Denis O'Hare Teases Russell's Return

Former True Blood star Denis O'Hare has teased that a return to the HBO show is definitely still on the cards.

O'Hare portrayed the vampire king of Mississippi Russell Edgington during the show's third season, and has reminded fans that Russell is still alive, despite having been buried in cement during the season finale.

"I think Alan Ball was asked recently about Russell's return and he said, 'Russell's not dead'," O'Hare teased during the recent TCA press tour, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "And I can't do better than that so I'll just reiterate what he said."

"It's a great character and I feel he hasn't been able to completely express his dreams yet, " O'Hare explained. "I think more than any of the other vampires that season he had ambition and huge dreams.

"I"m still attracted to that, and I think he need to fulfill whatever it is he's aiming for and go out in a blaze of glory in whatever it is he needs to do."

The actor recently claimed that he expects to return as Russell at the start of the fifth season next year.

Last month, O'Hare married his longterm boyfriend Hugo Redwood at a ceremony in New York City.

Source: Digital Spy

Deborah Ann Woll Interview With Vulture

At the tender age of 17, True Blood's quasi-innocent vampire Jessica Hamby has studied up on carnal knowledge, killed a horny trucker, and attacked her boyfriend's mom. But this works out just fine for Deborah Ann Woll, the actress who plays her, who gets to live out all her unfulfilled adolescent angst. Vulture phoned Woll for more details on her character's season-four exploits, then got to the bottom of other pressing matters, such as her favorite flavor of blood and her policy on biting folks for a photo op.

Part of being a vampire is being loyal to your maker. How would you defend your character's maker, Bill Compton, who's become a jerky politician?
He's under incredible pressure. And he has some incredibly powerful people making decisions for him. I think Bill is as disappointed with that as we are. Bill is really alone now. He doesn't have a family except Jess, and I think it's really wonderful that this season they get to [bond] quite a bit. Because things aren't going so great with [her human boyfriend] Hoyt, [Bill] is all that she has.

So … Jason Stackhouse and Jessica? Didn't see that one coming.
I'm actually really excited about that story line. The thing is, Hoyt is such a great guy, but the really sad part of it is that his mom was right: She told Jess all those years ago that Jess can't give him what he wants. While Hoyt is more open-minded than his mother, Hoyt really wants conventional things. He wants a wife and a normal life. And that's not something Jess is capable of, nor does she want it.

When she was human, she would've been the perfect mate for him.
You're absolutely right. The only future she had to look forward to when she was a human was being a housewife. But she's excited that she finally escaped that. It's really saddening for her to find out a year later that she's right back where she started. And she did this because she loves him. She had a little two-week rebellion, then immediately was with Hoyt.

Were you rebellious as a teenager growing up in Brooklyn?
No, I was not. This character is fun because it's a very safe place to act out. I was a very shy, very quiet little girl. I was bullied a lot and really didn't feel attractive. Being so pale and so blonde, I just disappeared, so I started dying my hair red when I was about 14. And I rebelled against my peers. I never once experimented with a drug. I was a theater geek. I had piano lessons, theater rehearsals, dance.

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Deborah Ann Woll Loving The Triangle Love Story She Is Playing

Deborah Ann Woll has revealed that she is enjoying Jessica's storyline with Hoyt and Jason on True Blood.

Jessica and Hoyt (Jim Parrack) have been having problems in their relationship since the beginning of the season.

Meanwhile, Jessica has bonded with Jason (Ryan Kwanten) after feeding him her blood to save his life.

Woll told New York Magazine: "I'm actually really excited about that storyline. The thing is, Hoyt is such a great guy, but the really sad part of it is that his mom was right - she told Jess all those years ago that Jess can't give him what he wants.

"While Hoyt is more open-minded than his mother, Hoyt really wants conventional things. He wants a wife and a normal life. And that's not something Jess is capable of, nor does she want it."

Woll explained that Jessica wants to exploit the opportunity to rebel now that she is a vampire, saying: "The only future she had to look forward to when she was a human was being a housewife. But she's excited that she finally escaped that.

