In 1970s San Francisco, Louis de Pointe du Lac tells a young reporter his life story. In 1791, a Louisiana planter wrecked by his brother's death, he takes Lestat's blood. Louis hates killing and fights with his maker for years. Together they turn Claudia, a 5-year-old girl, and live as a family for decades. Trapped in a child's body, Claudia tries to kill Lestat and flees to Europe with Louis. In Paris they find Armand and the Théâtre des Vampires, which punishes Claudia with sunlight. Louis burns the theater down. At the end, the reporter begs to be turned, Louis attacks him and vanishes, and the young man sets out to find Lestat.
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ChangeAn extra ending
The book ends with the boy with the tape recorder heading off to find Lestat after Louis refuses to turn him. The 1994 film stretches that ending with an extra Lestat scene that isn't in the book.
In the book, Claudia is 5 when she's turned. The film cast 10-year-old Kirsten Dunst. The AMC series bumped her to 14 because of Louisiana child labor laws.
In the book, the interviewer is just "the boy," with no name. The series makes him Daniel Molloy, a journalist in his 70s who redoes the interview in Dubai in 2022. There, Louis has a servant, Rashid, who isn't in the book.
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