Interview with the Vampire Season 1 Episode 1
Interview with the Vampire Season 1 Episode 1
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00:00:41There are stories out there that need to be told.
00:00:43There's shit out there that's just, you know, wrong.
00:00:48People need to know about it. That's the job.
00:00:51It's not a complicated job other than how it'll mess with your life.
00:00:56News used to be a bunch of guys who looked like me,
00:00:59huddled around a desk at a page one meeting deciding what the news was.
00:01:04This little fucker changed all of that.
00:01:08I've been fired from three papers, hired back at two of them,
00:01:11third got gobbled up by Nate Ritter.
00:01:13So to be clear here, I'm a goddamn reservoir of do's and don'ts.
00:01:17Your sources are your sherpas. Your editor is your priest.
00:01:21Honesty is not a tactic.
00:01:25You still want this job? It's your money.
00:01:29I'm Daniel Malloy. This is my —
00:01:32Russian-backed separatists have been waging guerrilla warfare since 2014.
00:01:35Can he make his fantasy a reality?
00:01:38Walker's stopped at the key. High pick and roll from Jones.
00:01:42Walker drives and finishes with his left hand.
00:01:45That's seven straight for Walker.
00:01:47Excuse me.
00:02:06Yeah, hey, doc. Yeah. Thanks for getting back to me.
00:02:09I, uh — yes, that's right.
00:02:11I have an appointment scheduled for later in the week,
00:02:14but the thing I'm trying to figure out is,
00:02:16what's the deal with this sub-variant business?
00:02:18I mean, is that more contagious? Is it —
00:02:21Uh-huh.
00:02:23Yeah, because, I mean, there's no reason to get more —
00:02:26Okay.
00:02:28So you think — yeah, I mean, that's what I'm thinking.
00:02:30Why get any closer to the bug than I need to?
00:02:34Uh-huh.
00:02:36Uh-huh.
00:02:38Uh-huh.
00:02:41I gotta call you back.
00:02:44Thanks.
00:03:09Um, first question.
00:03:12You weren't always a vampire, were you?
00:03:15No. I was a 33-year-old man when I became a vampire.
00:03:22How did it come about?
00:03:24There's a simple answer to that.
00:03:26I don't believe I want to give simple answers.
00:03:30I think I want to tell the real story.
00:03:34Dear Mr. Malloy,
00:03:36I hope this letter finds you safe and thriving,
00:03:40if such a thing were a possibility in this bleak hour.
00:03:45I've been following your career with some interest since our last meeting.
00:03:49Please allow me to congratulate you on all your successes,
00:03:53those professional and those personally redemptive.
00:03:58The passage of time and the frailties that accompany it have provided me perspective,
00:04:04and I suspect the same might be for you as well.
00:04:08I'm hoping health and pride won't deter you from the following proposal.
00:04:14In a week's time, in a setting of my choosing,
00:04:18we revisit the project boyish youth prevented us from finishing.
00:04:23We revisit the project boyish youth prevented us from finishing.
00:04:2849 years and thousands of miles removed from the room we shared in San Francisco,
00:04:35I offer, for your journalistic pleasures,
00:04:39my full attention and my life story.
00:04:43All affinities, Louis DuPont Dulac.
00:04:47I told my editor I was meeting with the most dangerous man in the world.
00:04:52Gave him two choices. He came back with Bezos, Putin.
00:04:57He thinks I'm in Praskovoyevka.
00:05:01You've grown old, Daniel.
00:05:05Yeah, well, mortality beats a heavy drum.
00:05:10I wasn't sure you've remembered me.
00:05:14Your book makes no mention of our prior meeting.
00:05:19Gritty memoir, drugs, humiliations, self-pity kind of thing.
00:05:24Mention vampires in one of those, readers tend to call bullshit.
00:05:28You've had some health concerns of late.
00:05:32Whole planet's having a moment, I'd say.
00:05:34You have Parkinson's disease, Daniel.
00:05:39Yeah. And you've got your own hangar at the airport.
00:05:43Privileges on the Royal Maydan Bridge and zero presence online.
00:05:46Have I hit a nerve?
00:05:49I know the Emiratis are big on privacy, and that's probably important to you,
00:05:53but I gotta ask, what does it cost,
00:05:56this haven't-aged-in-half-a-century-killer-views-in-all-directions anonymity?
00:06:01Quite a lot.
00:06:05Only my family and my doctor know I'm sick.
00:06:08I don't dig the one-way hack, yeah?
00:06:12And here's another question.
00:06:14That's the sun out there.
00:06:17Where's your coffin?
00:06:19You're standing in it.
00:06:27I have to be very careful whom I let in.
00:06:43Yeah, well, things didn't end well the last time.
00:06:47So forgive me if I'm a little nervous.
00:06:52This, after all I've told you, is what you asked for, boy!
00:06:57Yeah, but you don't know what human life is like.
00:07:00I mean, you've forgotten, man.
00:07:03I mean, you don't even understand the meaning of your own story!
00:07:09No! Hey, stop!
00:07:15You were disrespectful.
00:07:17I was high.
00:07:19You were not worthy of my story then.
00:07:21Maybe your story wasn't worth telling.
00:07:27You've got the tapes. Hire a transcriber.
00:07:30I don't do puff portraiture anymore.
00:07:33And yet you got on a plane with an autoimmune disease
00:07:37in the middle of a pandemic.
00:07:42All right.
00:07:46That's my voice, but I don't remember it.
00:07:50I ask all the wrong questions. Yes.
00:07:53There's contradictions in your story I never follow up on. Yes.
00:07:56The few good ones I do manage to get out, you steamroll over them.
00:08:00It's not an interview. It's a...
00:08:03It's a fever dream told to an idiot.
00:08:06Yes.
00:08:08And you?
00:08:11Why again? What's changed?
00:08:14The world. Circumstances.
00:08:17Me, I've changed.
00:08:22And I, too, find the tapes lacking.
00:08:26So...
00:08:29A do-over.
00:08:34Truth and reconciliation.
00:08:39I ask the questions. You answer the questions.
00:08:42Anything that can't be verified, I send to my researcher.
00:08:45No third parties.
00:08:47I write it. You get to see it before it goes to print.
00:08:50I get the final edit. That is not the agreement you signed.
00:08:53And one more thing.
00:08:55I do my best work one-on-one.
00:08:58Mr. Molloy's room.
00:09:00Have Chef prepare a meal for him.
00:09:02I think it best we start when our boy's had a rest.
00:09:04I am not your fucking boy.
00:09:07I'm an old man with all the triggers that come with it.
00:09:11And I'm ready.
00:09:13So let's do this.
00:09:18I'm Daniel Molloy.
00:09:20It is 10.08 in the morning on June 14, 2022.
00:09:25I'm in the penthouse apartment of the Al Sharaf Towers
00:09:29across from Mr...
00:09:31Louis DuPont Dulac.
00:09:34So...
00:09:36Mr. Dulac,
00:09:38how long have you been dead?
