Tag: Lobbied

Leonard Nimoy Lobbied to Play Lestat in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE in 1977

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Leonard Nimoy as Spock in 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture (L) and Tom Cruise as the Vampire Lestat in 1994's Interview with the Vampire (R)

Anne Rice’s seminal Gothic horror novel, Interview with the Vampire, was published in 1976. Almost immediately, Hollywood optioned the rights, hoping to turn it into a film. However, no studio made it for 18 years […]