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...blood and rock 'n' roll," in the words of its lead vampire, Lestat. (Director Michael Rymer's film is based on an Anne Rice novel.) While Lestat, played with a handsomely snaky androgyny by Stuart Townsend, wows the kids with his rock-star act, the ancient Queen Akasha waits to be roused from her slumber. Waits for most of the movie: Akasha-Aaliyah doesn't show up until the last third, by which time she has received a bigger buildup than the sled in Citizen Kane...
...legendary vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) stretches out in his bath of rose petals, Queen Akasha (Aaliyah) runs her hands slowly over his face. Gradually, as his eyes close, she bends her head forward, closes her bared teeth around his neck and takes a big, juicy bite...
...anticipated release - it was based on the book by horror writer Anne Rice and it is the first cinematic follow-up to the 1994 box office blockbuster "Interview With a Vampire," which starred Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Aaliyah, who plays a 6,000 year-old Egyptian vampire named Akasha in "The Queen of the Damned," had all but finished her role when she died in a plane crash in the Bahamas...
TIME critic Christopher John Farley interviewed hip-hop superstar Aaliyah shortly before she died last August in a plane crash. This week, in an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Aaliyah: More Than a Woman, Farley looks at her last movie role, as the vampire Akasha in Queen of the Damned, at time.com/sampler...
...Aaliyah was able to draw on her experiences in videos for her last movie, the film adaptation of the Anne Rice movie, "The Queen of the Damned." In that film, which is due out in February of 2002, Aaliyah plays Akasha, an ancient -but eternally youthful - vampire...