MTV spoke with some of the cast members before the season 3 finale aired. They mentioned some hopes and wishes for their particular character for season 4.
Oh hey, don’t look now but there are some book spoilers in here – so be careful you!
“Well, if you read the books you know that next season is all about fightin’ witches,” Nelsan Ellis teased about season four’s fun new plotline. “So we shall see,” he said.
But will we get to see Lafayette and Hoyt get involved in that?
Jim Parrack (Hoyt) offered to demonstrate his skills right away.
“I’ll fight a witch right now,” he said. “I’ll fight a witch tonight!”
“Maybe,” Ellis added, sounding skeptical about Parrack’s fighting ways. “And maybe Hoyt is a witch.”
“A good witch, like the white witch in ‘Wizard of Oz,’ ” Parrack added.
Todd Lowe, who plays big-hearted war vet Terry, seemed overwhelmed with all the supernatural elements that have been added to the show.
“Fighting witches? It seems fun,” he said. “I’m wondering what the next supernatural thing [is going to be] because we started with vampires, then you get shapeshifters, maenad, fairies, now werepanthers and now witches.
“We’ve got griffins that could come in and Frankensteins,” Lowe joked.
When asked whether Terry has any supernatural in him, Lowe said he hoped not. “I don’t know. I like playing a human right now,” he said. “So, no.”
Actress Lindsey Haun’s wishes for her character, Sookie’s cousin Hadley, are quite the opposite: She’s excited to explore her supernatural side.
“We haven’t really touched on her magical side,” Haun said. “She has some fun with being a witch, and she also turns into a vampire, so I’m really excited to get my own set of fangs — if that happens. I don’t know, they keep us so in the dark, I have no idea what’s going on. Nelsan, who plays Lafayette, we’re constantly like, ‘What’s next in the books? What are we doing next?’ He’s pretty good, actually, he keeps me up on what’s going to happen.”
Swedish dreamboat Alexander Skarsgård (Eric Northman) joked that he hopes he makes it back on air next season.
“We’ll see what happens in the last episode; I’m just happy if I get to come back next year,” he joked. (As if he wouldn’t.)
As for Bon Temps’ resident scaredy cat Arlene (played by Carrie Preston), the actress said she enjoys playing one of the only people on the show who is actually worried about the vamp danger factor.
“She’s a little narrow-minded. She’s sort of designed to be ridiculed because of that,” Preston said of her character’s attitude. “I take it as a challenge to make her a full, well-rounded, grounded, real, human being. The views that she expresses on the show are quite valid, which is, vampires really shouldn’t be around our children, and I think that’s a valid thing with them being cold-blooded killers.
“They make it seem like they’re so sexy and everything,” she added. “But meanwhile they have these urges sometimes that they can’t control.”
Still, scary or no, Preston said she’d like Arlene to get in on the supernatural action.
“I would like to see her get involved in some kind of the supernatural in some way. I’m just saying that’s what I would like. I’m not giving anything away. No one has said anything to me,” she insisted. “But the supernaturals seem to have a little more fun.”
Hadley as a witch?
I know it’s a show about supes, and in the books Claudine refers to Bon Temps as supernatural crossroads, but it would be nice to have some of the cast be just plain old human. They don’t all have to be supes of some sort.
Agreed. I am still not sure how I feel about Lafayette being supe. I mean he is so amazing all by himself. Not sure he needed that.
I liked Laffy the way he was/is.
It’s like all the multiple story lines. It could have been a good thing, but there is also such a thing as overkill.
It’s like that line from “The Incredibles,”: If everyone is super, then no one will be.
Food for thought.
I agree that Lafayette needs to just be himself, he makes us laugh. But if they kill off Eric then they will kill off the best part of the show. He is so hard to read that he makes the show exciting just to see what he is up to. And of course he his hot. :)
This supe-ed up approach runs a very big risk of turning the whole series into a Marvel Comic. (And Seinfeld fans, take note: We have Supe Nazis, too.) As JM reminds us, if extarordinary is the norm, then extraordianry is ordinary.
Curiously, none pf the supernaturals are supernaturally smart. Superpower doesn’t run to IQ, apparently.
And, yeah, Lafayette was perfect the way he was, and there is simply no more adorable couple than the camp human guy and the Viking vamp guy.
The great, the original, the fascinatingly fraught premise – humans and vampires colliding and manouevering and loving out in the open – just seems to have been reduced to nothing by all the supervening white sauce of woo-hoo! Magick
LOL! Supe Nazis! Thanks for that. Brilliant!
What brought me into Tb was the romance between a Vampire and Telepathic human. That is what I wanted to see. All these Supes? I don’t know. May work in book form but can jump the shark in this show. They actually detract from what I want on this show.
It is a little crazy, isn’t it? So much so, that Tara jumped ship and went on her way.
I agree that too many supernaturals are getting added. I miss season 1 sooo much. It was simple yet complex enough to be insanely engaging. It is my all time favorite TV for sure. I really hope that even though this season got good numbers that Ball reads some fan sites and hears that the real fans are kind of upset with how season 3 went.
I have to agree with all of you, I want AB to back off from adding any more supes too. We’ve barely touched on the ones we have. If AB keeps adding new characters the way the books do we’ll be overrun. The books got away with it ‘cuz Bill, Jason, Sam, Eric and Tara didn’t have their own story lines like they do in the show. Pretty soon, all the characters will only time for fly-bys and there will be no story or plot.
