At SDCC22, the showrunner behind AMC's InterviewWithTheVampire confirms the series will be turning Lestat and Louis' gay subtext into actual text.
The upcoming Interview with the Vampire TV series will lean into the original books' gay subtext. Anne Rice's novel of the same name was written in 1976, and adapted into a feature-length film in 1994. The film starred Tom Cruise as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt and Brad Pitt as Louis de Pointe du Lac, his longtime companion. While Rice's novel originally had a mixed reception, her subsequent sequels and the film adaptation turned Interview with the Vampire into a cult classic.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Related: Why Anne Rice Hated Tom Cruise's Interview With The Vampire Casting Rice, who passed away at age 80 last December, was a very vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights. While her original novel wasn't overly well-received by critics at the time, Interview with the Vampire became a queer classic, and Rice confirmed that Lestat and Louis were, in fact, in a romantic relationship. While the film adaptation didn't dive into Lestat and Louis' queerness, the gay subtext between the characters still very much remained, despite being somewhat ambiguous.
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