I don’t know if like me, you are having mixed feelings about True Blood’s imminent Season 3 ending. Don’t get me wrong, I have no doubt that it will be awesome but this season went by faster than both one and two–it was so jam-packed with new characters and beefed-up parts for some old favourites. It’s just so hard to say goodbye. OK. Now I’m sounding like a sappy love song so let us get to something a bit more hardcore, shall we? Courtesy of E!Online (Please learn how to spell actor Denis O’Hare’s name–let’s pretend you are actual journalists, OK? (Sorry for the mini-rant, readers. I am fanatical about this type of thing. I expect E! to get it right–it is their paying gig–which I’d be glad to do–hell, I’ll be their proof-reader! )
In the alone time Jessica and Hoyt share at Bill’s house after she saves him from Tommy in his pit bull form by ripping open her vein and feeding him, Hoyt listens as Jessica explains the realities of her true nature. Although momentarily taken aback by her confessing that she accidentally drained and killed a trucker, Hoyt accepts that Jessica simply cannot stomach Tru Blood and can only feed on humans. Without hesitation but with slight trepidation Hoyt offers his own blood to Jessica.
That’s the serial killer from season 1 that Arlene was going to marry until Sookie decapitated him (in self-defense, he was trying to rid the world of “fangbangers.”)
Arlene is now pregnant with his baby (total showtime elapsed is only about
Anyway, Anna is positively giddy having only been wed for about a week and Stephen is his normal witty and slightly bawdy self. Might be the best interview I’ve seen them give despite the not-really-the-greatest interviewer.
Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin tell Access Hollywood Shaun Robinson their most memorable moment from their wedding.
Actually, Anna & Stephen graciously duck the question about a “memorable moment” and allude to a “15-minute” interlude of alone time at the wedding (or reception?).
Anyway, Anna is positively giddy having only been wed for about a week and Stephen is his normal witty and slightly bawdy self. Might be the best interview I’ve seen them give despite the not-really-the-greatest interviewer.
TV Guide interview Alexander Skarsgård at the Emmys.
Alex interviews that he is jet-lagged from just getting in from a film shoot in Europe. Shooting on True Blood Season 4 starts in late November and he states he knows nothing about next season. Worth watching to get a long look at the gorgeous ASkars.
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This is a raw video. It’s Kristen of E! interviewing Mariana Klaveno (Lorena) and Carrie Preston (Arlene) as well as lots of Joe Manganiello (Alcide) being photographed alone and with Rutina Wesley. There is also video of Steve & Anna though no interview.<sad face>
Here’s a pic (they did no interviews) from the same event of the newly-married Mr. and Mrs. Anna Paquin. Kidding!
Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer attend the pre-Emmy party (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
*By now I’m pretty sure you know how Kristen defines “scoop”–anything that will get you to read what she /her staff have written which is OK– she seems to love True Blood.
“I am happy with the way [the finale] sets up for next season. I think [the fans] will be pleased at what they find out about Lafayette. There is something to be found out in the finale about LaLa,” he says mysteriously. (Nelsan Ellis about his character known affectionately as “LaLa.”)
Shape shifter Marshall Allman (Sam’s little brother) is also bursting with giddiness over the season finale. “[It's] very shocking on every front. I think they did an excellent job of the cliffhanger this year for my character, for Anna’s character, and for Alex’s character, too,” he reveal(ed).
Sam Trammell–so adorable–so witty–love him bunches! Little bit of talk in his Kristen interchange about how he feels about TB season 4 & a lot of playful bantering–worth a watch!
Kristen again w/Alexander Skarsgård who speaks briefly about “just flying in” from Sweden and being jet-lagged–thus needing to get inside to the party and have a beer (ha ha). He tells nothing of the season 3 finale BUT he does smile a lot–something we don’t see much of on the show and that itself is worth a look:
Though this season of True Blood still has three episodes to go, I’ve already got scoopage on the next one: Long story short, it might as well be titled “Season of the Witch”!
