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Podcast: Film Stories with Simon Brew
Episode: Interview With The Vampire (1994) and Tina: What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
Description: Was there ever a bigger casting furore in the 1990s than when Tom Cruise landed the role of Lestat in Interview With The Vampire? Based on the book by Anne Rice, the author herself was incandescent, taking out advertising the slam the casting. Meanwhile, there were issues over keeping the rights - and problems that could have been avoided had John Travolta - as was once planned - accepted the role in the 1970s!The late Tina Turner meanwhile claimed that - for very good reasons - she never watched the 1993 biopic of her life, What's...