Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt

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‘I didn’t discover rationality until I went to England’: Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, sandwich-boarding and seeing his dad’s ghost https://t.co/krpfMEnn5W
- The Guardian (@guardian) June 13, 2024
In an interview with The Guardian, Neil Jordan opens up about working Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in Interview with the Vampire

Comments

[jontargaryen]

If I like the TV show, should I watch the 90s movie? I've never seen it. Will Brad Pitt piss me off in this role (more than he normally does)?

[war_machine_rox]

it's different from the show obviously but I think it's worth a watch just for Cruise's performance alone.

Little Kiki too. Jacob is a better Louis tho but that's a hard character to play.

I think it's a very good movie but I was also a teenager at the time so could be the emo in me talking lol

[panucho]

the movie is fine, it's worthy imo just to see tom cruise act unhinged and pitt being out acted by 12 yo kirsten dunst in every scene

[theladyflash]

[pa0r_ple]

The show made a lot of changes, but the fundamental concept is still there. I'm biased cause I first saw it when I was like 13 and thought it was the pinnacle of filmmaking lol. I still really love it despite knowing what Tom and Brad are like now...you can give the first 30 minutes or so a try and if you're not into it by then I'd say don't bother finishing.

[januarysix]

I love the movie. I also thought Tom Cruise was miscast but he did a great job. I think Brad being bland and depressed makes sense for his character. I think thats how his character is in the book so I'm not sure why people give him shit for it.

[sjazzmreow]

Ironically after all the discourse about Cruise, I think it actually ended up being Brad Pitt that was miscast. I totally agree with you that he played Louis as written and in a way that makes sense for the character, it's just that bland and depressed isn't something that works particluarly well for Brad Pitt. He's better with louder characters like in 12 Monkeys or Fight Club, or with style and humour like in Ocean's 11, or even depressed but mysterious and world weary like in The Assassination of Jesse James. Give him a lowkey character and he's boring as fuck; he just can't generate the right kind of pathos.

[frelling_tralk]

I think that the movie did a far better job than the series has with adapting Claudia tbh, the whole point is that she’s supposed to forever look like a little girl, but I can never buy it on the tv series when they try and make a big deal about her character supposedly not looking like an adult. Whereas Kirsten was soooo good at selling the pathos of Claudia being trapped in the body of a little girl who will never grow up

https://youtu.be/LIm8HfwnmVE?si=xlUz_iJoeIOvGSSd

I much prefer Louis and Lestat’s relationship from the tv series though, but Tom Cruise was still a lot of fun in the movie, the ending especially was pretty iconic

[pseudonygma]

As someone who never read the books, I did not get the hype for the movie at all but Kirsten Dunst was phenomenal and outacted both Tom and Brad. The two leads for the series are better but Kirsten is by far the superior Claudia.

[my_moloko]

Watch it just for fun. Especially to see a young Kirsten Dunst show off her acting chops, jfc she's been talented from the start.

[sjazzmreow]

They just feel like utterly different beasts to me, to the point that idt liking the show is necessarily a good gauge for how you'll feel about the movie.

I usually enjoy Brad Pitt as an actor but his Louis is deeply blah. Tom Cruise's Lestat is not a typical Tom Cruise role/performance and a lot of people enjoy it, but he's still Tom Cruise, so I struggle to not loathe every second of him (he's also not nearly as charming a Lestat as Sam Reid).

Kirsten Dunst is incredible, though. Claudia is what makes the film interesting, imo.

[winter_lace]

It's fun. Kiki and Tom act circles around Brad. Antonio Banderas is offensive as Armand.

It might make you appreciate the series more because they and Jacob Anderson truly elevates Louis as a character