Some goodies from the Sam Trammell chat ...

Q: “how do you feel about sam’s new love interest?”
A: Sam Trammell”Janina is an exceptional actress and fun and funny–so I love working with her–and I think Luna is good for Sam right now (she’s not leading him to be staked in the heart at least).”
Q: “What has been your favourite experience while filming True Blood?”
A: Sam Trammell”It’s been great to be in Louisiana filming, especially season 1 running naked in the woods near Doyline where a lot of my family is from.”
Q: “Your work has been out of the park this season. Sam as Tommy was so fun and last week – the look on your face when you had to go to the back of the van was too perfect. We’ve all been (kinda) in that spot of “what the hell am I going to do.” Thanks! “
A: “I loved playing Tommy this week–one of my very favorite episodes for the whole series.”
Q: ”How did you prepare for your transformation into Tommy? ”
A:”I of course spent a lot of time with him on set–that’s almost all I needed–though I did watch and re watch his season 3 performances.”

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Live Chat on HBO Connect with Sam Trammell- archived

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Live Chat on HBO Connect August 1st at 2pm ET with Sam Trammell

Sam Trammell  will be participating in a Live Chat on HBO Connect August 1st at 2pm ET.

Season 4 of True Blood has officially begun. Join actor Sam Trammell in a Live Chat following "I Wish I Was the Moon," the 6th episode this season, on Monday August 1 at 2pm ET / 11 AM PT. For more from Sam, follow @SamTrammell.

Upcoming Chat: Sam Trammell August 1, 2011 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT

Sam Trammell on True Blood’s Emmy Shutout, His Pal Peter Dinklage, and Running Into Ozzy Osbourne

Unlike his True Blood character, Sam Trammell can wax philosophical on both astrophysics and the band Rush alike. Not impressed? He can also discuss all of the above in French, enfoiré. But these days, the actor (a.k.a. diner owner/shape-shifter/nice-guy-with-a-past Sam Merlotte) is more preoccupied with genetics: as in his still-gestating twin sons with actress-girlfriend Missy Yager. Vulture interrupted Trammell, who's busy nesting at home in L.A., to talk to him about his True Blood plotline, his castmates' drinking habits, his days partying with Peter Dinklage, and what to do if a serial killer cocoons you in Saran Wrap.

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Exclusive: Sam Trammell talks new season of True Blood, resolutions, and guilty pleasures

Great interview with Sam ..


With the fourth season of True Blood being shot right now, are you guys sitting around wondering what is going to happen next? I know I am guilty of this so I was hoping to dig around a bit and see what I could find out.
We have a very special shape shifter series this week that although will not reveal any MAJOR plot points, will be enough to whet your appetites a bit. Today we are featuring Sam Trammell who of course plays shape shifter/bar owner Sam Merlotte on the HBO supernatural drama. Tomorrow you will read our interview with Janina Gavankar who will play Bon Temps newest shape shifter/school teacher Luna in season four.

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The Inn Keeper w/Sam Trammell The centuries old Biblical tale of the Inn Keeper who turned away Mary and Joseph, forcing baby Jesus to be born in a manger.

The Inn Keeper w/Sam Trammell from Sam Trammell

Sam Trammell performs at Actors for Oceans

Sam Trammel on The Daily Habit

Sam Trammell ‘True Blood’ Season 4 interview by MovieMikes

Sam Trammell is well known for his role in HBO’s “True Blood” as Sam Merlotte. The blue-collared bar owner who also happens to be a shape shifter. Sam is gearing up for Season Four of “True Blood”, which should start filming early next year.  Movie Mikes caught up with Sam to discuss his role in “True Blood” and what he has planned for the future.
Mike Gencarelli: Tell us about how you originally got the role of Sam Merlotte?
Sam Trammell: I got the script from my agent. It was going around town and it was Alan Ball’s new show on HBO. It was a hot commodity, everyone wanted to do it. I just went it and met with the casting director.  They taped me and showed it to Alan. They picked me for the final audition to go in front of HBO. There were about three other guys there for my part. I read in front of the president of HBO and all these executives. I found out four hours later I got the part, it was fairly quick turnaround.
MG: What is the best part of playing the character, it seems like it is made just for you?
ST: Thanks man, well I am from Louisiana originally. It is great to be able to play a character who you kind of represent and a guy from where I am from. I love that he is kind of a blue collar dude and that he owns a bar. I never worked in a bar but I always thought it would be fun to work as a bartender. The other part of it is that he is a supernatural creature which is a really cool thing to have under your belt and as a secret. Since I still get to be like a regular guy.

