People seem to know a lot about Stephen Moyer these days. Or at least, they think they do. His chiseled face (along with many other body parts) is regularly on full display in the red-hot vampire series True Blood, which just began its fourth season on HBO, and his real-life marriage to costar Anna Paquin has only strengthened the microscope under which he lives his life.
It’s gotten to the point where Moyer is surprised when he meets someone he can shock by simply opening his mouth. Though Bill Compton, his character on True Blood, is a Southern gentleman born during the 19th century, the actor is a bona fide, modern-day Brit, and talks like it.
“Not to sound completely egocentric … but you do so much press and you do so much stuff leading up to every year, [that] when I meet people and they go, ‘Oh my God! You’re English!’ I’m always amazed that it’s still kind of news,” he says. “I don’t say that in a bad way. I quite like it actually, because it means that people believe that character is real and really comes from that place and that makes me feel good about what I do.”
Put another way, despite the appeal his personal life might hold for the gossip pages, most True Blood fans are far more interested in what’s happening onscreen. And why shouldn’t they be? Through its run, the series has reliably and gleefully delivered extreme gore, sex, nudity and horror-movie elements that have allowed it to carve out an indelible niche in the TV landscape. Aside from a never-ending parade of supernatural beings — vampires, werewolves, maenads, shape-shifters, fairies, telepaths and (this season) witches — True Blood also doesn’t skimp on the social commentary, likening the vampires’ quest for social acceptance to a civil rights struggle.
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