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BTS photos of the costumes for The Vampire Lestat Concert in NYC from Lex Wood 🎸

From its_lexwood on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcGd3OolUvI

One week to go ! …

… ahead of the premiere performance One Night Only from The Vampire Lestat launching on AMC+

… for the curious minds, here’s a little teensy peek into the process behind dressing a vampire rocker ! 🖤🩸

Assistant Costume Designer - @thenatewasson

Endless production support - @rissdreemy & @carenamarchi

Immense thanks to my agent @heyimkellya @itg_btl

📸 @amcsannerice & my camera roll

& all you kind souls who sent beautiful photos of the brat prince !

#thevampirelestat #costumedesigner #onenightonly #behindthescenes #creativeprocess

u/Cave_Potat — 5 days ago
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Jacob talking about the Long Table scene - an interview with Collider

From pnemiroff on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db\_JykuvdX2

“I thought of that Louis as sort of like, meme Louis … It’s also not a Louis that ever existed. You know if you have a fight with somebody and you can’t see beyond your own reasoning for why you’re upset, and you can sort of build a version of the other person that is evil, or like they’ve set out to hurt you? That was what I wanted to play on the table.”

Obsessed with the endless creativity possibilities of this show. Catch my full chat with Jacob Anderson for The Vampire Lestat on Collider now!

#jacobanderson #thevampirelestat #iwtv #interviewwiththevampire #jenniferehle

u/Cave_Potat — 7 days ago
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Production Design deep dive from Andres Cubillan - Temporary Auction House (Episode 1)

From andres_cubillan_soto on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/Db-n9JADYmD

Episode 1 Int. Temporary Auction House:

A clandestine, legally questionable auction of some very illegal material. A temporary site where the richest of the rich could gather and bid on some of the most monumental evidence and firsthand accounts of the events following the final concert.

The script called for “A Music Box.” In discussions with Rolin, Hannah, and Craig, we talked about a distinctive piece of furniture that Lestat would have hand-picked to house such a precious collection of items.

We always envisioned something smaller—a unique piece of fine, delicate carpentry, perhaps Danish or Italian. But once we researched the specific list of items it needed to house, we realized we needed something a little more formidable.

I loved the look of the Ferdinando Meccani Corinto Sideboard from 1978. It’s monolithically elegant and beautifully crafted, but its design gives no hint of what might be hidden inside. I liked that it looked almost like a candy box or one of those advent calendars, where you’d open all the different-sized doors, excited to discover what was inside.

Set Designer @loraylove reconceived the sideboard, since we were going to have to build our own to the specific proportions we needed. It was then built by brilliant furniture maker @brettpaulindesign of Toronto, in an impossibly short amount of time.

Inside: a Rossner & Sohn Mott turntable (@rossner, meticulously recreated by our set decoration team. Two gorgeous Beolab 90 speakers, lent to us especially by @bangolufsen (among many other amazing pieces for Lestat's House). A bottle of Niepoort 1863 Port, the result of detailed research by Set Decoration and meticulous recreation of the labels and details by @kcdemille. Over 100 records, all individually labeled and sleeved.

The auction program, in a nod to Lestat’s 17th-century theater posters and antique auction brochures, was designed by graphic designer @alison.psd

Special thanks to set designer Vicky Peters and our Construction department for not shying away from the challenge of making two glass boxes with barely any supports and operable hanging doors.

@amcsannerice @amcplus @iwtvupdates @iwtv_vampirelestat

u/Cave_Potat — 7 days ago
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Production Design deep dive from Andres Cubillan - Tour Bus - Lestat's Lounge

From andres_cubillan_soto

https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbs4ixMjeJF

Int. Tour Bus - Lestat's Lounge

A few of you asked for some more detailed shots of Lestat's lounge on the tour bus, so here they are. I went through several iterations of this set, trying to capture Lestat as a worldly, affluent, elegant, bratty, sexy, luxurious, artistic, bon vivant, rock star romantic... the list goes on.

Set designer @radia_sl and concept artist @sean_hamilton can attest to how many versions we tried. We tested fabrics, color palettes, floor patterns, and wallpapers. I even found an incredible wallpaper by a New Orleans designer whose patterns are inspired by sound waves. It felt perfect... until the camera got involved. No matter what we tried, the pattern moiréd.

