Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and the making of ‘Interview with the Vampire’

 

There’s a weird charge as Cruise, as Lestat, begins nibbling on Pitt’s neck ( Warner Bros )

 

It was a dreary November in London and Brad Pitt was tired of hanging upside down.

 

So he called his friend and, later, employer – studio mogul David Geffen.

 

How much would it cost to step away from his commitments and take the next flight home? Geffen smiled like an affable shark.

 

“Forty million,” he replied. 

 

Full Story: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/interview-with-the-vampire-25-tom-cruise-brad-pitt-ann-rice-kirsten-dunst-interview-a9192186.html

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Brad Pitt was tired of hanging upside down

from the article: 

to ensure Pitt and his co-star Tom Cruise looked as if they’d been reposing in coffins, they were required to hang upside down for 30 minutes at a time. That was the length required for the blood to drain from their faces and a vampiric pallor to seep through. 

 

 

I am no expert, but it seems to me that hanging upside down would increase the blood flow to the head and hence make for a red-faced vampire? Maybe this doesn't apply to Hollywood...

18 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

from the article: 

to ensure Pitt and his co-star Tom Cruise looked as if they’d been reposing in coffins, they were required to hang upside down for 30 minutes at a time. That was the length required for the blood to drain from their faces and a vampiric pallor to seep through. 

 

 

I am no expert, but it seems to me that hanging upside down would increase the blood flow to the head and hence make for a red-faced vampire? Maybe this doesn't apply to Hollywood...

Yeah, but as soon as you turn right side up the blood rushes down. I still don’t get it, though. This will have the desired effect only momentarily. Make-up would’ve been way more effective!  

I really like this film and Tom Cruise was born to play this part!