He’s Created a Monster: Alan Ball Talks ‘True Blood’
As anticipation grows for the June 26 season premiere of “True Blood” on HBO, an article in this weekend’s Arts & Leisure section looks at Anna Paquin, her trajectory on the show and what Season 4 holds in store for Sookie Stackhouse. Of course, Ms. Paquin would have no lines to speak, and never know when to bare her neck or shed her clothes if not for Alan Ball, the “True Blood” creator and producer, who adapted the series from Charlaine Harris’s best-selling “Southern Vampire Mysteries” novels.
A big part of Sookie’s character when we meet her is her naivete. Is that something Anna was able to bring to the role?
Absolutely, because Sookie is, at the beginning of the story, very sheltered. As one would be, who lost their parents at such an early age. And having the ability to hear people’s thoughts. When she meets somebody who she can’t hear their thoughts, it’s so liberating. The other thing that she brings to it is a total fearlessness. I know there are a lot of actresses who would be uncomfortable with the way we depict sexuality on the show, because they just don’t want to be seen naked. That was never an issue. I think it certainly helped that she and Stephen were falling in love in real life over the course of the first season, in helping sell that romance because it was so genuine.
It seems like Sookie went through a transformation from Seasons 1 and 2 to Season 3, where once she was a perpetual damsel in distress and now she’s going undercover in werewolf bars and battling with Russell Edgington.
She’s fighting, yeah. And now it’s just clear in the writers’ room that Sookie is a force to be reckoned with. She has come into her own. She has her own powers, which she’s gradually becoming more and more accustomed to. She still can’t totally control them. But, yeah, she still looks like that sweet girl next door but if you try to kill her, she’ll kill you first. Which is kind of fun, to have a character like that.
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