Sounds like I’m going to being buying multiple copies of the TV Guide edition with the True Blood cover shoot and article that must be forthcoming. I don’t do that often. Last time was for the series end of Battlestar Galactica. Maybe “someone” will be kind and do a scan of the different covers that you just know they are going to issue it in.
SAM: I LOVE season 2. I love season 2. My story line in season 2 is so insane and great. Sam is under the gun from the first episode all the way through. There really is no let up. He’s this magnet for punishment and abuse this year. Which I love! He has this relationship with this new character Maryann (Michelle Forbes), and what gets done to him is just so terrible. Which is great! It’s fun, but
…it’s really heavy this year for Sam. The stakes are really high and right from the very beginning he’s got trouble. There is trouble, trouble, trouble…
SAM: Yeah he’s got the weight of the world on his shoulders and the scope of his responsibility explodes outward from Merlotte’s. He understands things that other people don’t understand and he has to make some decisions that are big decisions.
(Anything new on the horizon for Sam Trammell once filming for Season 2 wraps up?)
SAM: I don’t have anything definite right now but I might be doing an independent movie with Sam Shepherd. Which would be great. (OMG. Would it! From reading this interview and what I know of Shepard they are very well matched in their approach to acting.)
TBN.com: Are there any questions you would like to ask the fans?
SAM: Yeah! Do you want Sam to find a woman and if so, who should it be? Or who or what should it be? Should it be Sookie? Or should it be one of the other characters on the show? Or if not what kind of girl or woman should it be? What should her qualities be? SAM: Next season, you’re really going to flip. It’s very entertaining and really fun.
My A: to Sam’s query. Not Sookie. Stay best friends with her because she needs a friend as true blue as Sam and visa versa–once the characters get past Sam’s big crush on her. Which I think he will.
A nice girl is who I would pair Sam Merlotte up with but I’m wondering if he can find a nice girl in BonTemps once we rule out Sookie? ( I’m excluding Tara as he’s flat out stated that he’s “tried to love Tara but…”)
MORE AFTER THE JUMP…
Unless you’ve been locked in a coffin lately, you know the hit HBO vampireTrue Blood drama helped ignite a true romance between stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. As telepathic waitressSookie Stackhouse and Civil War–era bloodsucker Bill Compton, their sizzle is undeniable. “Our characters have had f—ing lust, romantic sex, emotional sex…” Moyer says. But as the show returns for Season 2, “it’s more like a normal relationship. They argue. But there’s a yang to that yin. There’s makeup sex.” Phew. Who wants to see these hot supernaturals paying bills and shopping at Wal-Mart?
Steamy couplings are the heartbeat of the show this season, says creator Alan Ball, so fans can expect exponential amounts of romance along with the gore, dark humor and jugular-jolting twists that are the show’s staples. Ball developed the show—set in the sweltering dirty south of Bon Temps, Louisiana, in a near future when vampires have gone mainstream—from the SouthernVampire series of books by Charlaine Harris. The drama’s become HBO’s hottest property, sucking in 7.8 million weekly viewers and scoring the network’s highest audience since The Sopranos signed off. It also helped Paquin land a Golden Globe. Needless to say, expectations for its sophomore season are high. No worries, says Ball. “There are surprises, serious heat, fun new characters and adventure.”
Bill and Sookie’s first adventure: “They become sort of parents to this teenage nightmare,” Moyer says. That’s Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), the 17-year-old Bill sired as penance for killing a vampirewho threatened Sookie. The tension is obvious in a scene being shot on a dimly lit soundstage where the trio is crammed into a car, bloody tears streaming down Jessica’s face. “Jessicaconvinces Sookie to take her back to her parents’ house just to look through the window,” explains Paquin. “But she doesn’t just look through the window, and things go horribly, horribly wrong.”
So wrong that Bill rages at Sookie like he never has before. Paquin and Moyer go at the quarrel intensely, but there’s no kiss-and-makeup for this real-life couple when the scene wraps. She makes some calls on her cell. He chats with the crew. “They keep to themselves,” says Ryan Kwanten, who plays Sookie’s brother, Jason. “They are superprofessional. It’s not like they’re having sex in front of you!”
But Moyer admits he uses his personal experiences with love to get at the core of Bill’s fury. “In a relationship, you only get really angry when you really care,” says Moyer. “There’s that moment in those arguments when you think, ‘I’m never coming back.’ Then you go, ‘I love this person, so I’m going to sort this out.’”
Unfortunately for Sookie, she ends this particular clash on a much less mature note: “I’d rather walk!” she screams after slamming the car door and stomping off.
If you’ve seen the HBO promos, you know she’s about to encounter a horned, taloned creature in the woods. And from the looks of what’s lurking in a dark corner of the soundstage—a gash-covered prosthetic torso wearing the same plaid Daisy Dukes as Paquin—it’s going to get bloody. “I’m constantly getting bashed about and running away from things or after things,” says Paquin, whose neck is made up with fang marks (this show’s version of a hickey).
She got an emotional sock in the gut in last season’s finale with the discovery of a dead body strongly implied to be her Merlotte’s coworker, short-order cook Lafayette Reynolds (Nelsan Ellis). Quizzing Ball on the fate of Lafayette makes a set visitor wish for Sookie’s mind-reading skills. He’s not telling, but he does offer a clue about the backwoods monster. “People who’ve read the books know who that is.”
SOURCE: TVGuide.com
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