True Blood Cast Q & A

IGN TV chats with True Blood's leading men. by Matt Fowler
Waiting in the press line at The Paley Festival's True Blood night, one could still see the line of fans outside the interview tent. They were a mix of local hardcore fans and people from all over the world who had flown in to see the stars of their favorite bawdy vampire soap - and most of them had been waiting there since the morning.

I got a chance to have some few choice words with some of the featured players on the show. Nelsan Ellis, who played the fan favorite character of Lafayette, in Season 1, was in attendance. There are a ton of people that hope that one of the ways that the writers of the show will deviate from the books is by keeping his character alive – even though the last scene in Season 1 played out just like it did in the first book, with the discovery of his dead body. Still, he was there so I decided to ask him what his, hands down, favorite scene was as Lafayette. "AIDS burger. I loved loved loved that scene," Said Ellis. "We did five takes and for all five I just loved doing it. You know, it's always fun to beat someone's ass."

- Kevin Parry/The Paley Center for Media

(L-R) Sam Trammell, Carrie Preston, Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgard, Rutina Wesley, Stephen Moyer, Nelsan Ellis and Ryan Kwanten.

For more in-depth spoilery stuff on Season 2 from the True Blood Paley panel - click here!

Anna Paquin is simply stunning

Celeb salon on Anna's french twist hairstyle-- it's really impossible to say in words how beautiful Anna Paquin is in person. I heard gorgeous, beautiful, pretty and stunning freely used as descriptors.

Anna Paquin wearing a elegant but chic french twist hairstyle at the 26th Annual William S Paley Television Festival for the Premiere ‘True Blood’ held at the Archlight Cinemas, Hollywood.

Hairstyle: elegant but chic french twist, also referred to as the french roll.

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Save this hairstyle for more low key but classy events opting out for the wedding and prom scene unless you want to tweak it to give it a little bit more flair and romantic feel. Pair with dresses and outfits that are classic but chic in style, nothing too stiff or too casual as this is a great hairstyle but very simple in looks. You don’t want to look like your grandmother at church, but not like a bag lady either!

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Check out our How To Hairstyle section to find some great tips, and instructions on how to make a french twist or french roll hairstyle. Spice up this look by adding bangs or front strands and curling or softly adding wave, curl hair with hot rollers and loosely apply the twist for more body.

http://celebsalon.sheknows.com/emmy-hairstyles/3293/anna-paquins-elegant-chic-french-roll-hairstyle

True Blood Paleyfest : Anna Paquin Bleeds True Blood

True Blood co-stars and real-life couple Anna Paquin (in Herve Leroux) and Stephen Moyer (in Moschino Uomo) pose together at the TB season premiere held during PaleyFest09 at the ArcLight cinemas on Monday (April 13) in Hollywood.

Blood returns June 14 and picks up with the second book in Charlaine Harris‘ Sookie Stackhouse series, Living Dead in Dallas.

Sookie (Paquin) is “drafted into using her telepathic abilities to find a vampire in Dallas who’s gone missing,” creator Alan Ball told the press. “Some people are gonna find it racy - they’re not really the audience for the show. Most people seem to like it.”

50+ pictures inside of Anna Paquin bleeding True Blood…

True Blood Season 2 : sneak peak

This clip is from episode 3 " Scratch my back "

Here is what we know about that episode so far HERE

This video is very dark but this is the outfit that Sookie is wearing in it the scene ..

Leading lady Anna Paquin and beau celebrate return of hit vampire show

2009-04-14 It was one of the hit US TV series to premiere last year, and soon Golden Globe-winning vampire drama True Blood will be back on the small screen as the second series gets underway in June.

And in celebration the stars of the show, on-and-off-screen couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, helped fete its return at a special screening in Beverly Hills on Monday.

Winnipeg-born Oscar-winner Anna – who became the second youngest actress to win the award for her debut performance in The Piano aged 11 – and her English beau head up the cast of the series, which is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series by Charlaine Harris.

Set in a fictional town in northern Louisiana, True Blood stars Anna as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress working at a bar who falls in love with a vampire, Bill Compton. The series, which earned its leading lady a Best Actress Globe gong earlier this year, follows the co-existence of humans and vampires.

http://www.hellomagazine.ca/news/20090414623/true/blood/paquin/1/

True Blood Paleyfest coverage from Loving True Blood in Dallas

You guys need to start back about 4 days on the blog and re-read all the posts because I'm going back and adding videos, photos slide show and additional text to all the original posts .

I am also starting with the Paley event today. I have hundreds of photos and videos from that event as well as from our 4 fan meetups.

You can start here : Los Angeles/ Paleyfest stuff

Or always just click on the Paleyfest link in the topics area for anything new.

Paleyfest coverage from Dallas and @SookieBonTemps: Part 1

Ok , what I'm going to do is use @SookieBonTemps tweets as a narrative for my Paley event photos, videos etc.
I will also add my own comments but Sook did the tweeting and I did video and photographs (because I ended up on the second row) It was so great getting to know @SookieBonTemps in person as we have been online friends since with both started doing our True Blood/ Sookie fan stuff.

We both choose to stay incognito and we are the most unlikely of all teams but I think we did a good job of covering the event together.

