasha, um, this, this time in the tube, we, we, we did some
06:23expansion
06:23of time in there. And we had this idea of, uh, the crazy lighthouse keeper version of Marius. So
06:29you haven't seen him actually with his full wits on right now. He has just been down there for too
06:34long, um, and is just believing himself of the job, or he's gonna fi-, do the job, uh, find yourself,
06:41uh, as I have lost myself. Um, it was actually a mantra we kept in the, uh, writer's room when
06:45we were all,
06:47someone's couldn't do a scene. Well, like, can you take a pass at this? Fine. And we would just
06:50say that to each other. Okay. Explain one thing to me. Yeah. What is the power that he and I
06:58guess
06:58Akasha also have that if he burns, they all burn? I think this is something straight from the book,
07:03right? That there is a source, uh, look there, uh, this is not my strongest part as a writer,
07:08the vampire lore. I'm definitely always looking at everybody. But, um, there is a core, um,
07:16ancient blood and, uh, there is a sort of a, uh, visible, uh, I think silver umbilical cord that
07:22connects all of them. They haven't quite figured that out yet, you know? Um, but, uh, so this is
07:29actually secret, uh, knowledge that's being passed on us. This is a very private, uh, knowledge that,
07:34that Lestat is getting here. But if, uh, the threat is if this one burns in the sun, they will
07:40all burn.
07:41Um, and so you have to have this protection. Um, and you know, I'd be, uh, uh, a big burden
07:47to be put on it. It would probably, you probably have an idea about, well, we'll get, we'll get to,
07:53we'll get to. Yes. Well, let's talk to her. We have to welcome Akasha herself, Sheila Atim. Welcome. Hi.
08:00Thank you so much for joining us. Uh, I just have to say your intro into this season,
08:08in this episode, I was like, like my eyes just about popped out of my head and I was
08:13getting full body chills. It is amazing. Absolutely amazing. What was your preparation like?
08:20You're playing the mother of all vampires kind of, where did you start on this?
08:24Um, I just started with the lines because it was a four page monologue with no full stop.
08:32So I thought, well, let me, let me get that under my belt first. Um, I also read a little
08:39bit of the Queen of the Damned book. Um, I didn't want to read all of it because I knew
08:44that if we
08:45went to the next season, there's obviously lots to explore, lots to mine, um, and lots of interpretation.
08:52So I, I read that waking up sequence basically just kept it quite light touch. I sort of explored
08:59this blend of like an East African, Middle Eastern type accent thing. And that was it. And so much of
09:08it was in that monologue. I think the context of knowing that she's been asleep for thousands of
09:14years, well, not asleep, she's awake, but in that state, in that kind of stone petrified state for
09:20thousands of years, but very much awake, alive and observing and full of female rage. That's kind
09:28of all I needed. I didn't need much to be honest.
09:33Well, let's talk about the, the stone state. You know, we see the statue moving kind of little by
09:40little. I love the way it sort of creeps in. Is any of that you before you actually wake up?
09:46Oh, yes. I mean, I was only on set for what, two or three days. Um, so all of my,
09:56uh, sections in,
09:58in episode five were very much condensed into a very short space of time. There was a lot of makeup.
10:04There was a lot of prosthetics. Um, I think from what I can tell of the episode, there's only one
10:11section, which was the, the, like the model. And then the rest is me with a mask on, not breathing,
10:20which I've got to say, I was actually quite, I was like, wow, I really, I wasn't sure how convincing
10:24the not breathing would look, but you can't see the breathing. Very convincing. And I was there in
10:29person and, and Sheila was incredibly still in an, in, in, in a really uncomfortable position,
10:35because they had all these props underneath her to hold her in certain positions and she'd be sort of
10:40stuck there being completely still for, you know, 10 page scenes. I mean, these are not short scenes.
