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While Lestat spoils Claudia and tries to teach her how to behave like a vampire, she largely ignores him and reserves her love for Louis. In 1860, after 65 years of living together, Claudia rebels and tries to kill Lestat by giving him two dead boys poisoned with absinthe and laudanum , then cutting his throat and stabbing him in the chest.
Louis escapes death after Lestat pleads for his life. Claudia is exposed to the sun and destroyed. Louis burns down the Théâtre, killing the vampires there as revenge for Claudia's death and drifts through the world with the Theatre's former leader, Armand, whom he had fallen in love with. They separate in the late 1970s in New Orleans.
Lestat also suffers from constant nightmares concerning his late "daughter", Claudia, for whose death he blames himself. Since Akasha's defeat , Lestat has become extremely lonely. Among his only remaining friends is David Talbot , the elderly mortal head of the Talamasca .
The Vampire Lestat. The beating heart of The Vampire Chronicles is Lestat de Lioncourt, Rice's beloved anti-hero. He takes center stage in The Vampire Lestat, which opens with an audacious frame ...
Lestat is a French nobleman born and made a vampire in the 1700s, and the primary antihero of Rice's Vampire Chronicles.He was introduced in Interview with the Vampire (1976), and has been portrayed by Tom Cruise in the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire; Stuart Townsend in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned; and by Sam Reid in the 2022 television series Interview with the Vampire.
Louis, Madeleine, and Claudia live together for a brief time, but all three are abducted one night by Armand's coven. It is revealed that Lestat survived the fire in New Orleans, scarred and weakened. He demands Claudia face punishment, even death, for her murder attempt but screams at the coven that they promised not to harm Louis.
Lestat, meanwhile, will likely spend at least part of the season recovering from Louis and Claudia’s attempt to murder him. Who Is Returning to ‘Interview With the Vampire’ Season 2?
Interview with the Vampire was released in November 1994 starring Tom Cruise as Lestat, Brad Pitt as Louis, Kirsten Dunst as Claudia and Antonio Banderas as Armand. [ 19 ] A second film, Queen of the Damned , which combined plot elements of The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned , was released in 2002 starring Stuart Townsend as Lestat ...