Interview with the Vampire director addresses claims he 'miscast' Tom Cruise over Daniel Day Lewis in 1994 classic - and reveals even Brad Pitt wanted 3-time Oscar winner in film By Eve Buckland For Dailymail.Com Published: 15:38 EDT, 14 June 2024 | Updated: 15:56 EDT, 14 June 2024 e-mail 13 shares 20 View comments Interview with the Vampire director Neil Jordan has addressed the backlash over his casting of Tom Cruise over Daniel Day Lewis in the 1994 movie. Cruise, 61, memorably played antihero Lestat de Lioncourt - who turned Louis (Brad Pitt) into a vampire in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's novel - but at the time - there was uproar over the decision to cast the Top Gun star over Day Lewis, 62.
Director Neil Jordan, 74, details allegations he 'miscast' Cruise in his new memoir, writing in an excerpt per The Telegraph : ' Brad Pitt had agreed to play Louis and somehow assumed Daniel Day-Lewis would be playing Lestat, an assumption shared by Anne. 'I offered it to Daniel, who read it, and, as I expected, didn’t want to play the character. 'A few years before, he had confined himself to a wheelchair to play Christy Brown in My Left Foot.
He would have had to sleep in a coffin for the entirety of this production if he followed the same practice. So we moved on.' Interview with the Vampire director Neil Jordan has addressed the backlash over his casting of Tom Cruise over Daniel Day Lewis in the 1994 movie - Cruise is seen as Lestat Read More Where are the original Inter.