I believe that once the witches are added there are no more Supes in the books, well except for weretigers. I think that one of the things that has got people burnt out on the Supes was all the stuff with MaryAnn. I mean in the book she shows up once to claw Sookie and again to instigate an orgy (where everyone dies). She is only mentioned briefly, the focus is on the Dallas vamps. I’m sure that AB felt he had to have a story line in Bon Temps, and that would include all the characters he couldn’t reasonably send to Dallas. But with so much focus on a supernatural entity that we will never meet up with makes viewers weary of it. If he had focused on the vampire/human/shifter relationships then I don’t think we would have minded the weres in this season. I also think that the foreshadowing with Jesus being a witch (haha, how many times do you get to say that?) was too much too soon.
I’m interested in where Tara might end up. Though I notice AB seems to be having the same problem that CH had: what do with the character.
As for Jason, I’m not sure I want too much on being Hot Shot’s new Mayor/Uncle/Daddy/Brother-Cousin.
The Were/Vamp power relationships might be interesting (Especially as they hate each other and can be snarky to each other, which can be fun).
I didn’t watch TB, or read the books, for the romance, though I find the relationships in general could be interesting. But too many of them gets confusing and boring.
I think wrapping up some the side stories (Arlene’s demon spawn) quickly would be a good thing.
They do well when focusing on vamps, not so much on the other supes.
The witch stuff is gonna be awesome.
I think TB is great. I will hope for Bill and Sookie to be back together. No offense good Refs but I love Bill and Sookie together That is why i started watching the show. The storyline rocks, and the comedy lines are awsome we quote it work all of the time. I love season 1 and season 3. I like 2 but only cause fo Goderic, Bill, Sook, and Isabell. Well i jope AB does not follow the books to close next season cause I understand Bill is not in Book 4.
Come to think of it, vampires aren’t supernatural, they’re as natural as can be. An offshoot of humans, surely, though whether an evolutionary step up the phylogenetic tree or an aberrant blind alley of development depends on whether you take the supremicist POV of Russell or the POV of Arlene. Weres and shifters would have a shared-and-split branch on the tree, too. DNA markers would proclaim us all natural kin.
There it ends. Witches and necromancers – no branches, not so much as a twig. Just humans with – and here’s the rub – a side order of silly powers to make stuff happen or appear or disappear or whatever. The stuff of Harry Potter and Charmed, not creatures of a different evolutionary stripe or distinct race. No constitutional amendments required.
Vampires are the most interesting ‘natural’ beings on TB, and the shifters aren’t dull. The werewolves are a scream – keep ‘em for laughs and cannon fodder. Human characters are inescapable. Leave the witches and necromancers to JK Rowling. Keep True Blood true.
(Faeries have always been at the bottom of the garden, and we don’t need to make sense of them. Probably they’re a scary argument for Creationism, if not Intelligent Design.)
BRING RUSSELL BACK!!
To me, the books and the series are already seperate…AB has taken characters created by CH and made them into great TV. The books stand on their own as different…too many to name in fact. It seems clear that Eric is not going anywhere if only to provide competetive fodder for the Bill Sookie romance….Lafayette while dead since book one is truly one of my favorite characters on the show. All in all, I love both the show and the books..each for different reasons..nine months is a terribly long time to wait for Season 4…
does anymore know the story with IMDB? supposedly Anna is scheduled for 48 episodes while Stephen is only 3 episodes for season 4. Look forward to Arlene’s Rosemary Baby story and the witch arc with Laffy but I keeping hoping that they keep Jason as a human because too many supes and Jason is so far the only interesting human right now.
as one that rarely comments, but reads here alot, I too enjoy the books & the show for various & assorted reasons. I think that the current staff of TB rock, those we see on the show & those we don’t see are all Incredible at what they do, and don’t you guys let anyone tell you any different!
I appreciate the fact here that someone mentions (above) that nobody is truly “supernatural” so to speak, but different evolutionary chains altogether :D And, btw, I am Ohhh Sooo Glad that LaFayette didn’t die! I wish sometimes that others would have long ago, but what’cha gonna do? lol.
I agree that 9 months is Wayyyy wayyy wayyyy too much time to wait for our favorite show! At least I have a book or 3 I can catch up on, not to mention the Holidays that I would force people to leave me Alone for, if TB was to be on. I would gag them all and lock my whole family in a closet, if I were to have to choose between TB and them! But I would definitely prefer to wait a month or 3, rather than 9 months of what-ifs.
I do <3love<3 that this site, among others keeps our "juices" flowing so to speak though, and keeps us in the loop so we're not completely denied.
I have had no problem with any of the seasons to date at all. I am GLAD that people are debating them though, as it keeps us all interested enough to wait our 9 months out (if only it were like a baby though in other ways, where we could get into "nesting" mode to keep busy though during Trimesters! lol :D
40 weeks, yes, TOO LONG, to wait . ..Those of us who are ‘bookies’, re-read..and those who are lucky enough to get dvd of previous seasons , re-watch old episodes for our “FIX”..!! We ALL hope season 4 will NOT have too many ‘storylines and ‘characters’…less IS more, and after the LONG wait, we want our show to deliver the goods !! not give us a migraine trying to ‘figure out ‘another story…It’s the MAIN chatacters who really have taken a ‘bite’…Sookie, Bill, Eric…that forever ‘triangle’…????