Before the Southern vampires of True Blood and the sparkly vampires of Twilight, there was Interview With the Vampire, Anne Rice‘s classic 1976 novel about vampires in Louisiana.Unlike the Cullen family of The Twilight Saga, Rice’s bloodsuckers were decidedly not “vegetarian.” At one point in the book, main characters Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac even turn a 5-year-old girl into a vampire.
It’s technically an attempt to save her life, but still — drinkers of synthetic Tru Blood these are not.The first screen adaption of Interview With the Vampire arrived in 1994, with Tom Cruise as Lestat and Brad Pitt as Louis, the interviewed vampire of the title.
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