00:09:46The year was 1910,
00:09:49the fall of the fifth year of my father's passing,
00:09:53the executor in charge of the DuPont Dulac Family Trust.
00:09:56The eldest son.
00:09:58The favored son,
00:10:00and a sizable trust to oversee as a consequence.
00:10:03Capital accrued from plantations of sugar
00:10:05and the blood of men who looked like my great-grandfather
00:10:08but did not have his standing.
00:10:10But then decades of Jim Crow
00:10:12and the electrified light of a new century
00:10:15had vanquished any idea of a free man of color.
00:10:18So it followed the only place in New Orleans
00:10:20a gentleman of my complexion could do a righteous business
00:10:23was a neighborhood called Storyville.
00:10:25That was the old red light district, yeah?
00:10:2820 blocks of drinking, gambling, and gluttonous whoring.
00:10:32Okay.
00:10:34So as the honorable executor of the family's estate,
00:10:37you were in what business exactly, Mr. Dulac?
00:10:40You could say I managed and operated
00:10:43a diversified portfolio of enterprises.
00:10:46You were a pimp.
00:10:48The product was desire,
00:10:50and it came in as many forms as there were ways to move it.
00:10:53Of the two dozen sporting houses on Liberty Street,
00:10:56I owned eight of them.
00:10:58Modest in proportion to the venues on Basin Street,
00:11:01but they lacked in size and elegance.
00:11:03They more than made up for in efficiency and reputation.
00:11:07Mr. Dulac.
00:11:09Yeah?
00:11:11You're hiding any bills in them fat fucking rows of yours?
00:11:14I was, admittedly, a rougher thing then.
00:11:17Mr. Dulac!
00:11:19You had to be if you wanted to survive.
00:11:22You couldn't look weak on Liberty Street.
00:11:24Damn, Doris, you're gonna lose your good leg
00:11:26running out like that.
00:11:28Mr. Dulac, sir, we got bad trouble.
00:11:31I apologize, I apologize, I apologize.
00:11:35I was only trying to show you my love.
00:11:38Fuck you.
00:11:40What happened?
00:11:42Oh, I'm a cunt, and not a minute ago I was his love.
00:11:47Alderman family?
00:11:49Mm-hmm.
00:11:51Hitting Alderman? Goddamn it, Briggs.
00:11:53He stuck it in my shitbox.
00:11:55I did no such thing.
00:11:57Gave him a chance to pull out, he kept on fucking,
00:11:59so I gave him a little squirt of my catfish dinner for going there.
00:12:01Don't believe me? Check his dick.
00:12:03Who the fuck you talking to? I ain't checking no man's dick.
00:12:06Oh, Goddamn.
00:12:08Hell, I might have even said yes if you'd just asked,
00:12:10because you put a dick in an asshole without asking.
00:12:12That's against Jesus. Fuck you.
00:12:14What y'all laughing at?
00:12:16Someone go fetch Doc Johnson.
00:12:18And you get some clean water and a towel.
00:12:24Get your hands off me, nigger.
00:12:28You gonna make me regret my support
00:12:30if you repeat yourself, Mr. Fenwick.
00:12:34Are we the point du lac, sir?
00:12:36Oh, point du lac.
00:12:39Oh, forgive me.
00:12:43There's so much wine.
00:12:45Don't worry none. We don't keep this here 20 hours.
00:12:47So we got the good Doc on the way.
00:12:51Oh, Miss Williams.
00:12:53Isn't she a vision?
00:12:55I ain't cleaning his dick.
00:12:57Oh, Jesus Mary.
00:12:59Got a situation here, Finn.
00:13:01Yeah, well, you got another one outside 122.
00:13:03A man acting a maggot, driving away business.
00:13:05Isn't that what I pay you for?
00:13:07No.
00:13:09He's a citizen priest.
00:13:11Do you not realize, sister,
00:13:13your body is part of Christ the Lord?
00:13:15Second time this month.
00:13:17We do take that body and enjoy it.
00:13:19And I can give two moons if he's your brother, Mr. du lac.
00:13:21I'm gonna knock his door in the fucking train.
00:13:23No.
00:13:29Go on home.
00:13:31Tell my ma not to wait up.
00:13:33There's blood on your shirt.
00:13:35You're not helping me here, Paul.
00:13:37Oh, but I am.
00:13:39The Lord told me to come, Louis.
00:13:41In my head, like a family of birds,
00:13:43many voices, but also one voice.
00:13:45Say it a second time.
00:13:47Listen to me, please.
00:13:49Have a fucking night, okay?
00:13:51I can't have it with you fools.
00:13:55Get on home.
00:13:57Else I'll bleed you like a cauchon, bro.
00:14:05Did I want to pull a knife
00:14:07on my brother?
00:14:09No.
00:14:11But, as I alluded to before,
00:14:13you couldn't look weak on liberty.
00:14:15You never knew
00:14:17who was watching.
00:14:25He pulled his knife on me, ma'am.
00:14:27You were disrupting Mother's business interests.
00:14:29You hear that, Mother?
00:14:31He's made you a madam.
00:14:33Profiting from the damnation of souls.
00:14:35Let's not fuss on the particulars.
00:14:37Mornings with my family
00:14:39followed a pattern that year.
00:14:41My mother consumed herself
00:14:43with preparations for my sister's wedding,
00:14:45while Paul confused
00:14:47the dining table with a pulpit
00:14:49none of us would recognize.
00:14:51We should tie the door to St. Augustine's
00:14:53before this house falls in on us.
00:14:55This is just a temporary situation until Louis
00:14:57can find us a more respectable business.
00:14:59Daddy was here. We'd still be in Sugarcane.
00:15:01Daddy was alive. You'd still be locked up
00:15:03in that hospital in Jackson.
00:15:05Louis, let's not have that talk.
00:15:07A month from my wedding day, and what do I dream about?
00:15:09Dancing in my husband's arms?
00:15:11Children running in the yard?
00:15:13No. I dream of what a quiet breakfast
00:15:15might look like.
00:15:17Your man Levy's a Baptist. No respect for the Holy Mother.
00:15:19Paul!
00:15:21He's gonna make your daughter jump a broom.
00:15:23I'm sitting right here.
00:15:25Plenty of brooms down the street at the Mayfair Sisters' home.
00:15:27He's calling me a witch, Mama.
00:15:29Give that back.
00:15:33Your brother sounds like a pain in the ass.
00:15:35Fragile, stubborn, indulged.
00:15:37I'd promised our father
00:15:39on his deathbed to look after him.
00:15:41But when Paul's mind was right,
00:15:43he was no burden.
00:15:45Point of fact, I loved him
00:15:47more than anyone on Earth.
00:15:49And our daily stroll to St. Augustine
00:15:51was the measure of a good day started.
00:15:53Good morning, Paul.
00:15:55Good for you, maybe.
00:15:57Morning, Louis.
00:15:59Pew's got a good shine.
00:16:01If it wasn't beneath you, I'd say a shoe's your weight.
00:16:03Nothing is beneath me, son.
00:16:05I'm ready, Father.
00:16:09I wanted to thank the family
00:16:11for last Sunday's donation.
