“Originally, I was doing a whole bunch of twirls coming through the carriage we had to take it down a bit.” Reid also knew he wanted to show, again, how Lestat uses his voice to mimic and, in this scene, terrify. “I wanted it to feel very different,” Reid said. In Episode 6, Lestat decapitates a train conductor and starts speaking through the man’s head. “He’s always impersonating humanity…and so I wanted it to sound kind of weird and ethereal.” “He’s French, but he’s going to have absorbed a whole bunch of different sounds from a whole bunch of different places,” Reid said. The Australian-born actor wanted to convey a sense of unnaturalness to the character’s speaking to illustrate his ability to mimic. The otherworldly quality came through in a unique place for Reid: his voice. Jones said he needed someone who could hold onto Rice’s dense dialogue and play with it, find the humor within it, and could go through the scenes with an otherworldliness about him. It wasn’t enough to just cast a handsome and charming actor. He didn’t want to just drop “the brat prince” into the story he was telling fully created. Lestat is cemented in Rice’s second book (1985’s “The Vampire Lestat”), but Jones wanted to make his background more solid. “We had the burden of creating the architecture for a series that goes on for a number of years,” Jones told IndieWire via Zoom. Look Who’s Joining the Ad-Streaming Bandwagon
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