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AphroditeMF on Jan 24 2012 at 8:41 am |
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SFX have conducted their annual poll of everyone’s favourite vampires, and released the results on their website to coincide with the publication of their Vampires special edition magazine. You’ll be pleased to know that FIVE True Blood characters made the list!
2. Eric Northman – “Eric the Viking. Once a phrase that immediately meant “flop comedy from the Monty Python guy.” Now it means, “Top Nordic vampire hottie.” Bill was supposed to be the alpha vampire on True Blood, but – although far from unpopular – he was eclipsed by his blond nightclub owner boss in the popularity stakes (if “stakes” isn’t too sensitive a word to use). As in so many other cases (Spike and Damon, for instance) he benefited from the fact that he didn’t have to be the nice guy. Far from it – he’s an utter git, chaining Lafayette to a slave wheel, and tricking Sookie into drinking his blood. Not to mention all the killing. But it’s more than that. Eric is just so inherently cool. So cool it doesn’t matter if he does a bit of killing while getting his hair dyed; or if he cries when his maker dies; or if he wears a shell suit. He remains untouchable cool. Hell, he’s survived centuries with the name Eric. That’s how cool he is.”
5. Pam DeBeaufort – “True Blood has come up with many memorable vamps, but none quite as reliably foul-mouthed as Pam. Her dialogue (which we can’t reproduce here for taste reasons) is often the highlight of an episode. Devoted to her maker, Eric, she’s also a bit of a badass… and kinda hot. And unlike Eric or Bill, she’s never going to be won over by Sookie’s charms. She may not be one of the show’s main players, but she’s definitely one of the most fun. And we loved her anti-Sookie rant in the season four finale.”
9. Bill Compton – “After seeing death up close even before he became a vampire in the American Civil War, there’s no wonder True Blood’s Bill Compton rarely cracks a smile. Played with seductive relish by Essex-born Stephen Moyer, he’s the Bon Temps vamp who it’s possible to believe we’ve only scratched the surface of.”
11. Jessica Hamby – “Jessica, a vampire so-so easy to love, because of her combination of naivety and sexual/vampiric awakening. She’s the suppressed teenager who’s suddenly discovered alcohol and is rebelling, but taken to ludicrous extremes. Savage and fragile, sensitive but headstrong, she a mass of adorable contradictions, whose fangs pop out at the most embarrassing moments. Stuck as an eternal teenager, doomed to losing her virginity each time she makes love thanks to a self-repairing hymen, she is one of True Blood’s greatest creations.”
21. Russell Edgington - “There were a lot of things to grumble about in True Blood’s third season, but King Russell wasn’t one of them. The oldest and strongest vampire in the world, he’s also one of the funniest. A charming psychopath with a hatred for humans, he was responsible for the single best scene in all of True Blood, when he ripped out a news anchor’s heart, live on air, and declared war on humanity. That he was then squandered for the rest of the season was a shame, but no matter. The end of season four is pretty clear… Russell is coming back. Sookie and co had better watch out…”
Read the full results of the poll here: SFX Top 50 Vampires 2012
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jody on Jan 17 2012 at 11:32 pm |
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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.”
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jody on Jan 12 2012 at 12:25 pm |
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Alex & Kristin PC: Art Streiber/HBO
Kristin Bauer van Straten gave eonline.com some little tidbits about working on Season 5 of True Blood and working with co-star (and vamp daddy) Alexander Skarsgård.
“Every year I think, ‘We’ve kinda done it.’ Every year I think ‘Wow, that was better than last year. These story lines and these scenes and the cast…I don’t think they could get any better.’ ”
So says Kristin Bauer—who plays scene stealing vamp-extraordinaire Pam on True Blood—when we asked what’s to come for the fangtastic HBO show. “And that’s how I feel about [season] five,” K.B. told us from the set.
So what sort of outrageous things will Pam say this season? And what’s it like for the gal to work with Alexander Skarsgård now that he’s a big, huge movie star?
First off, the gushing: “Every script I get I go, ‘Oh my god, that’s better than I thought it would be.’ And wardrobe fittings, ‘Oh my god, that’s better than I could have imagined,’ ” Bauer practically hyperventilated.
But scoop-wise, Bauer stayed tight-lipped on the secrets of season five: “I have a pretty good inkling about [what's to come]. And I can’t tell you anything.” Though she did tease that we should not only expect more totally over-the-top outfits from Pam, but also more R-rated one-liners.
