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Perused
a few folklore anthologies,
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and now you're going
to cross the ocean
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and take on a society
of monsters.
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I've known exactly
four vampires in my life,
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and you've all been the worst.
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I'm looking for one
that ain't a goddamn bastard!
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Parents named me Bruce.
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Sent about 20 of us over
to a place called Copenhagen.
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Louis: Don't start back
with your books.
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- Your books are bullshit.
- There's a vampire been here.
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Another crucifix.
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Claudia: Louis!
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A woman vampire.
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[Woman grunts]
Armand: The boy we met
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in San Francisco--
he's still in there.
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We can have him saying
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what happened next
in no time.
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We're gonna find
others like us.
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We can't be
the only good ones out there.
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[♪ gentle orchestral music]
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[♪ music intensifies]
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[♪ music fades]
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[♪ smooth jazz]
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[Louis] Paris...
Hard to put it into words now.
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For what Paris means
to me now is
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very different from what
it meant to me then.
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- [Armand] May I try?
- Please.
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Paris was
an awakening for Louis.
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Paris was a hunger.
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[Louis] Paris was many things
in those days.
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Even now, to think of it,
setting aside certain events,
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I feel something close to
happiness when I think of it.
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- The name alone - Paris.
- [Molloy] Paris sucks.
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[Louis] But you proposed
to your Alice in Paris.
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[Molloy] And she divorced me
in Staten Island. Paris sucks.
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[Armand] Paris is a universe
all to herself...
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[Molloy] Macarons are bullshit,
café culture is boring.
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[Louis] Paris was Nazi
scar tissue at the time.
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It was healing, just as
Claudia and I were healing.
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Gotta pick twice the pockets
in this town to get anywhere.
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[speaks in French]
"Confiance en vaut plusieurs
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si on prend du temps
pour la trouver."
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- What?
-"Truth is more valuable
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if it takes you
a few years to find it."
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What you said is,
"Trust is worth several
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if we take a few years
to find it."
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A little rust
on the mother tongue.
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Lotta rust. And I'm looking
for francs and diamonds.
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- Truth don't pay the rent.
- No salt, no butter.
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Can't have milk
unless you got a newborn.
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And read here, "Hospitals
running low on plaster of Paris
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for a record number of broken
bones due to decalcification
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and undernourishment."
You want francs in pockets?
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These people are broke.
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Maybe we chose the wrong town.
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I saw a woman tonight in
a patchy five-year-old dress
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putting on
a brand new lipstick.
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And what's that supposed to say?
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Says Paris is on her way back.
Give her a little time is all.
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What makes you think
Paris is a woman?
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- Oh, now I know you're hungry.
- Tell me what a woman is?
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I'll tell you what a woman is.
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Where you want to hunt?
Bourse looks dark.
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Always following the blackouts.
Blackouts are easy.
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Mmm. So you want a hard meal,
francs and diamonds,
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and heaven to open up and rain
down mink stoles, is that it?
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[Claudia] That's a start.
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[Armand]
It's custom and practice
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for traveling vampires
to make themselves known
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- to a local coven.
- [she speaks French] Gauche.
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[Louis] We didn't
get that memo.
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[laughing]
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De Gaulle's Paris
had me etherized.
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Ah! The whitest of lies
turning 77 this year.
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Do not leave Dubai until
you've made him retract it.
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Uh-huh.
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If Claudia and I were looking
over our shoulder at all
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it was in astonishment
our skin did not attract
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the same attention
it did in America.
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Right, because
there wasn't any racism
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in mid-20th century France.
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- Oh, I didn't say that.
- He didn't say that.
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I think your Algerian inferiors
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- of the time might disagree.
- But I wasn't an Algerian.
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I was an American and if
there was an assumption
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that I'd arrived to blow
a trumpet or sing for my supper,
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it did not register
as a slight in those days.
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I was just grateful knowing
no one wanted to lynch me
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or direct me to the far end
of the café counter.
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That's all he was saying,
Mr. Molloy.
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Are you two gonna finish
each other's sentences
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for the whole session?
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We've been together
77 years, Daniel.
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Forty-seven more than
he did with Lestat.
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Shall we let the math of that
settle before continuing?
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Keep selling it.
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[Louis] We hid ourselves away
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in an inconspicuous apartment
in Le Neuvieme,
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passing ourselves off
as moneyed Americans,
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over-spending for
black market baguettes.
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It was the perfect cover.
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[Armand]
Yes, perfectly situated,
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one floor above the owners,
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and one floor below
the students and sex workers.
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Literally encircled by curious
and money-hungry motivations.
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[Louis] We never brought
our kills home.
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- We used the sewers for that.
- Mm-hm.
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[Armand] Waterways of which
they had no expertise.
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The flow controls,
the pumping stations.
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We were constantly
cleaning up for them.
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[Molloy] And yet you never
made contact with him?
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Thank you!
Five months of anxiety
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producing choices
and not one "bonjour"
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- or "preparez-toi a mourir".
- Custom and practice.
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[Louis] A true Parisian
vampire is a prideful monster.
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[Armand]
They lived two kilometers
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from our theater in Pigalle.
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[Louis] I had endured
hundreds of nights
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in the theater with Lestat.
I was not seeking more.
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A theater called
Theatre Des Vampires.
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[both] A company that had been
in existence for 150 years!
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[Armand chuckles] 77 years and
it still feels like a slight.
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[whispers] Pride.
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[Armand]
The reports were confounding.
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Were they romantic? No.
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Who was the master?
Neither, it seemed.
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The male hunted to please her,
the girl suffered
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philosophical conversation
to please him.
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The American vampires appeared
to be as dull and plain
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as their tourists
and soldiers were.
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[Louis] Rude.
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I took up photography
as a hobby.
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[Armand] Vampires
with hobbies! Insanity!
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[Molloy] Killing time when
you weren't killing Parisians.
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[Louis] Oh, wrestling time
to the ground,
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staring it into submission.
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Holding it in your hand.
"I was there. This occurred."
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[Molloy] How's that any
different from the photos
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- I keep on my phone?
- [Armand] It isn't.
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It's a human
perspective of time.
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[Louis] When you have
the ability
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to stretch a millisecond
into an hour,
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it's a reduction.
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I hadn't come
to that conclusion yet.
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I liked taking photographs.
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It took my mind off things.
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[♪ jazz music
reaches a crescendo]
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[♪ slow jazz]
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[Claudia telepathically]
What are you looking
for when you take a picture?
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[Louis] I don't know.
A surprise maybe.
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Something off. Like a hat
that's too small for a head.
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Or someone realizing
they forgot to do something
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- and they stop.
- Okay.
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Then you can get
mindful about it.
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Ask yourself
what brought them here?
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What brought you here?
Is it coming together random?
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Choreographed? The metro
late for him. The rain--
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Sometimes I want
the short answer.
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You listen to their thoughts.
You know what's coming.
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You take the picture.
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Well, if you knew the answer,
why did you ask?
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Is the coming together
random, choreographed?
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Let a brother primp a bit. Let
me think I'm deeper than I am.
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Is that how you sell
yourself yourself?
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I'm just trying to
get through nights, sis.
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I shortcut it. You caught me.
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Take the win.
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[camera shutter clicks]
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Who are you, Louis?
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I'm your brother.
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Who are you outside of me?
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I'm the reticent vampire
of the Ninth Arrondissement.
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- [camera shutter clicks]
- I walk the night
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capturing disappointment
and regret
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as only
the reticent vampire can.
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- Hah!
- [camera shutter clicks]
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If there was no me...
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and there was no him...
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[he scoffs]
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...who would you be?
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What do you want?
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- How are you gonna get there?
- [camera shutter clicks]
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[Molloy] She had a point.
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- [Louis] Yes.
- Paris sucks.
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That's not the point
she was making.
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Sure it is. She's miserable
but she doesn't want to fuck
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with your too delusional
"left bank dilettante" vibe.
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She wasn't telling me something
I didn't know about myself.
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She was giving me permission to
explore a life apart from her.
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- It's Alice, Louis, not Claudia.
- Excuse me?
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Oh, I see.
I've triggered a memory.
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No, it's Claudia.
It's her journal.
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-"Louis needs Paris. I don't..."
- It's 1985.
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You and Alice
are at a brasserie,
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talking past each other
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and she tells you
she's pregnant.
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The fishing rod
in the head again?
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And you say, "Yeah,
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let's talk about it
later tonight."
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I've gotta knock out
another chapter. One a week.
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I leave before the bill is paid,
I never finish the novel.
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I think it was the "yeah" that
pissed her off most. Yeah?
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Yeah.
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"Louis needs Paris.
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[Molloy and Claudia together]
I don't know what I need.
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Maybe a new brain in my head.
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[Claudia]
Why can't I tell him this?
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I suppose I'm afraid
my joylessness will take away
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his happiness and maybe
I don't want his feelings
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to depend on mine anymore.
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Maybe I want to be
joyfully joyless.
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A forever switch of
wild opposites at play."
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[rain pattering]
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[man] Oh!
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[man complaining in French]
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[people complaining in French]
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[man in French] Mademoiselle?
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American? Your French is ugly.
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You can take it in for me. Yes?
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You do alterations?
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Please, don't pretend to be
something you're not, yeah?
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Believe me, womanhood
will happen soon enough.
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Never thought about
choosing to pretend.
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Life hasn't been kind enough
to allow me that.
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Maybe if it had been,
I'd be a lonely dressmaker
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in an empty shop, denying
my only potential customer.
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Respect my time.
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No!
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The dress, for my body.
And I'll need some gloves.
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I'm thinking white.
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Real Rashid. Just in time
for the big "meet cute".
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What weirdness have you
brought us today?
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[Rashid]
The Paris Albums, 1946-1949.
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Oh, you really
shouldn't wear gloves
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when handling historical
documents, Real Rashid.
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- It reduces dexterity.
- It's just Rashid.
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Makes it more likely
you'll rip a page
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in the item being examined.
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Thank you, Rashid.