"It's really saddening for her to find out a year later that she's right back where she started. And she did this because she loves him. She had a little two-week rebellion, then immediately was with Hoyt."

Source: Digital Spy

Alexander Skarsgard On Regis And Kelly

Anna Paquin Deserves Her Privacy Just Like Everyone Else!!!

ANNA Paquin realized how popular her hit show True Blood had become when she started to be asked for autographs in more and more bizarre places.

Anna — who plays waitress Sookie Stackhouse in the raunchy show — says she gets freaked out when fans go to great lengths just to get a picture — especially when it means following her to the bathroom.

“I find it weird when people are offended when I won’t take pictures with them in a bathroom,” she says.

“I find being followed in to the bathroom is a little odd. And it is even odder when someone gets upset when you are like ‘But we are in a bathroom, this is a private place!”


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Collider Interviews True Blood's Happily Married Couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer

Six episodes into Season 4 of True Blood, things are definitely heating up in the small, sexy town of Bon Temps, where vampires, werewolves, witches and all things supernatural are becoming more commonplace than the humans. Although everyone with the show is always very tight-lipped, when it comes to plot reveals, during the HBO portion of the TCA Press Tour, co-stars and real-life husband and wife, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, talked about Sookie’s stubborn streak, how they enjoys the tension in the relationship between Bill and Sookie because it makes for interesting television, the ability to pitch possible storylines, how the cast is always trying to get tidbits about the story and their characters out of the writers, and how incredibly talented the entire cast is. Check out what they had to say after the jump.


Question: Anna, why do you think Sookie has such a stubborn nature, when it comes to friends and family trying to warn her?

ANNA PAQUIN: Well, I think stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done. I think she’s a pretty good person to have in your corner. She’s willing to put herself out there. Plus, if Sookie wasn’t so stubborn, our show would be a hell of a lot less exciting because there would be a lot less danger for her to be rescued from. But, what’s interesting about her, at the beginning of this season, is that she has made the decision to be on her own and to tell both the gentlemen callers to get lost. In a way, that almost makes her more open to interesting things happening because she’s operating from the position of not being as needy.

Stephen, when did you find out that Bill was going to be the new king of Louisiana, and what did you think of that?

STEPHEN MOYER: The way that Alan has the show set up is that, whoever has written an episode is the producer of that episode, and they sit on set the entire time. But, we’ve got six writers, so that means they’re going to be on for two episodes. And, every single one of us hits those writers up for information, without any of the others knowing that we’re doing it, and then we all pool that information and try to find out what’s going on. I shouldn’t have said that out loud. That’s exactly what we do.

PAQUIN: Alan knows we do that.

MOYER: So, I did find out that that was the idea that was being pitched. towards the end of Season 3. I feel really lucky because I’ve gotten to play a really interesting arc, just as an actor, from the first season. In the first season, he was this enigmatic voyeur, watching everything. In Season 2, he was worried that he was going to lose Sookie, and he held on really tight. Then, he realized that he can’t hold on. He has to push her away, in order to save her, and he’s quite nasty in the way he does it. Then this season, what I’ve gotten to play is that I’ve got to let her go. If you love somebody, you have to set them free. So, whilst doing all of that, I get to be the king. He’s having to make very powerful choices whilst letting go of the thing that he loves. It’s been a really interesting dynamic for me to play. Bill gets to perhaps become somebody that Sookie can respect again because of the choices that he makes as king.

Anna, do you think it’s fair that Sookie has so many horrible things to deal with?

PAQUIN: I’m having the best time of my life. Are you kidding me? And, I’m not just a little thing, thank you very much. I can hold my own. I dare Alan Ball to come up with something I’ll say no to.

Do you get invested and start rooting for Sookie to end up with one character over the other, or do you just go with it?

PAQUIN: I feel like it would be weird to decide what I want to happen to her ‘cause it probably won’t ever match up with what I envisage, and then I’d be disappointed. We’re just all going with the flow.

