Go On! Omg You Guys Always Stop Before You Tell Me Everything [pants Like A Dog]

Go on! Omg you guys always stop before you tell me everything [pants like a dog]

people don't know.... people don't know that the book louis canonically makes himself pretty for lestat... people don't know how he likes to look good for his husband, to make his man's eyes get bigger when he's looking at him

“The saw trap is ready, beloved.😊”

And then Marius as Roberto and Armand as Theresa?? And Daniel as Juan???????? And and

How is Daniel gonna feel after he mocked Armand/Louis/Lestat’s messy triangle when he realizes he’s a part of it???

armand + preparing to tell louis about his past

What french is there in the song?

Jacob Anderson gets a lot of very well-deserved praise on his accent work in IWTV, especially in the sense that it goes back and forth— the thick NOLA Creole drawl to the sterile, stripped-clean, carefully blank American that he uses in Dubai, and then back again. If you listen closely, you can hear him very subtly letting that drawl "seep" back in during really intense Dubai scenes. It's absolutely phenomenal.

BUT! I would also like to give Sam some flowers that I don't see mentioned much. Mostly because we only hear it in two scenes, with very few lines: the reunion scene in 2x08, and the S3 Teaser. Sam is doing! Two completely different accents at once! And I KNOW it's intentional bc it's a book thing and our boy has a doctorate in Lestat.

In Louis' account of events, Lestat was fresh off the boat. The French accent is very thick, and he also peppers in a lot of French into his sentences. (Most fic writers tend to lean into this). But by our start date in 2022, Lestat has been living in Louisiana for over a century. In TVL, set in the 80s, Lestat describes LOUIS as the one having an accent.

So what is Sam doing with this?

FOR STARTERS. There are whole stretches of words, entire lines in those scenes even, where Lestat sounds pretty casually American: "shut up" like "shuddup", "and I thought, who better to carry on the great work", "Siri, pause". The French thickens a bit when the emotion intensifies, but even then it's not entirely present like it is in the rest of the show. The nasality and softened "T" of "nineteen sevendy three" "Did you hurt yourself?", the "I can't, Louis." THE WAY HE SAYS LOUIS' NAME SOUNDS DIFFERENT. not lew-EE anymore, but LOO-ee.

The teaser?? Very fun. The entire line "There's a goblet on the table." And "but, then again...it might not." AND!! Of course accents of all kinds tend to soften when singing, but in the song he only sounds French when speaking French.

And these HAVE to be conscious choices, they have to be planned and the ratios played with because neither of these are Sam Reid's speaking voice. He is doing two accents at once and it's so subtle but it's also doing so much to make Real Lestat distinct from Memory Lestat. What a GIFT what a TREASURE what SUBLIME leads we have for this show.

(Assad I see you scheming too, I will gush about you too)

daniel is so shocked to find out they kept and psychosexually tortured him for 6 days in the 70's, like babygirl what exactly do you think they're doing to you right now 50 years later? making things burst into flame, disorienting you by extracting your painful memories, drinking blood right from the source while moaning obscenely and holding direct eye contact with you, appearing in front of you suddenly with vampiric speed, anything to make you squirm and tense and gasp, yeah sure that's just normal regular interview behavior. WAKE UP daniel they want to suck your dick i mean blood