00:16:13Babysitting money. Church calms it down some.
00:16:15Well, we're always here for them.
00:16:17And the money goes a good way towards the renovation.
00:16:19I want Father Matthias.
00:16:21Thank you.
00:16:23Ain't got nothing to confess to, anyhow.
00:16:25It's time. Be right there, Paul.
00:16:29I haven't seen you in confession of late, Louis.
00:16:33You know you can always come here
00:16:35if you're in need, son.
00:16:39My business
00:16:41and my raised religion
00:16:43were at odds.
00:16:45And the, uh,
00:16:47latencies within me,
00:16:49well, I beat those back
00:16:51with a lie I told myself about myself.
00:16:53That I was a red-blooded
00:16:55son of the South
00:16:57seeking ass before absolution.
00:16:59And you maintain
00:17:01this delusion how exactly?
00:17:03A particular woman
00:17:05who worked for the competition
00:17:07as if rickety shacks were
00:17:09competition for Tom Anderson's
00:17:11fair play saloon.
00:17:13Ah, Louis de Lame.
00:17:15The night begins.
00:17:17Miss Carol. Miss Lily working tonight?
00:17:19Miss Lily's on the terrace.
00:17:21A terrace of opulence and splendor.
00:17:23This has racked us to delight.
00:17:25That'll do fine, Miss Carol.
00:17:27And catered to an almost exclusively
00:17:29Caucasian clientele,
00:17:31which helped me separate the locals
00:17:33from those visiting
00:17:35from other southern states.
00:17:37Shaking the money tree tonight, I see,
00:17:39Mr. Anderson, sir. Can't see the dirt
00:17:41from the dollars falling.
00:17:43Private game on Friday if your date book is free, Louis.
00:17:45Can do, Mr. Anderson. Can do.
00:17:51...
00:17:53...
00:17:55...
00:17:57...
00:17:59...
00:18:01...
00:18:03I don't know much what you're saying,
00:18:05but it sure sounds nice.
00:18:07Only the impossible
00:18:09can do the impossible.
00:18:11Miss Lily.
00:18:13Bonsoir, monsieur.
00:18:15You speak French?
00:18:17We speak all sorts of tongues in New Orleans.
00:18:19It's an odd table to get.
00:18:21How'd you manage?
00:18:23How'd you manage to get yourself through the front door?
00:18:25Excuse me?
00:18:27I mean that as a compliment,
00:18:29a man of your race to have privileges here.
00:18:31Louis has a small empire
00:18:33of his own down the street.
00:18:35He gets some privileges.
00:18:37Something funny about that?
00:18:39Your name is Louis.
00:18:41Of course it's Louis.
00:18:43I didn't get your name, fella.
00:18:45Je suis désolé.
00:18:47Je suis désolé.
00:18:49Je m'amuse trop en privé.
00:18:51I know who you are, sir.
00:18:53You're the man who made me buy a townhouse in your quarter.
00:18:55I owe you everything.
00:18:57Please join us.
00:18:59I know sometimes
00:19:01men of my race,
00:19:03we all look alike to you people,
00:19:05but I didn't say you know townhouse.
00:19:07Louis.
00:19:09Have a seat.
00:19:11Let me explain.
00:19:13The new world I am.
00:19:1519th century man at heart, yes?
00:19:17Making his transatlantic journey by ship.
00:19:19Planning very carefully
00:19:21on settling myself off river.
00:19:23The Sazeracs.
00:19:25Put that on my account, thank you.
00:19:27And two more for us.
00:19:29And another round for the musicians.
00:19:31Whatever they want.
00:19:33Where was I?
00:19:35On a boat.
00:19:37Oh.
00:19:43So I'm out on the crescent coast
00:19:45floating past your village
00:19:47when I hear music playing
00:19:49in the shadows of men and women
00:19:51dancing by the water's edge.
00:19:53I disembarked
00:19:55for the music, but then
00:19:57there was food.
00:19:59What's been your favorite this year?
00:20:01A favorite?
00:20:03She puts a pistol to my head.
00:20:05I
00:20:07couldn't believe it.
00:20:09Staring me down as his hands
00:20:11went wandering the seams of Miss Lily's
00:20:13dress.
00:20:15I wanted to take the end of my cane and slit
00:20:17his throat with it.
00:20:19Why didn't you?
00:20:21I couldn't move.
00:20:23My body was seized
00:20:25with weakness.
00:20:27His gaze
00:20:29tied a string
00:20:31around my lungs
00:20:33and I found myself
00:20:35immobilized.
00:20:37And the women
00:20:39all shades of skin.
00:20:41White,
00:20:43black,
00:20:45cinnamon.
00:20:47I've emptied a bank vault sampling, I must say,
00:20:49but it was not until
00:20:51a few nights later
00:20:53quand je regarde un homme sortir
00:20:55un couteau de sa canne et presser
00:20:57la lame sur le stomac de son
00:20:59frère,
00:21:01that I said to myself,
00:21:03Lestat,
00:21:05unpack your trunks, you're home.
00:21:09What is ages now?
00:21:11No more,
00:21:13Nisha.
00:21:15I had planned to make a new life for myself
00:21:17in Saint-Louis.
00:21:19That was to be my destiny.
00:21:21Now I know
00:21:23I was right.
00:21:25Only it turns out the saint is not a sitter
00:21:27but a handsome man
00:21:29with a most agreeable
00:21:31disposition.
00:21:33You're his destiny, Louis.
00:21:35Destined to be very good friends.
00:21:39The oreo room is available
00:21:41for the next few hours, Miss Lily.
00:21:43The gentleman is swapping out the sausage
00:21:45recipes, Miss Cary.
00:21:59The oreo room is yours, monsieur.
00:22:01Please get my friend to hear anything he wants.
00:22:03Wonderful to meet you.
00:22:05I do hope I run into you again, Lily.
00:22:09Emasculation
00:22:11and admiration in equal
00:22:13measure.
00:22:15I wanted to murder the man
00:22:17and I wanted to be the man.
00:22:25I had planned
00:22:27I had come there
00:22:29for Lily
00:22:31but I left thinking of only him.
00:22:57Ti-ti-ti-ti
00:23:13Come now.
00:23:17Who the devil?
00:23:27Ah!
00:23:29Ah!
00:23:35The police tell me there's an outbreak of fever in town.
00:23:37It's unfortunate
00:23:39it's living near the wharf, mostly.
00:23:41You find yourself riverside in Decatur,
00:23:43you have only yourself to blame, I see.
00:23:45Agreed.
00:23:47Still, it's very peculiar, they say.
00:23:49Each one the same. Small wounds
00:23:51to the body, but upon examination
00:23:53entirely devoid of blood.
00:23:55It's their theory
00:23:57some new kind of rat has come ashore.
00:23:59Of the six-foot variety.
00:24:01We call those
00:24:03bureaucrats in France.
00:24:07Gentlemen!
00:24:09Well, you all know Louis Delac.
00:24:11Louis, let me introduce you
00:24:13to Mr. Lestat de Liancourt.
