In race-swapping both Louis and Claudia, Interview with the Vampire thoughtfully engages with Blackness, elevating Anne Rice's original work.
, Louis de Pointe du Lac is a white Louisiana plantation owner who, after meeting Lestat de Lioncourt, is turned into a vampire. AMC’s adaptation changes not only Louis’ backstory but his race as well, which had some fans. The change is undoubtedly one of the boldest adaptational changes that the show has made, forcing viewers to confront Louis’ position as not only a Black gay man in the early 1900’s, but a Black gay vampire.
After slaughtering two priests in front of Louis, he draws the man in by saying “this country had picked you clean,” and promising that, as a vampire, he will only know power in a country that so desperately tries to subjugate him. The other wealthy business owners attempt to strike down Louis’ self confidence with every sly dig they throw this way, and despite the prominence of his business, it becomes clear that no matter what Louis does, they will never allow him to be one of them.
When Louis kills his business associate Alderman Fenwick after the man leads the charge to push Louis and other Black owners out of Storyville, Louis responds in the only way a vampire could. After the deed is done, and Fenwick’s mutilated corpse is staged in public for all to see, Lestat looks at his lover hungrily and says “we should make this our anniversary.
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