Jacob Anderson credited as playing...
Louis de Pointe du Lac
- Lestat de Lioncourt: There's a column in here about the history of this lovely square. It says that the man who designed it did so after the Place de Vosges in Paris. I can see that. Used to be called the Place d'Armes. I prefer that. Don't you?
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Mm-hmm.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: The Louisiana Purchase was signed here. Penny wise, franc foolish.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Say anything about how they used to take runaway slaves, cut their heads off, and pike 'em on the iron gates as a warning?
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: I can smell her on you.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: From time to time, I like a little variety. There. I said it. We're communicating so much better now, no?
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: So I can fuck whoever I want?
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Of course... Of course! Of course. As long as you come home to me. Of course.
- [chuckles]
- [both shouting]
- Lestat de Lioncourt: I heard your hearts dancing!
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: You watched the whole thing like some creeper!
- Lestat de Lioncourt: And then I watched you pull over and drain a dog and run down an alleyway for two more rats! This is not a life!
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: That's 'cause you took my life!
- Lestat de Lioncourt: [singing] Oh, joy, oh, boy. Where do we go from here...
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Not funny.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: What can I say? I'm a lot. I'm not perfect.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: [scoffs] I knew it. I knew you were there.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Yes.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: You jealous?
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Yes. I don't like sharing.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: What about Antoinette?
- Lestat de Lioncourt: It's different. I don't have feelings for her.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: He did me some face and I drove him home!
- Lestat de Lioncourt: [shouts] I heard your hearts dancing!
- Lestat de Lioncourt: We had a good run, but I did it for Louis. I do everything for Louis.
- Antoinette: Yeah, I heard that about you two.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Oh? What have you heard?
- Antoinette: I'm not a gossip.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: But I am.
- Antoinette: Well, people at the Azalea, they say...
- [Lestat runs his hands along Antoinette's waist]
- Antoinette: You're confusing me.
- [laughs]
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Oh, come now. I don't bite. What do the employees of the Azalea say about Louis and Lestat?
- Antoinette: I'll answer with a question. Are there two beds upstairs or one?
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Do you want to find out?
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: No one goes upstairs, Miss Brown.
- Antoinette: Well, there's my answer.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Still, what do you imagine confines us to a single note? Why not a chord? Why not a cluster?
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: So you didn't kill her?
- Lestat de Lioncourt: No. She has talents.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Aren't I enough?
- Lestat de Lioncourt: [laughs hysterically]
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: You ever think that we -- that's to say, our kind -- were put on earth for a larger purpose?
- Lestat de Lioncourt: I put you on this earth. Your purpose is to enjoy yourself.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: That can't be all there is. I know you don't believe that.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Well, tell me what I believe, Louis. Excavate the hoarded thoughts buried beneath my damned soul.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: You're angry.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: I'm pondering.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Pondering what?
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Your night had nothing to do with ridding the world of criminals or finding some morality to buoy your existence. You're ashamed of what we are.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Maybe I'm just pondering what I am.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: For the infinitesimal time, you're a vampire.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: I don't want to kill people anymore. There it is.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: A fish that doesn't swim. A bird refusing flight. You're going to struggle. I fear for the feline population of New Orleans.
- [upon being confronted about the discrepancies in his recollection of his life with Lestat]
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: The version we speak of now is the more nuanced portrait.
- Daniel Molloy: Hmm. Or the more rehearsed.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Perhaps I was mistaken about the 'Wolverine Blues.'
- Daniel Molloy: Fuck the 'Wolverine Blues.' Ken Burns can choke on the footnotes. It's the abused-abuser psychological relationship I'm talking about.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: I do not consider myself abused.
- Daniel Molloy: I mean, usually when you're a little too close to it, the abused still loves the abuser, but you flipped it completely on its head.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: I'm not a victim.
- Daniel Molloy: Fifty years later, you talk like he was your soulmate. Like you were locked in some fucked up gothic romance. Why?
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: [reading from Daniel's memoir] 'I am in my Buick, staring in the rearview mirror at my daughter in the car seat, an hour after I gave Derek, a guy I don't know, the last 30 bucks I had. My editor reminds me it's seven years before car seats are mandatory. My ex-wife reminds me I never owned a Buick. This is the odyssey of recollection.'
- [closes book]
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: The tapes are an admitted performance. This is the premise of our interview. Half a century later, allow me my odyssey.
- [Daniel throws away the tapes of their first interview]
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Now who's performing?
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Many streets in New Orleans weren't paved at the time. The mud on his boots could've come from anywhere.
- Daniel Molloy: Was it raining that night?
- [Louis recalls his conversation with Jonah without rain]
- Daniel Molloy: Did it rain?
- [Louis recalls his conversation with Jonah again, this time with rain]
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: I don't remember now. It could've been dry in the bayou and wet in the Quarter. It's Louisiana.
- Daniel Molloy: The odyssey of recollection.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: When your mother sees the Devil in your eyes, it's a hard assessment to abandon. Am I from the Devil? Is my very nature that of the Devil? I had hedged against the question, but now it completely overwhelmed me.
- Daniel Molloy: You were the prince of your district. Lestat chased an American icon out of town because he loved you. 1917 doesn't sound like it was such a bad year.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Rigged to burn, Daniel.
- Antoinette: Mr. Louis, you have to convince Lestat to keep playin'.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Got a better chance makin' the Mississippi run north.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: We had a good run, but I did it for Louis. I do everything for Louis.
- [about the murder of Alderman Fenwick and the ensuing riots]
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: I didn't do it for me. I did it for my city, my people. Destroy our businesses and buy the land for cheaper. I know what they're doing!
- Lestat de Lioncourt: So that torturous death was for your people? That garish display of his body like some public art piece was for your people?
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: I didn't see this comin'.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: Save that lie for yourself. Did you not smile when he begged? Did you not feel pleasure as you carved him up?
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: Maybe you saw it comin' and didn't stop me. Maybe you went quiet on purpose.
- Lestat de Lioncourt: You did what you did because it gave you pleasure. Companion of the Dark Gift, finally. We should make this our anniversary.
- Louis de Pointe du Lac: I ran from the Quarter that night. Ran to where the violence spread most wild. I stumbled through the streets like an irrational child who had tested his strength on a small bird and now asked, 'Can I make it whole again?' Their faces raced past me like snow in a terrible wind, unaware that it was I who had brought this retribution, it was I who should pay for this sin. And then... one of those inconceivable moments where who you were before and who you'll be forever after is marked in time. A rooming house, now a fire trap. I could not save the Azalea. I could not save Storyville. I could not save the aunt on the wrong side of the wall, but I could save her. My light. My Claudia. My redemption.