00:24:15We met already, Mr. Anderson, sir.
00:24:17In front of a florist, wasn't it?
00:24:19We both wanted the last bouquet
00:24:21of lilies.
00:24:23Aren't you gonna
00:24:25ask the alderman how his head is, Louis?
00:24:27Why would I do that, Mr. Anderson, sir?
00:24:29You see,
00:24:31Mr. Fenwick, just as I told you,
00:24:33the most discreet negro.
00:24:35With that, his doctor had the same standards.
00:24:37Gentlemen,
00:24:39show your cards.
00:24:41Hoo!
00:24:43Mr. Liancourt,
00:24:45your hand is
00:24:47incomprehensible.
00:24:49Oh, yes.
00:24:51I'm terrible at cards.
00:24:53Did I not mention that to everyone?
00:24:55Would you mind getting me some more
00:24:57of these money chips?
00:25:01Louis, did you know
00:25:03that Alderman Fenwick here recently purchased
00:25:05both the title and deed to the Horton rooming house
00:25:07on Villery Street?
00:25:09Mr. Anderson believes it could make a fine sporting house.
00:25:11I recommended the alderman find
00:25:13a managing partner before he
00:25:15commits his money. I recommended.
00:25:17He think of you, Louis.
00:25:19Thank you, Mr. Anderson, sir.
00:25:21What do you think of the location?
00:25:23Ain't basic street,
00:25:25but throw enough Edison balls
00:25:27on the facade to get a good margin on the alcohol.
00:25:29No nonsense, madam,
00:25:31to keep the girls clean.
00:25:33I reckon a man could make a decent sum.
00:25:35Yes, sir, Mr. Fenwick, sir.
00:25:37I said you'd do it for 10%.
00:25:39With all respects, Mr. Anderson,
00:25:41I'm proposing 10% for all the work.
00:25:4315?
00:25:45Uh...
00:25:47There's capital investment,
00:25:49and there's labor.
00:25:51Both has its seat at the table,
00:25:53wouldn't you say, Mr. Lestat?
00:25:57Well, I can only speak of my experience,
00:25:59which is, I'm sure,
00:26:01different in my country.
00:26:03For example, you fine gentlemen have heard of the success story
00:26:05that is a bon marché,
00:26:07shopping experience like no other.
00:26:09These men look down on you.
00:26:11I have to say,
00:26:13I find it appalling how men like yourself
00:26:15are treated in this country of yours.
00:26:17It is undeniable.
00:26:19I came to my wealth honestly, and at great sacrifice,
00:26:21I might add.
00:26:23However, it was not the sacrifice of many.
00:26:25I had no partners in my various...
00:26:2710%.
00:26:2915%.
00:26:33Do you not know your value?
00:26:39Do you suffer these indignities
00:26:41for some larger purpose?
00:26:45And do you think two pair
00:26:47will win the hour?
00:26:55I believe there is great opportunity
00:26:57in this city,
00:26:59but to seize it,
00:27:01I'll need protection from the wolves.
00:27:03And that's all to say,
00:27:05and forgive me, Monsieur de Pontelac,
00:27:07for my bias,
00:27:09but where is the business
00:27:11if there is no capital?
00:27:13It does not exist.
00:27:15All right, boy, show him.
00:27:17Show him.
00:27:19Show him.
00:27:21Show him.
00:27:23Show him.
00:27:25Show him.
00:27:27Show him.
00:27:29Show him.
00:27:31Boy, show him.
00:27:35Ooh.
00:27:37Full boat,
00:27:39Mr. Dulac.
00:27:43He wouldn't tell me how he did it.
00:27:45His trick to make the world stop.
00:27:47In time,
00:27:49Louis. Patience, Louis.
00:27:51Ask me next week, Louis.
00:27:53You started hanging out.
00:27:55He was in love with my city
00:27:57and wanted to know everything he could about it.
00:27:59So you played docent
00:28:01to the gentleman vampire.
00:28:03He had not revealed his vampire nature yet.
00:28:05I'm assuming you only met at night.
00:28:07It's New Orleans.
00:28:09Days are for sleeping off
00:28:11the previous evening's damage.
00:28:13Perfect cover for a vampire.
00:28:15Racing ahead again, Mr. Malloy.
00:28:17Let the tale seduce you,
00:28:21just as I was seduced.
00:28:25Money would arrive wired from France,
00:28:27and the shopkeepers,
00:28:29who would usually close at sunset,
00:28:31were very happy to accommodate him.
00:28:33He ransacked the import houses
00:28:35to furnish his townhouse,
00:28:37ravaged the booksellers of their oldest volumes
00:28:39for a library,
00:28:41and, with encouragement,
00:28:43updated his wardrobe
00:28:45to the fashion trends of the season.
00:28:47It was a cold winter
00:28:49that year,
00:28:51and Lestat was my coal fire.
00:28:53And I found myself for the very first time
00:28:55to anyone other than Paul
00:28:57confiding my struggles
00:28:59to another man.
00:29:03I was being hunted,
00:29:07and I was completely unaware
00:29:09it was happening.
00:29:13I'm switching rooms.
00:29:15I don't need to hear you and your good man making noise.
00:29:17You'd have to be home to hear that.
00:29:19I come home nice.
00:29:21You come home some nights,
00:29:23and you're a white man out here.
00:29:25He ain't white. He French.
00:29:27Oh, that's a new kind of white, isn't it?
00:29:29French white?
00:29:31He different.
00:29:33Invite him over for dinner.
00:29:35Mother loves your opinion.
00:29:37Don't tell Levy you fishing for a richer man.
00:29:39Don't deny your sister.
00:29:41I want to meet this French white.
00:29:45I'm just trying to give you the word of the Lord.
00:29:47I'm just... Yes.
00:29:49Yes.
00:29:51He showed up on my bed last night.
00:29:59Wept for good near and out.
00:30:01He ain't taking you getting married.
00:30:05Levy told me of a place
00:30:07over in Gretna.
00:30:09Takes in men like Paul.
00:30:11He saw some crazy person's house like this.
00:30:13How'd that work last time, huh?
00:30:15He come out worse than before.
00:30:17Gretna.
00:30:19It ain't happening.
00:30:21The cost for you. Yes.
00:30:23You.
00:30:25I worry. I worry so much.
00:30:27Worry about your own life.
00:30:29Worry about being a bride.
00:30:33Worry about what you gonna wear
00:30:35in London.
00:30:37In Paris.
00:30:39Florence.
00:30:41Now, y'all gonna be a steerage out of New York.
00:30:43Once you get to Europe,
00:30:45it's first class on boats, trains, and hotel rooms.
00:30:47What did you go and do?
00:30:49Just put the band by the deck
00:30:51and the pool by the fountain.
00:30:57Mama.
00:30:59I'm going around the world.
00:31:11I can't thank you enough,
00:31:13Mama Dulac.
00:31:15I grew up in east of Alabama,
00:31:17and now I'm going to see the pyramids.
00:31:19Oh, I think every young family
00:31:21deserves a little adventure.
