True Blood: Michelle Forbes stays ‘True’ to rebellious nature as mysterious Maryann

From Boston Globe

Michelle Forbes isn’t playing a villain on “True Blood.”

At least, that’s what she says.

Forbes joined the cast of the HBO vampire drama (Sunday at 9 p.m.) at the end of last season as the mysterious Maryann Forrester. This season, Maryann is poised to wreak some serious havoc.

“She is a woman who is all about appetite,” Forbes said in a recent telephone interview from Los Angeles.

“She’s not human. She has a definite myopic quest that she is on. And she is going to have one hell of a time achieving that quest. Maryann is definitely a character that’s about perspective in the sense that she sees her goal as beautiful and blissful and of the divine and pure, so she doesn’t consider what she is doing as being bad at all. It’s quite a beautiful thing, and she’s graciously allowing everyone to come with her. I don’t perceive her as a villain.”

Forbes admitted she first was perplexed by the character.

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