10:45They never are in this show. And, and Sheila's like a real trooper and incredible the way that you
10:51could hold your body in that position. And then also she is wearing a mask on top of her face,
10:55which makes it look more stone-like and you can just see underneath just the eyes, like just
11:01slightly fluttering. It's, it was very creepy. It was amazing. Sheila's there for three days,
11:06but the preparation for that kept getting pushed and pushed because we knew it was, it was going to
11:11be, you know, sort of the big major thing this year. And so by the time Sheila got there, there
11:16had
11:16been all these people who had been working it and being super stressed out for months and months and
11:21months. And Sheila starts talking and does the monologue and everyone, jaws on the ground, quiet.
11:31Uh, and it was for a thing that was very difficult and trying for the crew, totally worth it for
11:37everybody. And that was because she blew it out of the, shot it to the moon.
11:44Yes. I spent like a week pacing my hotel room, learning this way. I was, cause I knew we were
11:52down
11:52to the wire, right? I knew exactly what you said running like the, the, you know, we were getting
11:57right to the end of the shoot. So I thought, well, the least I can do is just make sure
12:01that I'm
12:01as prepped as I can be so that we're not having kind of nonsense on set. Cause I knew there'd
12:07be a
12:07lot that would be coming together at the last minute. Sam was like flying in the air and I was
12:13like, let me just make sure I need to be doing correctly. And there was a thriller, like just getting
12:19body parts, like the statues and all the other pieces that had to do this over the border.
12:25There was an absolute, uh, uh, uh, mini thriller that was going on behind the scenes to try to
12:30make this thing. I also, I hope this doesn't sound weird, Sheila, but I asked Roland yesterday,
12:36I was like, can I just hear the monologue? I just, can I just have a copy of the monologue
12:42without Chris and Sam, no offense, talking over it so that I can just listen to that.
12:47Do your Pilates.
12:48Yeah. So I can do like, it's like a meditative, but also I would maybe send me into an episode.
12:57Hopefully you'll want to join the cause if you listen to it,
13:01you know, you can ride out together and, and, and make it happen.
13:06I'm already in.
13:08It's definitely a rousing, um, a rousing passage.
13:11Yes. Mark, what was your reaction to seeing the takes of this?
13:15Oh, first of all, I was, I didn't know when it was she.
13:21Yeah.
13:21And it was eerie as can be. And as you can tell in the episode, when just a movement happens,
13:28a finger or just a piece, it's, it's, it's chilling, chilling. It's yet, yet another moment
13:35where you just sit back. It's, it's one of the joys of being a producer. Sometimes you're not doing
13:40anything. You're just sitting back there and enjoying everybody just working, basically breaking
13:45their backs to make, uh, the show. It's our pitch for season four. It's like, honestly, and you want
13:51to know what it is. Think about all these people and they're messed up little tiny dramas and all
13:56their little this, and then this energy is about to take it all over. Right. Well, I think like,
14:01and you've been building to this, right? We heard, we've heard multiple times, even in the last season,
14:07we heard, I have the blood of Akasha. I have the blood of Akasha. We meet Akasha. Like, I'm curious
14:12from you, Sheila, what's your perspective on why does Akasha choose Lestat to bestow this upon in this
14:19moment? I think, uh, she clearly recognizes something in him. Obviously she, she says, you know,
14:28the, the, the, well, the music, the communication with the music, I think the way he speaks to her
14:34as well, the way he interacts with her, um, it's a very different tonality to how Marius has been
14:40taking care of her all of these years. And I also think given the magnitude of rage that she has,
14:48but also the power that she holds, she's going to need somebody by her side who can match her. I
14:55think
14:56she recognizes to some degree that Lestat could be that, um, Marius, no offense, because he can't,
15:03I mean, he can't, he can't be the partner in crime that she needs. But, but Lestat's definitely got
15:12enough of the kind of charismatic twinkle and I think the fortitude and, um, just an energy about
15:20him that means that it's absolutely possible. But I, I think, you know, having said all that,
15:26I think in this moment, that's probably not even fully conscious for her. I think she's just been
15:32pulled out of her state by something very powerful. And maybe that's something that in season four,
15:37she's able to unpack a little bit more. But right now, as you can see, she just wakes up and
15:41she's like,
15:43I've got to get out of this stone. I've got to get out.
