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Thursday, August 19, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
I Am So Looking Forward To This Issue!!!
September 2010 Rolling Stones Magazine Cover:
The following are escerpts from the upcoming magazine article that appears in this issue.
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous, True Blood creator Alan Ball says. “To me, vampires are sex,” he says. “I don’t get a vampire story about abstinence. I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.” On his show, every available orifice is used for intercourse: gay, straight, between humans and supernatural beings, and supernatural being on supernatural being, whether he be werewolf, dog or an enormous Minotaur-looking being called a maenad. None of the sex is quite as good as vampire sex, though, which can happen at the astonishing rhythm of 120 bpm while simultaneously devouring one’s neck and making your eyes roll back into your head. Says Stephen Moyer — who plays Bill Compton, the undead Southern Civil War Veteran — “If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn’t one before. It’s a de-virginization — breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there’s something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that’s pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive.” He laughs a little. “Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?”
Stephen on the allure of vampires: “If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn’t one before. It’s a de-virginization – breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there’s something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that’s pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive. (laughs) Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?”
Anna on the doctor that suggested that she she close the gap between her teeth: “Somewhere between the doctor putting his finger in my mouth and saying that he could fix it for me, I was like, ‘Yeah, and I could bite your finger right now.’ ”
Anna on announcing her bisexuality: ““I’m not sure what the reaction was, but I’m glad I did it. There’s such an impulse to turn it into a sensational thing, when what I was really hoping to say is that it’s normal and not interesting. (smiles) I feel so lucky right now. Life is pretty great.”
Anna on not minding the vampire bites she endures: “I’ve had 10 piercings in my ear, and a bellybutton pierce, and a tongue ring. My tongue, as it turns out, is not really appropriate for piercing, because the webbing is too close to the front, and the bottom barbell kept hitting against my teeth – clank, clank, clank. And it gave me a lisp, which isn’t great as an actress.”
Stephen on getting the callback for True Blood the same day his apartment was burglarized: “When you have things stolen, you become much more aware of what’s important – f—ing take the camera if you want, but don’t take the tape that’s in it. I lost all those sex tapes, the ones of me giving head when I was young. That was supposed to be my meal ticket.”
“True Blood” creator Alan Ball said he wouldn’t have it any other way, regardless of how many fictional awkward teen girls spring forth to pine for their sex-refusing vampire boyfriends. If it’s about vampires, Ball told Rolling Stone, it’s got to have some sex.
“To me, vampires are sex,” Ball told the magazine. “I don’t get a vampire story about abstinence. I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.”
Anna Paquin, for one, admits to wearing a “patch” – a piece of attire that resembles a thong with the sides cut off – when she’s got to film a nude scene as her alter-ego Sookie Stackhouse. For men, there’s the “sock” option to cover the goods.
But while Stephen Moyer, who plays Sookie’s vampire lover Bill Compton, wears a sock on set (not that he has “anything to hide,” he assured Rolling Stone)
Alexander Skarsgard, who portrays the vampire Eric Northman, wants nothing to do with the tube of modesty. “I don’t want a sock around it, it feels ridiculous,” Skarsgard said to Rolling Stone. “If we’re naked in the scene, then I’m naked. I’ve always been that way.”
Alan Ball says: “Working on ‘Six Feet Under’ could sometimes be depressing, but ‘True Blood’ is very different,” Ball said of his two series, (the former of which came to an end in 2005). “It’s about archetypes, the subconscious, mythology and wish-fulfillment. I’m like a kid going to the playground everyday.”
Moyer puts in his perspective on his real-life relationship with Paquin: “We pretty much consider ourselves married now, even though we aren’t yet.”
Source: The Vault
The following are escerpts from the upcoming magazine article that appears in this issue.
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous, True Blood creator Alan Ball says. “To me, vampires are sex,” he says. “I don’t get a vampire story about abstinence. I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.” On his show, every available orifice is used for intercourse: gay, straight, between humans and supernatural beings, and supernatural being on supernatural being, whether he be werewolf, dog or an enormous Minotaur-looking being called a maenad. None of the sex is quite as good as vampire sex, though, which can happen at the astonishing rhythm of 120 bpm while simultaneously devouring one’s neck and making your eyes roll back into your head. Says Stephen Moyer — who plays Bill Compton, the undead Southern Civil War Veteran — “If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn’t one before. It’s a de-virginization — breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there’s something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that’s pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive.” He laughs a little. “Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?”