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So?
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Photos are the record
of time passing.
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- Outward evidence.
- [Armand] They do not lie,
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but neither do they
tell you a thorough story.
244
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[♪ gentle piano]
245
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Who are the young men? Vampires?
246
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Those were our young friends.
247
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Humans. Guys.
248
00:13:18,058 --> 00:13:20,712
[Armand] Some are
very old now, most are dead.
249
00:13:20,887 --> 00:13:23,411
And some we simply drained
for sport. Well...
250
00:13:24,107 --> 00:13:25,717
generally me.
251
00:13:26,283 --> 00:13:27,894
Louis has his ways.
252
00:13:31,027 --> 00:13:32,942
[♪ gentle piano]
253
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[Armand] You could tell from
his walk, he was an American.
254
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[Molloy] I'm an American. What
exactly is an American walk?
255
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[Armand] Two wars had made
a certain impression
256
00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:44,388
on the men of France.
257
00:13:44,562 --> 00:13:48,479
There was no way to describe
it other than... optimistic.
258
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[Louis] There was a park
I'd heard about.
259
00:13:53,136 --> 00:13:55,356
I would go to this park often.
260
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I was an armored thing
that spring,
261
00:14:01,710 --> 00:14:03,930
someone steady
on his feet but...
262
00:14:05,018 --> 00:14:06,889
With a history of chasing
the wrong kind of love.
263
00:14:07,063 --> 00:14:09,065
I'll describe it myself,
thank you.
264
00:14:09,239 --> 00:14:10,545
Yes.
265
00:14:12,634 --> 00:14:15,898
But with a history of chasing
the wrong kind of love.
266
00:14:16,072 --> 00:14:18,988
Well, where better
to explore who you are,
267
00:14:19,162 --> 00:14:22,687
to find the right kind of love,
than in a public park?
268
00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:25,168
[Armand] I had lost patience.
269
00:14:25,342 --> 00:14:27,170
I was convinced
we were being toyed with
270
00:14:27,344 --> 00:14:29,956
and I could hold back
the coven only so long.
271
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I knew the park well myself,
272
00:14:35,787 --> 00:14:37,702
knew what went on
in the rambles there,
273
00:14:37,877 --> 00:14:41,793
so I was not surprised
to find him without the girl.
274
00:14:41,968 --> 00:14:44,318
[men panting]
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I would confront
the elder and make him aware
276
00:14:47,060 --> 00:14:50,672
of the ways rogue vampires
were dealt with in Paris.
277
00:14:54,806 --> 00:14:59,289
[Louis] He looked like a boy
masquerading as a gentleman.
278
00:14:59,463 --> 00:15:02,902
But I sensed his
ancient power right away.
279
00:15:03,076 --> 00:15:05,861
[Armand] He was... awkward.
280
00:15:06,035 --> 00:15:08,603
His attempt to blend
in as some layman,
281
00:15:08,777 --> 00:15:11,780
thinking he could fade into
the landscape, it was absurd.
282
00:15:12,607 --> 00:15:13,564
I mean...
283
00:15:14,652 --> 00:15:17,699
he was alarmingly handsome
in the muted lamplight.
284
00:15:19,309 --> 00:15:20,963
[Louis] I thought
he was going to kill me.
285
00:15:21,137 --> 00:15:22,922
[Armand laughs softly]
286
00:15:28,057 --> 00:15:29,580
So?
287
00:15:30,755 --> 00:15:33,149
- Yeah?
- Who broke the ice?
288
00:15:34,063 --> 00:15:36,674
What were the first words
of the ancient vampire
289
00:15:36,848 --> 00:15:38,763
to the future love of his life?
290
00:15:39,416 --> 00:15:41,070
[together] I will not...
291
00:15:41,244 --> 00:15:42,767
- Please.
- No.
292
00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:44,291
Please.
293
00:15:46,902 --> 00:15:50,775
He said, "I will not harm you."
294
00:15:51,907 --> 00:15:53,604
And I never have.
295
00:15:53,778 --> 00:15:58,783
[♪ poignant classical music]
296
00:15:59,741 --> 00:16:00,960
[Armand] Come.
297
00:16:02,657 --> 00:16:05,442
And bring the petite
beauty with you.
298
00:16:09,664 --> 00:16:11,840
You are most welcome.
299
00:16:36,908 --> 00:16:39,041
[♪ swinging jazz]
300
00:16:39,433 --> 00:16:41,000
- [Louis] Claudia!
- [door slams]
301
00:16:41,174 --> 00:16:42,175
Claudia!
302
00:16:42,827 --> 00:16:43,872
Claudia!
303
00:16:44,046 --> 00:16:45,830
[panting]
304
00:16:46,570 --> 00:16:48,877
I found someone.
Or they found me.
305
00:16:49,051 --> 00:16:50,487
Found us!
306
00:16:50,661 --> 00:16:52,141
[Claudia]
Give me that. Let me see.
307
00:16:52,315 --> 00:16:53,838
[Armand] Five months removed
308
00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:55,666
from their
velvet-heeled arrival,
309
00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,452
the Americans were
finally coming to Pigalle.
310
00:16:58,626 --> 00:17:00,671
[Louis]
The perfumed armpit of Paris.
311
00:17:00,845 --> 00:17:03,544
Entradas. Tickets. Des billets.
312
00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,028
Monsieur de Pointe du Lac.
313
00:17:11,073 --> 00:17:12,770
Our finest seats.
314
00:17:12,944 --> 00:17:16,165
[♪ swinging jazz]
315
00:17:16,339 --> 00:17:18,472
[Louis]
The house was only half full.
316
00:17:18,646 --> 00:17:23,042
A mixture of slavish devotees
and over-served tourists.
317
00:17:23,216 --> 00:17:25,174
[Armand]
We had become amusingly passé
318
00:17:25,348 --> 00:17:27,220
amongst the theater community
319
00:17:27,394 --> 00:17:29,178
and found a more receptive
audience from our
320
00:17:29,352 --> 00:17:32,877
Anglican friends
now invading Paris postwar.
321
00:17:33,052 --> 00:17:34,662
Five out of every
seven performances
322
00:17:34,836 --> 00:17:36,316
were in the King's English.
323
00:17:36,490 --> 00:17:39,058
[Louis] Some had been there
dozens of times.
324
00:17:39,232 --> 00:17:41,930
And some couldn't
care less what was spoken.
325
00:17:42,104 --> 00:17:44,585
[Armand] They were
all the same to us.
326
00:17:44,759 --> 00:17:46,413
Cattle for
our nightly sabbath.
327
00:17:46,587 --> 00:17:49,111
[Louis] But we were there
for vampires
328
00:17:49,285 --> 00:17:52,680
and we felt their numbers
in the charged air.
329
00:17:53,159 --> 00:17:56,292
[French man] Places!
Projections! Music!
330
00:17:56,466 --> 00:17:59,687
[♪ jazzy fanfare]
331
00:17:59,861 --> 00:18:01,602
- Screams and lights.
- [recorded screaming]
332
00:18:01,776 --> 00:18:03,473
Santiago!
333
00:18:03,647 --> 00:18:05,910
[Santiago]
Ladies and gentlemen!
334
00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:08,304
Madames and messieurs!
335
00:18:08,478 --> 00:18:12,613
- [recorded screaming]
- Offal and offalesses.
336
00:18:16,878 --> 00:18:21,448
[recorded screaming]
337
00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,149
[light clicks, drumroll]
338
00:18:27,323 --> 00:18:29,108
- Welcome!
- [♪ playful piano music]
339
00:18:29,282 --> 00:18:32,415
To the displacement of reason.
340
00:18:33,590 --> 00:18:38,465
And the excretion
of pathetic desires.
341
00:18:39,596 --> 00:18:40,902
By that I mean...
342
00:18:41,468 --> 00:18:43,296
- Good evening.
- [audience] Good evening!
343
00:18:43,992 --> 00:18:46,212
- [he snarls]
- [man laughs]
344
00:18:47,952 --> 00:18:49,998
What you're about to see...
345
00:18:51,260 --> 00:18:53,219
is, for you, an outrage
346
00:18:53,393 --> 00:18:56,352
that masks a birth
and a rebirth of what is...
347
00:18:56,526 --> 00:18:58,659
[Claudia] The rope's limp.
He's really flying.
348
00:18:58,833 --> 00:19:01,096
- [Louis] I know!
- Instead of mere human drama,
349
00:19:01,270 --> 00:19:05,013
we here at
Theatre Des Vampires,
350
00:19:05,187 --> 00:19:07,711
delve into the underbelly
of the human soul,
351
00:19:07,885 --> 00:19:12,151
to present to you
the highest form of art
352
00:19:12,325 --> 00:19:14,979
in the lowest of ways!
353
00:19:15,154 --> 00:19:17,852
- [audience laughs]
- [man whoops, shouts in French]
354
00:19:19,027 --> 00:19:21,377
Have you repressions
that need airing?
355
00:19:21,551 --> 00:19:23,771
Oh, you've come to
the right place.
356
00:19:23,945 --> 00:19:26,077
Phobias toward your next of kin?
357
00:19:26,252 --> 00:19:29,733
Amis, we assist in turning
down the sheets!
358
00:19:29,907 --> 00:19:31,474
Bloodlust?!
359
00:19:31,648 --> 00:19:34,129
Fear of the insane?!
360
00:19:34,303 --> 00:19:35,870
I salute your honesty.
361
00:19:36,044 --> 00:19:38,655
Right after I take
my boot from your arse!
362
00:19:38,829 --> 00:19:41,180
- [laughter]
- But seriously, mes amis,
363
00:19:41,354 --> 00:19:44,531
being vampires, and by nature
superior to you mortals,
364
00:19:44,705 --> 00:19:47,142
we can replicate the
level of bilge necessary
365
00:19:47,316 --> 00:19:50,450
to disrupt your tiny ship
called human decency.