Series creator Alan Ball reveals that he’ll be introducing Hallow Stonebrook, the were-sorceress from Charlaine Harris’ fourth Sookie novel, Dead to the World. Preferring to refer to the character as anecromancer, the boss man says she’s “actually a medium. She communicates with the dead, and she’s interested in developing further powers.”
In the book, Hallow casts a spell on Eric… she’s described as a tall, trim brunette.
*Unless you saw the Comic-Con True Blood panel Interview.
With on stage, left to right: Joe Manganiello, Charlaine Harris, Kristin Bauer, Deborah Ann Woll, Nelsan Ellis, Alan Ball, Denis O’Hare, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer.
With on stage, left to right: Joe Manganiello, Charlaine Harris, Kristin Bauer, Deborah Ann Woll, Nelsan Ellis, Alan Ball, Denis O’Hare, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer.
With on stage, left to right: Joe Manganiello, Charlaine Harris, Kristin Bauer, Deborah Ann Woll, Nelsan Ellis, Alan Ball, Denis O’Hare, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer.
With on stage, left to right: Joe Manganiello, Charlaine Harris, Kristin Bauer, Deborah Ann Woll, Nelsan Ellis, Alan Ball, Denis O’Hare, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer.
With on stage, left to right: Joe Manganiello, Charlaine Harris, Kristin Bauer, Deborah Ann Woll, Nelsan Ellis, Alan Ball, Denis O’Hare, Sam Trammell, Rutina Wesley, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer.
I’ve been reading Rolling Stone since I was 14 and subscribing since age 16. That’s oh, let’s say about for about 30 years.
Suffice to say that this is the most excited I’ve been about a Rolling Stone cover and it’s accompanying interview (with freakin”Alan Ball(!) since David Cassidy posed on the cover of Rolling Stone in his altogether when I was 12 years old.
With the hues and cries of “too much blood” in season 3′s True Blood here are our heroes’ (literally) cheeky reply.
This is gonna sound snooty, but I’ve actually been hoping that the gore–which hello! is funny in it’s over the top-ness–would turn the “jump-on the bandwagon”- types off the show. And it is–with some at least.
Today, while fishing for True Blood news I saw a comment–someone actually wrote that “True Blood would be so much more popular without the gore.” LOL. Might as well take out the sex, too. But no one is complaining about too much sex. Isn’t that interesting?!
I love you Rolling Stone for the much-anticipated Alan Ball interview and for putting some of his pretty people/main characters/terrific actors on the cover!
The following is an excerpt of an article from the September 2, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone. This issue is available tomorrow on newsstands.
“I’ve had 10 piercings in my ear, and a bellybutton pierce (sic), and a tongue ring. My tongue, as it turns out, is not really appropriate for piercing, because the webbing is too close to the font, and the bottom barbell kept hitting against my teeth… and it gave me a lisp, which isn’t great as an actress.” ANNA PAQUIN on her history of piercings.
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?”
Keeping in mind that there are some great supporting actors on True Blood we have a few bits from Kristen which in a style typical of bits from Kristen don’t tell you a whole lot (but they are served up with such verve!)
Keep your eyes on Arlene (Carrie Preston). According to her real-life hubby Michael Emerson, he’s “glad she’s able to be the one human story this season so far, because there needs to be a human element.” But he warns us ominously: “She’s going to have some superhuman challenges coming up.”
In re: Joe Manganiello: ‘s Alcide:
“you get to seen him scantily clad in an upcoming ep of True Blood…”
Good to know he’ll be back before season’s end. As a shifter however, scantily clad is a normal condition.
Finally, Carrie Preston’s spouse, Michael Emerson, again talks about someday (next season perhaps?) having a part in True Blood written in for him by Alan Ball. As Emerson puts it, “Whenever I see Alan Ball he says, ‘I must write something for you,’ and I say, ‘I’ll be there in a heartbeat.’ So we have an understanding and liking of one another. I certainly think he’s a fantastic talent and maybe they’ll find some little tidbit for me next season.”
True Blood Season 3 Bill & Sookie Tee Plus Size
Some TEE’s in Sizes Up to 4X. All come in smaller sizes as well (unless they run out which you won’t have to worry about if you buy now!)
