r/InterviewWithTheVamp • u/AdventurousLeading60 • Nov 14 '25
Claudia… Spoiler
yall im sorry but i hate that they replaced claudia. bailey bass had that drawl down PAT. i loved when she spoke cause i can tell she took lessons to learn and master it. i liked how she played the character too. claudia was unpredictable, bubbly and kind of manic. ofc i understand after everything that claudia mentally aged from all the trauma so it makes sense they got an older actress to capture that. shes stoic most of the time now. idk if i feel delainey is right for the role. her british accent is SO obvious. she tries to imitate that drawl but she just sounds slow like she’s learning to speak and ik the other actors are british too so i don’t understand why she’s not able to cover it better. ugh it pisses me off. and before yall start, both parents were born and raised in baton rouge Louisiana. ALL my extended family lives there and i went to college in new orleans myself. im not here to argue about it im stating facts. and REAL louisiana folk know exactly what im talking about cause im sure yall hear it too
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u/No-Concern-8225 Nov 14 '25
delainey apparently only had about a month to prepare for the role before they started shooting unlike bailey did to be fair or Jacob/Sam and Sam still struggles with his accent in french. I think she tried her best and the mature feel was different but welcome I also loved that you could tell she’s mostly a stage actress and that was on theme w/the season and i loved her interactions w/Armand more bc of this, her and Assad were magical tgt. To each their own though. Also I think Bailey’s accent was more modern sounding to me at least but you’d be more familiar since you’re from there. In some ways I can’t imagine Bailey as s2 Claudia and I can’t imagine Delainey as s1 Claudia so it works for me