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I usually don't picture characters in great detail, unless the plot requires detail. It's nice to know about looks in general terms, but rarely anything beyond that. It's nice to have basic looks established not too late in the tale, in case there is a reference later on. It's annoying if you're halfway through a book and has a vague impression of the character and then suddenly the author mentions looks radically different from your imagination. Black rather than white for example.
Reg. actors; I've just read "The Road" and I knew it has been made into a film and I knew the main character was played by Viggo Mortensen. Since I've recently watched Lord of the Rings, I kept seeing Aragorn in my mind, as that character. It was distracting.
Tom Criuse was too short for Lestat, but he has all that frenetic energy that Lestat has, and was a good choice.
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