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Unconscious death is the fate of all mortal.

Ah.

Ah. No Pain is the name of episode three, and it is ironic because the

episode is about pain.

No pain.

No pain.

We jump back in time with Armand.

What we get is Armand's backstory, which pulls a little bit from the Vampire

Lestat, which is the next book, so that's obviously exciting for our

fans. Our ways were finished.

We were embers on a waning pile.

It also gives us an opportunity to learn a little bit more about the coven, gets

us some Lestat in there, and one of the best things is that for a long time we

get the Louis version of Lestat, and now we get the Armand version of Lestat,

and how are they different, and you watch Sam do that stuff, and it's just

exquisite.

By this point, we've learned that who tells the story is often more important

than how the story is being told. How much of it is true? How much of it is

to paint Armand in a good light?

Tonight,

we have a little altercation between two vampires and a mortal.

So I'm going to be hurling this stuff up against that wall just over there.

Levin, who's directing this episode, is detail -oriented, and he's a massive fan

of the book as well. So he understands where this particular part of the story

fits narratively in the next book.

What I felt was important in this scene, we have a time freeze element that

happens. We're using people who are good at standing frozen and we're using

fishnets to have dresses.

It's very analog, which I like.

It's pretty impressive, I think. They've managed to freeze some horses in the

background. Some of the horses are being very well behaved.

I get dragged on a rig, which is really fun to do. And if you got to see all

those beautiful velvet wolf killer coats get ripped up. It's lots of French.

We've done a system we call a black line and a nitrogen ratchet to motivate our

stunt performer toward the wall.

We always take what's on paper and try to make it bigger and better. As the

scene progresses, the anger and the emotion increases, so the stunt becomes

bigger and bigger. We go from a slide and a flick to flying again.

You're not the first to attempt this.

I could give you the names of four robbers you have, and they're all dead.

Or undead.

The Talamasca is very important to the Anne Rice canon.

Files have been placed with proper encryption on your comically vulnerable

laptop.

It's almost like Men in Black.

This is an organization that oversees all of the demons.

Witches, vampires, all of this unexplained phenomena.

Anne Rice's imagination seems to be limitless, and she's able to create a

and then add another world onto it. So the Talamaska world is just wonderful.

It's a wonderful foil to the whole vampire world.

Louis, who we met before he was a vampire, he's almost like an undercover

in a world in which he can't be found out.

There is much talk of your camera in the coven. They say you're mad in love with

humanity, leaving their private moments with light and shadow. So Louis is very

tentative and reluctant to join anybody.

Perhaps the two of you. I'm not joining the coven.

I think for the Coven, it's a rejection of them and what a vampire should be and

shouldn't be. Whereas Louis is always teetering on ideas of morality and who

is and what's right and what's wrong.

He can't commit in the way that they've committed to their set of rules, and

that just makes him a target.

Stick with it, Poose.

You're almost there.

Poose. Flea. It's a horrible nickname, but Claudia doesn't take any of it in

because she realizes what they're doing in calling her that, and it's flea

meaning little, like, bottom of the barrel.

They're going to let me join the carbon ender this week.

It'd be nice if you can't.

As an audience, everybody roots for Claudia because she demands to be taken

seriously.

Claudia is very intelligent, so I wouldn't say she completely changed

I'd say she moulded herself to appease them. But I think she's always combating

with being a second choice for people. So when she meets the coven and all

vampires are accepting her into the coven, she is fulfilled and she's found

she's been looking for, a group of people that put her first.

To finally be in the coven and...

have an opportunity to go on stage, but to have to play a baby. She just

reinforces all of the issues that she has about being taken seriously, being

respected. You'll be their little birdie for the next 50 years.

Being able to make proactive decisions about her own life. It's a void that's

created for her, that she can never have that.

Shall we have a walk?

For all intents and purposes, Armand is going to kill Louis.

I don't think...

It was preempted that he might not, because he feels he has no choice. His

years with the Coven is a lot more important than this new person who's

into his life, even though this person is magnetic and making him feel all

amazing new emotions.

I will not harm you. Louis is in shock.

Those were your first words to me. In that moment.

And so they share a bit of their past and a bit of their trauma.

Why isn't he killing me? I think the cogs are turning.

Those with the most power. For like their power dynamic.

Are often the weakest.

You want to come upstairs?

He doesn't have a way out in the end. He chooses.

Are you inviting me in?

The choice in the end is.

Depends. To pursue love.

Are you going to kill me? To pursue this feeling.