The movie ‘Interview with the vampire’caused a sensation in the mid-90s when its arrival in theaters was announced; Not in vain, the adaptation of such a famous vampire novel of the same name had a more than striking cast with names of the stature of Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater or a very young woman Kirsten Dunstin addition to being a Hollywood star already at that time as Tom Cruise, star of ‘Top Gun’ and Oscar nominee for ‘Born on the 4th of July’. Although his choice was not very well received by fans of the work of Anne Rice when considering that He didn’t measure up to the vampire Lestatin addition to being the second option after the refusal of another great actor: Daniel Day-Lewis.
Neil Jordan always believed in Tom Cruise’s Lestat
And after the publication of the filmmaker’s memoirs Neil Jordanthe maneuver through which Tom Cruise took on the role of the vampire has come to light Lestat de Lioncourt after the departure of the project Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor who enjoyed greater acceptance by Anne Rice fans; Even so, Jordan continues to defend the choice of the protagonist of the ‘Mission Impossible’ saga: “The problem was the distribution of Lestat. Brad Pitt had agreed to play Louis and somehow assumed that Daniel Day-Lewis would play Lestat, an assumption shared by Anne”explains the director.
“I offered it to Daniel, who read it and, as I expected, He didn’t want to play the character.. A few years earlier, she had confined herself to a wheelchair to play Christy Brown in ‘My Left Foot’. “She would have had to sleep in a coffin throughout this entire production if she had followed the same practice,” the filmmaker continues to explain about the possibility that Daniel Day-Lewis took on the role of Lestat.
However, The controversy came with the election of Cruise like Lestat after Day-Lewis’s refusal: “I had to live a life away from the gaze of others. He had made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they were. She had to hide in the shadows, even in the Hollywood sunlight. I would be eternally young. He was a star. It could well be Lestat“, concludes the filmmaker about the choice of Tom Cruise for the role.