From the beginning, I knew I wanted him to have a mobile recording studio; a place where inspiration could strike, given the right "muse", at any moment. Hidden inside the kidney-shaped overglazed ceramic cabinet is a keyboard, seat, basic recording setup, and microphone, drawers for jewelry, notebooks and sheet music, an Anne Boysen vase for violin bows, and an iconic '70s Rougier floral lamp. Opposite that sits a rosewood bar cabinet with a gold snake handle. A record player within and a light-up top for "miscellaneous substances" and blood hookah. Next to that, his instrument case. A custom, glass-fronted, chromed cabinet with suede-lined drawers. Then there's the brown leather swing (complete with stirrups), and the hanging glass tube light hanging down the spiral staircase, inspired by Raphael Hefti's Starmix.

One little detail I love: the three-button ceramic switch plate on the ceiling, each button hand-painted with an anatomical heart—red for blood, yellow for light, and blue for water. And finally, poor Molloy's accommodations. While Lestat enjoys all this luxury, Daniel gets a supply closet in the back, an upright climbing sleeping bag, a clip-on light, wool pockets, and a folding table for his journalistic efforts.

Would you go on tour in here?

@iwtvupdates @iwtv_vampirelestat @amcsannerice @amcplus

u/Cave_Potat — 14 days ago
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Costume Design: Akasha's wig (via stefanieterzo)

From stefanieterzo on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbZJ3AbEovL

#Akasha

This was a really rewarding wig for me to build and create!! It was so thrilling researching, playing, figuring out how >!the people of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk wore their hair over in 4000BCE!< when we have so little to reference for realism. It’s almost like they didn’t have cameras back then or something. Making it took many collaborative conversations with many different people and departments. From Rolin Jones to @sheilaatim @hannahmoscovitch @levanakin @its_lexwood @andres_cubillan_soto @tamilynnlane @hoops511 and so so so many more!!

Although this was episode 5, we didn’t shoot this scene with Sheila until the very end of production on the last couple days. Filming ran a couple weeks past my due date (I was pregnant at the time) so I was not there for the filming of this scene but @ tamaraciraolo did a fantastic job putting the wig on along with Tami and Lex helping to paint it to blend it all into the beautiful live stone artistry you see here :)

#queenofthedamned #thevamirelestat #tvl #interviewwiththevampire

u/Cave_Potat — 22 days ago
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Daniel Hart sharing his work and idea behind Stained Glass Eyes 🎹

From danielmwenda on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbSu-eOlBud

I turned in Stained Glass Eyes v1 on Dec. 19th, 2024, less than a month before the Eaton Fire, from which my family and I would flee for our lives. Looks like I turned in SGE demo v5b - the version we recorded and released - at the end of Feb. 2025, about six weeks after said fleeing. As I've relayed in a couple interviews now, Stained Glass Eyes was an assignment from Rolin ("we need a Claudia song to break Lestat open in Ep 305"), and my v1 demo wasn't what Rolin had in mind for the scene. My from-the-ground-up redo v2 ended up sounding to me like a reject from the Lestat Broadway show. The third almost complete reimagining was the right song for the episode, and some tempo and lyrical tweaks got us the extra versions.

So the song was written over about 3 months - by far the longest amount of time I spent writing any TVL song. I'm sure the fires slowed me down. Conversely, at the beginning of 2025, I was more intimately acquainted with the dangers and losses of everything burning away than I'd ever been. It is a song about one of the deepest forms of loss (loss of a child), and a song about being haunted by the ghosts of your mistakes, and haunted by your suppressed yet unrelenting grief.

Lyrically speaking, the title of the song came to me first, and it was always going to be called Stained Glass Eyes. One of my favorite things about growing up in an Episcopal church was all the stained glass. Even now, I find it remarkably beautiful, full of magic and meaning, which I try to hold with reverence. To describe Claudia's eyes with that same reverence, and find the beauty in her final stare at Lestat, as she was burning away...I felt like I'd peeled back some layers with that title, and it helped me get down to the core of what the song needed to be, and say.

u/Cave_Potat — 25 days ago
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The Failures single (all 23 songs) are now on streaming platforms! 🎸🎶

- Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy\_llxi0p8lNwZb2gnR\_-Tk1gW1KLl2Jk5Zw

- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5IQkMQmgI1OFibNmSHfH0y

- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-failures/6792851584

There are 23 songs in total, including 4 new ones:

- Le Petit Coup (Lestat's Version)

- Stained Glass Eyes (Bare Bone) [show version]

- Hit The Lights

- The Loneliness (Remixxx) [with Matthew Santos]

u/Cave_Potat — 28 days ago