True Blood – Lafayette Turns To Jesus As His Boyfriend – Season 3 Casting News (01.04.10)

Kevin Alejandro joins Season 3 True Blood Cast

‘Southland’ actor joining ‘True Blood’
Kevin Alejandro to play ‘Jesus’ in HBO’s vampire drama

“Southland” co-star Kevin Alejandro…is joining Alan Ball’s vampire drama “True Blood.”

Alejandro, expected to appear in almost every episode of the HBO series’ upcoming third season, will play Jesus, a Latino orderly who is taking care of Ruby Jean Reynolds (Alfre Woodard) at her care facility and becomes involved with her son, Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis).

Alejandro continues to be attached as a regular to “Southland,” which recently moved from NBC to TNT. Because of the cable network’s plan to air the 13 produced episodes of the cop drama, starting Jan. 12, before making a decision whether to order a second season, Alejandro can accommodate “Blood” while keeping his obligation to “Southland.”

Source: THR

I’m not sure what other people are thinking but working as an orderly in a care facility sounds like the perfect place for a vampire trying to keep a low profile. Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), last we saw of him was both repulsed and strongly drawn to vampires after consuming copious quantities of Eric Northman’s blood. And the strangely beautiful Alejandro with his mixed Latino colouring including pretty blue eyes would definitely fit into Alan Ball’s world of vamps.

I’ve read Kevin Alejandro’s bio-resume and though I’ve seen him in both ‘Weeds’ and ‘Sons of Anarchy’ I remember him from neither and on Weeds especially, a 30-minute Showtime gig, one would think  if he were memorable that it wouldn’t be so hard to recall the guy. OTOH, if other than his ‘Southland’ co-starring role he’s been mostly assigned standard Latin thug roles well, that would explain.

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