Joanna Robinson

And when she gets up to leave, he's like...

I agree.

I think the other thing, I love the connection that you made to the Italy, you know, we met at the, took our masks off.

It's, oh, but this face, I saw my face in it.

Cover story, both because...

they fall back, as Lestat observes, so quickly into the rhythm of this shared yearning that they're trying to say, like, he's trying to say, we can't do this, and then there and back again.

But the other thing is, like,

the gender roles, the need for attention, some actual like Oedipal deep sexual longing, all of it.

The other thing that feels, I think, hard to ever use the word appropriate when talking about incest, but appropriate for Lestat, a character we know very well at this point, and I think already fair to say appropriate for Gabriella, a character I've just met,

This is like seismic narcissism.

Oh, yeah.

Right?

If you're saying the thing I see in my... A Loki and Loki.

Exactly.

If you're saying the thing I see in your face is my face, so I want to fuck you, that makes sense to me with these two characters.

With these personalities, yeah.

And so for Lestat, too, the grooming, the choosing that I'm going to make you, my mini-husband, sick, wrong, awful, him then being weaned to crave that kind of attention in that form even more horrible...

But the like extra degree of and the reason you want me to be that is because I remind you of you is in this perverse logic like an honor.

Oh, absolutely.

Right.