'The Vampire Lestat’ Episode 1 Deep Dive

**Joanna Robinson** (0:05)
Hello, welcome to a very spooky episode of House of R. I'm Joanna Robinson. Joining me today, our very own tough cookie on the drums, it's Mallory Rubin.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:17)
Joanna never, never play Two Nights in Detroit.

**Joanna Robinson** (0:21)
You never know what's gonna happen. You might end up with a broken orbital bone. Listen, it's The Vampire Lestat time. It is Interview with the Vampire Season 3, aka The Vampire Lestat. We're here to break it down for you with book context. We'll do a book spoiler section, we'll talk about the music, we'll talk about the fashion, we'll talk about all of it right after this.

**Mallory Rubin** (0:45)
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**Joanna Robinson** (0:55)
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**Mallory Rubin** (0:59)
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**Joanna Robinson** (1:04)
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**Mallory Rubin** (1:09)
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**Joanna Robinson** (1:14)
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**Joanna Robinson** (1:58)
Just really quickly, I just thought, in honor of the absolute by icon that is Lestat de Leoncourt, happy pride, everyone.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:05)
Happy pride.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:05)
What a perfect show for us to cover during pride month. So here we are, here we are. Program reminders.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:12)
Yes.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:13)
The end of this week, we're starting with vampires.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:16)
That's right.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:17)
Riding with aliens, question mark?

**Mallory Rubin** (2:19)
We'll find out.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:20)
It's disclosure day.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:21)
Yeah.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:22)
You excited?

**Mallory Rubin** (2:22)
I am, I'm very excited.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:24)
We're gonna talk about disclosure day at the end of the week, very excited about that. We have seen it.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:27)
Yes.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:27)
We'll be talking about it. This is the first episode of the Vampire Lestat coverage, but it is not the last because I have bullied the entire team into covering the Vampire Lestat week to week.
And they're all doing it with joy in their hearts.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:41)
Yeah, genuinely. It's gonna be great.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:43)
We've got another Nolan episode coming up with another very special guest that we're excited about.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:46)
We're trying to squeeze one more in before Hot D starts, and that will leave us with just one.

**Joanna Robinson** (2:52)
Just Oppenheimer left after that. So Dark Knight Rises, then Oppenheimer, then it's Odyssey Time.

**Mallory Rubin** (2:57)
It would have been funny to flip those and do Oppenheimer and then end on Bane.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:01)
Yeah.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:02)
Just to really keep the big going.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:03)
Just to reinforce your whole, your five year long agenda.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:08)
Yeah, that's longer than that. It's just five years on this podcast.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:11)
Five years as far as I know. House of Dragon.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:14)
That's right. That's soon. I can't believe it. I can't believe it's June. We've been very excited.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:19)
It's very exciting. We're gonna have an incredible summer because we're doing Vampires and Dragons. And guess what? Spoiler alert. Incest for both.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:28)
Oh, yeah.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:29)
Exciting. Exciting stuff.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:30)
A lot of movies coming out this summer. Supergirl.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:32)
The Odyssey.
Spidey. Spidey. A two and a half hour long Spider-Man movie. I did see that. Exciting. Very exciting. Before we get into... Oh, and we do want to apologize. We know that there was a final House of the Dragon trailer that was dropped.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:46)
Yes. I was in Sweden. Sorry.

**Joanna Robinson** (3:48)
Mallory was in Sweden. She was off the hook. And I did not have it within me to try to find the two remaining producers stateside to record a solo pod.

**Mallory Rubin** (3:57)
Almost the entire team was in Sweden.
We had locked in programming six weeks before that trip. It was very, very difficult genuinely to make late stage adjustments. But great news, we did full breakdowns of the prior two trailers. So if you're like, what do you guys think of the trailer?