Interview With The Vampire - S2 E5: Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape

Daniel and Louis uncover some truths hidden by Armand.
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[@AnxietyRat]

Yeah Daniel being a drug addict is a TV show change. He's not a drug addict in the book or the movie... I mean he DOES get addicted to vampire blood later on in the book series, from what book readers have told me. but in the book that they're adapting right now he's technically not a drug addict. So yeah that's a show change. But I kind of understand why they made the change. It makes things more interesting. It creates more depth to Daniel's character... It's the same reason why I like that they had him married to women and has kids. That wasn't a thing in the book or the movie either... Even though it is canon that Daniel is bisexual... Which kind of actually sets him apart from the majority of characters in the books... I mean vampires are essentially bisexual after they are turned into vampires but Daniel is one of the only humans who is bisexual from the jump and not from the dark gift, from what book readers have told me. But the wives and kids are a welcome change, for me. It just adds depth to his character. Additionally, Eric Bogosian has a past of drug abuse... So he's able to pull aspects from his own life into his acting for Daniel, in that aspect. Eric also lived through the 70s and so I'm sure he was able to be like "a journalist absolutely would be a drug addict... Everyone was doing drugs back then" or whatever. So there's a couple of reasons why they may have added drugs into the mix... The show in the future might dabble in the blood addiction storyline. And him already being a drug addict would mean that it would be significantly easier for him to fall into a blood addiction, fast. 🤷‍♀️ So who knows! it could have been a bunch of different reasons... Maybe just because Eric has his past and so he had some input into what Daniel's backstory would look like... Or it's potentially foreshadowing for a future plot line in the upcoming seasons. We will have to wait and see what season 3 and beyond bring us.

[@tvmoviemistress]

I can definitely see becoming addicted to vampire blood for someone like Daniel. Maybe, they'll show that in a future backstory btwn him and Armand? That would be awesome. Eric Bogosian definitely has alot from his long life to pull from and it shows.

[@AnxietyRat]

37:12 not sure if this gets addressed. But he's calling him boy because in the book Daniel is literally ONLY referred to as The Boy. He doesn't have a first name until like the third book or something. So it's like a book Easter egg... And also potentially Louis slipping into dom pimp louis mode.... Pimp Louis hated being called Boy by the (white) men of higher status in his past... So it could be a power play type thing as well. But most people within the fandom seem to just take it as a book Easter egg.

[@tvmoviemistress]

Thats pretty cool info, and that helps me see that interaction differently. Thanks!

[@AnxietyRat]

26:16 yeah, they shot this episode first because it was a bottle episode with a really relatively simple set... Because they needed to give Delainey some extra time to prep. Because she was officially casted like a week before shooting started or something stupid like that... She pretty much had ZERO prep time. So they decided to help her out and shoot an episode for a week to give her extra time. The time crunch is one of the reasons why she basically is just putting on a generic southern accent... Doesn't sound super New Orleans, like Louis does... Because she was just using a nore generic southern accent that she already had under her belt, from what it looks like. I do prefer her accent work to Bailey's accent work but I wish that she had more time to perfect a more New Orleans sounding accent. Accent work is extremely difficult and I'm sure she did the best she could with the time that she had. But yeah, this episode was an absolutely wild episode for them to start their filming off with... But it was done for a reason. Even if it was pretty much throwing their actors into the deep end... Thankfully, ALL of the actors in this bottle episode are theater trained actors (additionally they're all British theater actors... And the British theater scene always seems to turn out some mind-blowingly amazing actors. Ben Daniels who plays Santiago is ALSO a British theater actor.) And the way that this episode was shot was VERY theater-esque with a lot of long shots and movement in the scenes. So that probably was a little bit easier for this group of actors.... But yeah,... This is definitely something that most TV shows don't do when filming. I'm pretty sure they decided to do it and pulled it off as AMAZINGLY as they did because of the high caliber of actors that they are lucky enough to have on this show.

[@tvmoviemistress]

Oh wow! I didn't know it was a week before, thats insane for how well she delivered this season. I'm happy they were able to pull it off.