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I Can’t Stop Thinking About Interview with the Vampire’s Levitating Gay Sex Scene


As seductive as Interview with the Vampire’s premiere was, it turns out that that mid-air love scene wasn’t quite so romantic behind-the-scenes. In a recent interview with Decider, Anderson and Reid revealed that they shot the scene on a small platform lifted by a mechanical crane, which makes actually filming it… a bit awkward, to say the least.

“It was quite uncomfortable, I got to tell you the truth,” Anderson said. “We’re balancing on that [rig] and sort of holding onto each other for balance as well. I don’t want to kill the magic of that scene, but… we were naked in front of the whole stunt team… basically on a steel seesaw.”

Still, that doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate the scene’s potency. In an interview with Esquire, Richardson noted that the scene helped introduce Louis and Lestat’s “intense connection” on screen.

“Anne Rice describes drinking each other’s blood as incredibly erotic, almost like having sex. So how do you translate that on screen? I guess nude levitation translates quite well,” Richardson said.

Interview with the Vampire is enjoying some great reviews and has already been renewed for season two. That is a better fate than some queer vampiric shows out there. Streaming giant Netflix killed the series, despite high viewership, after only one season.

Interview With the Vampire airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on AMC.

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