00:31:23Wouldn't you say, Monsieur Liancourt?
00:31:25Oui, madame.
00:31:27My mother, she gave me
00:31:29every advantage in life as a young man.
00:31:31My first mastiff,
00:31:33first flintlock rifle,
00:31:35the means to make my way to Paris.
00:31:37It was Louis that purchased your holiday levy.
00:31:39It's Louis who controls the money.
00:31:41And I don't know who gave you the right
00:31:43to say I will never be your scientific mother.
00:31:45Pa.
00:31:49I do love this bouillabaisse.
00:31:51Moi?
00:31:53Down here, we call it gumbo.
00:31:55We had a gumbo the other night, didn't we, Louis?
00:31:57Right after the opera.
00:31:59Oh, you got Louis to an opera.
00:32:01You don't talk about some blind princess
00:32:03didn't know she was a princess.
00:32:05Stomach got grumbling halfway through.
00:32:07And what exactly is the nature
00:32:09of your relationship with my brother,
00:32:11Monsieur Liancourt?
00:32:19Your brother and I have been discussing
00:32:21a few investment opportunities.
00:32:23The birds asked me to ask you.
00:32:25I wasn't being rude.
00:32:31Monsieur Frenier, would you tell me
00:32:33how you came to propose to this delightful young woman?
00:32:35Oh, that's for a yawn.
00:32:37Are you one with Christ, Monsieur Liancourt?
00:32:39How about you shut your damn mouth?
00:32:41Louis?
00:32:43That's all right, Louis, madame.
00:32:45The birds speak for him.
00:32:49I came to know Christ
00:32:51in a monastery.
00:32:55I wanted to be a priest,
00:32:57just like you, Pa.
00:33:01And under the guidance and discipline
00:33:03of the monks who lived there,
00:33:05I came to memorize both the Testaments,
00:33:07the writings of Assisi,
00:33:09Aquinas,
00:33:11Erasmus,
00:33:13all the saints and scholars.
00:33:17My father,
00:33:19a vulgar man,
00:33:21did not think much of this education.
00:33:23And so he
00:33:25and my brothers conspired to pull me out,
00:33:29lock me away,
00:33:31where between beatings,
00:33:33starvations, and the failure
00:33:35of Christ to intercede the beatings
00:33:37and starvations, I slowly forgot
00:33:39all about the Testaments,
00:33:41Assisi, Aquinas, Erasmus,
00:33:43all of it.
00:33:45And so, to answer your boring question,
00:33:47there is an ocean between Christ and myself.
00:33:49Stop!
00:33:53Don't do that, chéri!
00:33:57Now we're my friend.
00:33:59You understand?
00:34:05I am cursed
00:34:07with my father's temper
00:34:09at times.
00:34:11The rudeness is all mine.
00:34:13That's all right.
00:34:15It's the humidity, it does that sometimes.
00:34:17Why don't we have some ice wine?
00:34:19And Levy here
00:34:21can tell us all again
00:34:23how he won
00:34:25my joy child's heart.
00:34:31If your family and I
00:34:33If your family
00:34:35has taken a permanent offense at me.
00:34:37When Paul ain't
00:34:39picking at his plate, he's picking a fight.
00:34:41If I had your tricks,
00:34:43I'd have done the same.
00:34:45You must envy him.
00:34:47The boy thinks God speaks to him through birds in his head.
00:34:49How you figure him be?
00:34:51The liberty he has with his thoughts.
00:34:53However misshapen they may be,
00:34:55your brother has no shame in sharing them.
00:34:57You saying I got shame?
00:34:59The lie you told about leaving the upper house early.
00:35:01Sleeping with the curtain fell.
00:35:03Why hide that from your family?
00:35:05Don't everybody need to know what I do?
00:35:07Dishonesty breeds dishonesty.
00:35:09They sit in judgment.
00:35:11Paul's the only one to say it to my face,
00:35:13but I know my mind, Grace, they get to.
00:35:15My daddy ran our sugar business
00:35:17in a swamp before he passed.
00:35:19We was four months,
00:35:21four months from going bankrupt
00:35:23if I didn't do something.
00:35:25You don't need to defend yourself to me, Louis.
00:35:27I know what you go through to keep your family
00:35:29in that comfort.
00:35:31It ain't easy, the work I do.
00:35:33Nothing but broken souls around me,
00:35:35and the ones that ain't broke, greedy,
00:35:37bone-tired.
00:35:41Drink up, my good man.
00:35:43The earth's a savage garden.
00:35:49You did good getting off that boat
00:35:51when you did.
00:35:53St. Louis is dull as dishwater.
00:35:55Yes.
00:35:57I feel quite at home here.
00:35:59Should we have a nightcap?
00:36:05Probably had enough for the night.
00:36:07Gotta make my rounds back on Liberty.
00:36:09You must, Louis.
00:36:11I bought you a gift.
00:36:13A gift?
00:36:15A flower.
00:36:27Oh.
00:36:47That's a nice music box you got there.
00:36:49It's one of the few things I brought with me
00:36:51from the continent.
00:36:53What's that little song playing?
00:36:55Do you like it?
00:36:57I composed it for a young violinist
00:36:59I once knew.
00:37:01A boy of infinite beauty and sensitivity.
00:37:05I believe
00:37:07that is for the lips, Miss Lily.
00:37:09I don't like the way mine look plain.
00:37:11And Mr. Dulac
00:37:13don't mind when I do it.
00:37:15A pair of
00:37:17misfit beauties.
00:37:19I can see why you both run to
00:37:21the other.
00:37:23Does Carol know you're here, Lily?
00:37:25I can assure you the fair play
00:37:27has been handsomely compensated for the evening.
00:37:31Sent a two-horse carriage to pick me up.
00:37:33Felt like the queen of the quarter.
00:37:39I told Mr. Lincoln
00:37:41you and me usually just talk.
00:37:43Why is that, Louis?
00:37:45What kind of a man
00:37:47wastes his waste with words?
00:37:49A
00:37:51beautiful man.
00:37:59There's nothing to be nervous about.
00:38:01The curtains are closed.
00:38:03The servants sent home.
00:38:05Even the planets and
00:38:07stars are blindfolded.
00:38:09That's your thing, then?
00:38:11You like to watch?
00:38:15I've been watching you for some time now, Louis.
00:38:17From river to lake.
00:38:19Lake back to river.
00:38:21Looking for my companion heart.
00:38:23How you do that?
00:38:25Do what?
00:38:27Get my head like that.
00:38:29Such a pretty head.
00:38:47Mmm.
00:39:17Ooh.
00:39:21That's fine, love.
00:39:23Mmm.
00:39:45Ah.
00:39:47Ah.
00:39:49Ah.
00:39:53Ah.
00:40:23Ah.
00:40:25Ah.
00:40:27Ah.
00:40:29Ah.
00:40:31Ah.
00:40:33Ah.
00:40:35Ah.
00:40:37Ah.
00:40:39Ah.
00:40:41Ah.
00:40:43Ah.
00:40:45Ah.
