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| Louis is grief-stricken over the death of his wife and child.
| Louis is depressed and blames himself for the death of his brother.
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| Lestat never appears in Paris after Louis sets him on fire in New Orleans.
| After Claudia and Madeleine are destroyed, Louis encounters Lestat at the Théâtre des Vampires, where he has testified to Armand that Claudia had tried to kill him.
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| When Lestat drinks from the twin boys Claudia has given him as a "gift", he is severely weakened as drinking "dead blood" has negative effects on vampires.
| It is not the dead blood that weakens Lestat, it is the fact that Claudia has drugged them with absinthe and laudanum.
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| At the end of the film, Daniel the interviewer is attacked in his car by Lestat, who implies that he'll turn him into a vampire.
| Daniel leaves Louis intending to seek out Lestat in New Orleans. He is turned into a vampire by Armand in The Queen of the Damned.
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| This is not mentioned in the film. It is only said that they were traveling various countries without finding any other vampires.
| Louis and Claudia find a race of mindless vampires in Translyvania.
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originally was cast for the role of the interviewer before he died.