366
00:19:50,624 --> 00:19:54,193
In fact, we capsize it. So,
if you don't leave here tonight
367
00:19:54,367 --> 00:19:59,067
seeing the world upside down and
liking very much what you see,
368
00:19:59,241 --> 00:20:01,548
and feel,
369
00:20:03,071 --> 00:20:05,943
then we here
at Theatre Des Vampires,
370
00:20:06,117 --> 00:20:08,859
have failed in our jobs
which is, at the heart of it,
371
00:20:09,033 --> 00:20:11,340
to laugh alongside your misery
372
00:20:11,514 --> 00:20:14,343
while you cry
and scream for more.
373
00:20:14,517 --> 00:20:15,910
[audience] More!
374
00:20:16,084 --> 00:20:20,915
[cheering, whistling
and applause]
375
00:20:23,178 --> 00:20:25,572
[hush descends]
376
00:20:34,885 --> 00:20:37,236
Everything you're
about to see...
377
00:20:38,585 --> 00:20:39,934
is real.
378
00:20:43,677 --> 00:20:46,723
Remember that when
you leave here tonight.
379
00:20:46,897 --> 00:20:48,595
You are all...
380
00:20:49,465 --> 00:20:51,119
complicit...
381
00:20:52,207 --> 00:20:53,948
repugnant...
382
00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:56,777
and appalling!
383
00:20:56,951 --> 00:20:58,518
[murmuring, nervous laughter]
384
00:20:58,692 --> 00:20:59,910
And...
385
00:21:00,955 --> 00:21:03,436
I love you for it.
386
00:21:04,741 --> 00:21:06,743
And I welcome you...
387
00:21:07,788 --> 00:21:12,923
even as you disgust me!
388
00:21:13,097 --> 00:21:15,404
[♪ playful piano music]
389
00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:19,278
[cheering and applause]
390
00:21:19,452 --> 00:21:21,628
[shouts from audience]
391
00:21:21,802 --> 00:21:24,021
[man] Well done! Superb! Superb!
392
00:21:24,195 --> 00:21:27,721
[♪ slow piano music]
393
00:21:27,895 --> 00:21:30,071
[projector rattling]
394
00:21:32,552 --> 00:21:35,468
Why does the Master
have us tend to the prized,
395
00:21:35,642 --> 00:21:37,383
singular plant at night,
396
00:21:37,557 --> 00:21:39,385
when the rest of the garden
is tended by day?
397
00:21:39,559 --> 00:21:42,257
[Louis] The actors performed
in front of a cinema screen,
398
00:21:42,431 --> 00:21:44,607
interacting with animations
and bits of film
399
00:21:44,781 --> 00:21:46,827
in near perfect
synchronization.
400
00:21:47,741 --> 00:21:49,656
The effect was wondrous.
401
00:21:49,830 --> 00:21:51,962
[Armand] The modern cinema
had an enormous influence
402
00:21:52,136 --> 00:21:54,313
on my aesthetic and
the light of the projector
403
00:21:54,487 --> 00:21:57,141
on the faces of our actors
lent a romantic air
404
00:21:57,316 --> 00:21:58,926
to their performances.
405
00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:01,189
[screams and laughter]
406
00:22:03,365 --> 00:22:05,672
[Louis] The plays were weird.
407
00:22:05,846 --> 00:22:08,414
[Armand] The plays were
timeless, updated for the age
408
00:22:08,588 --> 00:22:10,503
and all from our
150 year repertoire.
409
00:22:10,677 --> 00:22:12,331
[Louis] They were weird!
410
00:22:12,505 --> 00:22:15,638
And always ended in death
or some kind of cruel,
411
00:22:15,812 --> 00:22:17,771
barely motivated violence.
412
00:22:17,945 --> 00:22:20,600
[Armand] Life is cruel.
Life is violent.
413
00:22:20,774 --> 00:22:23,037
[Louis] Claudia
absolutely loved them.
414
00:22:23,211 --> 00:22:25,169
And it was
the first time in Paris
415
00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:28,303
I had seen a smile
or a laugh come out of her
416
00:22:28,477 --> 00:22:29,870
that wasn't for my benefit.
417
00:22:30,479 --> 00:22:33,003
But what was truly confusing
that first night
418
00:22:33,177 --> 00:22:35,354
were the efforts to make it
all appear as farce.
419
00:22:35,528 --> 00:22:36,920
Syrup!
420
00:22:37,094 --> 00:22:38,922
The fake vampire teeth,
421
00:22:39,096 --> 00:22:41,272
the fake blood,
the trick rope.
422
00:22:41,447 --> 00:22:43,536
[Armand] It was all
a seduction,
423
00:22:43,710 --> 00:22:47,496
to lure the cattle into
a willing belief of disbelief.
424
00:22:47,670 --> 00:22:50,717
The only play that mattered
was the last.
425
00:22:53,937 --> 00:22:57,898
[♪ gentle piano music]
426
00:23:08,212 --> 00:23:11,738
[Santiago] Woodcutter!
427
00:23:12,869 --> 00:23:16,264
- Woodcutter!
- Who are you?
428
00:23:18,135 --> 00:23:22,052
I am what you think I am, woodcutter.
429
00:23:22,226 --> 00:23:23,532
Go away.
430
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:25,926
[audience gasps]
431
00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:29,320
The clock in your heart.
432
00:23:29,495 --> 00:23:32,889
- The gears have stopped meshing.
- [woman screams]
433
00:23:35,936 --> 00:23:38,242
Help me, someone! Please!
434
00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:39,418
What is this?
435
00:23:41,289 --> 00:23:43,291
[woodcutter] She's disrupted
the performance!
436
00:23:43,465 --> 00:23:44,945
[woman screams]
437
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,426
[Santiago] No! No, no, no, no!
438
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,558
Let her speak, Sam.
Let her speak.
439
00:23:56,391 --> 00:23:59,263
[Santiago] Shh, shh, shh,
shh, shh. Now, now, now, now.
440
00:24:00,177 --> 00:24:02,963
This is an "English only"
performance.
441
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,444
Start again.
442
00:24:06,662 --> 00:24:08,664
[sobbing] My...
443
00:24:08,838 --> 00:24:12,973
My name is Annika Rooman.
444
00:24:15,018 --> 00:24:16,629
I live in Antwerp.
445
00:24:18,848 --> 00:24:22,983
I was taken from
my hotel room last night.
446
00:24:24,071 --> 00:24:27,466
These people are vampires!
447
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,729
True vampires!
448
00:24:29,903 --> 00:24:32,166
- This... This is real!
- [laughter from audience]
449
00:24:32,340 --> 00:24:35,735
- Call my husband!
- I'll call him for you, baby.
450
00:24:35,909 --> 00:24:37,606
[laughter]
451
00:24:44,526 --> 00:24:45,832
[she sobs]
452
00:24:46,006 --> 00:24:49,009
[suspenseful drumbeat]
453
00:24:49,183 --> 00:24:52,665
[curtain sliding]
454
00:24:54,275 --> 00:24:57,321
[she whimpers]
455
00:24:57,496 --> 00:24:59,106
Suppose we were to let you go.
456
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,630
- P-Please! Y-Yes.
- Yes?
457
00:25:01,804 --> 00:25:03,023
Yes.
458
00:25:03,197 --> 00:25:05,634
Suppose the Reaper had a heart
459
00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:09,203
that could resist
your Belgian beauty.
460
00:25:12,075 --> 00:25:14,208
Someone would have
to take your place.
461
00:25:16,036 --> 00:25:17,211
Your husband?
462
00:25:19,605 --> 00:25:20,693
Oh?
463
00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:23,739
Your son?
464
00:25:23,913 --> 00:25:26,699
I... I can't...
I can't and I wouldn't.
465
00:25:31,312 --> 00:25:33,880
How about...
466
00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:39,407
him?
467
00:25:41,278 --> 00:25:43,890
Mmm. Mm, mm.
468
00:25:48,677 --> 00:25:50,723
Oh, dear man,
469
00:25:50,897 --> 00:25:54,901
whose flesh has run in every
direction from his mustache,
470
00:25:55,075 --> 00:25:57,381
I want you to remember this...
471
00:25:58,644 --> 00:26:01,168
the next time you're in the pew,
472
00:26:01,342 --> 00:26:03,736
you turn to your neighbor
and say,
473
00:26:05,651 --> 00:26:06,913
"Peace be unto you."
474
00:26:11,874 --> 00:26:14,268
They'll give you up...
475
00:26:15,312 --> 00:26:17,053
in a wink!
476
00:26:18,489 --> 00:26:20,753
[Annika sobbing]
477
00:26:20,927 --> 00:26:23,930
[♪ poignant violin]
478
00:26:32,416 --> 00:26:34,375
Not his time, Annika.
479
00:26:34,549 --> 00:26:38,292
- [Annika sobs]
- Shh, shh.
480
00:26:38,466 --> 00:26:41,121
- [Santiago shushes]
- [Annika crying]
481
00:26:41,295 --> 00:26:44,603
[Santiago]
Now, now. There, there.
482
00:26:50,521 --> 00:26:52,959
It must...
483
00:26:55,701 --> 00:26:56,919
be.
484
00:27:04,666 --> 00:27:07,321
Annika Rooman of Antwerp.
485
00:27:08,627 --> 00:27:09,715
Death...
486
00:27:10,324 --> 00:27:12,326
awaits everyone...
487
00:27:13,066 --> 00:27:14,241
everywhere.
488
00:27:14,415 --> 00:27:15,982
Why not here?
489
00:27:18,245 --> 00:27:22,771
Unconscious death is
the fate of all mortals.
490
00:27:25,731 --> 00:27:26,993
Up.
491
00:27:27,733 --> 00:27:28,821
Up.
492
00:27:29,778 --> 00:27:30,866
Up.
493
00:27:31,388 --> 00:27:36,698
We are conscious death, Annika.
494
00:27:37,481 --> 00:27:39,179
And that would make you...
495
00:27:41,311 --> 00:27:42,661
a bride.
