"You Are Miscast": Interview With The Vampire Director Reflects On Tom Cruise's Cast Backlash 30 Years Later

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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Neil Jordan, the director of 1994’s Interview With The Vampire, looks back on Tom Cruise’s controversial casting 30 years after the movie was released. Playing the Lestat de Lioncourt, the vampiric sire of Brad Pitt’s Louis, Cruise’s casting was initially met with strong resistance from fans of Anne Rice’s 1974 book and even the author herself.

It must have been very difficult for him. The entire world said, ‘You are miscast.’ He’s a great actor. If he says he can do something, he will do it in a way that people will be shocked by. Tom has become the last remaining film star. It’s kind of strange. While Interview With The Vampire largely serves as the story of Lestat’s vampiric progeny, Louis de Pointe du Lac , the later books in Rice’s Vampire Chronicles mostly focus on Lestat as their narrator and protagonist. Beginning with 1985’s The Vampire Lestat and culminating in 2018’s Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat, Rice’s beloved Brat Prince was the undisputed protagonist of her later tales.

 

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