What’s more important for a guy to have, good oral hygiene like a vampire, or good grooming like a werewolf?

PAQUIN: Do you think the werewolves have good grooming? Did you see the boys at Lou Pines? Blech! More importantly, if you’d been there, you could have smelled the boys at Lou Pines. Alcide is a unique and rare werewolf, in that he seems to play close attention to his grooming. The others were more like cool biker dudes that don’t know about deodorant.

What’s it been like to go from Sookie and Bill having this undying love for each other, but now they have this tense relationship?

PAQUIN: Just speaking for me, our love in real life is fine, so I’m totally happy for our characters to be as sad, distraught, messed up and hating each other as they like. We don’t really have everything be perfect for too long, or happy for too long. It’s not interesting television, if everything works out for Bill and Sookie, and then they adopt five babies and live happily ever after.

MOYER: I actually pitched to Alan that I was getting a bit bored with our life and asked if he add somebody else to the mix.

PAQUIN: Thanks, babe. But, no, we want the show to be as dynamic and interesting as possible.

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Some upcoming scenes in here as we see our lovely Dr Ludwig back in action at Fangtasia, Poor Pam, That doesn't look like a relaxing spa treatment...lol

Anna and Stephen Are Just An Ordanary Married Couple

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. - Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are just your average, everyday married couple.

“We do ritualistic animal sacrifice, we host orgies on our trampoline every other Sunday - you guys didn’t get our Twitter feed on that?” said Paquin, standing beside her husband Moyer, in a small media scrum following the True Blood session at the Television Critics Association tour.

“And then every once in a while we run through the city and drain people and drink their blood,” Paquin added. “It’s really very romantic.”

Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse and Moyer plays vampire Bill Compton in True Blood, which currently is airing its fourth season Sunday nights on HBO Canada.

Paquin, 29, and Moyer, 41, weren’t a married couple when True Blood began, but they are now, having tied the knot last year. Ironically, as Paquin and Moyer got closer off-camera, their characters had a big falling-out on-camera.

“I actually pitched to Alan (Ball, True Blood creator) that I was getting a bit bored with our life, and could he add somebody else to the mix,” Moyer said.

“Thanks, babe,” Paquin responded, rolling her eyes.

An aside from a journalist’s perspective: Generally, I don’t like interviewing two people at the same time. Often they talk to each other, or at the very least they instinctively edit each other, rather than having a genuine conversation with the interviewer.

But I have to say, Paquin and Moyer were charming as a duo, especially in the small scrum after the formal panel. They were more animated together, playful even, than on previous occasions when I’ve seen each of them speaking with the media on their own.

For example, at one point Paquin and Moyer were asked what they do during their down time on the set.

“A quick 10 minutes in the trailer?” Moyer, asked, rhetorically and hopefully.

Again, Paquin rolled her eyes.

Certainly with Sookie and Bill on the “outs”, and Sookie now protecting and finding herself attracted to Bill’s enemy Eric (Alexander Skarsgard), Paquin and Moyer don’t have as many scenes together this season as they’ve had in the past.

“Truthfully, we got to know each other on set, and all the crew and everybody knows us together,” Moyer said. “So they kind of tell us they miss it - I mean, they’re probably lying, but they tell us they miss seeing us together.”

When Paquin and Moyer are with each other at home, their favourite TV show - besides True Blood, I assume - is Breaking Bad.

“Absolutely, utterly obsessed,” Moyer said of Breaking Bad, which airs Sundays on AMC.

Paquin and Moyer also took time to give credit to two of the other actors on True Blood who they feel don’t get as much attention as they should.

“There’s always a lot of talk about the weres (werewolves) and the vampires, but Ryan Kwanten (who plays Jason Stackhouse) and Sam Trammell (who plays Sam Merlotte) are unbelievable and consistently amazing,” Moyer said. “I love watching both those guys.”

“And they get so little credit for how incredible they are,” Paquin added. “So a big shout-out for them.”

Despite genuine admiration for the rest of the True Blood cast, Paquin and Moyer mostly have radar for each other. So how long did it take before they realized they could be more than co-stars?

