In The Vampire Lestat/Interview with the Vampire, murmurs of the Great Conversion have existed since the series’ earliest season. But up until The Vampire Lestat, none of our main vampires appear to have given it too much thought. Louis idly discussed the Great Conversion as a disorganized movement, Armand never really brought it up, and Lestat seemed to disdain the thought of it… Or at least he did. Only Talamasca agent Raglan James seemed truly concerned by the proposition. And now, it seems like that concern has merit. Because we finally have a vampire who is interested in the Great Conversion, and she’s a dangerous one. The Vampire Lestat‘s Gabriella has been bringing up the Great Conversion every chance she gets this season. And in episode four of The Vampire Lestat, Gabriella finally makes a play to convince Lestat to really fuel the vampiric movement. She wants him to offer communion to the lost vampires out there. But where will this desire for the Great Conversion lead Gabriella, Lestat, Louis, and the rest of the vampires out there? Here’s what Jennifer Ehle and Sam Reid had to say about it.
Jennifer Ehle reveals that the Great Conversion was always on Gabriella’s mind in The Vampire Lestat. “I think in this season, when she comes for Lestat this time, from the end of episode one, when he’s called her, and she arrives, I think she definitely has an agenda.” Ehle shares of Gabriella from the very beginning. “She wants to realize what she has wanted for a couple of hundred years, which is to sort of flip the power on earth and erase all morality and mortality, really.”
And we see, as Ehle suggests, that indeed Gabriella’s hunger for “the devils to rule” stretches all the way back to her time alive in the 1800s. But at that time, Lestat seems to feel her vision of a decimated world is just an idle fantasy, a whimsy of where their lives may go. But Gabriella, instead, abandons him for many years after expressing her wish.
Now, though, things are different. Gabriella comes to Lestat at the end of The Vampire Lestat episode four, just when he’s ready to give up on his band and music, and suggests, “You’ve been hearing them. You’ve been reaching them. They are lost, and angry, and tired of enduring. Your music speaks to them. They long for communion.” Clearly, she’s not ready for Lestat to stop consolidating the vampiric collective with his songs. And Lestat appears to bend to her cajoling, returning to make more music that speaks directly to the vampire soul at the end of the episode.
But, as Sam Reid shares, “Sometimes the suit that Gabriella puts in him in does… He sort of outgrows and doesn’t really fit anymore, and Lestat keeps returning to it, because that is, unfortunately, a very safe space for him, because he’s looking for that maternal acceptance and love. So, actually, the actor, the rockstar, the Brat Prince, the leader, all of these things, that is the kind of vicarious life that Gabriella’s built for him, so she can kind of use that as a conduit to experience it himself.”
And Jennifer Ehle agrees with this assessment: that, largely, Gabriella is thinking first of herself and is keenly aware that her hold on Lestat is not as absolute as she hopes it could be. She notes, “She wants to use him very much. She needs him very much to realize her dream of vampires living in the light.” But that could all fall apart if someone who sees Lestat better than she can, namely, Louis, interjects.
About Louis and Lestat’s relationship, Ehle notes, “I think she’s threatened by it. She’s threatened by it as somebody who loves him and who wants to be the primary relationship in his life, wants to be the most important person to him in any room, but there is somebody else. And Louis having Lestat’s ears can really just sap her power.”
For now, Lestat and Louis aren’t speaking on The Vampire Lestat, and Gabriella is back in control of Lestat, aiming him toward the Great Conversion. But will she succeed? And what are the ultimate consequences if she does? We’ll have to wait and see.
The Vampire Lestat airs Sundays at 9 pm ET/PT on AMC and 12am PT on AMC+. You can also read The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice today as you wait for the next episode of the series to air.
Rotem Rusak is Editor-in-Chief of Nerdist. She is in awe of the beautiful season of TV that is The Vampire Lestat.
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