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True Blood's Sam Trammell Previews Sunday's Finale

True Blood's Sam Trammell took a cue from his character Sam Merlotte's recent antics when he joined stars like Renee Zellweger, Mark Harmon, Sofia Vergara, Adam Sandler and Sally Field at the Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon Friday in Los Angeles. "Sam's been a pushover for two seasons, and this year he finally decided to stop taking it," Trammel, who attended the event in memory of his grandmother, told TV Guide Magazine before helping to answer fundraising phones. "Cancer is a disease that doesn't discriminate. Everyone knows at least one person who has had the disease, or they've had it themselves. It's time we stop taking it and kick this disease's butt. The money we're raising tonight is a good start."

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'True Blood's' Sam Trammell inspires pizza delivery guys the world over

On "True Blood," we've seen Sam Trammell's character, Sam Merlotte, shift into several forms of the animal world. But, now he has taken the form of something none of us ever predicted: A pizza delivery guy.

He's not just any pizza delivery guy either. In this hilarious video from FunnyorDie.com, he plays the ultimate pizza delivery guy. Watch as he brings his inspirational message to a new class of road rebels via their new hire orientation video.

Pizza Training w/ Sam Trammell from Sam Trammell

Sam "Sam" Trammell on Jay Leno last night video !

MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE Shape Shifting Sam Trammell Is Full of Surprises

The down-home, all-American guy that everyone thinks they’ve come to know has a complexity beneath the surface that few would expect. Sam Trammell and his alter-ego, “True Blood”’s Sam Merlotte, have a lot in common in this regard. Merlotte manages to keep a low profile as the owner of the neighborhood saloon in the fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps, closely guarding his true nature as a shape-shifter, a creature capable of transforming into any animal he sees. Trammell is a talented, charismatic television actor on a hit show, who surfs and plays guitar — and is also a classical pianist who graduated from Brown University with a degree in semiotics and spent a year in Paris studying French philosophy. “Strictly speaking, it’s the study of signification,” he explains of semiotics during our meeting at a West Hollywood cafe. “The process of how things represent other things. Signs. If you do a really pure semiotical study, it’s very linguistic; it’s a lot about language but it’s also interdisciplinary.” He discusses how Freud, psychoanalysis, Marx and Engels, and feminist and film theories are all tied in with this field, and he touches on concepts of physics that leave us compelled to google and reexamine Einstein’s theory of relativity. Trammell is full of surprises.

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Catch Joe " Alcide" Manganiello and Sam "Sam "Trammell on the teevee Monday and Tuesday!

Joe Manganiello on The Wendy Williams Show
True Blood’s werewolf, Alcide, Joe Manganiello will be a guest on The Wendy Williams Show on Monday August 2, 2010! http://www.wendyshow.com/

Joe Manganiello LIVE AP Interview Monday, Aug 2The Associated Press will be interviewing True Blood’s werewolf, Alcide, Joe Manganiello on Monday August 2, 3pm eastern time. Listen to the live stream here: AP Live Stream

Sam Trammell on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – Aug. 3True Blood’s Sam Trammell will be appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Tuesday, August 3rd! The Tonight Show airs at 11:35 EDT on NBC On the show with Sam will be Betty White and The Black Crowes source: NBC.com

'True Blood's' Sam Trammell talks 'the sock' and dreams of Bill Compton

 


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"True Blood" Star Really Wanted to Be a Physicist

LOS ANGELES (Back Stage) - Sam Trammell planned to become a theoretical physicist, but was forced to lower his sights while studying at Brown University after realizing he was not a genius.
He certainly never imagined himself an actor, let alone one who plays a shape-shifter on a hit HBO show about vampires. The series is "True Blood," created by Alan Ball based on the novels of Charlaine Harris, and Trammell is enjoying the unexpected development.
"I wanted to stop thinking," he says of his career switch. "I wink when I say that. You have to be smart to be a good actor. But acting took me out of my head and back into my body."
He admits that early in his career, he had a condescending attitude toward television. He would not have considered auditioning for the small screen. But he now thinks TV writing -- especially for cable -- is far superior to most film writing, calling our current era a golden age for television.
His featured role on "True Blood," now in its third season, is a career turning point. Appearing in Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness!" with New York's Lincoln Center Theater was pretty good too, he admits. After all, it earned him a Tony nomination. But his current gig has a huge weekly audience that crosses demographic lines.

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Jimmy Kimmel Live - interview with Sam Trammell from HBO's "True Blood" Pt 1 and 2

Sammy Trammel on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday, June 4, 2010

Sam on Jimmy Kimmel Live Friday, June 4, 2010 at 12 EST/11 CST on the ABC

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Sam Trammell Interview - True Blood Season 3 and Playing Sam

with Rebecca Murray

Sam Trammell plays shapeshifter Sam Merlotte in the hit HBO series 'True Blood,' and at the 2010 Spirit Awards, Trammell chatted up the third season - which he promises is going to be even better than seasons one and two.

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