“I waited for her to tell me that she really fancied me before I admitted anything,” Moyer said.

Yet another eye-roll from Paquin. But without a doubt, there was love in those peepers.

Source: Toronto Sun

True Blood Spoilers For Season 4 With Alan Ball

As True Blood starts charging towards the Season 4 finale, executive producer Alan Ball was on hand at HBO's summer TV session to dish out a few spoilers — and when we say few, we mean very few. Here is the transcript of our rapid-fire lightning round with the very cagey Ball:

True Blood: Eric and Sookie shower! Twin faeries! And 5 other spoilers from Comic-Con

What will we see in the war between witches and vampires?
Ball: It will go places that surprise you. It's not linear.

What can you say of the Bill-Sookie-Eric triangle?
Ball: It's complicated.

Will Sookie (Anna Paquin) be able to forgive Bill (Stephen Moyer)?
Ball: I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody for everything, but I'm a Buddist, so...

Were you careful with the relationship between Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and Sookie because of Team Bill?
Ball: I don't worry about Team Bill or Team Eric. I love [the fourth book] because I thought it was a great story, but I'm Team Sookie.

Because Jason (Ryan Kwanten) drank Jessica's (Deborah Ann Woll) blood, will his sex dreams continue?
Ball: He's had her blood and he's already a very sexual person, but he's going to be attracted to her.

What is the season building up to?
Ball: The fate of vampires as a whole.

What's the big, bad villain for next season?
Ball: We are just in the beginning of Season 5, so it's too early to say, but we're basing it on the books.

Do you feel pressure to top each villain?
Ball: I don't think that way because that's only a recipe for trouble. I love my job, I enjoy doing it. I'm not going to put pressure on myself to top. I just want to tell the best story and the most fun story.

Why did the show really jump one year in the future this year?
Ball: The root of that was how we get Jason to be a cop.

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Kristen Bauer Talks To TV Line At Comic Con

“Sundress.” Don’t forget — you heard it here first. What does it mean? Damned if I know. But, according to True Blood fanger Kristin Bauer van Straten, it’s key to an upcoming Pam zinger that she hopes (and I expect) we’ll all be talking about after we see the episode it’s in.
During our sunny-side-up convo at Comic-Con, the actress also disclosed how her toothsome alter ego will handle last week’s literal “face-off” and revealed her one true love.

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Cast Of True Blood Talks To EW At Comic Con

Cast Of True Blood Talks To EW At Comic Con

Cast Of True Blood Talks To EW At Comic Con

Alan Ball Talks To TVLine At Comic Con

Is True Blood about to turn the Bill-Sookie-Eric triangle into a threesome?

That’s the first thought that crossed my mind when I eyed this provocative teaser for the HBO drama’s Aug. 21 episode: “Convalescing after her latest near-death trauma, Sookie envisions a world where there’s room for both Bill and Eric.”

Does that mean what I think it means? You better believe I dropped that exact question on exec producer Alan Ball’s lap when he visited TVLine’s Comic-Con interview suite Friday afternoon. And while I was at it, I also pumped Bon Temps’ puppet master for scoop on the burgeoning romance between Jessica and Jason and just how high this season’s body count would climb.



Source: TVLine

TVLine Interview With Alexander Skarsgard At Comic Con

Will they or won’t they? Or perhaps more importantly, when will they? That’s the question that fans of HBO’s True Blood often wonder about the complicated relationship between Alexander Skarsgard’s Eric Northman and series heroine Sookie Stackhouse. But a caveat for fans of Charlaine Harris’ novels:

Skarsgard says just because you’ve read the infamous Book 4 doesn’t mean you know how Season 4 of HBO’s smash hit series will play out. The Swedish heartthrob sat down with TVLine’s Michael Ausiello at our Comic-Con interview suite to discuss the Eric-Sookie dynamic, the experience of interacting with rabid fans, and the importance of maintaining his character’s integrity in Season 4 — despite a pesky spell that’s wreaked havoc on his personality.

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