In preparation for the fourth season premiere of True Blood in the UK, Deborah Ann Woll gave a video chat Q&A with digitalspy.com. She teased the witch storyline, Jessica and Bill’s budding relationship, and an awkward photo request at Comic Con with comedian Chevy Chase.
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Alex & Stephen get ready for Eric & Bill to be burned at the stake. (PC: HBO)
A new video from last season has reared its pretty little head. The video contains a roundtable of the True Blood Post Production crew and was posted by Souzan Alavi. Alan Ball(Executive Produce
r/Writer/Creator/Director) talks with Scott Klein (Colorist), Gary Calamar (Music Supervisor), Louise Innes (Editor), Bruce Dunn (Producer in Charge of all things Post Production), Nathan Barr (Composer). Jon Massey (Visual Effects Supervisor), John Benson (Supervising Sound Editor) and Gregg Feinberg (Co-Executive Producer).
In the video, you can see how they did a lot of cool visual effects from Season 4 like the fire scenes and scenes involving the witches. Enjoy!
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True Blood’s fourth season starts on FX in the UK on the 4th of February, and it looks like Stephen Moyer did some publicity to promote it while in his homeland recently. It’s the usual run-of-the-mill questions, but Stephen’s as charming and witty as ever:
“Neither of my kids have seen True Blood, but Lilac can tell you the whole plot – minus the blood, sex and swearing. You’ll hear her saying ‘Daddy likes fairy blood!’”
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The September 2011 issue of Australian AXN magazine features a picture of Alexander Skarsgård, but the interview inside the magazine is about True Blood’s creator, Alan Ball. Alan talked to the magazine before his first trip to Australia about sex with vampires, casting True Blood, and politics of the show as an allegory for the gay rights movement. Some of the other male stars are also featured inside the magazine, as you can see in the scans below.
Alan Ball: “I think there’s also something really sexy about the notion of being so incredibly intimate that you share your essence with someone. The idea of feeding on each other is kind of insane, but at the same time very alluring.”
HBO’s looking to make sure our New Year sucks by giving us three nights of True Blood. Starting Thursday 12/29 through 12/31, HBO is set to re-air Season 4 for your viewing pleasure. Still not sure what you’ll be up to on New Year’s Eve?
UK Fans are eagerly awaiting Season 4 of True Blood which will be shown in February on FX. Meanwhile, the wittiest guy on board, Stephen Moyer, talks to Sky Guide for delight of his fellow British fans on Bill Compton’s new look and storyline. Among other interesting subjects, he gets on one delicate subject for fans since Eric lost his hair back in Season 2. The haircuts. Dear True Blood team: it’s well known that vampires can’t visit a hairdresser. Their own nature forces their hair to stay like the day they died, as noted by the same Bill Compton on Season 1, episode 2, when he told Sookie that he was lucky to have had a shave the day he died. Allow me this little ranting to beg again to True Blood stylists to bring Bill’s sideburns back! Now. I’ve said it…
In the new fourth series of True Blood Bill has gained…shall we say, ‘a position of power’ to prevent spoilers? Has he let it all go to his head?
He sleeps with as many virgins as he can find and does things that he doesn’t care will p*** people off or not because he’s got power and he’s going to abuse it.
So the romance is dead?
Yeah, romance is dead, let’s screw everything! No I think that what happens is that he’s learnt from his experiences with Sookie that he has to be honest and he has to tell the truth. There are decisions he has to make as a politician which are difficult but he knows that ultimately he’s being commanded from on high. There will come a point where he will break and it’s been really interesting.
So Bill has transformed?
Yeah, one of the things about this series was how we were going to make Bill different this year. Any person who is in power has a thing like “well I should do this and I should do that” and at some point they stop thinking “I should do this” and they become the answer to the question, they become the thing, the role. I think anybody in power probably goes through that.
Does he look different?
Yes! Me and Audrey Fisher who is the costume designer and Dennis Parker who does the hair and Brigette Ellis who has been our make-up person from the beginning, we all sat down and decided how we wanted him to look. He’s probably got a better quality of blood that he’s been tapping, even though we say we drink True Blood, he doesn’t have to now, he’s got thousands of people volunteering to give him blood. So maybe because he’s on a better quality of blood, his complexion has changed, maybe he’s looking better, looking healthy. We played with that in Season One and Two, certainly Season One, that just after a vampire has fed they’re more rosy cheeked. There’s so much detail, you wouldn’t believe the crap that we talk about. So that was one thing, then would he still look like someone from the civil war?
Well we’ve established that you don’t have to have the same hair as you had because of Alex [Eric] losing his long hair. So lets cut his hair, lets get rid of the diggers [sideburns], he’s not from 1870 anymore, he’s in the present day, so that’s immediately changed the way he looks. Lets talk about clothes, instead of having him in jeans and stuff now he’s a patrician, even though the public don’t know about his position of power, they know that he is a local benefactor. I never wear suits, but we sat down and we decided, lets wear suits. There is a suit designer that does a lot of stuff for me, they came to me and they offered to make Bill’s suits and so me and Audrey sat down with 200 swatches and we talked – would he be a double breasted man? Would he be a single breasted man? Would he have three buttons, would he have two buttons? We had five suits made out of the fabrics that we’d chosen and then we had to decide what kind of shoes he’d wear, would he wear cufflinks, would he have French cuffs, would he have cut away collars… I can’t tell you how detailed it is but you do that for every series. Alex will have done it for his look this series after his changes too.
From all of us here at TrueBlood-News.com, we wish you a very happy and healthy Thanksgiving Day. There is lots to be thankful for, but since this is a website dedicated to True Blood, we would like to thank the cast, crew, writers – everyone associated with True Blood – for all of your hard work on Season 4. We’re all anxious to see what Season 5 brings!
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