15:46Well, it's just amazing if you think he gets on a boat after that and that he can go pick
15:50out tuxedos
15:51with that kind of blood in him, that he can actually just sort of like walk through the day and
15:55just
15:55function is incredible, is heroic, you know? I mean, you know, this is...
16:01It's amazing. Well done.
16:13I love something you just said about, you know, like she's not even conscious,
16:16she was kind of woken up and that part of that was the music and music plays such
16:19a huge, huge part in this show. To, to leave this universe a tiny bit, you know,
16:26there was a movie recently, Sinners, where we saw a similar idea that like music can kind of awake
16:32the ancestors. That's sort of what's happening here as well. And I'm curious, like, why do you think that
16:38that idea seems to be explored so well through vampires and immortality?
16:44It's in the earth, isn't it? Like music is, it, like it is, it, music is immortal. Like it's,
16:52music has always been. And that, and that connection to sound and feeling and communication,
17:00it goes back as far as we do. And so do vampires. I mean, but they, I guess in the
17:06other direction.
17:08So there is like a connection between the past and the future and the present
17:12and being rooted in like the earth and humanity, like music to me at least feels like it's doing
17:20all of that. I feel like it's what it is for Lestat, right? Like he's connecting to himself.
17:25I think also like with Akasha, it's just kind of like, you know, she, he's playing her music. I mean,
17:29Marius does say play her music. She loves music, but there's obviously, I think they, they,
17:33there's like a talk, Lestat has a lot of empathy for the, for this woman who's like trapped on this
17:38floor and he sees her and he's sort of, he's also like a deeply emotional creature and is probably
17:44falling in love with her in this sort of like, you know, captive way, because they're sort of stuck
17:48together and he's, and, and then, you know, she's, her fingers are playing along, you know, tap, tap,
17:55tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap to the music. Um, and, uh, that, you know, there's an element to
18:01which, that beat, that drum that she is playing, that he then takes on and, and as it's the music,
18:07but there's something very poetic that he takes her blood and then he goes to Louis and then Louis
18:12hears the, the drum beat and there's that kind of like consistent thread that you really see that
18:16he's taking this very powerful blood and it gets, gets passed on through to the other,
18:20other vampires. Um, and there is a kind of musicality to that, which I think is like,
18:25lovely. The beat is, the beat is my heart, like. That's what I mean. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
18:30Yeah. You're charting also the birth of, of, uh, the artist too. This is, this is, we, we,
18:34we fuse that story with, um, this is the only reason why we're going back and forth between,
18:39is that this is where I became a musician, uh, at Lestat. And I personally write every single
18:44scene to the show, um, with music underneath it all the time. Was there any particular
18:49artist or music that was like kind of playing in this season for you? Uh, Carl,
18:54Carl Orff has been the, the guy this year. Um, and, uh, Poulenc and, uh, John Tavener, uh, British.
19:02And those are the three sort of things that we're listening to a lot.
19:05Carl Orff has always got headphones on. Like always.
19:10Sheila, Lestat kind of comes to Akasha after being abandoned by his mother.
19:16Is Akasha taking her place in any capacity? Is there, is there a bit of a mother-son relationship
19:24happening here? I think so. I mean, one of the things that I found very endearing when I got onto
19:30set
19:31was everyone was like, welcome mother, welcome my queen. And I was like, when I was our character,
19:36like I said, like, I got hooked there right at the end of the shoot. And I was like,
19:40this is you guys having five months in Toronto.
19:45You're all in a different way. But it was very, it was very wonderful. And I remember even
19:49during the filming of the, of my scenes, a lot of cast members who weren't even shooting that day
19:55came into watch. Um, and I think that really speaks to the potency of Akasha's thread, um,
20:04throughout the story and throughout each individual vampire story as well.