496
00:27:55,543 --> 00:27:57,545
[Santiago exhales deeply]
497
00:28:00,635 --> 00:28:04,160
Do you know what it means
to be loved by death?
498
00:28:07,163 --> 00:28:09,035
No pain.
499
00:28:09,818 --> 00:28:11,385
[softly] No pain.
500
00:28:12,212 --> 00:28:13,866
[gasps from audience]
501
00:28:15,606 --> 00:28:18,697
[♪ tense music]
502
00:28:22,048 --> 00:28:23,353
[he exclaims]
503
00:28:23,527 --> 00:28:24,833
- [snarling]
- [audience gasps]
504
00:28:25,007 --> 00:28:26,617
[woman screams]
505
00:28:26,792 --> 00:28:29,142
[snarling]
506
00:28:29,316 --> 00:28:31,840
[vampires shrieking]
507
00:28:32,014 --> 00:28:36,715
[Annika screams]
508
00:28:39,848 --> 00:28:44,592
[snarling continues]
509
00:28:47,073 --> 00:28:48,248
[light clicks]
510
00:28:53,035 --> 00:28:54,776
- Bravo!
- Santiago!
511
00:28:54,950 --> 00:28:56,343
[whooping and applause]
512
00:28:56,517 --> 00:29:00,216
[uncertain applause]
513
00:29:02,392 --> 00:29:03,872
Bravo!
514
00:29:06,092 --> 00:29:11,010
[cheering and applause]
515
00:29:11,184 --> 00:29:14,927
[♪ playful piano]
516
00:29:30,203 --> 00:29:33,336
[-[man speaking in French]
517
00:29:33,510 --> 00:29:36,078
[all chatter in French]
518
00:29:36,905 --> 00:29:39,603
Our coven has been here
since the reign of Charlemagne
519
00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:41,780
but we only became
a theater company
520
00:29:41,954 --> 00:29:43,956
after Danton was guillotined.
521
00:29:44,130 --> 00:29:47,611
Ah! Do I hear French from
the lips of an English company?
522
00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:49,309
[chatting in English]
523
00:29:49,483 --> 00:29:52,703
Ah, better, better. If you
desire to seduce on stage
524
00:29:52,878 --> 00:29:55,837
you must live it off stage!
Thank you.
525
00:29:56,011 --> 00:29:58,187
London was not made
overnight, Maitre.
526
00:29:58,361 --> 00:30:00,102
And that is why several
Toulousian G's
527
00:30:00,276 --> 00:30:01,887
pricked my ear in act four.
528
00:30:02,061 --> 00:30:03,976
- Did you catch that Englishman?
- Oh, I did, Maitre.
529
00:30:04,150 --> 00:30:05,934
Otherwise very committed
tonight, Madame.
530
00:30:06,108 --> 00:30:08,241
- Merci.
- That goes for
the entire company.
531
00:30:08,415 --> 00:30:11,331
Very committed tonight!
Bravo! Brava!
532
00:30:11,505 --> 00:30:13,681
Even as they wipe
their greasepaint,
533
00:30:13,855 --> 00:30:16,858
as if this were
an ordinary night.
534
00:30:17,032 --> 00:30:19,426
[Santiago]
Five months of nights.
535
00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:25,345
Five insolent months of nights,
536
00:30:26,825 --> 00:30:31,525
waiting for you to humble us
with your appearance.
537
00:30:32,787 --> 00:30:36,835
I ask you, Maitre,
was it worth the wait?
538
00:30:45,539 --> 00:30:47,106
- [woman giggles]
- Oi!
539
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,196
- Oh, Estelle!
- [all speaking at once]
540
00:30:50,370 --> 00:30:52,851
- The Americans are here!
- [cheering]
541
00:30:54,504 --> 00:30:55,462
[man] Bonsoir!
542
00:30:55,636 --> 00:30:59,727
[indistinct chatter]
543
00:31:02,686 --> 00:31:04,558
[Armand] Louis and Claudia.
544
00:31:04,732 --> 00:31:06,560
The Theatre Des Vampires.
545
00:31:06,734 --> 00:31:08,475
[all] Fuck off!
546
00:31:08,649 --> 00:31:12,087
Eglee, front of house. Romaine,
stage management, props.
547
00:31:12,261 --> 00:31:14,742
- Luchenbaum, costumes.
- Stunning work.
548
00:31:14,916 --> 00:31:17,745
Ah, Samuel Barclay,
playwright in residence.
549
00:31:17,919 --> 00:31:19,486
Sam. Call me Sam.
550
00:31:19,660 --> 00:31:22,576
Basilic, Planche, Merde'em,
the orchestra.
551
00:31:22,750 --> 00:31:24,926
- Nice drumming, drums.
- Thank you.
552
00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:27,494
Tuan and Quang Pham.
projections,
553
00:31:27,668 --> 00:31:30,801
scenery, swing actor.
Father and son.
554
00:31:30,976 --> 00:31:32,760
They joined the coven
on an eventful
555
00:31:32,934 --> 00:31:34,414
pre-century tour
of the colonies.
556
00:31:34,588 --> 00:31:37,199
- Oh, the son looks...
- Older than the father. Yes.
557
00:31:37,373 --> 00:31:39,854
Quang here refused the dark
gift until he could be on stage.
558
00:31:40,028 --> 00:31:41,508
My son is rebellious.
559
00:31:44,076 --> 00:31:45,729
- English!
- Father is an asshole.
560
00:31:46,643 --> 00:31:48,341
Landing us our core
acting company.
561
00:31:48,515 --> 00:31:51,866
Gustave, Celeste, Estelle
and Santiago.
562
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,260
You were amazing.
563
00:31:54,434 --> 00:31:57,263
I was, wasn't I? Love the dress.
564
00:31:57,437 --> 00:31:59,178
Oh. Thank you.
565
00:31:59,352 --> 00:32:01,920
Do American vampiresses
all wear pastels?
566
00:32:02,094 --> 00:32:04,400
Claudia is the only
American vampiress,
567
00:32:04,574 --> 00:32:05,749
so I say that's a yes.
568
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:08,752
And are all American vampires
569
00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:12,017
- as alluring as you?
- Uh... [man laughs]
570
00:32:12,191 --> 00:32:14,758
No. Louis was expelled
for his beauty.
571
00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:17,805
Oh, such a burden, beauty.
572
00:32:17,979 --> 00:32:20,547
- [all laughing]
- Who's your maker?
573
00:32:20,721 --> 00:32:22,244
- My maker?
- Mmm.
574
00:32:22,418 --> 00:32:24,464
Eglee here does star charts
for us all.
575
00:32:24,638 --> 00:32:26,161
Night you were given the gift,
576
00:32:26,335 --> 00:32:28,163
phase of the moon,
name of the maker.
577
00:32:28,337 --> 00:32:30,296
- [Eglee] I don't really need...
- D'you both have the same maker?
578
00:32:30,470 --> 00:32:32,254
We did. Yeah.
579
00:32:32,428 --> 00:32:34,343
His name was Bruce.
580
00:32:34,517 --> 00:32:35,605
Bruce?
581
00:32:37,738 --> 00:32:39,653
- Is he Scottish?
- [laughter]
582
00:32:39,827 --> 00:32:41,263
He said he was from Copenhagen.
583
00:32:41,437 --> 00:32:43,309
We met him on the road
just outside of...
584
00:32:43,483 --> 00:32:45,485
- Chicago.
- We traveled a lot.
585
00:32:45,659 --> 00:32:48,923
As you do,
when the kills pile up.
586
00:32:49,097 --> 00:32:50,533
We don't like to talk
about him much.
587
00:32:50,707 --> 00:32:53,841
He threw himself into
a fire in front of us.
588
00:32:55,495 --> 00:32:58,280
And once again, Santiago,
589
00:32:58,454 --> 00:33:01,631
it seems you've missed
the vein and drawn air instead.
590
00:33:01,805 --> 00:33:04,243
- Hmm!
- I got a question.
591
00:33:04,417 --> 00:33:07,202
Who's that handsome man
on the wall up there?
592
00:33:07,376 --> 00:33:10,379
[Armand] Ah!
With us in spirit always.
593
00:33:10,553 --> 00:33:13,992
Our co-founder and the finest
actor ever to walk our stage.
594
00:33:15,428 --> 00:33:17,256
Lestat de Lioncourt.
595
00:33:17,430 --> 00:33:19,693
[♪ ominous music]
596
00:33:19,867 --> 00:33:23,305
Should have seen that coming.
Did not see that one coming.
597
00:33:24,176 --> 00:33:26,439
- Big red flag, huh?
- The biggest.
598
00:33:26,613 --> 00:33:28,963
- You must understand...
- Oh, I understand.
599
00:33:29,137 --> 00:33:31,400
In a community as small as ours,
600
00:33:31,574 --> 00:33:34,055
such crossings of immortal
paths is expected,
601
00:33:34,229 --> 00:33:35,970
perhaps more common
than you would think.
602
00:33:36,144 --> 00:33:37,580
And Juan looked up
at the painting
603
00:33:37,754 --> 00:33:40,366
and saw that Theresa's
dead husband was Roberto.
604
00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:43,108
He had eloped with
his enemy's widow.
605
00:33:43,282 --> 00:33:45,675
It's a telenovela!
606
00:33:45,849 --> 00:33:50,028
I mean, come on!
Lestat's painting on the wall!
607
00:33:50,202 --> 00:33:52,552
Are you kidding me? Really?
608
00:33:52,726 --> 00:33:54,641
Oh, and that means...
609
00:33:54,815 --> 00:33:57,470
That means you knew
Lestat before he did!
610
00:33:57,644 --> 00:34:00,777
- Yes, Armand knew Lestat.
- Wait a minute.
611
00:34:00,951 --> 00:34:03,302
And yes, he was
briefly with Lestat.
612
00:34:03,476 --> 00:34:05,869
- You both fucked Lestat?!
- A hundred plus years apart.
613
00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:08,089
- They were not compatible.