00:40:47Ah.
00:40:49Ah.
00:40:51Ah.
00:40:53Ah.
00:40:55Ah.
00:40:57Ah.
00:40:59Ah.
00:41:01Ah.
00:41:03Ah.
00:41:05Ah.
00:41:07It bears repeating, I did not
00:41:09consider myself a homosexual
00:41:11man at the time.
00:41:13I mean, I'd had experiences.
00:41:15Guilt.
00:41:17Shame.
00:41:19Floating on a sea of vodka
00:41:21type encounters.
00:41:23Obviously, I've come to embrace
00:41:25my sexuality.
00:41:27Of course, you know that. We met
00:41:29at a gay bar, didn't we, Daniel?
00:41:31It was a good place to score. I did what I had to.
00:41:33You been married?
00:41:35Twice.
00:41:37But we're not here
00:41:39for me, are we?
00:41:43When you were using drugs,
00:41:45Mr. Malloy,
00:41:47do you remember the best you ever had?
00:41:49Berkeley,
00:41:511978. Some
00:41:53Mexican black tar that Carly and Pedro
00:41:55were slinging.
00:41:57So, imagine that
00:41:59flowing inside your veins again.
00:42:01Now,
00:42:03multiply it
00:42:05by miles
00:42:07to the rings
00:42:09of Saturn abacus.
00:42:11He
00:42:13had taken
00:42:15what he called
00:42:17un petit coup,
00:42:19the little drink.
00:42:21Not enough to kill me,
00:42:23but just enough to keep him
00:42:25fit.
00:42:27It takes an enormous
00:42:29amount of restraint for us,
00:42:31the little drink.
00:42:33For a human
00:42:35experiencing it for the first time,
00:42:37it was
00:42:39great. And not
00:42:41for the physical toll on my body,
00:42:43which was significant,
00:42:45but for the feelings of intimacy
00:42:47it awoke within me.
00:42:51I had
00:42:53never allowed myself to feel
00:42:55emotionally close to anyone,
00:42:57much less a man.
00:42:59I had no room for feelings
00:43:01like these in my life.
00:43:03You could be a lot
00:43:05of things in New Orleans,
00:43:07but an openly gay
00:43:09Negro man was not one of them.
00:43:13I vowed never to
00:43:15return again.
00:43:17I shut that night out of my
00:43:19mind and turned my
00:43:21attentions back to life as it was before.
00:43:25One, two,
00:43:27three, jump!
00:43:29Applause
00:43:45We are missing
00:43:47my father today.
00:43:49He's supposed to dance with me to start the night off.
00:43:51I'm trying
00:43:53not to cry now.
00:43:55And I thought the best way to honor
00:43:57my daddy would be to make my brothers
00:43:59do the work.
00:44:03Half of y'all don't know this,
00:44:05but these no-good boys used to
00:44:07shuffle for pennies on Sunday
00:44:09and call themselves the
00:44:11ABCDEFG.
00:44:13Remember that, Father Mathias?
00:44:15Oh, yes. ABCDEFG.
00:44:17All the boys come dancing every day for God.
00:44:19That's right!
00:44:21I remember their collection hat
00:44:23didn't always make it to the collection plate.
00:44:25All right.
00:44:27Come on, Louie.
00:44:29Come on, Louie.
00:44:31Please.
00:44:33It's for me, my wedding day.
00:44:37All right!
00:44:39Applause
00:44:49Shoes are tight.
00:44:51The shoes is fine, it's the feet that's fat.
00:44:53Hey, what kind of rhythm you want, boss?
00:44:55Play it loud so they can't hear our feet.
00:45:01All right.
00:45:03What you know?
00:45:09Hey, come on.
00:45:13Hey!
00:45:15Hey!
00:45:23Hey!
00:45:31All right.
00:45:37You got it!
00:45:39Hey!
00:45:43Oh!
00:45:49Okay.
00:45:51You ain't gonna do it!
00:45:53You ain't gonna do it!
00:46:05Back it up!
00:46:09Hey!
00:46:13Hey!
00:46:23Hey!
00:46:27Oh!
00:46:39I'm gonna miss it.
00:46:41Don't talk, I have to concentrate.
00:46:43It's them three pieces of checker cake
00:46:45holding you back.
00:46:47Five pieces of checker cake,
00:46:49a Pompano filet,
00:46:51three boudin,
00:46:53dirty rice,
00:46:55beef, three bees,
00:46:57five, six wines.
00:46:59If you eat anything else,
00:47:01the buttons on your vest
00:47:03gonna pop off like cannibals.
00:47:05I'm gonna miss it.
00:47:07Your vest gonna pop off like cannibals.
00:47:09Take down the neighborhood.
00:47:219,517.
00:47:23That's how many days
00:47:25we've been in this house.
00:47:27You do that math all by yourself?
00:47:29Remember that day I got taller than you?
00:47:31Always bringing that up.
00:47:33Shot up like a nut all off.
00:47:35Daddy said I was gonna look down on you for the rest of the days.
00:47:37Yeah, yeah.
00:47:39Half an inch.
00:47:41That was a good month, that month.
00:47:47I think you should get married next.
00:47:49Do we now?
00:47:51You should marry Hazel.
00:47:53Hazel? Who that?
00:47:55The one you were dancing too close with.
00:47:57If you dance that close, you ought to be married.
00:47:59I did catch her name.
00:48:01Well, it's Hazel.
00:48:05Ooh.
00:48:09You still doing business
00:48:11with that man, Lestat?
00:48:13Nah.
00:48:15Didn't work out.
00:48:17That's good.
00:48:19Because he the devil.
00:48:21You think everyone's a devil.
00:48:23He's here to take souls.
00:48:25He told me so.
00:48:27He spoke to me without moving his lips.
00:48:29He got tricks is all.
00:48:31Mortal sins
00:48:33must be confessed, Louie.
00:48:35Ain't never gonna see him again, Paul.
00:48:43You think Levy loves her enough?
00:48:45You know, Grace needs a lot of love.
00:48:47I do.
00:48:49You think he's giving her
00:48:51everything he's got inside him?
00:48:53Mm-hmm.
00:49:01Mother made a good party for Grace.
00:49:03Mm, yeah.
00:49:05They gonna talk about this one for years.
00:49:07Yeah.
00:49:15I love you, Louie.
00:49:17I love you too, baby brother.
00:49:25I eat too much chicken, Kate.
00:49:27I eat too much chicken, Kate.
00:49:33Paul.
00:49:37Paul!
00:49:41Paul!
00:49:43Oh, my Lord.
00:49:45Oh.
00:49:49That was the last sunrise I ever saw.
00:49:53Perhaps the kindest thing
00:49:55the world has given me.
00:50:01I don't miss the sign.
00:50:05The reminders it carries.
00:50:25I've seen death
00:50:27over and over
00:50:29and over and over again.
00:50:33It's boring.
00:50:35That'll make a great blurb.
00:50:37The diagnosis you received,
00:50:39Daniel,
00:50:41it winds your clock.
00:50:43It's a virus
00:50:45that's turned the world sideways.
