Ryan Kwanten
Alan Ball had a lot of good things to say about Ryan Kwanten and about Charlaine’s book series in general in this article.
“There is some nice stuff in there about loneliness and the vulnerabilities of intimacy and how we as a society tend to demonise whatever group is conveniently ‘other’ at the time,” he says.
“Yet it’s all done in this light-hearted amusement-park kind of way so it never feels heavy-handed.
From HeraldSun: Aussie actor Ryan Kwanten has hit it big in the US vampire drama True Blood and no one could be happier for him than the show’s creator, Alan Ball.
Ball – whose credits include Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and Emmy-winningSix Feet Under – is full of praise for the formerHome and Away actor who plays Jason Stackhouse in the series.
For True Blood all the actors have to leave their inhibitions behind, especially Kwanten who seems to get his clothes off in most episodes.
The series is set in the fictional town of Bon Temps, where humans co-exist with vampires, and stars Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Kwanten.
“One of the things I really appreciated about Ryan is his willingness to look foolish,” Ball says.
“Jason is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and a lot of actors might need to wink at the camera to let the audience know that ‘I’m not really this stupid’.
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