The interview with Vampire director Neil Jordan addressed the backlash over his casting of Tom Cruise instead of Daniel Day Lewis in the 1994 film.
Cruise, 61, memorably played antihero Lestat de Lioncourt, who turned Louis (Brad Pitt) into a vampire in the film adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel, but at the time there was an uproar over the decision to cast the Top Gun star in place of Day Lewis. , 62.
Director Neil Jordan, 74, details accusations that he “miscast” Cruise in his new memoir, writing in an excerpt according to The Telegraph: ‘Brad Pitt had agreed to play Louis and somehow assumed that Daniel Day-Lewis would play Lestat, an assumption shared by Anne. I offered it to Daniel, who read it and, as he expected, did not want to play the character.
‘A few years earlier, she had confined herself to a wheelchair to play Christy Brown in My Left Foot.
‘I would have had to sleep in a coffin throughout this production if I had followed the same practice. So we move on.’
The interview with Vampire director Neil Jordan addressed the backlash over his casting of Tom Cruise instead of Daniel Day Lewis in the 1994 film: Cruise is seen as Lestat.
After meeting Cruise twice at his home, Jordan said he realized the superstar had a lot in common with Lestat, writing, “I finally got it.” She had to live a life away from the gaze of others. She had made a contract with the hidden forces, whatever they were. She had to hide in the shadows, even under the Hollywood sunlight. He would be eternally young. He was a star. He might as well be Lestat.
Jordan praised Cruise as an “excellent actor” but said that “a small detail was lost in the outrage” that followed, noting how even Rice herself had spoken of her displeasure at the casting, although she later apologized.
Esquire said of her frustrations: ‘Encouraged by her readers, Rice has embarked on a one-woman crusade to shame Tom Cruise; Warner Brothers, the studio financing the film; and David Geffen, the film’s producer…
‘Rice has been cursing Cruise for trashing his script, sanitizing the sexual content to accommodate his clean image, and perpetuating the worst crime in the name of casting since Bonfire of the Vanities…
“I wanted to call David Geffen and say, ‘How the hell could you do this?’
Tom later spoke about his shock at the news, saying: “When I first found out, it really hurt my feelings, to be honest about it.” Normally you don’t start a movie with someone who doesn’t want you to make it.’ He later apologized.
Jordan added to The Guardian about the reaction to Cruise’s casting: “The whole world said, ‘You’re wrongly cast.'”
‘He is a great actor. If he says he can do something, he will do it in a way that will surprise people. Tom has become the last remaining movie star. He’s kind of strange.
Cruise, 61, memorably played antihero Lestat de Lioncourt, who turned Louis (Brad Pitt) into a vampire in the film adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel, but at the time there was an uproar over the decision to cast the Top Gun star in place of Day Lewis. , 62
Director Neil Jordan, 74, details accusations that he “miscast” Cruise in his new memoir, writing in an excerpt: “I offered it to Daniel, who read it and, as I expected, didn’t want to play the character.” “. Day Lewis photographed in 1990 with the Oscar for best actor for My Left Foot)
Jordan added that Pitt was exhausted by the filming schedule (the star had just wrapped Legends of the Fall) and said, “It just wore him out. Brad is a very active guy, that was the direction he wanted to take. The passivity of the character made him depressed
Jordan added that Pitt was exhausted by the filming schedule (the star had just wrapped Legends of the Fall) and said, “It just wore him out. Brad is a very active guy, that was the direction he wanted to take. The passivity of the character made him “depressed.”
Pitt, then 30, debated stopping filming the blockbuster, which had a budget of $60m (£47m), but found out from producer and friend David Geffen that he should pull out. it would cost him $40m (£32m). so he refused.
Brad played Louis in the film: a grieving plantation owner who is transformed into a vampire for all eternity by Cruise’s Lestat.
The 1994 film was Kirsten Dunst’s breakthrough, she played a 10-year-old girl named Claudia who was turned into a vampire by Louis and Lestat.