Stephen on the allure of vampires: “If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn’t one before. It’s a de-virginization – breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood. And there’s something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that’s pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive. (laughs) Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?”
Anna on the doctor that suggested that she she close the gap between her teeth: “Somewhere between the doctor putting his finger in my mouth and saying that he could fix it for me, I was like, ‘Yeah, and I could bite your finger right now.’ ”
Anna on announcing her bisexuality: ““I’m not sure what the reaction was, but I’m glad I did it. There’s such an impulse to turn it into a sensational thing, when what I was really hoping to say is that it’s normal and not interesting. (smiles) I feel so lucky right now. Life is pretty great.”
Anna on not minding the vampire bites she endures: “I’ve had 10 piercings in my ear, and a bellybutton pierce, and a tongue ring. My tongue, as it turns out, is not really appropriate for piercing, because the webbing is too close to the front, and the bottom barbell kept hitting against my teeth – clank, clank, clank. And it gave me a lisp, which isn’t great as an actress.”
Stephen on getting the callback for True Blood the same day his apartment was burglarized: “When you have things stolen, you become much more aware of what’s important – f—ing take the camera if you want, but don’t take the tape that’s in it. I lost all those sex tapes, the ones of me giving head when I was young. That was supposed to be my meal ticket.”
“True Blood” creator Alan Ball said he wouldn’t have it any other way, regardless of how many fictional awkward teen girls spring forth to pine for their sex-refusing vampire boyfriends. If it’s about vampires, Ball told Rolling Stone, it’s got to have some sex.
“To me, vampires are sex,” Ball told the magazine. “I don’t get a vampire story about abstinence. I’m 53. I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.”
Anna Paquin, for one, admits to wearing a “patch” – a piece of attire that resembles a thong with the sides cut off – when she’s got to film a nude scene as her alter-ego Sookie Stackhouse. For men, there’s the “sock” option to cover the goods.
But while Stephen Moyer, who plays Sookie’s vampire lover Bill Compton, wears a sock on set (not that he has “anything to hide,” he assured Rolling Stone)
Alexander Skarsgard, who portrays the vampire Eric Northman, wants nothing to do with the tube of modesty. “I don’t want a sock around it, it feels ridiculous,” Skarsgard said to Rolling Stone. “If we’re naked in the scene, then I’m naked. I’ve always been that way.”
Alan Ball says: “Working on ‘Six Feet Under’ could sometimes be depressing, but ‘True Blood’ is very different,” Ball said of his two series, (the former of which came to an end in 2005). “It’s about archetypes, the subconscious, mythology and wish-fulfillment. I’m like a kid going to the playground everyday.”
Moyer puts in his perspective on his real-life relationship with Paquin: “We pretty much consider ourselves married now, even though we aren’t yet.”
Source: The Vault
Stephen Moyer on He and Anna
The wild and otherworldly antics on True Blood are fraught with life and death, and undead scenarios amid an often-naked cast are just another day at the office for principal actors Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer.
One might consider, with all that excitement, their off-screen relationship, presumably devoid of blood-drinking, vampire killing or supernatural sex, would seem comparably dull.
Not necessarily so. If you ask Moyer, 40, who appreciates the everyday minutia of life with his betrothed, even the milestone many men fear - meeting one's future mother-in-law - was approached with enthusiasm.
"It was late last year," he said. "I flew to Wellington to meet her mum for the first time. Without Anna."
Grinning, he continues: "It was lovely, actually. I was picked up at the airport at nine in the morning, driven around for hours, introduced to all Anna's friends and family. I had lunch with her mum, and then at four o'clock she stuck me back on the plane to go back to Auckland where I was filming [the upcoming adventure flick, Ice]."
Aside from the regular nerves and stresses one experiences when enduring scrutiny from future family members, another dimension is surely added when each of them have seen you near-naked, let alone conducting acts, albeit simulated, that are usually conducted in private.
