Mallory Rubin

The Stutter is a show invention.

In the book, he's illiterate.

And he's actually really resentful of Gabriella because she's always in her books, but she won't teach him how to read.

So he hates her books because she's always in her books.

And if you think back to season one, after Claudia is gone, Louis just, like, buries himself in his books.

Yes.

And Lestat cannot handle it.

Mm-hmm.

And that's because he's thinking about his mom and her sort of disappearing into her books and how he can't follow her.

But this idea that like Lestat as a human was a stutterer or illiterate, whatever the case may be, and like who he has fashioned himself into just sort of like the fastest tongue in the West sort of like person at the end of the day.

Indeed.

All right.

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This was fantastic.

We both agree about the scene.

But do you agree with me that the show just works on a whole different level when Jacob Anderson is here?

Like, I missed him so much in episode one.

And I love Sam Rita, as I've said for years.

But, like, and Arup Agosian and Asad and all of them.

But, like, there's just something about Jacob Anderson's, like, voice and performance as Louis that just, like, takes this show to a completely different level.