Bon Temps may be a small, southern town, but there’s been a population boom on True Blood‘s set. In addition to an already extensive cast of regulars, the new faces for Season 3 include Alcide and his psycho-ex Debbie Pelt, Sam’s mother and brother, Bill’s human wife Caroline, the King of Mississippi (along with his long-time consort and rent-a-boy), Claudine, Franklin Mott, Lafayette’s love interest Jesus, a host of werewolves (including one hilariously named Cooter), Holly, Crystal, Calvin Norris, and Yvetta.

And that’s just some of the new additions. It’s exhausting listing them – how on earth will it play out on screen? Even Carrie Preston admitted she wondered if it’d be too much: “I would go to table reads, and there would be 30 people sitting there, and I thought, ‘How are they going to juggle this?’ And then we saw the first episode cut together, and they totally pulled it off… We’re in good hands.”

Carrie Preston added that Season 3 unspools “at breakneck speed,” but there will be time to “go to more emotional places” with the cast, including the plain ol’ humans like Arlene.

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