- He tasted like vermouth
614
00:34:08,263 --> 00:34:09,351
and annihilation.
615
00:34:09,525 --> 00:34:11,353
You shared a boyfriend!
616
00:34:11,527 --> 00:34:12,876
This is great!
617
00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:14,617
I fucked Santiago too.
618
00:34:14,791 --> 00:34:17,664
And Celeste, and Estelle.
Even had an aerobic evening
619
00:34:17,838 --> 00:34:19,970
with Tuan and Quang Pham
in the back row of a cinema
620
00:34:20,145 --> 00:34:22,582
- watching 'Now, Voyager'.
- Did you?
621
00:34:22,756 --> 00:34:26,020
It's repertory theatre, Mr.
Molloy. It's how one endures.
622
00:34:26,194 --> 00:34:28,327
Lestat's appearance
is important,
623
00:34:28,501 --> 00:34:30,546
just not in the way
you think it is, Daniel.
624
00:34:30,720 --> 00:34:33,114
Oh, I'm done thinking.
625
00:34:33,288 --> 00:34:35,812
Bring me the tequila
and some popcorn,
626
00:34:35,986 --> 00:34:38,250
let's flip to
channel 300-something,
627
00:34:38,424 --> 00:34:40,861
it's a Univision night!
628
00:34:41,427 --> 00:34:44,386
[Claudia] I saw his stupid face
up there and had to think of
something quick.
629
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,171
You couldn't make up a name?
630
00:34:46,345 --> 00:34:48,042
Best lies got some truth to 'em.
631
00:34:48,216 --> 00:34:50,218
And that's the only
other vampire I knew.
632
00:34:51,219 --> 00:34:52,786
- It's gonna be fine.
- Fine?
633
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,093
Yeah, fine. What about Lestat?
634
00:34:55,267 --> 00:34:57,617
He's 100-something-year-old
painting in a frame.
635
00:34:57,791 --> 00:35:00,576
They got a fucking shrine! What
if they find out we killed him?
636
00:35:00,750 --> 00:35:02,796
- One of us
would have to tell them.
- Or think it!
637
00:35:02,970 --> 00:35:04,841
Well, I thought it
the second I saw his face
638
00:35:05,015 --> 00:35:07,844
in the frame, but there
they were inviting us back,
639
00:35:08,018 --> 00:35:10,325
- five minutes later.
- To kill us.
640
00:35:10,499 --> 00:35:12,458
And right after that
I invaded their thoughts,
641
00:35:12,632 --> 00:35:15,200
and not one, not one of them,
642
00:35:15,374 --> 00:35:17,550
thought anything other than
I want to lick these two,
643
00:35:17,724 --> 00:35:19,943
so we need to stay away
from Estelle if we can.
644
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:21,423
But they knew nothing
645
00:35:21,597 --> 00:35:23,033
and they're gonna
continue knowing nothing,
646
00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:24,731
cos you're gonna keep
that loose head of yours
647
00:35:24,905 --> 00:35:26,385
tight because I wanna
go back, Louis.
648
00:35:26,559 --> 00:35:28,126
- Are you crazy?
- What about the play?
649
00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:29,910
When they all pounced
on that woman,
650
00:35:30,084 --> 00:35:31,999
drained her right in front
of their dumb faces?
651
00:35:32,173 --> 00:35:34,697
Tell me you did not feel pride.
652
00:35:34,871 --> 00:35:37,439
- I did not feel pride.
- Yes, you did!
653
00:35:37,613 --> 00:35:39,224
Past your empathy
for that woman,
654
00:35:39,398 --> 00:35:42,618
past your fear of being
exposed. Vampire pride.
655
00:35:42,792 --> 00:35:45,708
Those Frenchies
love being vampires.
656
00:35:45,882 --> 00:35:47,971
And they shamed us because
we never felt that way
657
00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:50,060
and we fucking should!
658
00:35:50,235 --> 00:35:53,194
- I'm going back. I want more.
- It's not safe there!
659
00:35:53,368 --> 00:35:56,241
Fourteen hapless vampires
being led by a vampire
660
00:35:56,415 --> 00:35:58,678
with skin darker than yours?
661
00:35:58,852 --> 00:36:03,378
What else is there to be scared
of? Other than your own lust?
662
00:36:03,552 --> 00:36:06,555
- Oh, you felt my lust?
- Armand?
663
00:36:06,729 --> 00:36:09,167
Oh, yeah. Felt his too.
664
00:36:09,341 --> 00:36:11,125
Now I know what
two blood fat cocks
665
00:36:11,299 --> 00:36:14,041
slapping hands feel like,
so thank you for that.
666
00:36:15,782 --> 00:36:17,566
Take your people pictures!
667
00:36:17,740 --> 00:36:19,742
Worship them in
the red light all you want!
668
00:36:19,916 --> 00:36:21,527
I want to be with my own!
669
00:36:21,701 --> 00:36:24,356
Don't ruin this for me, Louis.
I need this!
670
00:36:24,530 --> 00:36:26,445
[Louis] The coven had lifted
Claudia's spirits
671
00:36:26,619 --> 00:36:29,274
but seeing Lestat's portrait
put me on edge.
672
00:36:29,448 --> 00:36:31,450
I needed confirmation
of his death,
673
00:36:31,624 --> 00:36:33,582
and then I remembered
his frequent money wires
674
00:36:33,756 --> 00:36:36,019
came from a law firm
with an address in the Marais,
675
00:36:36,194 --> 00:36:37,934
Roget & Associates.
676
00:36:38,108 --> 00:36:39,327
We were very close friends.
677
00:36:39,501 --> 00:36:41,895
We owned some
real estate together.
678
00:36:42,069 --> 00:36:44,332
A townhouse on Royal Street...
679
00:36:45,768 --> 00:36:48,684
in New Orleans. Maybe
your records reflect that?
680
00:36:49,729 --> 00:36:51,557
[clock strikes the hour]
681
00:36:53,515 --> 00:36:56,562
We were separated by war,
Mr. Lioncourt and myself.
682
00:36:56,736 --> 00:36:59,391
I had some work in Europe.
683
00:37:00,261 --> 00:37:03,308
I lost my American passport
doing that work.
684
00:37:04,004 --> 00:37:06,049
I'm in the process of...
685
00:37:07,703 --> 00:37:09,792
Uh, I'm not here for money.
686
00:37:09,966 --> 00:37:14,580
I'm here to know if
you've heard from... him.
687
00:37:15,581 --> 00:37:16,756
If...
688
00:37:18,061 --> 00:37:20,281
If he is alive, and if so--
689
00:37:20,455 --> 00:37:22,327
We have not heard from
Monsieur de Lioncourt
690
00:37:22,501 --> 00:37:24,285
since February 1940,
691
00:37:24,459 --> 00:37:27,201
when we processed
several wires for him, uh,
692
00:37:27,375 --> 00:37:29,421
for a party he was throwing.
693
00:37:30,552 --> 00:37:32,946
I know who you are, Monsieur.
694
00:37:34,339 --> 00:37:36,602
And I know what you meant
to our cherished client,
695
00:37:36,776 --> 00:37:39,257
Monsieur de Lioncourt.
696
00:37:40,345 --> 00:37:41,737
You say...
697
00:37:42,738 --> 00:37:44,131
You said "meant".
698
00:37:48,918 --> 00:37:50,616
Perhaps he is dead.
699
00:37:51,878 --> 00:37:53,836
Or "sleeping". Hmm?
700
00:37:54,576 --> 00:37:56,709
I have no confirmation
of his actual death,
701
00:37:56,883 --> 00:37:59,842
and cannot declare him
legally dead for years,
702
00:38:00,669 --> 00:38:04,369
but seeing as you are
now here in Paris,
703
00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:08,329
and the fact he has made
no withdrawals from his account,
704
00:38:08,503 --> 00:38:10,984
between us,
it is confirmation enough
705
00:38:11,158 --> 00:38:13,334
for me to pass this box to you,
706
00:38:13,508 --> 00:38:16,163
as instructed in case of, uh...
707
00:38:18,165 --> 00:38:19,427
Well...
708
00:38:21,124 --> 00:38:23,301
I have a client
arriving in 20 minutes.
709
00:38:25,433 --> 00:38:27,087
You may have the office.
710
00:38:27,261 --> 00:38:29,307
[door opens]
711
00:38:59,815 --> 00:39:03,689
[♪ gentle classical piano]
712
00:39:07,083 --> 00:39:08,215
Hmm.
713
00:39:13,176 --> 00:39:15,483
[Lestat] In the event
that you are reading this,
714
00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:18,268
something dreadful has occurred,
715
00:39:18,443 --> 00:39:22,011
which is not my own death,
but rather...
716
00:39:24,144 --> 00:39:28,366
the fact that we both now
exist in two different worlds.
717
00:39:29,715 --> 00:39:31,934
Do not waste your life
718
00:39:32,108 --> 00:39:35,503
seeking revenge on the person
or persons who did this.
719
00:39:36,286 --> 00:39:39,028
Do not give them
the satisfaction of the hunt.
720
00:39:41,422 --> 00:39:44,251
Let treachery eat away
at them from within.
721
00:39:46,122 --> 00:39:47,515
And you...
722
00:39:50,039 --> 00:39:51,954
you go carry on
with your living.
723
00:39:52,128 --> 00:39:54,130
Know only this, mon cher,
724
00:39:54,304 --> 00:39:56,524
you are the only being I trust,
725
00:39:58,265 --> 00:40:01,399
and whom I love,
above and beyond myself.
726
00:40:05,707 --> 00:40:07,883
All my love belongs to you.
727
00:40:08,493 --> 00:40:10,233
You are its keeper.
728
00:40:15,804 --> 00:40:18,546
A veil will now forever
separate our union.
729
00:40:21,070 --> 00:40:23,116
But it is a thin veil...
730
00:40:25,466 --> 00:40:27,903
and I am always
on the other side,
731
00:40:30,384 --> 00:40:33,561
face pressed up
against your longing.
