True Blood News at The Nest

While we wait for the Season 3 finale of True Blood on September 12 “Evil is Going on” (remember, next Sunday there’s no True Blood), HBO has released today some pics from the episode. Enjoy…!

Posted in EP 12 - Evil is Going On

Lots of True Blood actors fill their hiatus with other projects and Jim Parrack plans to take to the stage. Parrack will star in “Terre Haute” by Edmund White, produced by the Blank Theatre in Hollywood.

“‘Terre Haute,’ which runs Oct. 2 to Nov. 14 at the Second Stage Theatre, is a two-person drama inspired by the epistolary friendship that developed between bomber Timothy McVeigh and writer Gore Vidal. White’s drama imagines a series of conversations between the two unlikely friends, whose names the playwright has changed from their real-life inspirations. …’

Parrack will play the imprisoned bomber opposite Mike Farrell, an alumnus of TV’s “MASH,” who will take on the role of the writer. The production is directed by Kirsten Sanderson …”

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Posted in Jim Parrack, Other Projects

Find out who will make it through the season 3 finale alive and will return in season 4! Read More »

Posted in Season 4, Spoilers

Oh baby, That Stackhouse Boy smolders on the current cover of Australian GQ Style! In addition to more very hotsexyhandsome photos inside the edition, Ryan gives a little insight into playing Jason and talks about keeping his life private.

On what he likes about playing Jason Stackhouse: I think too much. Even in this answer. My brain is forever coming up with these options. Maybe I could do it this way or that way. But Jason, whether you call it lack of thought or willpower, he’s one of these guys, and we all know one, who totally acts in the spur of the moment. He has no real regard for the consequences of what may happen. It’s really liberating to play a character like that because I would stop at the edge of a cliff and think ‘Whoa’. He’d just jump off.”

On maintaining his private life: “Occasionally I get paparazzi, like this week when I finished yoga, there were 10 waiting outside. But I’m not very newsworthy. I’m still a very private person. I want to leave all the drama in my life on the set. I’m not going to call my publicist from a restaurant and say, ‘I’ll be leaving at 7:57. Make sure there’s a photographer outside.’ Giving my life up like that would be taking a little bit of my soul. I think some people think they’re constantly on show. I don’t want to live like that.”

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Posted in Ryan Kwanten

SPIKE TV ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR “SCREAM” 2010

True Blood hits the Scream awards hard this year with several nominations:

* ULTIMATE SCREAM

* BEST TV SHOW

* BEST ENSEMBLE

* BEST HORROR ACTRESS – Anna Paquin

*BEST HORROR ACTOR – Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard are nominated

*BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Sam Trammell

*BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE-FEMALE – Deborah Ann Woll

* MOST MEMORABLE MUTILATION -  Heart Cut out of Chest, Cut Up into Souffle and Fed to People, True Blood

* HOLY SH!T SCENE OF THE YEAR -  Head Twisted 180 Degrees During Sex, True Blood

The two-hour extravaganza will premiere on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 19 (9:00–11:00 p.m., ET/PT).

Voting Begins Today Only At Spike.com

Get your fangs over there and represent!

Posted in Scream Awards 2010, True Blood Cast

The cast of True Blood is often out doing good and this time it’s Sam Trammell. He’ll appear with other actors, musicians, journalists and athletes in the “Stand Up To Cancer” television fund raising event scheduled for broadcast over several networks including ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and more.

Other stars such as Jane Lynch, Elizabeth Banks, Emily Deschanel, Bill Hader, Dorothy Hamill, Anne Heche, Cheryl Hines, Rob Lowe, Marlee Matlin, Sam Trammell and more will join the broadcast. Musical guests include Billie Joe Armstrong, The Edge, Lady Antebellum, Leona Lewis, Natasha Bedingfield, Queen Latifah, Martina McBride, Aaron Neville, Dave Stewart and Stevie Wonder.

The “Stand Up To Cancer” (SU2C) telecast will raise funds that will accelerate innovative cancer research. The live, one-hour fund raising event will be simulcast commercial-free on September 10, 2010, at 8/7 central.

