![]() ![]() ![]() 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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