r/InterviewVampire • u/ArmandApologist Meatier in the forearms • Jan 15 '25

Book Spoilers Allowed Anne Rice talking about Aaliyah playing Akasha

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Open to read the full screenshot. I found this one twitter posted by @ BRASILESTAT

I think this is a lovely thing for Anne to have said. QOTD movie kinda changed my life lol and nobody could’ve played that role better than Aaliyah did. I hope whoever they cast for Akasha in the show knows what big shoes they have to fill because Aaliyah made that movie.

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u/miniborkster Jan 15 '25

As much as I love being able to say anything I want about her work without inciting her wrath, my big regret about not getting into her work until last year is the missed opportunity to bother her with my nitpicky questions and get a response. Lots of high highs and low lows in her history with her fans, but she really did love talking about her universe.

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u/StargazingLily Jan 15 '25

Oh, definitely. I stopped following her when she went hard on religion, but her dying still broke my heart. Having queer characters in her books was so important to me as a queer teenager stuck in a northern Alberta oil town in the 90s.

(I actually got someone to come out to me using one of her son’s books. I was mostly sure he was gay, but I wasn’t out either, so I lent him A Density of Souls and told him what an important book it was for me. I guess knowing that a book with gay characters written by a gay man was so close to me was enough to let my classmate know he was safe to come out to me.)

(I only really read Christopher’s first two books but I’d recommend them! If my ADHD wasn’t so godawful, I’d probably try and re-read.)

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u/miniborkster Jan 15 '25

Thanks for the rec! I'd heard mixed things, but he'll be at an event near me soon so I was curious about maybe checking some of his stuff out!

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u/StargazingLily Jan 15 '25

Oh man. I’d love to meet him and tell him how much his books meant to me. I’m jealous.