Subtitle: AKA Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Description: Anne Rice wrote this lurid adaptation of her 1976 bestseller, with Tom Cruise as the unremorseful bloodsucker Lestat and Brad Pitt as his conscience-stricken protégé. Malloy: Christian Slater. Claudia: Kirsten Dunst. Santiago: Stephen Rea. Armand: Antonio Banderas. Neil Jordan directed.