So has Anna had any supernatural experiences in real life?

She said: “There’s been a few different bits and pieces in my life where I’ve thought ‘is that a really lucky guess or did I know that was going to happen? Is it just being highly intuitive?’ My mum and my sister used to joke that they thought I was a witch but I don’t think I have time to tell the rest of that story.” What a tease.

To read the whole article, which is quite lovely, check out the source.

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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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“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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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.”

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.

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Being an active fan of the show, I can definitely say that your character, Holly, seems to be one of the only ones with any sort of work ethic. No one else seems to ever be working.

Yeah, exactly! They just go and do, although, I would say Arlene (Carrie Preston). She’s pretty diligent in her swinging abilities.

Yes, definitely Arlene too. When your character was introduced, she seemed more or less just into Wiccan beliefs and practices, but this season she got to actually tap into some real magic. Do you think that’s something that’s going to stick with your character or something that was just a part of this season?

I hope so! I believe a really important part of who she is is her faith, and it’s really her religion being a Wiccan so it’s a really important part of who she. Really, and I’m not being coy, you’re guess is as good as mine with what they’re going to explore next year with Holly cause I literally don’t know.

Something I’ve been wondering about with the whole Marnie/Antonia plot line being done and it looking like we’ll see the return of Russell Edgington, where do you see the witches landing in the mix of all this?

I think what this year definitely proved is that by no means do the vampires call all the shots and we (the witches) can control them. If our powers are used that way we can control them but we can also save them.

You’ve proved that you’re definitely an asset.

Yeah, exactly! We’re definitely a force to be reckoned with, for sure.

Also with Marnie being gone and Holly tapping in to these new found abilities, it would seem Holly would fit nicely as the new leader of the coven.

Exactly! Maybe she’ll just take over the coven. That would be fun! Ooh, let’s pitch that! Everyone’s so gun shy of the coven at the end of this year so I could see them being done with that.

It seems like before season’s end there hadn’t been to many deaths involving major characters. Had the fear of being killed off subsided at all and, if so, with how the season ended has that fear returned?

That fear definitely, at least for me, was there all of last season cause I always just thought that it’s always the new people that are the most expendable anyway, you know what I mean? And knowing that the turnover rate on the show certainly is quite large being such a bloody show so I absolutely would trepidatiously get each script and just think, they’re very kind about how they handle it, though. You usually get a phone call before you get the script just to let you know it’s coming. So, yeah, I always sort of waited thinking that any time my managers called that, “Oh God, please don’t be the call!” You know, it’s such a dream job.

I can only imagine. It looks as though Holly will definitely be around long enough to have some romance with Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer).

I would love it! I can’t rhapsodize enough about Chris Bauer. He is such a dream to work with and so not his character, like, you would just die if you spoke to him. He’s this regular guy and so chill. A family guy, you know, so into his wife and kids and he’s just so funny. He’s so the opposite of his character but he’s a brilliant actor and so much fun to play with I would love it if they hooked us up.

Oh, I bet. One last thing in regards to True Blood. What would you personally like to see happen with your character and the show in general in the coming fifth season?

Um, I’d love to see… that’s a really good question. I’d love to see Sookie (Anna Paquin) run solo for a little while. I think that would be good for her.

I agree.

She’s been back and forth between these various gentleman suitors and it’d be fun to see her sorta get into her own personal groove, I think.

As for Holly, I’d love to hook up with Andy and see where that goes and just continue to see her evolve in her Wiccan powers.

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