Interview with the Vampire: Frivolously Sexy Monsters

Rewatching Neil Jordan's

is a curious experience.

The adaptation of the successful novel by Anne Rice signed by the Irish director in 1994 is an imperfect and unrepeatable film.

What is most striking about her now is that she is starring Tom Cruise.

His interpretation is very interesting, especially when one (me) comes to the conclusion that he doesn't quite understand the character or the movie.

In 1994 Cruise was not yet the sexless and excessive totem that he is today, but perhaps the very clever Neil Jordan did see that drift coming and went ahead of it, putting him in the shoes of Lestat de Lioncourt, one of the most interesting, ambiguous and shady characters. from literature.

Maybe the Oscar that Tom Cruise should have won was there and not on the

In both films the star dynamite the image that he himself had been building for years.

But I sense that in Interview with the Vampire he wasn't aware that he was doing it.

Today it seems like a dream that there was a world where Cruise would accept being a perverted, queer bloodsucker.

The works of Anne Rice have been brought to the screen on more occasions.

It is a pity that this author, who died in 2021, could not see the last one, because it is very good.

Developed by Rolin Jones, the new version, this time for television, of

is what today's world asks of an adaptation by Rice.

It preserves the essence of the original and brings it to today's world.

In the series, available in Spain on AMC+, the interview with Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), the story's narrative mechanism, takes place in

.

Then the story takes us back to New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century.

That's where Louis meets Lestat, that's where it all starts.

The television Lestat is

.

He does know exactly what he is doing.

Like an undead Sam Heughan, Reid is feline and reptilian, wild and refined, gruff and queer.

In the hands of Rolin Jones and this Australian actor, the boring and capricious vampire, created with enormous talent by Anne Rice, knows how to be both the most pitiful Nosferatu and a frivolously sexy monster that could very well hack a season of True Blood.

All this without engulfing his own series, which flows with elegance and without meapila concessions.

A fiction about vampires cannot be approached without accepting the mystique of these mythological beings, a compilation of fears and sexual temptations that if you want to do for all audiences, it is better that you look for other bugs.

It's hard to believe that 30 years ago

when he was already the most calculating star in Hollywood.

My theory is that the book was never even read.

Neil Jordan did.

Rolin Jones too and in his series it shows.

And he appreciates it.

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