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For Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) \u2014 a central character in AMC\u2019s adaptations of Anne Rice\u2018s \u201cVampire Chronicles\u201d who, in the third season under his own name, brings centuries\u2019 worth of signature main character energy \u2014 the question of whether he was made into a monster or born one is trickier than it would be for other self-obsessed middle-aged men because he was born twice, and both births happened a long long<\/em> time ago.\u00a0<\/p>

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When Lestat is made to reckon with what\u2019s presented as \u201cfailures\u201d in both his mortal and immortal lives, he can\u2019t quite own up to being a true monster, because that\u2019s not what he really is. That\u2019s just what he\u2019s been made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

From the first episode of \u201cThe Vampire Lestat\u201d up to the emotionally catastrophic (literally) cliffhanger in the season finale, we learn in bits and pieces that both of his makers \u2014 Gabriella de Lioncourt (Jennifer Ehle), the mother who gave him mortal life, and the vampire Magnus (Damien Atkins), who birthed Lestat into immortality \u2014 put significant effort into both physically and psychologically messing him up to such a degree that he never really had a chance at peace, alive or dead. But we also learn that never stopped him from seeking it out, especially once he had eternity to do so, and even though he didn\u2019t know how to handle it once he got close to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Rice\u2019s 1985 novel, \u201cThe Vampire Lestat,\u201d which showrunner Rolin Jones does take creative liberties with, but in ways that still match the general vibe of the source material, Lestat repeatedly describes himself as possessing an irrepressible delight in life long before he became a vampire, which is in contrast to the bleakness of his family. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Describing his father and brothers as resentful, bitter people who ridicule his dreams of becoming an actor and repeatedly try to shame him into accepting a joyless existence, the book\u2019s Lestat clings to beauty beyond the general ugliness of his boyhood home in the Auvergne region of France in the mid-18th century, and he has a love for the finer things, despite his family\u2019s poverty. The show stays true to this, as it also does to the wandering hands of his mother, who, in their sexual assault of her son, threatened to snuff out his natural core goodness, but didn\u2019t quite.<\/p>\n

At the end of Lestat\u2019s pre-vampiric life, Magnus does his own damage by kidnapping him, holding him hostage, and then forcing the blood gift upon Lestat against his will. But as we see in the show\u2019s finale, when Lestat is made to reckon with what\u2019s presented as \u201cfailures\u201d in both his mortal and immortal lives, he can\u2019t quite own up to being a true monster, because that\u2019s not what he really is. That\u2019s just what he\u2019s been made.<\/p>\n

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(Sophie Giraud\/AMC)<\/span> Jennifer Ehle as Gabriella, Shepherd Munroe as Young Lestat and Gage Munroe as Young Lestat in \u201cThe Vampire Lestat\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

In the finale, a grim \u201cThis is your life, Lestat de Lioncourt\u201d plays out in an in-between place that is, more likely, all in Lestat\u2019s decapitated head, held in the bowling bag of Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) as the head of the love of both of his lives, Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), is kept animated in a kosher butcher shop by Armand (Assad Zaman), who accuses him not of failure, but of coldness and refussal to love, which Louis learned from his own family, specifically his father.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Lestat sits at a long table \u2014 his own father\u2019s table, which he used to sit around with his family in his mortal home \u2014 he requests that Magnus swap places with his mom at the head of it, and when she does so, she changes in appearance from how she looked as a vampire to how Lestat remembers her looking when he was child; when she wasn\u2019t his progeny and lover, but was just his mom, and his abuser. From here, among other questions, he grapples with which version is worse.\u00a0<\/p>

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As the uneasy mix of makers and progeny seated at the long table feast on Lestat\u2019s soul, we see manic, feverish vignettes from Lestat\u2019s mortal and immortal lives; a repeating pattern of seeking beauty, seeking love, and then destroying it or being destroyed by it. He never learned what it was like to have a healthy version of those things as a mortal and, as an immortal, inevitably bunny-squished any of it he found because his vampiric thirst for it overruled the boyish gentleness still deep inside his core.<\/p>\n

Throughout the season, Lestat often mentions a traumatic event in his youth where his mom took him to see young witches burned at the stake and, in the finale, we\u2019re shown what he saw that night and learn his mother\u2019s reasoning for taking him there.<\/p>\n

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(Sophie Giraud\/AMC)<\/span> Steven G. Norfleet and Sam Reid in \u201cThe Vampire Lestat\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lestat never learned what it was like to have a healthy version of love as a mortal and, as an immortal, inevitably bunny-squished any of it he found because his vampiric thirst for it overruled the boyish gentleness still deep inside his core.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

According to Gabriella (Gabrielle in the book, but Rolin Jones wanted to up the Italian of it all), she took her nine-year-old son to see witches burned \u2014 one of whom was a playmate of Lestat\u2019s \u2014 as a cruel way to force him to leave town. But he stayed home, and by her side, until he was 30, during which time she sexually assaulted him, making it so healthy love would never find him, or much appeal to him, because he had no reference for what that would look like. The nurture, as we see it here, was far, far worse than his nature. And that sort of \u201ccaregiving\u201d would repeat itself in his relationship with Magnus and, later, Akasha (Sheila Atim), who, by sharing her ancient vampiric blood with Lestat, tripled his powers and further distanced him from the remnants of his humanity.<\/p>\n

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(Sophie Giraud\/AMC)<\/span> Sam Reid in \u201cThe Vampire Lestat\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Seeing as though Season 3 of \u201cInterview with the Vampire\u201d is Lestat\u2019s show, name and all, his nature versus nurture journey takes center stage, but Louis, Armand and Claudia (Delainey Hayles) have their own puzzles to piece together in this regard.<\/p>\n

None of them had it easy when they were mortal, and while Louis and Armand are at least afforded eternity to balance the truth of who they started out as with the written and rewritten versions of immortality molded by their makers, or whispered to themselves inside their coffins in order to make it through another day, Claudia doesn\u2019t even have that \u2014 she\u2019s deader than dead, wandering hell in search of her own brush with love, Madeleine (Roxane Duran), having lost the immortal life she was given by Lestat when he chose to save his lover Louis over her, his progency. Claudia\u2019s version of nurture gone wrong may just have them all beat, but yeah, she didn\u2019t get her own book.<\/p>\n

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(Sophie Giraud\/AMC)<\/span> Delainey Hayles as Claudia in \u201cThe Vampire Lestat\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Monsters though Lestat and his makers and progeny may be, they were all mortal once, and that seed of humanity still exists inside of them or, in Claudia\u2019s case, around them. What that started out as might not look the same now, or in another few centuries, but the thing with nature versus nurture is that the environmental influences and life experiences that impact us don\u2019t actually change us concretely. Real change is blood deep, and once something\u2019s in the blood, it\u2019s ours to do with as we please.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy blood. I did my best with it,\u201d Lestat says in the finale. And that\u2019s not failure. That\u2019s just human nature.<\/p>

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