00:50:47I get it. I'm gonna die.
00:50:49They're gonna die.
00:50:51But not the vampire.
00:50:53The vampire is bored.
00:50:57The human was destroyed.
00:51:01Utterly destroyed.
00:51:03I was at the funeral home.
00:51:05Everything is going as it should.
00:51:07Good men there.
00:51:09Promised me that...
00:51:11You must have said something to him, Louie.
00:51:13You must have said something to him
00:51:15to make him do that to himself.
00:51:17Paul slipped
00:51:19and fell, Florence.
00:51:21I don't think this is something you want to pursue.
00:51:23He was a fragile boy.
00:51:25He always was.
00:51:29And you?
00:51:31You always had to have
00:51:33the last word, didn't you, Louie?
00:51:35You always had to take him down a peg.
00:51:37Mama.
00:51:39What did you say to him?
00:51:41Why was you even up there?
00:51:43Watching his uncle,
00:51:45Mama.
00:51:47You don't get past the gates
00:51:49if'n you kill yourself.
00:51:51Don't you know that?
00:51:53Paul gone down the other way.
00:51:57Paul's in hell because of you.
00:52:11Storyville lowered their hats,
00:52:13gave them their hats,
00:52:15Storyville lowered their hats,
00:52:17gave their propers because it was custom.
00:52:19But if you look past those
00:52:21lined up on the sidewalk,
00:52:23you'd see the bars hadn't stopped serving,
00:52:25the whores hadn't stopped whoring.
00:52:27What was Paul's life worth to them?
00:52:29What was my life worth?
00:52:31A big man at Liberty Street
00:52:33trailing the satin-lined
00:52:35evidence of his failure.
00:52:37Easy prey
00:52:39for the discerning predator.
00:52:41Easy prey for the discerning predator.
00:52:43Easy.
00:52:45An elegant coffee.
00:52:47Would you tell me where you purchased it?
00:52:48Move on.
00:52:49I wait on my balcony every night.
00:52:51You've been avoiding me.
00:52:52I have been occupied.
00:52:53Miss Lily proved herself a poor substitute
00:52:55and I don't take kindly to being avoided.
00:52:57It's my brother's funeral.
00:52:59Believe me when I tell you,
00:53:00your brother longed for that flagstone.
00:53:02What did you say to me?
00:53:03I got it, boss.
00:53:05Keep walking.
00:53:13The Stott's ambush had disoriented me.
00:53:17The sermon that was given,
00:53:19I could not hear.
00:53:21And when the gathering
00:53:23caught loose the body,
00:53:25I could not join the transformation
00:53:27of those in attendance.
00:53:29He would not let me.
00:53:33Come to me.
00:53:37Come to me.
00:53:43Come to me.
00:53:49Walk you home, Mama?
00:53:51No, thank you.
00:53:53Lily, do you mind?
00:53:57Of course Mama do like.
00:54:03Didn't mean nothing bad.
00:54:04But she did.
00:54:05She just needs to put it somewhere.
00:54:08Don't let it inside.
00:54:13See you back at the wake?
00:54:21Come to me.
00:54:23I did not go to the wake.
00:54:28I did not want to face my mother's blame.
00:54:33My sister's pity.
00:54:36I wanted to grieve alone.
00:54:41But he would not allow it.
00:54:47Come to me, Lily.
00:54:52Come to me.
00:54:59Hello, handsome.
00:55:01Sazara.
00:55:02My heart broke when I heard of your brother's passing.
00:55:05Miss Lily.
00:55:07Oh, my dear.
00:55:08I don't care if she busy with someone.
00:55:09I'll pay more.
00:55:10I like Miss Lily.
00:55:11And I need Miss Lily.
00:55:13Miss Lily died, Mr. Dulac.
00:55:17Two weeks ago.
00:55:20Police found her under the docks.
00:55:23Said she contracted the fevers that's been going around.
00:55:27Blood went and dried up inside her.
00:55:30Yama.
00:55:34Father!
00:55:35Father, we're dying!
00:55:37Help me!
00:55:40Help me, please!
00:55:41It's beating in my head, Father.
00:55:46The devil is in you all.
00:55:49Calm down, son.
00:55:50Get your breath.
00:55:52Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
00:55:55Grievously sinned.
00:55:58Sign of the cross, son.
00:56:01I'm a drunk, Lord.
00:56:03I'm a liar.
00:56:04I'm a thief, Lord.
00:56:06I profit off the miseries of other men, and I do it easy.
00:56:09Drugs, liquor, women.
00:56:12I lure the men and grab what they got, Lord.
00:56:15I take daughters with no homes, and I put them out on the street, Lord.
00:56:20And I lie to myself, saying I'm giving them root, Lord.
00:56:24I'm giving them root, Lord.
00:56:27And I lie to myself, saying I'm giving them roof and food and dollar bills in their pocket.
00:56:32But I look in the mirror.
00:56:33I know what I am.
00:56:34The big man in the big house, stuffing cotton in my ears so I can't hear them cry.
00:56:39And, Lord, I drag my family into this mess with me.
00:56:43I shame my father.
00:56:46I failed my brother.
00:56:48No, son.
00:56:49I lost my mother and sister, and rather than fix it like a man should, Lord,
00:56:55I run like a coward.
00:56:57I run to the bottle.
00:56:59I run to the grift.
00:57:00I run to bad beds.
00:57:03I lay down with a man.
00:57:07I lay down with the devil, and he has root in me.
00:57:12All his spindly roots in me.
00:57:16And I can't think nothing anymore but his voice and his words.
00:57:22Please.
00:57:23Help me!
00:57:25I am weak!
00:57:28I want to die!
00:57:31Ah!
00:57:33Ah!
00:57:34Ah!
00:57:35Ah!
00:57:36Ah!
00:57:38Ah!
00:57:39Ah!
00:57:44Ah!
00:57:56Do you think God heard you, Louie, in that tawdry box, through this pink vessel?
00:58:03This... this charlatan!
00:58:07Do you not see how unworthy he is?
00:58:09How can you humiliate yourself like this?
00:58:22You killed Lily.
00:58:24Cut short that magnificent life she was living.
00:58:27What a tragedy.
00:58:29Ain't no fever out there.
00:58:31That's you. You bringing the death to town.
00:58:34I give death to those deserving.
00:58:39I'm not the devil.
00:58:41You were wrong about that.
00:58:44But I can't give you death.
00:59:31This primitive country has kept you clean.
00:59:41It has shackled you in permanent exile.
00:59:45Every room you enter, every hat you're forced to wear.
00:59:49The stern landlord, the deferential businessman, the loyal son.
00:59:53All these roles you conform to, and none of them your true nature.
00:59:58What rage you must feel as you choke in your sorrow.
01:00:05The first time I laid eyes on you, your beautiful face, I saw that sorrow.
01:00:11I did not know how it got there or why it was so voluminous.
01:00:18I can take away that sorrow, Louis.
01:00:23I can give you that death you begged your feeble, blind, degenerate, nonexistent god for.
