Claudia, Madeleine & Lestat Scene Interview With The Vampire Season 2 Episode 7 WARNING: Spoilers!!!

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[HaronidMuse]

Why Claudia Looked at Lestat Before She Died ! This Interview is so good ⬇⬇⬇
Hayles explains that final look, and it wasn’t to punish Lestat. It was “for help, ” Hayles says. “She trusts him the most out of everyone in the room even though she hates him. They’re familiar with each other, so she’s turning to her parent to help her.”

Anderson covers his face with his hands as he says, “Delainey! That’s so sad.”

Louis and Lestat’s First Look at Each Other
Lestat avoided locking eyes with Louis for a long time on stage. When he finally does, Reid tells TV Insider that it “changes” him.

“Look, I don’t think Lestat’s ever going to be in a situation where looking at Louis is not going to change him, ” Reid says, but this first look in the trial is particularly disruptive “because they haven’t looked at each other for however long it’s been, and Louis’s on trial for his death.”

Lestat went into the trial with a plan, and just one look at Louis raised the stakes. (Reid previously told TV Insider that “Lestat loves Louis, ” so he never is acting “maliciously.” Keep that in mind when thinking about Lestat’s plan moving forward.)

“What you think Lestat is going to do is probably what he thinks he’s going to do” when walking on stage, Reid notes, “but then he realizes as soon as he looks at Louis that it’s too much. It’s too overwhelming, and his whole world crumbles around him. This is not what he wants to be happening at all, and he carries a huge amount of guilt.”

Lestat attempts to atone in the trial by apologizing to Louis for the harm caused in their relationship, marking another moment when Lestat is changed by looking right at his immortal love. “When he apologizes to Louis and he realizes that Louis’s never going to forgive him, he realizes in that moment, ‘I’m never going to get him back. I have to leave him now, '” Reid says. “It is very destabilizing for him. He’s not in control. He’s at his most messy probably.”

Louis gives Lestat a slight smile when they first lock eyes. Anderson says Louis is also overwhelmed with guilt in this moment, but it’s layered.

“There’s a lot going on there, ” Anderson explains. “There’s a perverse sense of ‘there he is.’ He hates him. He’s frightened of him. He loves him. He wants to touch him. He wants to run away from him. All of those things are true, and actually that level of fear probably does draw those things out of you as well. You’re just completely bare. Maybe a smile creeps out.” Anderson says Louis is thinking, “Please don’t hurt me, but also I’m so glad to see you alive and don’t you look good. F**k, I shouldn’t think that.”

With his talk of offering Louis his companionship and the dark gift on the altar of a church, it seems Lestat saw Louis’ transformation as their wedding night. Is that how they both remember it? For Louis, “it’s the night he died and the night he was born, ” Anderson says. “But yeah, I think Lestat does see it as their wedding.”

Why Was Lestat Acting Weird in the Trial?
If you noticed Lestat was acting a bit off during certain moments of the play, you were right to think something was going on. There are things in the second book in The Vampire Chronicles series, The Vampire Lestat, that better contextualize Lestat’s behavior in this moment. We won’t reveal that book plot here, but Reid says “seeds are placed” in the trial and in next week’s finale. At the time of publication, the series has not yet been renewed for a third season. If it is renewed, showrunner Rolin Jones previously told TV Insider that it will be an adaptation of The Vampire Lestat.

“The answer is yes, ” Reid says. He was intentionally acting weird in specific moments to lay a foundation for what could come in a possible third season. “I was worried about the trial. Hopefully it’s one of those episodes that you can watch a couple of times and see there’s a few different layers to it.”

He continues: “There’s a performance layer, there’s a memory layer, and then there’s bits where whoever’s remembering it, you’re like, well, why was he wobbling? Why couldn’t he stand up straight? He is injured, but is the injury physical or is it psychological? I think it’s more interesting, and Rolin probably thinks it’s more interesting too, that all of the major injury is psychological because when they’re so powerful, does it really take you 20 years to recover from a slit throat? So, it is more psychological damage, but [I was] always wanting to make sure there is a level that he is weak.”

Lestat Will “Never Get Over Claudia”
Louis and Lestat are forever marked by Claudia’s death.

“He’ll never get over Claudia, ever, ” Reid says of Lestat. “That was a big thing because we were always trying to work this out with Rolin. I was like, ‘But we’ve got to be putting more in. They were closer.’ And he was like, ‘I think we have to lay in the foundation that Lestat will never recover from the death of Claudia.’ He will always carry that with him as the biggest guilt in his life.”

