30 years on, Interview with the Vampire director says casting Tom Cruise as Lestat was a big risk, but he was won over from their first meeting

Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview with the Vampire.

"You ask yourself the question: what would it be like, if you were stuck living forever?" Interview With The Vampire's director Neil Jordan says. "What would it be like, if life were a passage of days that were the same, the same, the same, the same? The fashions change. The cities change. The technology changes, yet you remain the same? That, to me, was a great question." 

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