Anne Rice’s classic horror novel Interview With The Vampire has been adapted again, this time for a BBC drama that aired in Britain on Thursday.
However, if you think back almost three decades, the most famous horror film adaptation is the 1994 film starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst.
Brad played the role of the titular Louisiana vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells his bloody life story in the interview, and while he won legions of fans through the film, he admitted he was “miserable” during the arduous, dark filming. felt.
The then 30-year-old considered dropping out of filming the blockbuster, which had a $60 million (£47 million) budget, but producer and friend David Geffen was told he would be paid $40 million (£32 million). pounds) would cost to say goodbye – so he refused.
The film’s stars enjoyed widespread fame throughout Hollywood, including some of the film industry’s most established stars.
Where are you now?
BRAD PITT
Spooky: Anne Rice’s classic novel Interview with the Vampire has been adapted again, this time for a BBC drama. The most famous adaptation is the 1994 film starring Brad Pitt (pictured)
Review: Brad played Louis in the film – a grieving plantation owner who is forever transformed into the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (pictured left and right in the film in 2019)
Brad played Louis in the film – a grieving plantation owner who is forever transformed into the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt.
While his character told his story to Christian Slater’s reporter character Daniel Molloy, filming took a long time and took place in the middle of the night.
Speaking about his hatred of making the film, Brad said: “We got to London and London was bloody dark.” It was the dead of winter in London. We shoot in Pinewood (Studios), an old institution – all the James Bond films…
“There are no windows in there.” It hasn’t been renovated in decades. You go to work in the dark – you go into this cauldron, into this mausoleum – and then you come out and it’s dark…
“I tell you, one day it broke me. It was like, “Life is too short for this quality of life.” I called David Geffen, who was a good friend. He was a producer and had just come to visit. I said, “David, I can’t do this anymore.” I can’t do it…
“How much will it cost me to get out?” And he says very calmly, “Forty million dollars.” And I say, “Okay, thanks.” It actually took away my fear. I thought, “I’ve got to man up and get through this, and that’s what I’m going to do.”
After starring in the film, Brad established himself as one of Hollywood’s most legendary modern heartthrobs.
In addition to acting, he also turned to directing, including a slew of other ventures – including his own winery with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, before their bitter divorce led to a legal battle over the Miraval estate in France.
TOM CRUISE
Horror: Tom Cruise played the anti-hero Lestat de Lioncourt – who turned Louis into a vampire
On screen: It was previously reported that writer Ric was unhappy with Tom’s casting as she found him unconvincing in the role (pictured left in the film and right in 2023).
Tom played the anti-hero Lestat de Lioncourt, who turned Louis into a vampire.
It was previously reported that writer Ric was unhappy with Tom’s casting as she found him unconvincing in the role.
Esquire said of her frustrations: “Encouraged by her readers, Rice has embarked on a one-woman crusade to embarrass Tom Cruise; Warner Brothers, the studio financing the film; and David Geffen, the film’s producer…
“Rice cursed Cruise for butchering her script, sanitizing the sexual content to suit his clean-cut image, and committing the worst crime since The Bonfire of the Vanities in the name of casting…
“I wanted to call David Geffen and say, ‘How the hell could you do that?'”
Tom later expressed his dismay at the news, saying: “When it first came out it really hurt me to be honest about it.” “Normally you don’t start a film if someone doesn’t want you to do it.” She later apologized.
Tom has had a film career spanning more than four decades, starring in 1996’s Mission: Impossible.
One of the actor’s most famous roles was that of field agent Ethan Hunt in the action series.
He has appeared in seven films in the series over the past 28 years, with another scheduled to hit cinemas in 2024.
KIRSTEN DUNST
Youngster: The 1994 film was Kirsten Dunst’s breakthrough, playing a 10-year-old girl named Claudia who was turned into a vampire by Louis de Pointe du Lac (Brad).
Star: The actress, then just 11, kissed Brad Pitt while he was filming Interview with the Vampire, and an interview that resurfaced earlier this year caused a stir among film fans (pictured left in the film and right last month).
The 1994 film was Kirsten Dunst’s breakthrough, playing a 10-year-old girl named Claudia who was turned into a vampire by Louis de Pointe du Lac (Brad) and Lestat de Lioncourt (Tom Cruise).
The actress, who was only 11 at the time, kissed Brad Pitt while filming Interview with the Vampire, and an interview that resurfaced earlier this year caused a stir among film fans.
