As True Blood’s resident Brit actor, Stephen Moyer has been doing some more publicity for the start of season four on FX this week (5th February, UK Trubies!), and this week demonstrated his multi-tasking skills to This Is Nottingham while discussing how he unexpectedly found love and success on the show.
“I certainly wasn’t looking for a wife when I started,” he says laughing.
“Neither of us were looking. And perhaps that’s the point – when you’re looking in the wife shop, you can never find one. And then one comes along when you’re least expecting it.”
“The interesting thing about it, honestly, is that I had decided I wasn’t going to come to America that year for pilot season. And of course as soon as you say no, the bosses are much more interested than they usually are.”
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!
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!’”
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.”
For their 63rd issue, SciFiNow magazine caught up with Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgard and Deborah Ann Woll for a chat about what’s to come in True Blood. Unfortunately though, since this is a British magazine, they are discussing season four, which is yet to air here (5th of February on FX, UK Trubies!).
On Sookie and Bill’s break-up, Anna says:
“We don’t really have everything be perfect or happy for long. It’s not interesting television if everything works out for Bill and Sookie, and then they adopt five babies and live happily ever after.”
Stephen speaks of his joy that Bill finally got to make a joke:
“I was very pleased in episode five in season four, where Pam comes on with a huge hat and Bill says, ‘Oh good, the world needs more beekeepers’. When you get those lines, you’re like ‘Yes!’”
Alex responds to the question of what his favourite experience in the show has been:
“It’s childish, but it was fun flying, I liked that. I want to do more of that. And the flashbacks have been fun. I mean, there are so many amazing moments on the show, but I loved shooting the stuff in Swedish – the flashbacks and the Viking stuff was great.”
Deborah Ann tells the story of when her grandmother watched True Blood:
“My mother tried to show my grandmother some scenes from an episode where Hoyt and I lose our virginity with each other, and I was like ‘Why am I watching this with my grandmother?!’ She actually said ‘Someday you’ll be in something I’ll be proud to watch’”.
Thank you Alexis for asking TVGuide.com a question that we want to know:
Is there still hope for Sookie and Eric on True Blood? — Alexis
NATALIE: Considering that Sookie swore off both Bill and Eric in the season finale, it’ll be a while before we see any movement on that front. “The feelings are still there for both Eric and Bill,” Alexander Skarsgard tells us. “The attraction is still there, but they’re preoccupied, and so is she.” Instead, look for Bill and Eric to team up while the vampire world begins to both expand and collapse in the coming season. “The guys have usually tried to kill each other and now suddenly have to learn to become friends and protect each other and work together.”
This week, TV viewers in the UK might have noticed Stephen Moyer sporting some very fetching stubble in a promotional piece for the cable channel FX. The British FX channel is different to the US version, in that it features mainly imported shows from the US, including True Blood.
Also featured in the clip are Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead), and Noah Wyle (Falling Skies). Stephen and his fellow thespians all wax lyrical on the amount of high quality TV shows that are currently available to the discerning viewer, and there’s a montage featuring clips from True Blood, The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Family Guy, and NCIS.
As True Blood’s resident Brit actor, Stephen Moyer has been doing some more publicity for the start of season four on FX this week (5th February, UK Trubies!), and this week demonstrated his multi-tasking skills to This Is Nottingham while discussing how he unexpectedly found love and success on the show.
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.
