There’s Nothing Else."
And he didn’t get there on his own.
For 77 years, Armand built their entire relationship on a lie.
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Louis furiously attacked Armand for the betrayal, and ordered him to leave.
Now armed with the truth, Louis traveled to New Orleans to finally reunite with Lestat.
However, the hug they shared as a hurricane raged outside spoke volumes.
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Suffice to say, a lot went down in the season 2 finale.
But Reid’s favorite part of the emotional episode was Louis and Lestat’s long-awaited reunion.
“I just thought it was beautiful,” he tellsEntertainment Weekly.
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“It was such a fantastic way to wrap up the season.
It’s this beautiful journey of Louis accepting himself and finding his feet and accepting the dark gift.
And also Lestat now sort of accesses his humanity a little bit as well.”
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“He’s definitely not in a good place,” Reid says.
They’re not back together, but at least they’re on talking terms.
I know what he has been doing for that period of time.
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“I wanted to be a full ghoul, basically.
And Rolin, rightfully, I suppose, was like, ‘No, it’s a psychological thing.
You’re wounded, but it’s a psychological wound.
“They can’t.
And she’s haunting them both at different times.
He’ll just get a tan.”
“We’re following the order of the books,” Reid confirms.
“We’ve just scratched the surface with Sam, who’s an incredible actor.”
“We gave him one scene that is objective, the scene in New Orleans,” Jones says.
“In that moment, that’s nobody’s point of view.
The camera’s over there watching both of them, so there you go, fans.
One scene so far of the real Lestat.”
Then, due to budget issues among other reasons, the first book was split into two seasons.
“That reunion is wildly nihilistic, so we were going to do something different,” he says.
It was important to Jones to anchor the finale with Louis and Lestat’s reunion.
“But we don’t end with them together as a couple,” Jones adds.
“They had a reconciliation and that, in the novel, is quite bleak, them parting.
We just wanted some catharsis.
We wanted to earn that hug and earn those quiet words that none of us know.
I don’t even know what they said to each other.”
Reid was honored to see how the showrunner literally wrote that moment into the script.
“It’s all about point of view.
It’s all about perspective.
It’s all about who says what about each other.
They take it back for themselves and no one will ever know.
Not even Rolin knows.”
Jones felt like he owed it to the actors to give them that private moment.
So that was a meta celebration of the work they did for two seasons.”
Will Reid ever reveal what he and Anderson said to each other?
“Of course not,” the actor says with smile.
“I’m sure people who do that mouth-reading stuff can probably get into it.”
“Hopefully, that’s actually where the audience is respectful of that.”
“One’s a maker and one’s a fledgling,” he says.
“We would be very, very poor dramatists if they were never in scenes together again.
There’s new writing to be done for that character.”
