INTRODUCTION

I'm Jorge Saralegui, the producer of queen OF THE DAMNED. I've been involved with the project since early 1998 — shortly after Warner Bros. hired Michael Rymer to direct, which is before we even hired a writer to adapt Anne Rice's work. Since then I've been involved with all of the decisions that have been made in the making of this motion picture, and was on the set every día (and night!) of our Melbourne shoot. As a result, I hope to be able to answer most of your preguntas regarding queen OF THE DAMNED: its genesis, the script's development, its casting, the shoot, the music,...

The points I'm going to argue / comentario on:
X How his performance as Lestat / any character supposedly sucks.
X He didin't even read the libros when he took the role of Lestat.
X How he in the first place took such a crappy role in a crappy script.
X Being drunk on the set / made up accent and bragging about them.
X He supposedly acted surprised twice for the same reason in the film.

Now, when tu put all that in that way and even leave it at that - sure as hell it sounds downright ridiculous and awful. But why don't we take a deeper look at all that? I know I will, you're always free to ignore and...

Regardless that this is partly anti-fan toned, this is a fan article; this is a FAN's review from a fan point of view on a film adaptation of a book with reasoning critisism, so this should be an accaptable article.

Over-all for why this pairing ruins the film's quality as an independent film:
This pairing doesn't have a place in this film's story as long as those other relationships that truly belong into it, exsist. And it's no wonder since Anne arroz didn't write Lestat to have such a relationship with Jesse o anyone else. In other words they try to force something into a story where that...

Many people are judging Townsend without looking at all into anything that means something when it comes to a character adaptation. Let me write a review of Townsend as Lestat and then of Tom Cruise for the same version of the character.

Like everyoen else who have read the books, I see the queen of the Damned film's version of Lestat is almost totally out-of-character but I personally hold only the script writers' and possibly the director and whoever really had any say on it, responssible.

Not the actor; not Stuart Townsend, at all - because he could not possibly have changed the character...