She appears first as a statue in a phantasmagorical Egyptian crypt-like shrine, where Lestat plays his violin so fiercely that parts of her stone body seem to glow back into life. Along the way we are given vampire feeding lessons: "You must never take the last drop, or it will draw you in, and you die." Most noticeably we meet Queen Akasha, the title character, played by Aaliyah, the singer who was killed in an air crash last August. And Maharet ( Lena Olin), who I think is supposed to be a good vampire, or at least one who wishes the others would follow the rules. We meet the fey Marius ( Vincent Perez), the older vampire who turned Lestat on, or out. She likes to play with danger, and even cruises a vampire bar Lestat told her about. We meet Jesse ( Marguerite Moreau), researcher for a London vampire study institute. the Vampire Lestat!" Soon he's a rock god, the lead singer of a goth band. When they ask who he is, he smiles and casts centuries of tradition to the winds: "I am. But then "the world didn't sound like the place I had left-but something different, better." Cut to a montage of musical groups, and Lestat pushes back the stone lid of his crypt and materializes during a rehearsal of a rock band. The world got to be too much for him, Lestat explains, and so he withdrew from it and went to sleep 200 years ago. The movie stars Stuart Townsend as Lestat, in the role played last time by Tom Cruise.
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