01:00:33But I can do it.
01:00:36Joyfully.
01:00:40I can swap this life of shame.
01:00:43Swap it out for a dark gift and a power you can't begin to imagine.
01:00:50You just have to ask me for it.
01:00:54You just have to nod your beautiful head and say yes.
01:01:04I love you, Louis.
01:01:07You are loved.
01:01:11I send my love to you.
01:01:14And you send it back round to me.
01:01:16And this circle, this home we've barely had a glimpse of.
01:01:25No, it frightens me as much as it does you.
01:01:29It is difficult to explain how his words disarmed me.
01:01:34How efficiently succinct and impenetrable his argument was.
01:01:39All my conceptions, even my guilt and my wish to die seemed utterly unimportant.
01:01:46And I completely forgot myself and the barbaric scene that surrounded me.
01:01:52For the first time in my life, I was seen.
01:01:59Be my companion.
01:02:03Be all the beautiful things you are.
01:02:06Be all the beautiful things you are.
01:02:10And be them without apology.
01:02:14For all eternity.
01:02:16For all eternity.
01:02:34Drain me to the very threshold of death.
01:02:46Look at me.
01:03:10The blood.
01:03:12It came as a dull roar at first.
01:03:15And then a pounding.
01:03:17Like the pounding of a drum.
01:03:20Growing louder and louder.
01:03:25As if some enormous creature were coming through a dark and alien forest.
01:03:33A huge drum.
01:03:35And then there came a pounding of another drum.
01:03:40As if another giant were coming behind him.
01:03:43Each giant intent on his own drum.
01:03:47Giving no notice to the rhythm of the other.
01:03:50Throbbing.
01:03:52My lips.
01:03:54Fingers.
01:03:56In the flesh of my temple.
01:04:00Above all.
01:04:02In my veins.
01:04:03In my veins.
01:04:05Drum and then the other drum.
01:04:18I opened my eyes.
01:04:21And it was then that I realized.
01:04:25The drum was my heart.
01:04:29And the other drum had been his.
01:04:34I saw him sitting a length away from me.
01:04:39Radiant.
01:04:41And we sat there for some time.
01:04:46In throes of increasing wonder.
01:04:56The end.
01:05:00The beginning.
01:05:03The end.
01:05:05The beginning.
01:05:07The end.
01:05:09The end.
01:05:11The end.
01:05:13The end.
01:05:15The end.
01:05:17The end.
01:05:19The end.
01:05:24I'm a vampire.
01:05:28I walked my entire life as a dead man.
01:05:30And now could finally receive the secrets of existence.
01:05:34You alone of all creatures can strike like the hand of God.
01:05:38I did not readily take to kill it.
01:05:41You're ashamed of what we are.
01:05:43And then my Claudia, my redemption.
01:05:45We're a family.
01:05:47No, don't!
01:05:49For a killing machine, I kind of like her.
01:05:52Am I from the devil?
01:05:54Is my very nature that of the devil?
01:06:00This is not a life!
01:06:02That's because you took my life!
01:06:06Embrace what you are!
01:06:08You are a killer, Louis!
01:06:12Okay.
01:06:14Did you eat the baby?
01:06:16I'm Daniel Molloy, across from Mr...
01:06:19Louis DuPont Dulac.
01:06:22So...
01:06:24Mr. Dulac.
01:06:26How long have you been dead?
01:06:30Hi, I'm Roland Jones, executive producer.
01:06:33And I'm a vampire.
01:06:35I'm a vampire.
01:06:37I'm a vampire.
01:06:39I'm a vampire.
01:06:41I'm a vampire.
01:06:43I'm a vampire.
01:06:45Hi, I'm Daniel Molloy,
01:06:47executive producer for Interview with a Vampire,
01:06:49and this is your episode, Insider.
01:06:52There are stories out there that need to be told.
01:06:55I'm Daniel Molloy.
01:06:57Daniel Molloy, he's a journalist
01:06:59who is sort of on the nadir of his career.
01:07:01And a package arrives.
01:07:03And inside is a great deal of history
01:07:06that he did not want to remember.
01:07:09I gotta call you back.
01:07:12When he was a young journalist,
01:07:13a series of tapes with a vampire.
01:07:16I think I want to tell the real story.
01:07:19He's sort of given an invitation to revisit this interview
01:07:22and do it right and proper
01:07:24when both have lived a little life
01:07:25and are way more comfortable in their skin.
01:07:27So, a do-over.
01:07:32Truth and reconciliation.
01:07:34He's a very different vampire,
01:07:36so he's got a lot on his mind.
01:07:38Lestat sees Louis de Pontelac for the first time
01:07:41pulling a knife on his brother.
01:07:44And, oh, that's intriguing.
01:07:46There's some potential there to be a companion predator.
01:07:50Then, in the middle of this poker scene,
01:07:53you can see he has been on his mind.
01:07:56There's a shot where he's sort of staring longingly at Louis
01:07:58while Louis is shining his business acumen.
01:08:02And he goes, I'm gonna show him.
01:08:03I'm gonna give him a little insight about what I can do.
01:08:06These men look down on you.
01:08:08I find it appalling how men like yourself
01:08:10are treated in this country.
01:08:11So he does a little vampire parlor trick, as it were.
01:08:16I believe there is great opportunity in this city.
01:08:19But to seize it, I'll need protection from the wolves.
01:08:25There is a sort of predator angle to this.
01:08:28Louis fully admits it later, I was being hunted.
01:08:31Lestat would not see that.
01:08:33Lestat would say, I was hoarding him.
01:08:35Come to me, Louis.
01:08:36That takes Louis to a place where he finds
01:08:38the church is the only place he can go.
01:08:41Help me, please.
01:08:42He's in my head, father.
01:08:44Lestat has entered his mind, heart, and soul,
01:08:48and he wants it out, and he's feeling great regret.
01:08:50I lay down with the devil.
01:08:53Help me!
01:08:55I am weak!
01:08:57And I wanna die!
01:08:59He just pours it out, screaming to a god
01:09:01he hasn't talked to in a long time.
01:09:04Ah!
01:09:06Ah!
01:09:08Lestat has a very different idea about organized religion.
01:09:13This charlatan!
01:09:16Do you not see how unworthy he is?
01:09:19How can you humiliate yourself like this?
01:09:21We are catching Lestat at a very vulnerable
01:09:23and emotionally out of control moment,
01:09:26and he takes it out on these two priests in front of Louis,
01:09:31and then has to make a very, very quick
01:09:34and aggressive 360, and try to really give the big pitch.
01:09:38I can swap this life of shame.
01:09:42Swap it out for a dark gift,
01:09:44and a power you can't begin to imagine.
01:09:47He manages to pull it off.
01:09:50The idea of being seen, the idea of him being loved.
01:09:54Be my companion.
01:09:58Be all the beautiful things you are.
01:10:00And despite the barbaric scene, as he says,
01:10:04he got him at the right moment.
01:10:10And we sat there for some time,
01:10:13in throes of increasing wonder.
01:10:17The end.
01:10:21The beginning.