732
00:40:38,348 --> 00:40:40,960
Lestat de Lioncourt.
733
00:40:46,487 --> 00:40:49,272
Lestat, Lestat, Lestat.
734
00:40:50,317 --> 00:40:52,319
Love of my life, or is it more
735
00:40:52,493 --> 00:40:54,103
"rebound of my life"
with you two?
736
00:40:54,277 --> 00:40:57,411
It's a haunting memory
Louis just shared with you.
737
00:40:57,585 --> 00:40:59,544
What a comfort,
your ability to continue
738
00:40:59,718 --> 00:41:01,937
pulling humor from his pain.
Cathartic.
739
00:41:02,111 --> 00:41:04,549
[Molloy] It's a joke.
It's a joke. You serve it up.
740
00:41:04,723 --> 00:41:06,420
Alice is in her third trimester.
741
00:41:06,594 --> 00:41:08,291
She's steps in gum
on the corner of
742
00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:11,120
- Rues Palatine and Servandoni.
- The old parlor trick.
743
00:41:11,294 --> 00:41:13,601
She makes you scrape it off
with a credit card.
744
00:41:13,775 --> 00:41:15,951
It's not a credit card. I have
no credit. It's a library card.
745
00:41:16,125 --> 00:41:18,606
She was wearing that short
purple dress you favored.
746
00:41:18,780 --> 00:41:21,304
I liked the way she walked
in it. She was confident in it.
747
00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:23,959
You felt freer to hold her hand
in Paris. I wonder why that is?
748
00:41:24,133 --> 00:41:27,310
Hitting the garage door, Louis.
All the crap, have at it!
749
00:41:27,485 --> 00:41:30,966
You worked so hard to get
that table right in the corner,
750
00:41:31,140 --> 00:41:32,402
so you could pull out the ring.
751
00:41:32,577 --> 00:41:34,056
The ring! Yeah, that's good.
752
00:41:34,230 --> 00:41:35,536
Just at the right moment
to surprise her.
753
00:41:35,710 --> 00:41:38,060
- Which I did.
- And what did she say
754
00:41:38,234 --> 00:41:40,759
when you finally asked
her to marry you?
755
00:41:45,677 --> 00:41:48,593
In middle school you stole
your dad's Playboy magazines.
756
00:41:48,767 --> 00:41:50,943
- Sold them at recess.
- [Louis] Danny.
757
00:41:51,117 --> 00:41:53,772
I'll ask for a third time.
758
00:41:53,946 --> 00:41:59,255
What did Alice say when you
finally asked her to marry you?
759
00:41:59,429 --> 00:42:01,301
[Armand] Louis,
perhaps we should...
760
00:42:01,475 --> 00:42:02,955
She said no.
761
00:42:11,964 --> 00:42:15,358
She wanted to say yes,
but she didn't trust you.
762
00:42:15,533 --> 00:42:17,578
You hadn't given her
a reason to.
763
00:42:17,752 --> 00:42:20,799
[Louis] Would you like to know
what she thinks of you now?
764
00:42:20,973 --> 00:42:24,150
If she thinks of you now?
We could do that.
765
00:42:24,846 --> 00:42:27,283
Or we could simply
return to the interview.
766
00:42:27,457 --> 00:42:31,244
If you're willing to ask
your questions and then listen,
767
00:42:32,462 --> 00:42:34,247
which is your job.
768
00:42:35,117 --> 00:42:36,423
Yes.
769
00:42:37,903 --> 00:42:39,165
Good.
770
00:42:40,209 --> 00:42:41,559
So...
771
00:42:42,647 --> 00:42:44,387
your question.
772
00:42:44,562 --> 00:42:45,563
Um...
773
00:42:49,436 --> 00:42:52,570
What happened next?
774
00:42:52,744 --> 00:42:54,659
[Louis]
They invited us for a hunt.
775
00:42:54,833 --> 00:42:57,836
[Armand] Claudia had attended
a month of performances
776
00:42:58,010 --> 00:43:01,143
and the coven felt she had
proven herself sincere.
777
00:43:01,317 --> 00:43:03,058
[Louis] I nodded off one night
778
00:43:03,232 --> 00:43:05,495
while Santiago
was hamming it up.
779
00:43:05,670 --> 00:43:08,237
Apparently, that made me
persona non grata
780
00:43:08,411 --> 00:43:10,283
with the leading man.
781
00:43:11,327 --> 00:43:14,461
[♪ smooth jazz]
782
00:43:20,075 --> 00:43:22,208
We played follow the leader.
783
00:43:22,861 --> 00:43:25,341
A slithering creature
with multiple heads,
784
00:43:25,515 --> 00:43:28,649
rounding roundabouts
with ravenous intent.
785
00:43:29,563 --> 00:43:32,435
Waiting for Maitre
to make the call.
786
00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:34,046
[Armand]
When you share a victim,
787
00:43:34,220 --> 00:43:36,570
as they did
every night on stage,
788
00:43:36,744 --> 00:43:42,271
it's merely a taste,
an amuse-bouche.
789
00:43:43,664 --> 00:43:45,927
- [laughter]
- [camera shutter clicks]
790
00:43:46,101 --> 00:43:47,625
[Louis]
When you travel as a pack
791
00:43:47,799 --> 00:43:49,583
you take on
a collective hunger.
792
00:43:49,757 --> 00:43:52,891
The longer the ride,
the more intense the craving.
793
00:43:53,065 --> 00:43:56,764
[man] I am in Paris
with my Parisienne family!
794
00:43:56,938 --> 00:43:58,940
[Claudia whoops]
795
00:44:01,073 --> 00:44:02,944
- [camera shutter clicks]
- [woman laughs]
796
00:44:03,118 --> 00:44:05,425
[Claudia screams and whoops]
797
00:44:08,646 --> 00:44:09,821
[camera shutter clicks]
798
00:44:11,170 --> 00:44:13,781
[Claudia in French]
Allez! Allez! Allez!
799
00:44:16,175 --> 00:44:17,698
[woman laughs]
800
00:44:17,872 --> 00:44:21,006
[♪ intense jazz]
801
00:44:27,403 --> 00:44:29,623
[Armand] Put your camera away,
my American friend.
802
00:44:29,797 --> 00:44:31,494
Be one with us.
803
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:33,540
[Louis]
Where are you taking us?
804
00:44:33,714 --> 00:44:35,977
[Armand] As far as
our petrol will take us.
805
00:44:36,151 --> 00:44:39,024
[engines revving]
806
00:44:41,940 --> 00:44:45,552
[Louis] Esurient hearts
beating as one.
807
00:44:45,726 --> 00:44:49,382
The rumbling beast
of the moveable feast!
808
00:44:56,389 --> 00:44:59,261
The estate
of the family De LaCroix.
809
00:44:59,435 --> 00:45:01,916
Whilst their countrymen
clutch ration cards,
810
00:45:02,090 --> 00:45:05,180
they've made quite a killing
manipulating the black markets.
811
00:45:11,056 --> 00:45:12,884
Santiago.
812
00:45:19,238 --> 00:45:20,979
Give us the layout,
would you, love?
813
00:45:21,153 --> 00:45:23,416
- [gendarme splutters]
- [Santiago grunts]
814
00:45:24,678 --> 00:45:28,160
Fourteen rooms. Nineteen
guests plus their hosts.
815
00:45:28,334 --> 00:45:30,249
Thirteen men, eight women.
816
00:45:30,423 --> 00:45:33,165
And, and... Oh!
817
00:45:33,905 --> 00:45:36,821
Small firearms
in the library bureau.
818
00:45:36,995 --> 00:45:38,692
[gendarme gasps]
819
00:45:38,866 --> 00:45:41,564
- Enjoy yourselves.
- Mmm!
820
00:45:42,478 --> 00:45:43,915
You coming?
821
00:45:44,089 --> 00:45:46,569
I ate before the play.
I'm gonna...
822
00:45:46,744 --> 00:45:50,443
[indistinct chatter,
distant music plays]
823
00:45:51,183 --> 00:45:54,534
[screaming]
824
00:45:56,971 --> 00:45:59,234
I understand you
supplement your diet.
825
00:46:00,366 --> 00:46:02,542
I feast human every other night.
826
00:46:02,716 --> 00:46:04,022
It's my way.
827
00:46:04,196 --> 00:46:06,067
You're not gonna...?
828
00:46:06,241 --> 00:46:08,417
I am now where
I most want to be.
829
00:46:08,591 --> 00:46:11,769
[screaming continues]
830
00:46:12,944 --> 00:46:14,641
- Nice night.
- Mmm.
831
00:46:14,815 --> 00:46:16,251
Very nice.
832
00:46:21,474 --> 00:46:23,041
You carry yourself well.
833
00:46:23,215 --> 00:46:25,173
- [crashing, screaming]
- Merci.
834
00:46:25,783 --> 00:46:27,872
I like how you withhold.
835
00:46:28,046 --> 00:46:30,744
Don't know about that.
Cautious maybe.
836
00:46:30,918 --> 00:46:32,572
It's alluring.
837
00:46:32,746 --> 00:46:34,356
It's practiced.
838
00:46:34,530 --> 00:46:37,316
I find myself thinking,
"What is in there?"
839
00:46:38,665 --> 00:46:40,667
Been thinking
the same about you.
840
00:46:42,277 --> 00:46:44,062
Been thinking about you often.
841
00:46:48,327 --> 00:46:49,589
Tricky.
842
00:46:49,763 --> 00:46:51,199
What's that?
843
00:46:51,373 --> 00:46:52,722
Us.
844
00:46:52,897 --> 00:46:54,768
- [vampire] Yes! My word, yes!
- Mmm.
845
00:46:55,595 --> 00:46:57,510
Coven life can get...
846
00:46:58,250 --> 00:47:00,339
labyrinthian depths of...
847
00:47:01,601 --> 00:47:03,081
It can be tricky.
848
00:47:03,255 --> 00:47:05,823
[man shouts in French]
849
00:47:07,433 --> 00:47:08,782
[Claudia] Yes!
