This article contains spoilers forInterview with the Vampireepisode 3.
Vampires and music are dangerous, and precious.
Lestat accuses the resident pianist Jelly Roll Morton (Kyle Roussel) of lazy playing, and repetitive vamps.
Know your enemies, he declares, and fires the first round.
Then he lets loose with a left-hand riff and makes the piece swing.
If Louis can play vegetarian, Lestat can play the fool.
He has an existential crisis, and Nickis violin playing, and music, takes him out of it.
In the book, Lestat and Nicolas were childhood friends in rural France.
Their reunion is a turning point, with very sad undercurrents.
Lestat is as struck by its rawness as its intensity.
One is a fiddler, the other an actor.
One is on his way down, the other is a wolf-killer.
When Lestat gains immortality as a vampire, he realizes the cost is immeasurable.
He got ripped out of this.
Its basically just that dynamic.
I thought it was so fascinating, so well-written by Rolin, Reid says.
I thought it was such a really interesting question.
