Interview With the Vampirereview: A century of subtext comes out of the coffin
The lateAnne RicepublishedInterview With the Vampirein 1976. Louis remembers another world. “You could be a lot of things in New Orleans,” Louis narrates. Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson on ‘Interview With the Vampire’.Michele K. Short/AMC “But an openly gay Negro man was not one of them.” Brad Pittplayed Louis in 1994’s big-screenInterviewopposite an unusually rapaciousTom Cruiseas Lestat. Anderson makes a distinctive new Louis. Lestat’s arrival is a welcome disruption. But his offer to turn Louis into an eternal leech is sweetly sincere....