He laughs. "You mean, you're asking me if it was weird that Anna's mum had obviously seen a lot of me before we met? Well, I don't know. I didn't ask Mary that.
"But you need to realise that she's a very spunky, very modern, evolved woman. She's very aware of what it is that we do and what it is that Anna does.
"Remember, she was with Anna was she was 14 or 15 and doing all those provocative movies like Hurly Burly and 25th Hour."
Now in season three, the award-winning series has an influx of new characters, including a pack of werewolves. The "hot" quotient of True Blood's cast has been amped up this season with the addition of Joe Manganiello, who plays werewolf Alcide Herveaux.
The newcomer to the series explains: "It's hard to believe, but, after a while, standing naked in a field in the middle of the afternoon with a wild animal 10 feet away becomes second nature. What was difficult was how my character was described in the book as having 'biceps as big as boulders that Sookie could do pull-ups on'. So I have to match that, which means a lot of time in the gym."
For Moyer, now a seasoned veteran of nudity and on-screen intimacy, "the naked aspect is part and parcel of the show. And honestly, when I'm doing a sex scene, all I think about is the food I'm going to eat after the scene is finished.
"Everybody has to starve themselves so if they put the sex scene after lunch, it's a f***ing nightmare. Believe me, there's nothing exciting about doing those scenes."
He pauses. "Actually, I nearly came in naked today, with a cock sock on, just to make your day." Moyer is nothing if not entertaining.
Despite his cavalier attitude, he's not completely blase when it comes to this season's controversial episode featuring the was-it-or-wasn't-it rape scene between Bill and Lorena (Mariana Klevano).
"I certainly questioned Alan Ball about some of the content in this season," Moyer admits. And how does Paquin deal with watching it? Moyer sighs. "It's an odd thing we do. We know that there are things that are going to happen which are going to be slightly odd or provocative, and we have to deal with them like any other couple would.
"I mean, at least we're a couple who work together on the same show and understand the plotting of it. It must be incredibly difficult for couples where the partner isn't an actor."
But Moyer is not impervious to the effects. "It's tough for me to watch Anna do it with anybody else. But we read the scripts and talk about it before we attack those scenes. And bottom line is we trust each other implicitly and we deal with shit when it comes up straight away. We're far healthier because of it."
Moyer has two significant past relationships which have resulted in two children, Billy, 10, and Lilac, 8. Interestingly, he hadn't felt the impetus to marry until he met Paquin.
"It felt ridiculous to call the person that you really are going to spend the rest of your life with your girlfriend," he explains.
"And so I felt like it should be something more than that with Anna. I felt like she should have a title, even if it means I could just joke around and call her 'the missus' and make lots of wife gags.
"It certainly surprised me more than anyone else. I mean, my friends are beyond shocked. Marriage was something that I was never, ever going to do. Nobody was more shocked than Paq was. I should have got the [St] John's Ambulance crew when I proposed," he says.
Despite the high divorce rate for regular folk, let alone couples whose careers push such extreme boundaries, Moyer is confident their relationship will stand the test of time.
"How am I sure? I don't know. I honestly don't know. But I know that it's different, and I know that it's a solid unit. No one knows anything for sure and either of us could change our minds at any point.
"But I'm as sure of this relationship as I've ever been of anything in my life."
Source: NH Herald
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
TV Guide Interview With Kristen Bauer
Fangbangers, rejoice! True Blood is back and it's sexier than ever. Along with an onslaught of new characters, fan-favorite vampire lieutenant Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) will be stepping into the spotlight, as Bauer has been promoted to be a series regular. TVGuide.com caught up with Bauer — who also told us about her charitable work to secure the world's whale population — to get the lowdown on Pam's promotion, Eric and Sookie's relationship and the ever-present threat of death during Season 3.
TVGuide.com: Congrats on becoming a series regular. How does it feel?
Kristin Bauer van Straten: It's so good, wonderful on many levels. I feel like I've been invited to the greatest party on Earth.
TVGuide.com: So we'll see a lot more of Pam this season?