850
00:47:09,565 --> 00:47:12,873
- She is something, your Claudia.
- A spark in the dark.
851
00:47:13,047 --> 00:47:15,833
- Pity she was made so young.
- [glass shatters]
852
00:47:16,007 --> 00:47:18,618
Imagine her in a body
equal to her mind.
853
00:47:18,792 --> 00:47:20,533
She's managed through it.
854
00:47:21,403 --> 00:47:23,318
Particularly skilled
at blocking her thoughts.
855
00:47:23,492 --> 00:47:24,537
[man screams]
856
00:47:24,711 --> 00:47:26,321
You must work harder on that.
857
00:47:26,495 --> 00:47:27,670
[vampire] Merci!
858
00:47:28,715 --> 00:47:30,630
I could help you
hone that skill.
859
00:47:32,371 --> 00:47:33,938
Oh, yeah?
860
00:47:34,112 --> 00:47:36,201
- That'd be great.
- Good.
861
00:47:36,766 --> 00:47:38,812
Because I do believe
I felt some trepidation
862
00:47:38,986 --> 00:47:40,945
when the name Lestat
was uttered.
863
00:47:41,946 --> 00:47:43,034
Who?
864
00:47:44,296 --> 00:47:46,341
My dear American friend,
865
00:47:46,515 --> 00:47:49,040
who thinks of me often
and who has...
866
00:47:49,214 --> 00:47:52,391
dominated my mind ever since
I laid eyes upon him...
867
00:47:53,609 --> 00:47:55,089
don't.
868
00:47:56,264 --> 00:47:59,224
I don't know the particulars
of your acquaintance with him.
869
00:47:59,398 --> 00:48:00,834
You can tell me
when you're ready.
870
00:48:01,008 --> 00:48:04,011
But a few of the coven
can be volatile
871
00:48:04,185 --> 00:48:07,841
and quite unforgiving
when lied to.
872
00:48:09,321 --> 00:48:11,889
Shut your mind if you
hear his name again.
873
00:48:13,412 --> 00:48:15,153
Also, mon ami,
874
00:48:15,327 --> 00:48:19,766
may I suggest you never visit
Roget, Abert & Associates again.
875
00:48:21,202 --> 00:48:24,379
That sort of enquiry can
open all sorts of trouble.
876
00:48:25,250 --> 00:48:27,078
As you suggest, Maitre.
877
00:48:28,296 --> 00:48:29,689
Armand.
878
00:48:30,733 --> 00:48:32,605
"Maitre" is a coven endearment.
879
00:48:32,779 --> 00:48:34,128
[Santiago]
Come on, people, come on!
880
00:48:34,302 --> 00:48:35,477
Armand for you.
881
00:48:36,565 --> 00:48:38,828
[Celeste] Caught a lively one
for tomorrow's show.
882
00:48:39,003 --> 00:48:41,657
- [Santiago] Pip's a savage!
- Oh, Louis! I see it now!
883
00:48:41,831 --> 00:48:43,572
It's different here! I love it!
884
00:48:43,746 --> 00:48:45,531
I never want to hunt alone
again! I never want to leave!
885
00:48:45,705 --> 00:48:49,187
[in French] Je vous aime tous!
J'adore être une vampire!
886
00:48:49,361 --> 00:48:50,710
[both] In English!
887
00:48:50,884 --> 00:48:52,494
I love everybody and everything
888
00:48:52,668 --> 00:48:54,932
in this every moment,
right every now!
889
00:48:55,106 --> 00:48:57,630
[whooping and laughter]
890
00:48:57,804 --> 00:49:00,111
[engines revving]
891
00:49:03,723 --> 00:49:05,377
[man screams]
892
00:49:05,551 --> 00:49:08,902
[♪ romantic jazz]
893
00:49:09,076 --> 00:49:11,383
[woman screams]
894
00:49:13,602 --> 00:49:16,431
[♪ "Ménilmon
Man: It was 1556.
895
00:49:16,605 --> 00:49:18,216
I felt his presence
before I saw him.
896
00:49:20,914 --> 00:49:22,437
And here he was.
897
00:49:22,611 --> 00:49:24,918
Man #2: We might be having
a good time now,
898
00:49:25,092 --> 00:49:27,442
but there's danger
if they find out we lied.
899
00:49:27,616 --> 00:49:29,575
How do you get them
to accept death?
900
00:49:29,749 --> 00:49:32,360
The great conversion.
It's real.
901
00:49:32,534 --> 00:49:35,668
Aah!
To hell with you!
902
00:49:35,842 --> 00:49:37,670
How long are we going
to play games, Louis?
903
00:49:49,290 --> 00:49:51,379
"Do you know what
it means to be loved by death?"
904
00:49:51,553 --> 00:49:53,294
is something that...
905
00:49:53,468 --> 00:49:54,992
No pain.
906
00:49:55,166 --> 00:50:00,171
Santiago says to his victims
on stage
907
00:50:00,345 --> 00:50:02,782
as he basically lulls them
into their death.
908
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:09,180
♪
909
00:50:09,354 --> 00:50:10,790
So all of a sudden, we're
in Paris
910
00:50:10,964 --> 00:50:13,923
and we're in exciting
post-war Paris.
911
00:50:14,098 --> 00:50:16,317
There's a certain
intellectual fervor
912
00:50:16,491 --> 00:50:19,799
that is taking
over this particular city.
913
00:50:19,973 --> 00:50:24,195
Paris is everything
that Claudia's been waiting for.
914
00:50:24,369 --> 00:50:26,806
I love getting old
baguettes,
915
00:50:26,980 --> 00:50:28,329
and, like, Louis,
916
00:50:28,503 --> 00:50:30,375
wearing this little scarf
917
00:50:30,549 --> 00:50:33,813
is what Louis imagines
French people wear.
918
00:50:33,987 --> 00:50:35,902
I'm the
reticent vampire of the night
919
00:50:36,076 --> 00:50:37,817
there on the east.
920
00:50:37,991 --> 00:50:39,471
I don't think
Louis is really playing
921
00:50:39,645 --> 00:50:41,081
at stereotypes
of an American tourist.
922
00:50:41,255 --> 00:50:43,083
I think he is that.
He's living it.
923
00:50:43,257 --> 00:50:45,738
He is the stereotype
of an American tourist.
924
00:50:45,912 --> 00:50:47,696
What do you want?
925
00:50:47,870 --> 00:50:51,048
How are you
going to get there?
926
00:50:51,222 --> 00:50:53,137
There's some giddiness there,
927
00:50:53,311 --> 00:50:55,008
and there's some humor
that they haven't had.
928
00:50:55,182 --> 00:50:57,445
Certainly not
since they killed Lestat.
929
00:50:57,619 --> 00:51:00,753
Our finest seats.
930
00:51:00,927 --> 00:51:03,364
O'Byrne: And then
they get to meet these vampires.
931
00:51:03,538 --> 00:51:05,018
And this is really the thing
932
00:51:05,192 --> 00:51:07,238
that Claudia has
been desperately seeking.
933
00:51:07,412 --> 00:51:10,197
And in Armand, we have someone
934
00:51:10,371 --> 00:51:12,025
that is really intriguing
to Louis.
935
00:51:12,199 --> 00:51:16,290
So both of them
are over the moon.
936
00:51:16,464 --> 00:51:18,597
You learn
when they go to the theater
937
00:51:18,771 --> 00:51:20,033
and they meet the coven,
938
00:51:20,207 --> 00:51:22,122
Claudia
is someone that needs community.
939
00:51:22,296 --> 00:51:25,430
Louis is someone that needs
to know that community is there,
940
00:51:25,604 --> 00:51:26,735
but to be away from it
941
00:51:26,909 --> 00:51:27,823
a lot.
942
00:51:27,997 --> 00:51:33,699
♪
943
00:51:33,873 --> 00:51:39,096
Welcome to "The
Displacement of Reason".
944
00:51:39,270 --> 00:51:43,578
What sold Prague to us
as a shooting location for Paris
945
00:51:43,752 --> 00:51:45,841
was not the physical Prague,
946
00:51:46,015 --> 00:51:47,887
which is one of the most
beautiful cities in the world
947
00:51:48,061 --> 00:51:50,716
and can recreate Paris in many,
many ways.
948
00:51:50,890 --> 00:51:53,719
It was this huge factory
949
00:51:53,893 --> 00:51:57,810
we walked into looking for
the vampire theater.
950
00:51:57,984 --> 00:51:59,638
The Americans are
here.
951
00:51:59,812 --> 00:52:02,815
And almost immediately,
I just saw
952
00:52:02,989 --> 00:52:05,034
the sparkle on
Marla LePere-Schloop's eyes,
953
00:52:05,209 --> 00:52:08,255
and our production designers,
and we said, "Okay, we're home."
954
00:52:08,429 --> 00:52:10,475
This is where we need to be.
955
00:52:10,649 --> 00:52:12,433
It's just spectacular.
956
00:52:12,607 --> 00:52:14,957
That was a key factor
that brought us to Prague,
957
00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:17,351
was landing this location
and understanding
958
00:52:17,525 --> 00:52:20,354
how vital that was going to be
to season two.
959
00:52:20,528 --> 00:52:23,531
The prospect
of getting to work on a TV show
960
00:52:23,705 --> 00:52:25,272
where there's a theater company
961
00:52:25,446 --> 00:52:28,057
was just too exciting
to pass up,
962
00:52:28,232 --> 00:52:31,844
and we wanted to have an
exciting leading man, Santiago.
963
00:52:32,018 --> 00:52:33,672
So we got the great Ben Daniels.
964
00:52:33,846 --> 00:52:37,545
We here at Teatres de Vampires
965
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,592
delve into the
underbelly of the human soul.
966
00:52:40,766 --> 00:52:41,984
Anderson: Santiago
and the whole coven--
967
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:44,248
it's like a breath of fresh air.
968
00:52:44,422 --> 00:52:47,555
It's like this new mischievous
energy that comes into the show.
