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The Vampire Lestat (1985) is a vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the second in her Vampire Chronicles, following Interview with the Vampire (1976). The story is told from the point of view of the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, while Interview is narrated by Louis de Pointe du Lac.
Louis de Pointe du Lac is a fictional character in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series. He begins his life as a mortal man and later becomes a vampire.He is the protagonist who tells his story in Interview with the Vampire (1976, the first book of The Vampire Chronicles).
While Lestat spoils Claudia and tries to teach her how to behave like a vampire, she largely ignores him and reserves her love for Louis. In 1860, after 65 years of living together, Claudia rebels and tries to kill Lestat by giving him two dead boys poisoned with absinthe and laudanum , then cutting his throat and stabbing him in the chest.
Lestat is a French nobleman born and made a vampire in the 1700s, and the primary antihero of Rice's Vampire Chronicles.He was introduced in Interview with the Vampire (1976), and has been portrayed by Tom Cruise in the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire; Stuart Townsend in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned; and by Sam Reid in the 2022 television series Interview with the Vampire.
Interview with the Vampire was released in November 1994 starring Tom Cruise as Lestat, Brad Pitt as Louis, Kirsten Dunst as Claudia and Antonio Banderas as Armand. [ 19 ] A second film, Queen of the Damned , which combined plot elements of The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned , was released in 2002 starring Stuart Townsend as Lestat ...
In the present, Daniel reads Claudia's diaries. She is saved from the fire by Louis, but she is horribly burned. Louis convinces Lestat to make her a vampire rather than let her die. Claudia receives a crash course in vampirism and makes her first kill, but she proves to be impulsive, eating more than Louis or Lestat while being less cautious.
At Lestat's house, Louis tells him about the guilt and shame for nearly eating his own nephew. Later, the two go out to see an opera show. During the performance, Lestat is unimpressed by the lead tenor's performance and ends up feeling unamused. After the performance, Lestat talks to and invites the tenor to his house. Lestat then kills him ...
Hart considered "In Throes of Increasing Wonder" as Louis's and Lestat's "love theme"; he was inspired by the chemistry between Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid during their first-kiss scene. [4] Hart and Shruti Kumar composed "The Sun Gives Life to Everything But Us", [ 13 ] while "My Very Nature That of the Devil" is an "expressive" solo violin ...