Bauer van Straten: Yes, we do. We also learn a lot more about her. I'm surprised to find that she has a sensitive side. It's all about identity this year and peeling the onion, finding out the deeper layers of these characters. For every character, we see their integrity and also their vulnerability and sexuality. Everything is pushed a little further, but really deeper.
TVGuide.com: Speaking of sexuality, it has never been completely clear what Pam's sexuality is. Will that delved into this season?
Bauer van Straten: It will become more clear. We definitely find out that she's at least bisexual. There's more than a hint on that one. [Laughs]
True Blood: "Bill and Sookie have a connection that will never die"
TVGuide.com: This season is so much more supernatural, but you've already been immersed in that playing a vampire.
Bauer van Straten: Yes. My world is more about my relationship with Eric [Alexander Skarsgård] and the politics of the vampire world. You get to see Pam's astoundingly deep relationship with Eric and where her integrity and loyalty lies. She's still sarcastic, she's still wearing amazing clothing, but also we see the person behind the vampire.
TVGuide.com: How will Pam feel about Eric being distracted by Sookie (Anna Paquin) this season?
Bauer van Straten: We are dealing with that. Pam is such a great lieutenant because she wants to keep Eric's eye in the game, but her main focus is to always have him around. She'd give her life for this guy. We'll discover her purpose in Eric's life.
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Bill's New Journey in Season 3
PopWrap: How exciting was it for your show, which started with 1.4 million viewers to wrap up season two with over five million a week?
Stephen Moyer: It’s extraordinary. But without being disingenuous, we all thought it had the potential to do so well. I think there was also only one episode in the first season that didn’t go up. So they’ve all kind of done that and done that and done that. I think it helped that every episode last year was bigger than the last.
PW: What are your feelings going into Emmy season?
Stephen: I think awards expose the show to a wider audience, making them realize we’re not your run of the mill show. But typically The Emmys don’t seem to go for genre shows, so honestly, I’m not sure that any of us expect anything this year. Don’t get me wrong, it would be lovely if it happened, but I don’t think any of us are expecting anything.
PW: What did you think of season two over all?
Stephen: Michelle Forbes was amazing. There was a moment of “what the f*** are we doing?” But it worked.
PW: And how does this year differ?
Stephen: The new season doesn’t have the same sort of out of control craziness because we’ve stopped searching out the crazy, the crazy is just coming to every single one of us.
PW: Yes, the crazy is kidnapping Bill.
Stephen: Yea. He’s lost, he’s on his own.
PW: The first two years were very Bill/Sookie heavy — were you excited to film with actors aside from, or in addition to, Anna?
Stephen: I think we both were. Obviously we’re well aware that, as TV viewers and knowing what our show is now, you just can’t watch two people be together forever. Alan [Ball, creator] said, happy relationships are great in real life but they’re not very interesting on TV [laughs]. I love working with Anna, absolutely love it, but it’s nice to work with other people.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Ryan Kwanten Interview with People.com
From battling addiction to vampire blood to getting mixed up with a fanatical religious group and then sleeping with the preacher’s wife, Ryan Kwanten’s True Blood character, Jason Stackhouse, is always getting into trouble on HBO’s hit show. Luckily for the 32-year-old Australian actor, who has lived in Los Angeles for seven years, he’s nothing like his rural Louisianan alter ego. “We look the same to a certain degree,” he jokes. “But my jeans aren’t as tight.” Before True Blood’s finale on Sept. 13, which Kwanten calls “the amalgamation of pretty much the entire season,” the actor spoke with PEOPLE about his character, Louisiana cooking and how he stays so darn ripped! –Aaron Parsley
Congrats on the success of True Blood. How does it feel?
It’s is not something that you set out expecting [because of] the amount of factors that have to fall into place for a show to even be picked up … True Blood was already a pretty tasty cake before and then now it’s just a nice little cherry on top.
Do you notice a difference between when the first season aired and now?
I’ve really noticed a difference in how people are aware of the show and of me. It’s certainly a new thing to me.
Were you familiar with the Sookie Stackhouse books before you started playing her brother Jason?
It was only after I got the role that I started reading the books to catch up with it, but even then [creator] Alan Ball made us aware that it wouldn’t be following word-for-word, story-for story with the books.
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