Go Sam!

Posted in Appearances, Charitable Causes, Sam Trammell

Happily Never After, Bitches

This week on True Blood, Sookie is very, very done with this shit, Pam is packing vampire mace, the Talbot goo is probably starting to reek, Sam will hopefully stop being really fuckin’ rude ‘cos he got laid, Russell falls for Eric’s bullshit again, the return of fat ole Momma Fortenberry (yay!), and Bill wants to retire and grow vegetables … um, random.

Hell hath no fury like a stripper scorned!

Alas, the end is nigh. Two weeks from now this madness will be over, and I shall be bereft of snark opportunities and will return my attention to grown-up shit like spring cleaning and gardening (which I hate, so Bill is totally welcome to come around and help with that shit and like, shag me in the potato patch afters). I don’t know whether it’s because I’m a disgusting, snot nosed, hacking diseased hag laid up in bed with the ‘flu this week, but I cannot get excited about the last episode or particularly spazzed up about the season finale. I feel ‘meh’; that Zen state of fan geek indifference caused by a sensory overload of tits and ass, gore, inventive swearing, lying sneaky headfuckery, an annoying heroine who gets chomped and beaten up all the time, and not very exciting Supes. It wasn’t that the episode was a write off, because it had some fantastic bits (I love it when Bill and Eric fight, even if it’s for show … bring it, bitches!). It just had too much shit in there I didn’t find particularly compelling at this point in proceedings. Less Bon Temps domestic dramas, more vamp mayhem please. And what happened to the useless werewolves? I miss their hairy asses. Are they saving more crazy ole Debbie Pelt for next year?

Posted in CitizenErased Recaps, EP 11- Fresh Blood

Kristen appeared on the show yesterday to talk about True Blood and her non-human animal activism including her work with IFAW for whales and with PCRM to protect chimpanzees and other primates from experimental torture.

Thanks to True-BloodFans.com for the video.

Posted in Charitable Causes, Kristin Bauer, Save the Whales campaign, Videos

Eggs and Tara

Oh Eggs, with the silly nickname but velvety voice and absurdly buffed and smooth body, how the mighty have cracked! Actually, you were never mighty. You were just a nice guy, albeit a lost one, drifting along in Maryann’s wake. You seemed to be tailor-made to lure Tara into Maryann’s web, the perfect bait, and when she put you under her spell, you did her murderous bidding. Poor Eggs! You appeared to legitimately care for Tara (as much as two people can care for one another after such a brief time together), and after Sookie helped you remember, you couldn’t live with the reality that you’d hurt and killed so many people. Death by cop (well, almost a cop) ended your young, tragic life, and your death left Tara and Jason and Andy Bellefleur reeling from the after-shocks. May you rest in peace, Benedict Talley.

Posted in Rest In Peace

Kristin and her husband, Abri van Straten

As you probably know, the talented & beautiful, (and an artist for Nice Stakes!) Kristen Bauer Van Straten is married to a handsome and talented musician, Abri Van Straten. (OK, seriously I am not lying about the serious creativeness & prettiness all around). Right now, if you purchase Abri’s CD on Amazon, you’ll also get (for a limited time y’all – ’cause they cain’t do this forever) your CD autographed by Abri & an autographed photo of Kristin.

Help them to help IFAW.

From Kristin Bauer’s website:

Abri’s (SUNLIGHT AND SHADOWS) is back from the press and it is so beautiful – inside and out!

For a limited time, starting September 1, we are including an autographed photo from me and Abri will also autograph the CD.

Not sure how long we can keep this up, but we will try as proceeds go to IFAW to help whales and also the African Elephant. (We are off to S Africa and will be working with IFAW Africa to see how we can help).

To buy the CD with autographs, after September 1, go to AMAZON.

Much Love,

And thanks for helping us help IFAW!

(And you’ll LOVE this music – includes a song for whales and a song for me! “Monet”)

Posted in Kristin Bauer, Save the Whales campaign, True Blood