Mallory Rubin

I just, it was great.

Oh, and this is also where he says, maybe this is why this is set in 2025.

To go back to your prior prompt.

Specifically so that

It had to be a contemporary story so that we could hear him say, Redit.

Yeah, in part because of the, like, you take one of the most handsome people alive and you just make them look kind of astonishingly doofy.

Yeah, like, something's a little off with the teeth and the nose.

Like,

also just the first glimpse and then you know because he's like you forgot a contact so something looks like really uncanny about his face his hair is different we get the line from the narration this is another way for Lestat to prop himself up right like he's three inches shorter you know it's all it's all very good but then that question of just like well okay so he they're sending him out so that he can be photographed those photographs will then be uploaded to Redit but it is to provide cover so that Lestat can

be a vampire and go suck people dry and kill legions and be undetected.

But, like, will there be a more specific reason to have that character in the show other than just explaining how his knights go?

I think part of what I love about Daniel in this form is that he feels completely the same to me in a way that

It feels exactly right.

Like, he was always such a dick and always found a way to position himself, even when in the room with a vampire who could destroy him at a moment's notice, even when he was facing his, like, health challenges, right?

Even when he's like, okay, you burned my laptop.

Part of... And I really liked the phone call between... Louis and Lestat.

I was like, I don't know about the cloud, because as you recall, I was like...

What about the clown?

I'd burn the laptop.

It's just, you know, the fact that, like, Daniel is a character who always thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and can... It's like this guy was made to be a vampire.