OfficialBuddyTV — July 30, 2009 — BuddyTV’s exclusive interview with Sam Trammell and Michelle Forbes of True Blood.

This video with True Blood’s “Jessica” (Deborah Ann Woll) and “Hoyt” (Jim Parrack) features the scene which Michelle Forbes alludes to in the EW interview she did with Deborah Ann Woll. It’s excellent.

TVGuide Keck’s Exclusives interview snippet

A couple of Michelle’s comments about the meat tree (with real meat!) and Maryann’s fate.

“I’m a 30-year vegetarian..

so the role of Maryann has been a bit challenging – especially with the

lovely meat tree – Di-meat-tree, as he became known.”

(In answer to the request to talk about the tree.)

“It was filled with

real meat and reeked as the weeks wore on. There are bobcats and

coyotes roaming around that ranch where we shoot, so they had someone

sit by the tree with a gun at night to protect it.”

(In answer to how can Maryann be vanquished?)

“Once she believes (her) god is finally coming, that will be her vulnerability. Or shall I say her Achilles’ Heel. “

Click the link to get the full scoop. Michelle Forbes is always a great interview. I will miss her on the show.

Anyone else recall Michelle is her early years of acting–like in the sorta-cool episode of Star Trek:The Next Generation where she and Geordi became ghosts–were trapped “out of phase” with seemingly everyone else? Or maybe they are dead as this type of experience is supposed to be part of the Bajoran death (ritual(?) according to Ensign Ro Laren, last name acts as first, played by Michelle Forbes. A fan fave, the actress had been racking up a solid following–about to get her part in Star Trek :TNG  beefed up, when Michelle quit the show.

I was so annoyed with her.

Have since caught her at most, maybe twice in her entire career elsewhere. I know she worked a lot too, being such a well-respected actress. Ever more often, she is asked to do cameos or a guest stint based on her standing with geeks.* It doesn’t hurt that she’s beautiful, either. The only places however that I’ve watched her over the years were the aforementioned Star Trek:The Next Generation (1 season) and Battlestar Galactica (on SciFi) as the unforgettable scary-awesome Admiral Helena Cain. She had both a story arc of several episodes and a television mini “Razor,” for BSG (she was the razor(!) on SciFi channel. Very memorable. /EDIT This may have been the worst paragraph I’ve ever cranked out at  4 a.m. Edited for myriad reasons. Apologies. *I like geeks. I am one.

In S2 of HBO’s True Blood, Michelle Forbes has had a featured and prominent role for much of the season as Mariann the maenad. She’s left an indelible impression in the True Blood universe, of an exuberant, deadly, sometimes wicked, orgy-lovin,’ ancient maenad who Michelle Forbes described thusly in her TVGuide interview (link above to full story):

“A maenad is also known as the raving one or the wild one. They’re

mythic creatures in Greek mythology who followed Dionysius and Bacchus

and revel in chaos and destruction. They drink wine, have sex and have

no boundaries. That excess is their quest for purity. As they sing

their praises to their god, they hope that he comes.”

If you cannot see what Michelle Forbe’s brought to HBO’s True Blood then you are not watching the show that Alan Ball is offering. Just being able have Michelle Forbes perform on the show brought an edge to Season 2, a menace and a seemingly wacko maenad, who in her own world, lived the way every one should. Seriously. The casting on this show overall is pretty damn good. I consider Michelle Forbes in that category.

She’s a freaking goddess in quite a large community of fans.

The orgies really got old and “bug-eyed freaks” got old.

I think the most irritating thing about “Maryann” was the orgies–in which she  did not participate. Less naked, middle-aged dudes and more naked main characters for at least a season. Please.

After jump : Bill’s sire, Jessica–click it and it’s a  hi-res poster from the scene above. (property of HBO)

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