20:08So she is, she's the queen mother. Um, but she's obviously so much more than that. And I think
20:17as we already see with Lestat, his relationship with his own mother, and, and I think all of the
20:21relationships across kind of family and, and, and gender, and they're really complicated, which I
20:28think is why it's this such a great, um, show. And I think I look forward to that becoming even
20:35more
20:35complicated. Amazing. Because I think, I think, especially in this, in this kind of world and
20:41speaking a little bit to, you know, what you guys were saying just now about vampires and how you're
20:47trying to express yourselves and discover yourselves, find yourselves, artistry, music,
20:52this kind of ancient, primal, carnal, um, impulse that's, that's running through us all. I think
20:59there is a lot of searching. There's a lot of trying to figure out how to be now that we
21:04are in this state,
21:05a state that's very different from before. And I think what's interesting with Kasha is that
21:116,000 years later, she wakes up and she's still trying to figure that out. You know,
21:15that whole speech is questions. That whole speech is why this? Why that? Why her? Why him? Why,
21:21why, why, why? So I think all of those things are set to become far more complex in a really
21:27exciting bloody way. Amazing. The real terror, she's right. The real terror is the last couple of
21:32things are not questions. Great. That's very true. That thing is coming. That thing is coming.
21:38Yeah. All right. Yeah. I'm quite, I'm quite sure about, I'm quite sure about where I've landed.
21:43Thank you so much for joining us, Sheila. An amazing, amazing job on the show.
21:48See you soon. Thank you. Bye. Bye.
21:51Bye. All new episodes of The Vampire Lestat every Sunday only on AMC and AMC Plus.
21:59We have to talk about the band, man. Tell me a little bit about working with the band.
22:05They are an incredible bunch of actors and super talented musicians in their own right.
22:10Um, I just, I felt, we felt so lucky that we had such nice people, um, to come on and
22:16play the band.
22:17And, and, um, we just all instantly got on. And I always felt incredibly terrible about how awful
22:23Lestat is to Larry. Um, I was like, why, why, why does he have to be so horrendous to Larry?
22:30What has
22:30Larry done? And then I, and then I sort of discovered that actually Lestat loves Larry because Larry does
22:36represent his frailty and his failure. And, um, and you, you, you, you do need to have a fault and
22:43he doesn't want to lose Larry because even though he doesn't think Larry's the great guitar player,
22:48but he doesn't want to lose Larry because he needs to have that kind of slightly, you know, rickety,
22:54faulty sound, um, because otherwise it would be too transcendent, you know? You've got to have a Ringo.
22:59You've got to have a Ringo. Yeah. Oh, man.
23:03Let's talk about Larry for a second. And, and I just briefly about the end of the episode. Like,
23:08why, why did you do that? Why did, why did, why did Armand do that? Why did Armand kill Larry?
23:14Yes. It's a great question. It's Armand. Armand is four or five levels of haunting than most of us.
23:25There is a, um, like a seven layer burrito reason why he thinks that will get into Lestat's head and
23:35haunt him more than anything else. They're way easier, more direct hits. Um, just to say that there,
23:40at the end of that, there's probably missing pieces of information in that scene. There's,
23:45there's other stuff going on, right? See, that's Armand. You're messing with me. That's Armand. No, no, no.
23:51That is about as succinct an Armand answer as I can give. That's how it operates. Amazing. Dualities.
23:55There's a lot of master plans at play, you know, um, cause we are going towards this concert.
24:02Um, and there's a lot of people who have a lot of agendas. Um,
24:07Okay. It's a great, it's a lingering question. You have nailed on something very, very important.
24:12I'm scared, but I'm going to leave it there and hopefully we get to revisit this at some point.
24:16I hoped, uh, Rollin had the answer. Oh. And apparently he doesn't. Not yet.
24:25Mark's like, I'm done. Mark is, Mark is off. It's kind of, it's kind of awesome though as well,
24:30because the band, you know, like want to become vampires by the end of this episode. And that,
24:35and that's, that's quite a touching moment, I think, for Lestat, because he's also saying like,
24:38I am a monster. There's all these horrendous things. There's lots of things I haven't been able to
24:43unpack. And, um, I've come from this place of like, I've, I've got all of this rage in me that
24:49I don't understand where it's come from or how it's, uh, how it's appeared. He's always had it,
24:55but, um, he's blaming himself because he hasn't fully, you know, been able to absorb his power.
25:03And they're just like, give it to me. I want it. I want this. I want this. And he keeps
25:07kind of saying,
25:07it's really bad. It's a really, really bad thing. You don't want it. You don't want it. You don't
25:12want it. But he kind of does want them to want it. You know what I mean? So please give
25:15it to me.
