It's time again for the rivers of blood to flow and the naked bodies to glisten.
Yes, "True Blood" fans, your favorite show is about to kick off its fourth season. It will all start on Sunday on HBO, and Sam Trammell can't wait.
Trammell, of course, stars as the shape-shifter Sam Merlotte alongside Anna Paquin as the telepathic barmaid Sookie, Stephen Moyer as the vampire Bill Compton, Marshall Allman as Sam's younger brother, Tommy, and several other actors and actresses who portray the series' assorted people and creatures.
"There's so much I want to tell everyone, and so much I'm not allowed to say," Trammell said cautiously. "Usually we're allowed to talk about things, but this season there are just a couple of big things that I'm not allowed to even bring up. We're always reinventing ourselves as a show, so there are a lot of new characters this year, and, yes, there will be plenty of skin, and I'm sure we've already gone through gallons and gallons of blood. What else can I tell you without getting myself in trouble?
"Last season, by the end of it, Sam was in a real state," the actor continued. "His buttons had been pushed by many people, and it ended in this eruption where I beat up that were-panther, started drinking, and I had a flashback to when I killed a couple of people, and I was betrayed by a girl I was seeing and committing petty crimes with. Hung over, still kind of reliving that flashback, I went to Tommy's house, saw that he was gone, suspected that he may have stolen the safe with all of my money, and chased him down."
Viewers then saw Sam fire his gun and nothing more.
"What you didn't see is whether or not I shot Tommy," Trammell said, speaking by telephone from his Los Angeles home, "and what had happened with Sam is that he basically took two steps back. He'd gone to Bon Temps to start a new life, and no one knew about this side of him, where he had a criminal background and these anger issues.
"So in Season 4 I'm dealing with that eruption that happened at the end of Season 3 and also with Sam's past catching up with him," he said. "It's going to be cool, because we'll see more of this shape-shifter community I've met, who are helping me deal with my issues, with all of the betrayal in my life, especially from my first adopted family leaving me because I was a shape-shifter. With this community I can talk about shape-shifting and heal myself a bit.
"And it'll be cool for the audience, because they'll learn a little more about shape-shifting, things we didn't know about the mythology."
Even better, Sam will be getting a love interest during Season 4 - and, no shocker, she'll be a shape-shifter. Janina Gavankar, late of "The Gates" (2010), will play the character, a, pardon the pun, shapely schoolteacher named Luna.
"Luna is a very interesting character, and Sam is very attracted to her," Trammell said. "She's not just beautiful, but she's also mysterious. She's like Sam in the sense that she doesn't want to reveal a lot about herself, about her past or who she is. Throughout the season those secrets start to reveal themselves to Sam, and some of them put Sam in danger.
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