So here is Part One :

We line up: 4:30 pm ( doors at 6:00)

Inside!

We are here! http://twitpic.com/3adw9

Gotta good seat ! So excited. ( getting there early paid off)

Holy smokes! Got butterflies!

Everyone say a prayer to the battery gods for me. ( It's always tricky to try to keep our phones charged)

Folks? Anyone want a ticket to the True Blood panel at PaleyFest? ( Yes' we ended up with 2 unused tickets !)

They're playin' the Bill theme

The broodin' Bill music from the show

Feelin' faint

Folks, once this starts, I won't be able to reply to you

Show description from the program. http://twitpic.com/3af2j

They're playin' "Take me home." *gettin' teary

Ooh...they're sayin' that they're gonna be showin' Season 2 clips..

Dallas does L.A. with OD and NC!

OK, Dallas is home and ready to start posting ....

I have just tons of video and photos ...

The entire trip was so great - but we had a hellacious weekend of touristy stuff, plays, dinners, museums, lunches, bars, tours, True Blood Dallas meetups and it was just topped off by the True Blood Paleyfest panel. We had a very full agenda !

I spent most of yesterday traveling, we got up 5:30 am LA time and I got home 4:00 pm Dallas time. I now have some clean clothes, I've slept and brewed a pot of Cafe Du Monde coffee ( which we brought back from our New Orleans trip of 3 weeks ago - whew, we sure stay busy!) and I'm busily working on videos and photos.

Very special thanks to my traveling buddies ObjectDesire and NoctunalinNC ! What a blast we had!

Dallas is known for having some "magic" (that is a "just a little different from yours ") when it comes to picking out hotels, but I completely out did myself this time...there is simply NO OTHER place to ever stay in L.A.

Hotel Le Petit
8822 Cynthia St
West Hollywood, CA
90069

True Blood Video of the Day: So Fierce by Jeffree Star

So Fierce by Jeffree Star LYRICS
Thanks VampVanitas

True Blood Music Video of the Day:Never Too Late by Three Days grace

Never Too Late by Three Days grace LYRICS

Thanks islove

Stephen Moyer: Brits will love True Blood

Stephen Moyer hopes fellow Britons will love his show True Blood.

The English actor, who divides his time between LA and the UK, stars as Bill Compton in the hit US show about a Louisiana town where humans and vampires co-exist.

"I hope the show goes down as well in London as it does here," he said.

His co-star Nelsan Ellis said he thought Brits would love the first season, which will air on Channel 4 later in the year.

Speaking at the William S Paley Television Festival in Hollywood, Nelsan said: "I think they're gonna love it because having lived in England, they're not as conservative as Americans are when it comes to that type of stuff, so I think it's gonna be a hit over there.

Read on: http://www.tv.com/story/13902.html?ref_story_id=13902&ref_type=1101&ref_name=story

True Blood Paleyfest : the Big Day finally arrives!

Having breakfast at the hotel before heading out to do the VIP tour of the Warner Brothers studio. Then we'll have lunch and come back and change before we make our way to the Paley True Blood event this evening.

This is where I am forced to eat and check email every morning . Poor, poor Dallas...

We are are going on the Warner Brothers studio tour this morning which is where they film lots of True Blood (exterior of Merlotte's is located there )

http://www2.warnerbros.com/vipstudiotour/

Then we'll be dressing and leaving for the True Blood Paley event which is being held at the:





Paleyfest Arclight theatre : ArcLight Hollywood
6360 W. Sunset Blvd. L.A., CA
(323) 464-4226
http://arclightcinemas.com

Dallas does Fangtasia and Long Beach with video and photos !

*Remember I'm posting everything the day after it happens.

We had a wonderful night ...in Long Beach.

We ate at the "Parker's Lighthouse restaurant HERE

Video here it was gorgeous and delicious - we had 11 for dinner.



This was Easter night - Sunday April12th.

Then we went over to Alex's Bar, otherwise known as Fangtasia.

We met up with three other groups there and had a fantastic time

We took pictures, listened to great music, talked and laughed. Alex himself walked us out to our car ..more on that soon.




Video here:

True Blood casts Stan Davis : Ed Quinn from "Eureka"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ed Quinn ("Eureka") has been added to HBO's returning Southern vampire drama "True Blood" in a recurring role. He will play Stan, a powerful vampire from Texas.

True Blood Music Video of the Day: True Blood's Fangtasia

True blood fangtasia

Let it rock

Smeagol2

Saturday night in Hollywood with "Dallas"

We wonderful evening last night, thanks also to new friends we met up with Jen and Brenda. We had even more True Blood and vampire related activities.

We ate at a great Thai restaurant in West Hollywood - the idea came from the actor who plays Chow, Patrick Gallagher See his interview here

We then went to the theatre to see the play, Bram Stoker's DRACULA "Love Cannot Be Denied"

It was JUST wonderful with amazing acting and fantastic set design. You can read the L.A. Times review below.

Galanga Thai
Neighborhood: West Hollywood
7440 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90046

Theatre: Bram Stoker's DRACULA "Love Cannot Be Denied"
11136 Magnolia Blvd.
The NoHo Arts Center

Review

True Blood Music Video of the Day: Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees

Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees LYRICS
Thanks, crimsonbouquet