She's sexy, but she's evil."ĮT spoke with Aaliyah’s co-stars leading up to the movie’s release. “I come back to try and take over the world," Aaliyah said about her character. If that wasn't enough trouble, his music awakens the titular queen of the damned, Akasha, “the first vampire.” Upon her reemergence, Lestat discovers the 4,000-year-old Egyptian goddess’ grand plan for humanity doesn’t benefit him or his other like-minded vampire nobles, let alone humans. Angry that Lestat's songs are exposing too many details about what they do in shadows, the legendary immortal is also placed in the crosshairs of his fellow vampires. By filling his music with references to vampires, he draws the attention of paranormal enthusiast Jesse (Marguerite Moreau).
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In Queen of the Damned - a fusion of the second and third entries in Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series - fan-favorite character Lestat (Stuart Townsend) transforms himself into a rock star. “And not only was this a vampire film - it was Anne Rice.” I was very excited to be part of a vampire film, because I've been a lover of vampires since I was very young,” the ‘Try Again’ singer explained to ET in May of 2001. While promoting her self-titled studio album, she also took a moment to hype Akasha and Queen of the Damned, which had wrapped principal photography earlier that year. Three months prior to her untimely death, Aaliyah spoke with ET and shared her excitement for the future. Aaliyah tragically died alongside seven others in a plane crash in the Bahamas on Aug. But Akasha, the adaptation’s other-worldly antagonist, became the singer's final role on the silver screen (following the previous year’s Jet Li vehicle Romeo Must Die).
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And unlike her character, a mere fictional monarch from the mind of best-selling fantasy author Anne Rice, Aaliyah was held up as real-life royalty in the R&B community by the time she landed her second big-screen role.Ĭrossing over from music artist to movie star was an organic, if not expected, evolutionary step for Aaliyah’s trajectory.
Aaliyah’s casting in Queen of the Damned highlighted her career's game-changing transition in the early 2000s.
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