Kristin Bauer van Straten and Jim Parrack will be visiting South Florida for a free meet-and-greet with fans on Saturday Oct. 15 at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 7-9 p.m. Source: CITY LINK Glamazon
Adina Porter and Jim Parrack talk about the most shocking moment for them during True Blood’s Season 4, Denis O’hare discusses his return to the series and the finale’s bloodbath and Janina Gavankar explains what she wants to see happen next season on True Blood with the shifters.
Keep reading to watch the videos!
Read More »
Jim Parrack did a wee interview with DFW.com and we learned, among other things, that Deborah and Jim have a way better relationship than Jess and Hoyt. Read on…
You and Debra Ann Woll have had great chemistry onscreen. What’s your secret?
“She has been my favorite person on the show to work with. We’re both kind of dorks about acting. We love it. We get together on set and rehearse and talk about it. Some actors, I think, don’t want to seem too excited about acting. Maybe it doesn’t look cool. But she and I love it too much to hide our enthusiasm.”
What kind of feedback do you get from viewers about the Hoyt-Jessica romance?
“The fans seem to like the idea of Hoyt and Jessica. The way the characters fell in love, it was pretty pure. And I think when people catch a glimpse of that, they want to see it continue. I did a movie in Louisiana a while back and there was a woman who came up to me in a bar and she handed me her phone. She said, ‘You’ve got to tell my fiance how to be that kind of guy. Otherwise, we’re not going through with this.’ I had no idea what she was talking about. She was like, ‘Hoyt’s the perfect boyfriend. You’ve got to tell him how to be like that.’ I said, ‘Look, I can’t tell anybody how to do anything in their soon-to-be marriage. I’m just an actor and that’s a character.’ Besides, Hoyt doesn’t have the answers any more than anybody else.”
Is there any acting challenge to being “glamoured” by a vampire? What goes through your head?
“For me, I try to just picture being almost asleep with my eyes open. You just totally relax and give over and give over and give over to her and just go with whatever she wants. Do you know when you see a kid asleep in the back seat of the car and his parents bring him in and he’s limp and out cold and kind of malleable? I think it’s like that, but with just a little cognition still working.”
Read it all at the source
NY Mag’s Vulture blog continues their Q&A sessions with True Blood actors by talking with Jim Parrack:
Did you have any inkling that Hoyt and Jessica were headed for all this domestic trouble?
The general rule is to not jump into moving in with whoever you’re nutty for. But, you know, I was in a bad relationship, and the day I got out of it, I moved in with Ciera, and she ended up becoming my wife. Then again, I wasn’t facing issues like, “My mother is trying to kill my girlfriend.” [Laughs.] Now Hoyt and Jessica’s issues are more like, “I’m hungry. Where’s my food?”
Or in Jessica’s case, “Who’s my food?” But, really, why can’t Hoyt make his own food?
If you went off and worked hard and came home to another person whose only obligation was to watch TV and enjoy herself, things might go badly there, too. She knows I have to eat, too, so couldn’t she make some effort? [Laughs.]
Hey — she’s pulling the night shift at Merlotte’s. And she’s keeping a video blog. Where’s yours?
I met some fans who said, “Please start Twittering!” They even walked me through it, but I’m terrible at it. I’m so bad at keeping it up. I forget how to use it. And I’m not very savvy: I try to send a private message, and it goes out to everybody.
That could be embarrassing. Though probably not as embarrassing as making a cameo in Jason Stackhouse’s sex dream?
I still haven’t seen that, but to play the cowgirl straddling my buddy? [Laughs.] That was a very interesting scene to shoot, to say the least.
Read More »
Bon Temps' Dynamic Duo Andy & Jason - PC: HBO
HBO has released more True Blood Season 4 photos.
Check out the gallery and tell us what you think!
More videos were released for the “It Gets Better” campaign that include Todd Lowe, Ryan Kwanten & Chris Bauer, Carrie Preston and Jim Parrack.
http://www.itgetsbetter.org/
The Trevor Project offers help to any young person who is struggling.
Todd Lowe:
Ryan Kwanten & Chris Bauer:
Carrie Preston:
Jim Parrack:
Jim Parrack took some time out from charming us all as Hoyt Fortenberry (and growing some new facial hair…) to discuss how he landed Hoyt, on-screen intimacy and his acting inspirations.
With Season 4 of True Blood underway, his character, the lovable former momma’s boy Hoyt Fortenberry could be in for some exciting twists, but nobody is giving further details. Before securing his regular role on True Blood, Parrack was in the film Annapolis and made appearances on TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Monk, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, ER and CSI. As True Blood fans know, Hoyt is in a steamy relationship with the sexy vampire Jessica Hamby, much to the chagrin of Hoyt’s controlling mother.
DA MAN: Tell us about True Blood, how you came to be on the show?
Jim Parrack: True Blood is a total blessing. I went in for the part of Hoyt, which was very small at the time and the character description was literally ‘the most nondescript human being ever’ and I thought, ‘Well, that’s either an insult or an opportunity.’ Then, I sat and talked with [True Blood Executive Producer] Alan Ball for nearly an hour and he made me feel very comfortable and we talked about Texas and growing up in a small town. The next day, I got the call that they wanted me and wanted to make the part [Hoyt Fortenberry] a regular. It was such a blessing. It has added a lot of public credibility to my career because when you cast an actor, you are in essence vouching for them. To have Alan and HBO vouch for me opened a ton of doors and to be able to act the great scenarios that our writers come up with, gives me the opportunity to put rare work out there. I say rare because an actor can’t ever be any better than the situation he gets to act and they give me extraordinary situations to act.
DA MAN: Hoyt’s relationship with Jessica involves a lot of, often racy, on-screen intimacy, what does your wife think about that?
Jim Parrack: Gracefully. She is terrific. My wife is an extraordinary and exciting actress, so she knows the dream of getting to act a story as great as the one Deb [Deborah Ann Woll] and I have been given. She is supportive and she and I are open and talk about anything that may come up. When we all started, I reached out to Deb’s boyfriend, EJ, who has now become a good friend and just made my intentions clear to him and told him if he ever wanted to talk I’d be happy to. If you go about it with patience and respect, it really is possible to not get tangled up in hurt feelings and suspicions. But, it probably costs Ciera more than I know to handle it all so well.
Read the rest of the interview at DA MAN.
