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Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Interview with the Vampire season 2, episode 7!
Summary
- Lestat’s apology to Louis reveals deeper emotions and regret from what he’s doing and what he’s done, says actor Sam Reid.
- The apology was a desperate attempt at forgiveness he’d never receive, while also revealing he feels like he deserves everything that’s happened to him.
- The episode contains complex layers and dream-like scenes, adding to the emotional weight of the trial and Lestat’s testimony.
Interview with the Vampire star Sam Reid has explained Lestat’s apology to Louis in season 2, episode 7 of the show, revealing the extent of his character’s emotions throughout the suspenseful moment. The newest episode focuses on Louis and Claudia being put on trial for attempting to murder Lestat, the vampire having survived and delivering testimony in the form of a stage play, attended by many important Interview with the Vampire characters. However, he ends up going off script at one point, apologizing to Louis for everything that’s happened between them.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Reid revealed the importance of Lestat’s apology to Louis in Interview with the Vampire season 2, showing the deeper emotional meaning it had for the ancient vampire. The actor explained how the vampire slowly started to regret going through with the trial, his apology a desperate attempt at getting forgiveness he’d never receive. Check out what Reid had to say below:
He’s coming out for revenge and then he changes his mind. That’s the framework of the way that the story is told by Louis and Armand. But they also don’t know that he changes his mind. So there’s a lot of layers. This is complex. And then there’s some points which really feel like it’s a dream, when it’s in reverse and you see the scene silhouetted, then there’s a big sweeping, dramatic kind of camera moves that go into his face, which I think is very clearly
not
true, where it’s a very clear dream-like hyper-, hyper-,
hyper
-simplification of what happened at that trial. There’s a lot of complexity in our vampire show.I think it’s important to acknowledge that Lestat probably did something that he’ll never fully get over. It was important for me to know, to learn something that I thought was the truth, and it was good to see it, that this act of violence towards Louis wasn’t necessarily something that was commonplace to him. It was incredibly upsetting and he hates himself for it, but also that he feels like he deserved everything that happened to him and continues to deserve everything that happens to him. In that moment when he apologizes to Louis, it’s so shocking because I don’t think he thinks it’s going to be over after that apology. He realizes Louis is never going to forgive him.
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Source: EW
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