Sookie grows up ..Anna grows up New York Times photos

"True Blood," the HBO horror fantasy starring Anna Paquin, returns on June 26 for its fourth season.
"While 'True Blood' has grown into an increasingly popular and crucial part of HBO’s line up," Dave Itzkoff writes, "its center has always been Ms. Paquin’s performance as Sookie, a beacon of curious, increasingly cynical humanity in a world of werewolves, witches and thousand-year-old beefcake."

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Bloody Bloody Anna Paquin: An Interview With the ‘True Blood’ Star

When television viewers were introduced to Sookie Stackhouse, three years ago in real time but only a few weeks ago in the chronology of “True Blood,” she was a guileless Louisiana waitress with telepathic powers but without much knowledge of how the world worked, and – oh, right – she was a virgin.
How times have changed.
Over the first three seasons of “True Blood,” Sookie has grown into a take-charge heroine who can contend with shapeshifters, maenads, werewolves and – in Season 4 – witches, but no longer depends on her vampire paramour, Bill Compton, or his fanged rival, Eric Northman. During that time, Anna Paquin, the 28-year-old actress who plays Sookie, has evolved, too, into an increasingly central figure on this increasingly popular, explicit-in-all-kinds-of-ways HBO series, who has comfortably outgrown her former status as a precocious phenomenon (and is now married to co-star Stephen Moyer, who plays vampire Bill).

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Stephen " True Blood's Vampire Bill " Moyer's interview in Lousiiana Scene Magazine

 

Nice interview with Moyers -read online here :
http://issuu.com/scene/docs/junejuly2011