“We thought last year’s gash in the sundress might be that point and apparently that wasn’t!” Kristen told us when asked the writers ever give her something to say that’s just too much.
“It feels like it’s just in kind. We’re just continuing with all the goodness we’ve had before,” Kristin continued about the naughtiness to come. “I don’t know if you can get much worse than gash in a sundress, but we can certainly stay in the ballpark.”
And as for her onscreen maker, Mr. A.Skars—ya know, now that he’s living on the big screen in flicks like Straw Dogs and Battleship—well, Kristen says he’s par for the course as well:
“He’s the same guy…We’re buddies,” she laughed when we wondered whether he’d changed since the beginning of True Blood. “But watch I’ll go watch the movies and then get starstruck all of a sudden.”
Trust us, we already have been. And starstruck is not a bad thing to be when it comes to Skars, not at all.
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AphroditeMF on Dec 5 2011 at 11:30 am |
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It’s a long cold wait until our next fix of True Blood, so until then let’s ponder what hijinks our favourite denizens of Bon Temps might get up to in season five… First up for us to muse over are Bill and Eric.
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERY STUFF!!
I'm a Bill/Eric shipper now!
Season four concluded with bitter rivals Bill and Eric looking like they were on the verge of embarking on an epic bromance. Bill had accepted Eric’s fling with Sookie and hadn’t executed him when he had the chance, and Eric had sworn allegiance to his king. Then they formed an undead tag-team and took out that interfering bitch Nan and her SWAT team. Now this crime has left them in a bit of a pickle, because the Authority and American Vampire League want them executed for their handling of the Wiccan-gate crisis (even though it was Nan’s fault for not taking the threat seriously enough in the first place), and now with Nan’s death are going to be even more pissed at them. Or will they? Nan was a traitor after all, so maybe the Authority will be more forgiving? And perhaps they will take in to consideration the fact that Bill managed to save all the vampires in Louisiana (except poor Beulah Carter) from a fiery true death? And there’s always the chance that they will see what a handsome pair our boys are and think the world would be a far sexier place with them in it.
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jody on Dec 1 2011 at 12:55 pm |
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Alexander Skarsgård was selected as one of the Sexiest People in 2011 by the Australian magazine “Who”. The issue is dated November 23, 2011.
Our scan is in B&W (thank you BeerWolf!!) and the text is copied here:
With his cool Nordic looks he’s arrestingly handsome, but there’s more to Skarsgård’s sex appeal than those piercing blue eyes and intense stare. Named Sexiest Man Alive five times in his native Sweden, he made the rest of the world take notice when he landed the role of dangerously alluring vampire Eric in True Blood. Spending much of his screen time naked is no big deal for the 1.93m star, who thanks the long Swedish winters cooped up indoors for his liberal attitudes to sex: “When you’re bored, you just have sex,” he explained. But the son of actor Stellan Skarsgård isn’t interested in being only the onscreen eye candy: “I can’t just be ‘and the hot guy walks into the room.’ It’s not interesting if someone is always perfectly tanned, the air is blow-dried,” the newly single star said. “The only thing that’s important is to make it real.”
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jody on Nov 24 2011 at 11:41 pm |
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Alexander Skarsgård in "Heat"
Alexander Skarsgård was featured in the October 8, 2011 issue of the South African magazine “Heat”. The 4-page article has a lot of the same questions we’ve seen, but there are a few new tidbits in here worth checking out.
Click on the pics for full scans of the article. (The first 2 scans show the layout, the remaining scans are of the full text and pictures.)
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Lividity on Nov 2 2011 at 3:26 pm |
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British actress, Lucy Griffiths has been cast in True Blood season 5 as Nora.
Described as being a beautiful and intelligent woman who plays a double agent within the Vampire Authority, Nora not only has a big history with Eric, she’s his sister! Nora will be a series regular and might even show a little skin, probably not as often as her brother Eric, but I sense nobody has any issue with that!
In addition to being intelligent, intimidating, cool under pressure and a very good liar, Nora loves Eric deeply (them both being Godric’s progeny), but she’s dedicated her life to a higher purpose.
Huh, what do you think this higher purpose might be?
Congrats Lucy!
Source: TVLine