969
00:52:47,729 --> 00:52:50,210
Hayles: This is what she's been
waiting for.
970
00:52:50,384 --> 00:52:52,995
And she envisions a family
with these coven members,
971
00:52:53,170 --> 00:52:54,823
just living her best life,
eating people.
972
00:52:54,997 --> 00:52:56,695
[Cheers and applause]
973
00:52:56,869 --> 00:53:00,481
Johnson: Santiago is
certainly the most theatrical
974
00:53:00,655 --> 00:53:02,831
of everybody
in the vampire theater.
975
00:53:03,005 --> 00:53:06,008
Everything you're
about to see...
976
00:53:06,183 --> 00:53:07,271
Johnson:
He thinks he's Laurence Olivier.
977
00:53:07,445 --> 00:53:08,707
...is real...
978
00:53:08,881 --> 00:53:09,969
Johnson: But he is
mesmerizing,
979
00:53:10,143 --> 00:53:11,710
and he is captivating.
980
00:53:11,884 --> 00:53:13,668
...and appalling!
981
00:53:13,842 --> 00:53:15,409
Johnson: And the audience
loves him.
982
00:53:15,583 --> 00:53:18,282
I love you for it.
983
00:53:18,456 --> 00:53:20,284
And Claudia immediately falls
in love
984
00:53:20,458 --> 00:53:22,199
with what he represents
and wants to be a part of it.
985
00:53:22,373 --> 00:53:24,375
[ Screaming ]
986
00:53:24,549 --> 00:53:26,246
Santiago: No, no, no,
no, no, no.
987
00:53:26,420 --> 00:53:27,682
Let her speak, sir.
988
00:53:32,209 --> 00:53:35,299
I'd like to point out,
also, just a little aside,
989
00:53:35,473 --> 00:53:38,780
that the woman who plays Annika,
the first victim we see,
990
00:53:38,954 --> 00:53:42,306
is actually our director's
assistant.
991
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:44,917
We found out that she is
an actress, a very good actress,
992
00:53:45,091 --> 00:53:46,527
and primarily an actress.
993
00:53:49,748 --> 00:53:51,315
Sinead, who played the woman,
994
00:53:51,489 --> 00:53:54,448
she was very,
very good at being terrified.
995
00:53:54,622 --> 00:53:57,234
It was very upsetting to see
because it was like all of her
996
00:53:57,408 --> 00:53:59,105
in her entirety.
997
00:53:59,279 --> 00:54:01,716
But for Claudia,
I think Claudia fully was like,
998
00:54:01,890 --> 00:54:03,544
"Where are the stairs
to the stage?
999
00:54:03,718 --> 00:54:04,980
Like, get me on there right
now."
1000
00:54:05,154 --> 00:54:06,808
Up.
1001
00:54:06,982 --> 00:54:08,854
Johnson: It was
just so funny to be working
1002
00:54:09,028 --> 00:54:11,900
alongside the set
next to somebody
1003
00:54:12,074 --> 00:54:15,730
who all of a sudden is on stage
being devoured by Santiago
1004
00:54:15,904 --> 00:54:17,602
and later the rest
of the company.
1005
00:54:17,776 --> 00:54:20,039
And it's brutal and
beautiful
1006
00:54:20,213 --> 00:54:23,390
and just so theatrical
and so brilliant.
1007
00:54:27,046 --> 00:54:30,484
[ Cheers and applause ]
1008
00:54:30,658 --> 00:54:31,964
Bravo!
1009
00:54:34,488 --> 00:54:37,012
Anderson: There's, like,
14 vampires now on the show.
1010
00:54:37,186 --> 00:54:40,886
And I was like, "Wow,
this is intense.
1011
00:54:41,060 --> 00:54:43,062
This is like a new thing."
1012
00:54:43,236 --> 00:54:44,716
And they all
had relationships already,
1013
00:54:44,890 --> 00:54:46,370
and they've been rehearsing
1014
00:54:46,544 --> 00:54:48,241
and they've been,
like, shooting these plays.
1015
00:54:48,415 --> 00:54:51,418
It was really helpful
for me personally to walk
1016
00:54:51,592 --> 00:54:53,681
into this whole world
of vampires.
1017
00:54:53,855 --> 00:54:56,031
It was, like, unfamiliar
and different as well
1018
00:54:56,205 --> 00:54:58,120
to what we established
in season one,
1019
00:54:58,295 --> 00:55:00,732
but also just, like,
a very funny,
1020
00:55:00,906 --> 00:55:03,778
very lovely group of people.
1021
00:55:03,952 --> 00:55:06,694
I ask you now--
was it worth the wait?
1022
00:55:06,868 --> 00:55:15,442
♪
1023
00:55:15,616 --> 00:55:19,577
Malloy
is finally getting his footing
1024
00:55:19,751 --> 00:55:23,668
when it comes to
how to deal with the fact
1025
00:55:23,842 --> 00:55:26,235
that there are now
two vampires instead of one.
1026
00:55:26,410 --> 00:55:28,107
Are you two going to finish
1027
00:55:28,281 --> 00:55:29,761
each other's sentences
for the whole session?
1028
00:55:29,935 --> 00:55:32,677
We've been together
77 years, Daniel.
1029
00:55:32,851 --> 00:55:35,897
What was fun was
realizing
1030
00:55:36,071 --> 00:55:38,813
that we'd spent
all of season one
1031
00:55:38,987 --> 00:55:41,903
with Rashid lingering in the
background.
1032
00:55:42,077 --> 00:55:43,688
You're lingering, Rashid.
1033
00:55:43,862 --> 00:55:45,864
It was fun
for me to see, like,
1034
00:55:46,038 --> 00:55:49,171
little things that Assad was
doing in season one as Rashid,
1035
00:55:49,346 --> 00:55:51,043
where you can see him under it
1036
00:55:51,217 --> 00:55:53,306
What do you think will happen
to Mr. du Lac
1037
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:55,047
when you publish this book?
1038
00:55:55,221 --> 00:55:57,919
I love
working with Assad.
1039
00:55:58,093 --> 00:56:01,096
He's so intense and
it's wonderful to play against.
1040
00:56:01,270 --> 00:56:02,881
It's really fun.
1041
00:56:03,055 --> 00:56:04,970
She wanted to say yes,
1042
00:56:05,144 --> 00:56:06,580
but she didn't trust you.
1043
00:56:06,754 --> 00:56:08,713
You hadn't given her
a reason to.
1044
00:56:08,887 --> 00:56:10,367
Zaman: It's not Malloy's fault
that he's here.
1045
00:56:10,541 --> 00:56:12,630
He was brought here by Louis.
1046
00:56:12,804 --> 00:56:15,633
But now that he is here
and he's prying,
1047
00:56:15,807 --> 00:56:17,809
Armand has to preserve
their relationship
1048
00:56:17,983 --> 00:56:19,811
and their history together.
1049
00:56:19,985 --> 00:56:22,857
If you're willing to ask
your questions and then listen.
1050
00:56:23,031 --> 00:56:25,773
It becomes a battle of wits.
1051
00:56:25,947 --> 00:56:27,122
What happened next?
1052
00:56:27,296 --> 00:56:33,346
♪
1053
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:36,393
O'Byrne:
And we have this phenomenal
scene in front of this--
1054
00:56:36,567 --> 00:56:37,959
we always called it
the Murder Mansion.
1055
00:56:38,133 --> 00:56:41,136
It's described exactly
how we see it.
1056
00:56:41,310 --> 00:56:44,270
They arrive,
and then Louis and Armand
1057
00:56:44,444 --> 00:56:45,750
have this wonderful flirtation.
1058
00:56:45,924 --> 00:56:48,840
- Enjoy yourselves.
- Mmm.
1059
00:56:49,014 --> 00:56:51,886
That might have been
one of the best days of my life.
1060
00:56:52,060 --> 00:56:54,715
It was-- [ Laughs ]
It was-- Honestly,
1061
00:56:54,889 --> 00:56:56,151
it was just adults playing.
1062
00:56:56,325 --> 00:56:57,370
You coming?
1063
00:56:57,544 --> 00:57:00,504
A hit
before the play?
1064
00:57:00,678 --> 00:57:02,375
Hayles: What
I really liked about Levan's
1065
00:57:02,549 --> 00:57:04,682
direction in this is
that when we got in the mansion,
1066
00:57:04,856 --> 00:57:07,772
it was like, "You're vampires.
Go have fun.
1067
00:57:07,946 --> 00:57:09,817
- Be vampires."
- [Shouting]
1068
00:57:09,991 --> 00:57:12,472
Zaman: The chaos
in the background
1069
00:57:12,646 --> 00:57:16,476
and vintage noir romance
happening in the foreground.
1070
00:57:16,650 --> 00:57:18,652
She's something,
your Claudia.
1071
00:57:18,826 --> 00:57:20,132
Spark in the dark.
1072
00:57:20,306 --> 00:57:22,047
The thing that I remember
1073
00:57:22,221 --> 00:57:24,136
most about
filming the Murder Mansion scene
1074
00:57:24,310 --> 00:57:26,791
was that it's like--
[Imitates glass shattering]
1075
00:57:26,965 --> 00:57:29,663
"Ah! Ah!"
1076
00:57:29,837 --> 00:57:31,448
Just, like, all this madness
happening behind him.
1077
00:57:31,622 --> 00:57:33,319
You must work harder
on that.
1078
00:57:33,493 --> 00:57:36,278
And every single time
something smashed or popped,
1079
00:57:36,453 --> 00:57:38,890
I was like--
just jumping.
1080
00:57:39,064 --> 00:57:40,805
You're not going in?
1081
00:57:40,979 --> 00:57:42,589
I am now
where I most want to be.
1082
00:57:42,763 --> 00:57:44,069
But somehow,
1083
00:57:44,243 --> 00:57:45,462
Assad just managed
to, like--
1084
00:57:45,636 --> 00:57:48,813
just very focused
and didn't flinch.