[ravenkushner]

Out of all of them, Claudia was the only one who found true love. Madeline said “My coven is Claudia.” None of the rest of them know how to give or receive love like that. Those two were the only Real Ones and they’re gone now. But at least they achieved what the rest of them won’t- real love.

[amyr]

“[Delainey Hayles] understood Claudia's last look to Lestat as how any child would look to a parent in a moment of distress. The way that she looks is like all hope is lost, like, ‘Dad, I need you.'”

😢

[GalaxyKane]

That look in Lestat's eyes is the look if a father knowing he can do nothing to save his child, no matter how much wrong is between you, its your child.

[sherrylaird]

Madeline putting Claudia first and willing to die right beside her was powerful. And Lestat watching them both die knowing deep down he will never have a love a (companionship)that’s willing to die right beside him also might of send him into his emotions.

[mizginavale]

Heartbreaking! Claudia is the one character that suffered the most (and for a short time on screen, Madeline did too). There was only one moment where it seemed she might have her happy ending with Madeline, and that was so fleeting. There was never "you and me" for her, no matter what Louis promised. Lestat made Claudia and she looked at him as his fledgling and he stared in horror as her marker.

[vitaiene]

Madeleine chose Claudia, the first time someone chose Claudia.
It's very sad that she didn't get to go.

[marias.wainwright]

When you think about this being a play to the public, the audience buying into such incredible "special effects" is kinda wild

[darlene]

This scene was just heartbreaking 😭. I think Lestat will carry that guilt over her death.

[queenempress]

Claudia ended up dying by fire anyway. Louis rescued Claudia from the fire. Lestat delivered her back to the fire. Claudia was always on borrowed time.

[lilianadoval]

Human feelings coming to light through Lestat's eyes, perhaps understanding that part of his history was also reduced to dust along with Claudia. The taste more bitter than sweet that the revemge always has, even for the vampire nature.
All the miseries and virtues called into question in this scenario.
An impressive and necessary Sam as the absolute owner of this episode. Brilliant!!!!
Thanks a lot D for being our lighthouse for many of us.

[shamancarmichael]

All the awards to all of them for this episode. They all gave masterful, impactful performances. Absolutely stunning, and heart wrenching. There was so much going on, so many changes of emotion for each of the characters, even some of the primary audience members! Fantastic staging and direction as well, that just enhanced their perfomances. That was perfection.

[JTAEKOOKEVRR]

Poor Claudia she will be missed and went out like a champ

[leonie.]

Not the dude in the back playing the fucking flute while they are literally burning

[BenjaminSpencer-mk]

You can even see hes eyes get redder as if he was about to cry. He puts in a face enjoyment because he knows Ira what the others want to see, and maybe himself thought he would enjoy it till those last moments

[jordanparker]

This scene broke me because the entire time I have thought Lestat can save them, s%$t he has the power to stop time as well. But then I remembered he's truly been tortured, he's wobbling, he can barely function. So when Claudia and Madeleine...well we all know the rest.
Delainey explaining that final look to Lestat is devastating, because in the end she trusted. Lestat's face says ot all....Emma Freeman really knows how to capture Sam at his emotional best, I suppose that's why they bring her over from The Newsreader when they aren't filming....good call.

Anyway .... let her Uncle Les say goodbye for us all

And I cannot say even now that I regret Claudia, that I wish I had never seen her, nor held her, nor whispered secrets to her, nor heard her laughter echoing through the shadowy, gaslighted rooms of that all too human townhouse, in which we lived amid the laquered furniture and the darkening oil paintings and the brass flower pots as living beings should. Claudia was my dark child, my love, evil of my evil. Claudia broke my heart. Lestat de Lioncourt

I will miss her, thank you Delainey you are special. ❤

[KamilleBidanApologist]

Thank you, thank you for posting this clip. This one was my fave.
It makes me think of this passage from the books and I just sob all over again fck.

So this is the Court to which I returned, in which some six hundred blood drinkers were lodging, and a place in which I felt at home as I’d never felt anywhere in my entire existence except perhaps, perhaps, in my old flat in the Rue Royale in the nineteenth century, when Louis sat in an armchair by the fire reading the French newspapers and Claudia, in her puff-sleeved dress of white gauze, played the sprightly joyful music of Mozart on the pianoforte.
-- Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

[ginnyjaneheart]

Sam is such a talant HE EVEN MOVES EYES DOWN AS IF she really turned into ashes and falls

[benhamilton]

"Death for the others. For you, an eternity in a box, where your only company will be your screams. Might even take centuries. TAKE THEM!!!"

-Stephen Rhea as Santiago, IWTV (1994)

[Oneofone]

Vampires laughing at Claudia me laughing at them cuz of what Louis is about to do to them