Why did Lestat turn Claudia into a vampire?
Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) was Lestat’s gift to Louis. “You need company more congenial than I,” Lestat explained to Louis just before he turned her. Louis suspected that Lestat was afraid that he was going to leave him because of the disgust and loneliness he was feeling with regards to his own vampirism. It was Lestat’s hope that turning Claudia and giving her as a daughter to Louis would give Louis a purpose and keep him with Lestat. Lestat is afraid to be alone. Louis tells his interviewer, Daniel Malloy (Christian Slater), that he thinks Lestat did it because he was lonely too.
