25 Things You Didn’t Know About Interview With The Vampire
16. Actually, This Is Weirder
Kirsten Dunst later starred in the music video for the number one hit single 'I Knew I Loved You' by Australian pop band Savage Garden that had taken its name from a passage in Anne Rice’s follow-up novel The Vampire Lestat:
In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's canvases - beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.
Ordinarily the music video would be embedded around about here so that you can see for yourselves, but it’s just not worth it: she sits on a tube train and looks distracted, and has a dream sequence where she walks around a park smiling a lot while Darren Hayes pretends it’s not really odd for a 27-year-old gay man to have to pretend to be in love with a 17-year-old girl.