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True Blood fans in Greensboro, NC got a chance to watch the season finale on the big screen. In attendance was Kristin Bauer, Todd Lowe & Kevin Alejandro.

Hard-core fans of the wildly popular HBO series True Blood got the chance to get up close and personal with some of the cast at the networks only big screen season finale viewing event on Sunday. But the red carpet event wasn’t held in Hollywood, it all took place at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Greensboro.

Fans lined the streets dressed in their favorite costumes to catch a glimpse of their favorite stars who say it was great giving back to the fans that support them so much.
“I’m going to see it with everyone else for the first time, so it’s going to be quite something on a big screen too which we don’t normally see so it’s fun,” said Kristen Bauer, who plays Pam in the series.
The special screening was held to thank the state’s loyal fans.

“It’s a blessing, it’s like winning the actors lottery,” said Todd Lowe, or Terry Bellefleaur. “I mean, it’s a nice place to be and I’m very thankful.”

Out of all the cities in the country, Greensboro’s ratings were number one.

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Whoa! I’m not going to spoiler everything for people who have not yet seen the finale. But I repeat… Whoa! Comments might be spoilery, so if you don’t want to be spoiled, stay clear!

Sam Trammell at Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon

Sam Trammell  joined stars like Renee Zellweger, Mark Harmon, Sofia Vergara, Adam Sandler and Sally Field at the Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon Friday in Los Angeles. He gave to TV GUIDE some hints on the Season 3 Finale and believe it or not, he thinks Eric fans should be worried! Ah, big teaser!

“Sam’s been a pushover for two seasons, and this year he finally decided to stop taking it,” Trammell, who attended the event in memory of his grandmother, told TV Guide Magazine before helping to answer fundraising phones. “Cancer is a disease that doesn’t discriminate. Everyone knows at least one person who has had the disease, or they’ve had it themselves. It’s time we stop taking it and kick this disease’s butt. The money we’re raising tonight is a good start.”

Come Sunday, when the third season finale of his HBO series airs, Trammell says you can expect to see more of the “fed-up, darker, meaner Sam. He’s taken a turn over the last few episodes. The Sam drama continues in the finale and there’s a big cliffhanger. I’ll get very angry. I will be shooting a gun. My brother is just one person who best look out.”

With all this talk of a cliffhanger, and creator Alan Ball’s previous teases that someone important will likely die, should fans be taking Sam in a death pool? “I’m not going to say yes or no because I don’t want to ruin the finale for anyone. But between you and me, Sam fans should not worry too much about his return next season. Eric fans on the other hand … as we saw last week, him and the King might be toast. I think I’m safe.”

And even if he isn’t, Trammell would leave a happy thespian. “The last half of the season was some of the funnest stuff I’ve gotten to do on the show because it was so different. They warned me that I’d be doing some crazy stuff and that I’d kill someone, but I didn’t know how it would manifest,” he says. “It has been so much fun to get to play angry and be mean to people. Usually Sam is just so nice and so helpful. I was getting a little sick of him being stepped on, pushed over and taken advantage of. I was glad we did the flashbacks. They gave great back story and insight into Sam and who he was before and why he might be the way he is now.”

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Isn’t this delicious? Another fantastic interview with Denis O’Hare with lots of good information on his character, Russell Edgington. It’s like dessert after a great meal, isn’t it?

Denis talked to New York Magazine about all things Russell and his future projects. No spoilers here, and he’s wrong about the sexy.

Denis O’Hare, who plays Russell Edgington, the 3,000-year-old vampire king of Mississippi, galloped into this season of True Blood on horseback in a crested blazer, charming us with his luscious accent, old-world manners, and mercurial megalomania. With only days remaining until the season finale, Vulture talked to O’Hare about how Haley Barbour inspired his accent, why Sookie should take a page from Queen Victoria, and why Edgington is the show’s true hero.

How did you get involved with True Blood?
Funnily enough, I was a big fan of the show and had been watching it —
along with everybody else — and had never imagined that I would be on it. You kind of look at shows and think, Oh, I wish I had done that one. But I didn’t really see myself on True Blood. Sam [Trammell] has that [Sam Merlotte] part taken, he’s great at that. I can’t play Ryan’s [Kwanten] part. The Magister is a friend of mine, Zeljko Ivanek. I was like, I could play that part, but Zeljko’s doing it. I was in Budapest doing a movie called The Eagle when I got a phone call from my agent. He said, ‘How would you like to play the vampire king of Mississippi?’ I said, ‘Yes! Yes.’

Did you ever picture yourself as Eric or Bill?
No, they were all too sexy and too naked for me.

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“In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can’t give her that,” the Australian actor, 33, says. “So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it’s just been easier to be single. I’ve worked so hard from literally nothing to this point, so there’s still a while. I’m still scratching and clawing my way up there.”

He goes on to reveal that, like many of us, he’ll sleep when he’s dead: “Sleep has never been a priority in my life,” he says, not looking worse for the wear with his boyish face and carefully tousled hair. “I love working. I love acting, so it’s easy when you have a passion for it. I’ve always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.”

Ryan tells how he works hard to do his character on True Blood justice: “I never set out to ‘play dumb.’ It’s always my goal to give him innocence and vulnerability,’ he says. ‘He’s almost, in a bizarre sense, our connection — the human connection — to this kind of bizarre world. So it’s important that he remain somewhat subjective to it all.’

“Actress Lindsay Pulsipher plays Kwanten’s on-screen love interest, Crystal, a shape-shifting werepanther, and says she’s inspired by the actor who took her ‘under his wing.’

“‘He knows Jason Stackhouse inside and out. The writers allow us to go as far as we want to take it, and he’s very spontaneous.’

“Neither Pulsipher nor Kwanten would reveal anything about the show’s Sunday finale, except to say that Crystal will stick around and that ‘nothing is as it seems.’”

You can read the rest of the interview on USA Today’s Web site.