In the clip, she described how she felt “uncomfortable” kissing the then 31-year-old and that her assessment of the scene had not become more generous in recent years.
Sharing TikTok almost 30 years later, Kirsten explains how “embarrassing” she found the scene because “he’s a man, so why should I enjoy kissing him?”
After being asked about it again, she repeated, “Brad is 31, I mean, he’s not exactly a boy.”
TikTok users watching the resurfaced clip certainly agree on the whole, with one saying: “The fact that she had to explain it?”
Many reflected on the interview and felt it was “wild” and “crazy” that a child would play such a role with someone 20 years older than them.
Since starring in the film, Kristen has had a successful career that has taken her from child star to A-list actress
Although she has yet to win an Oscar, she received two Golden Globe nominations – in 2016 for Fargo (Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie) and in 1995 (as a Child Star) for Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (Best Performance an actress in a supporting role in a movie).
She has also appeared in high-profile films such as Hidden Figures and The Beguiled.
CHRISTIAN SLATER
A-Lister: Christian Slater played Daniel Molloy in the horror film, a young reporter to whom the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells his bloody life story
Portrayed in the role of Daniel – the reporter who conducts the interview
In the horror film, Christian Slater played Daniel Molloy, a young reporter to whom the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells his bloody life story.
Since scoring huge box office success at the age of 25 by starring in the film, the actor has gone on to “Very Bad Things,” “True Romance” and “Mr. Robot”, for which he received a Golden Globe Award.
He previously starred alongside Winona Ryder in 1988’s Heathers and later became known for his tough personality.
In a 2018 interview, Christian spoke about how he had to shed his “exhausting” image and how his dark experiences have shaped the husband he is today.
The star was labeled a “bad boy” in the late 1980s and 1990s after a series of difficult roles, but life soon became art for the star, who had several run-ins with the law over the years to imitate.
The Interview With a Vampire actor has a well-documented, checkered past that includes a drunken police chase, a gun found in his luggage at JFK Airport, and a 90-day prison sentence for an assault a year 1997 belonged.
Speaking to MR PORTER, Christian, who also battled addiction, admitted he was “exhausted” and was spending a lot of time trying to sort out his problems.
He began: “That’s life.” At least that’s my life. I definitely spent a lot of time beating myself up and living with useless emotions, guilt and shame.
“I feel tortured and I justify it because the examples I had were other actors being tortured.” You blame it on yourself and think that’s how you should behave. There was a certain amount of imitation.
Adding, “I think at some point you get to a point where you just say, ‘God, what a waste of energy.’ It’s so damn exhausting.”
Now happier than ever, the Hollywood star revealed that all his life lessons have led him to his point of view and shaped the husband of his second wife Brittany Lopez, whom he married in 2013.
THANDIWE NEWTON
Role: At just 22 years old, Thandiwe Newton appeared in Interview with a Vampire, playing Yvette
Film: Her character was bitten and bled by the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who then carries her body out the door to face the crowd outside (pictured left and right in the film in September 2022)
At just 22 years old, Thandiwe Newton appeared in Interview with a Vampire, playing Yvette.
Her character has been bitten and drained of blood by the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who then carries her body out the door to face the crowd outside.
Newton’s early acting years were marked by sexual abuse. When she was 16, she said, she was groomed by then-39-year-old director John Duigan.
Duigan’s violations allegedly lasted five years, two of those years described as a “relationship” after he asked Newton’s parents for their blessing for her to become his girlfriend when she was 18.
Two years after meeting Duigan, at age 18, another director asked the actress to touch herself intimately during an audition. Newton complied with this request because a casting director was also present.
But years later, she discovered that the unnamed man had kept her tape and was playing it at poker games for other Hollywood elite.
After discovering the violation, Thandiwe began to fight against and denounce the abuse – an act that cost the actress many jobs.
In addition to her film career, she has had long-running roles in films such as “Emergency Room” and her leading role in “Westworld”.
She is best known for her roles in Beloved, The Pursuit of Happyness and Rock ‘n’ Rolla and was later cast in the 2000 film Mission Impossible 2 with co-star Tom Cruise Interview With A Vampire reunited.
The actress has won two Critics’ Choice Television Awards, an Emmy Award and a Bafta. In 2019 she was appointed OBE.
Thandiwe, who reverted to the African spelling of her name after previously going by “Thandie,” married Ol Parker in 1998 before splitting in 2022. The couple has three children together, Ripley, Nico and Booker.