25:15All right. Well, let's meet the band. We've got Ryan Katner, Sarah Swire, Noah Reed, Seamus Patterson.
25:22Welcome. Hi. Hello. Hello. Uh, first of all, congratulations. Absolutely amazing season.
25:31You are all so, so much fun on this show. I can't wait to talk about it. Um, RIP, Larry,
25:37we just,
25:37we just saw your end. Oh, man. Oh, dude. I didn't know. He had a good life. He had a
25:47good life.
25:49I think. I don't know. He went out on the bottom. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well,
25:54you are all real musicians in your own right, which we're definitely going to talk about. But
25:58first things first, how did Lestat's tour bus compare to any tour buses you have each seen in
26:05your time on the road? Oh my God. I don't know. Definitely the nastiest for sure. It's, uh,
26:14it was, it was putrid, but fun. I've never been on a tour bus. I've only ever been in the,
26:21in the, like in a sprinter van situation. So, you know, as nasty as Lestat's bus was,
26:29it was, it was a little, you know, a couch in a booth. It feels kind of nice. A bunk
26:34to have your
26:35own bunk. There was something kind of cool about it. I got to go up to the, the, um, the
26:40Lestat zone,
26:41the, the upstairs zone, just to look at the set. And I'm like, okay, so you should live in different
26:45than, than we are down here. Yeah. Yeah. You guys are dumb. I thought it was a little bit, uh,
26:50it's a stark differential, but, uh, but I don't know. I was into it. I thought it was cool. It
26:54could
26:54use a cleaning service maybe. Yeah. We've heard a lot about there being like, just like beans left
26:59out around the... When I sat down in that bus for the first time, I just had a handful of
27:04beans,
27:05just from a chair. They just looked like smeared on it. Someone told me it was you, Ryan.
27:13Were they yours? There was mold growing in the coffee maker. Really? There, there was full-on
27:18fungus growing up the sides of the coffee maker. Was it real mold though? Or was it like set mold?
27:22Because there was a load. No, it was real mold. It was pretty gross.
27:25Unfortunate. Yeah. Well, I think all of you have been in the recording studio
27:30before and we see so much play out with band dynamics across this. Were you able to bring
27:36any of your own experiences to, to this show? I think so. I think, yeah, Ryan, you answer. Yeah.
27:43Ryan, man, man. Uh, yes. Although whenever, whenever I record in the past, it wasn't,
27:51even though it felt like life or death, it truly wasn't life or death in this circumstance.
27:56So the states were a little different. That's true. That's true.
28:01I've been watching a lot of band movies recently and it's so funny to me that people interpret
28:06musicians as these like really stoic, stern, hard people. And, um, and I've, and I think that
28:13Interview with the Vampire in the Season did a really good job of like representing musicians
28:17as just like odd guys, like who love tunes and love art and are a little bit strange and playful
28:25and
28:25have a huge, huge hearts. And we're all quite vulnerable weirdos deep inside.
28:31Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I mean, we all want to get our faces licked repeatedly.
28:40All right. Does anyone care to elaborate on that?
28:44Well, everything keeps getting licked.
28:47Yeah. Okay.
28:48It just happened a lot.
28:49People can't, I mean, I have a lickable face, I guess, so I'm not complaining.
28:54Sure. Well, Sarah, I, I understand you did not play drums before this. Is that right?
29:01What?
29:03How, how, how, how did this happen? How did you do this?
29:06I lost my mind. I, uh, no, I, I practiced for a long time. I practiced like, um, I gave
29:14myself a
29:14bootcamp and practice for five hours a day for over a month and a half. Um, and, uh, and it,
29:22it worked.
29:23Uh, it's great. I, I think that I was saying this to the guys and to Sam on the last
29:28day, but,
29:28um, it's not often as actors that we walk away from projects, uh, with like a new life skill,
29:35but I am so blessed to like come out of the show, not only having participated in this like amazing,
29:42um, you know, TV series, but also to like have this new ability that will service me for the rest
29:48of my life. I am so happy. I always knew I was going to drum at some point on the
29:53timeline.
29:53I just didn't know when I was going to collide with it. So it was now kind of being humble.
29:57We're at the situation where we love her audition, but we tried to figure out between
30:02the base and the drum. So we actually put her up against Katner. It was like,
30:05both of you learn drums. And Daniel Hart was like immediately after both they turned in stuff,
30:09she's like, it's, it's not Katner. It's going to be.
30:13Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.
30:15Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
30:16It was like, um,
30:17That was the worst week of my life. I think trying to,
30:21knowing that I had to learn drums and, and sitting there for my five hours a day, I,
30:26my, my only goal was to not be as good as Sarah succeeded wildly at that.
30:33Noah, were there any, you all spent an enormous amount of time together.
30:38It sounds like were there, what was your favorite sort of behind the scenes story from set?
30:43Oh, God. Um, I don't know. I mean, one of the things that I think we got to do as
30:49the band that,
30:50that is super rare, uh, is we got, we got rehearsal time as a band with Daniel Hart, who wrote
30:57all the
30:58songs and, and Daniel would kind of like, we would just have these like in a, in rehearsal spaces in
31:03Toronto that I've personally rehearsed in many times. And like, we got to actually galvanize as a,
31:09as a band and, and learn the songs and learn all the parts. And, you know, I mean, like, yes,
31:14watching Sarah, like become a drummer was insane, but we all got this, this experience of like,
31:20you know, coming together as a band. And so then on set, we, we were, we were the band on
31:25set and it
31:26was like equal parts, like fun and annoying for people that we had our own little like,
31:31band zone. And then like, probably for Sam too, like is the band, but then we're like, yeah,
31:37but you dude. And then we got to watch Sam do his thing on stage, which was just outrageous.
31:44Sheamus, how bad of a sponsor is Armand? Could it get worse?
31:48I don't think it get, gets worse because yeah, I met him at the AA meeting, immediately relapse,
31:55you know, being puppeteered. It, yeah, it's quite a cruel thing to do to someone, you know?
32:02Yeah.
32:02Kill your brother.
32:03At the most vulnerable.
32:03Yeah.
32:04And just, so, you know, I got a bone to pick with that guy.
32:07I have one last question for you all. In the show, you all not just agree, but ask to be
32:13turned with the exception of Larry. Again, RIP. But if you had the opportunity to become a vampire,
32:21would you say yes or no?
32:22Absolutely.
32:23Sarah says yes.
32:25Ryan says yes.
32:26Yes.
32:26Oh my God.
32:27Yes.
32:27Yes, for sure.
32:28Sheamus says sure. Noah?
32:31No.
32:32Yeah.
32:32No, really?
32:34Larry had to go.
32:34Larry had to go.
32:35Certainly not.
32:36Certainly not.
32:37Why?
32:38No.
32:38But, but I, I, I would work out more before I got turned.
32:45Because I, I came off of this show and I went in for, for, for a physical and the doctor
32:50was like,
32:50what did you do to yourself? So I would work, I would work out more before I got turned.
32:56Amazing.
32:57Thank you all so much. Ryan Katner, Sarah Swire, Noah Reed, Seamus Patterson.
33:02You are amazing on this show. Thank you so much for being here.
33:07Great to see you guys.
33:08Missed you guys.
33:10That's it. That's episode five. This has been an amazing episode. Thank you so much for breaking it down.
33:15We will be here after every episode of the Vampire Lestat on AMC. So make sure you come back next
33:21time.
33:27What was the game? Was throwing water bottles at you?
33:30You just, you just line up at the wall and you try to, you try to throw a water bottle
33:34at someone trying to hit them.
33:36Yeah, it was just abuse.
33:37I got a good, like, I think three quarter water bottle to the, to the dome.
33:41And I do want to say again, I'm sorry about that Seamus. I didn't mean to hit Seamus.
33:46It's okay. I forgot it immediately.
33:55Then he has a pet Ras priorities record.
33:56How is the game?
33:56He brow
33:56What?
33:56How is the game?
33:57What does the game do?
33:57What do we have for here?
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