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Broadcast or cable, primetime or anytime (thanks to DVRs), television is now the best place for actresses. The Hollywood Reporter's Ray Richmond and Matthew Belloni invited a diverse panel -- Rose Byrne (FX's "Damages"), January Jones (AMC's "Mad Men"), Regina King (NBC's "Southland"), Mary McDonnell (Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Gallactica"), Anna Paquin (HBO's "True Blood") and Sigourney Weaver (Lifetime's "Prayers for Bobby") -- to discuss the challenge of shooting a scene in three takes and the strangest things they've read about themselves in tabloids.
The Hollywood Reporter: You've all worked in both film and television. What's the biggest difference?
Anna Paquin: For HBO, we shoot single camera, so it doesn't feel any different to shooting a (movie). The place that I have experienced the difference is you're always with new material that you haven't had for more than a few days, and you're right at the edge of creating the character. In that sense, it's a different entry into the creative moment. There's not as much prep.
January Jones: We get the material literally a day or two before we shoot it. So, it's very spontaneous. It works, but -- unlike a film, where you have the script and you have the beginning and end and hopefully an arc -- you don't know where the character is going.
Rose Byrne: Sometimes we get (the script) on the day (of shooting). I go a bit mental, but you have to let it go.
Sigourney Weaver: (With) "Prayers for Bobby," I did have the script for a month. One thing I said was, "You know, I'd love to work chronologically," and they said "Absolutely." That was the first thing to go! By the last week, the schedule was like, my son was dead, my son was alive, my son was dead, my son was alive. (Thanks to reading it well in advance), I kind of knew where I was.
Byrne: I had to do a whole scene opposite someone in a chair, and I had a gun and I was taunting them -- and I didn't know who was in the chair when we filmed it! But actually it was quite fun because it ended up being like an acting exercise.
THR: Do you have a lot of input into your characters' dialogue?
Mary McDonnell: I had as much as they would allow me before they quieted me down!
Regina King: I started out on TV when I was a kid. So I never would have even dreamed that I could have spoken up. "I'm going to do my homework," and that was pretty much it. So this is a new experience for me. I still feel kind of like that kid: I don't want to get in trouble.
THR: Anna and Regina, you both started as child actors. What has been the key to transitioning?
Paquin: Um, luck? There really isn't some sort of grand plan. It's not like I had any idea what I was doing. Not getting really weird-looking helps.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
True Blood's Anna Paquin : Emmy Roundtable: Drama actresses
Charlaine Harris to make cameo in True Blood Season Two
Alan Ball said in an interview today that Charlaine Harris will appear in an episode in this season of True Blood !
Dallas celebrates the return of True Blood with a Contest # 1
Three True Blood Eric questions from the Eric show the other night (thanks tes and izzy)
Episode 4 'Escape from Dragon House'
What language is Eric speaking to Pam in the scene where he is introduced to Sookie, and what does he say ?
Episode 8 'Fourth Man in the Fire'
When Eric helped himself to use Bill's bathtub, how many times did he text Bill?
Episode 8 'Fourth Man in the Fire'
When Sookie is summoned to Fangtasia to help find out who stole money from the accounts, how much $ is missing?
Email your answers to Dallas (truebloodindallas@gmail.com)
Put Contest #1 in subject area !
Good Luck
Email: "Dallas" at True Blood in Dallas
Here is list of available prizes ! HERE
SOME of these prizes WILL be offered everyday - NOT all the prizes.
Each day there will be some way you can enter to win that days prize.
The entrants will be randomly numbered and the winner will be chosen by the Twitter character @JessicaHamby each evening.
Dallas Celebrates True Blood Season 2 with a prize a day !
Yes, one prize everyday until Season 2 starts June 14th !
Here is pretty much the list of available prizes !
Each day there will be some way you can enter to win that days prize.
The entrants will be randomly numbered and the winner will be chosen by the Twitter character @JessicaHamby each evening.
The winner will be offered a CHOICE OF SOME of the prizes below.
Prizes
1. Autographed copy of Dead until Dark
2. Autographed copy of Living Dead in Dallas
3. Autographed copy of Club Dead
4. Autographed Dead and Gone book plate
5. I'd rather be watching True Blood License plate holder
6. Generation Kill khaki cap
7. Generation Kill camo tank top (ladies medium)
8. Generation Kill coffee cup
9. True Blood, Strange Love (ep 1 ) script ( it's not anything you've seen)
10. True Blood Bill and Sookie Mouse pad
11. I love Bill HBO t-shirt (ladies large)
True Blood BloodCopy: Glamour-ama
Most people think glamour (for those not familiar, it's a form of hypnosis performed by vampires, or the act of using it) is only used to manipulate humans into doing whatever we want them to do.
True, it has helped some of us get out of traffic tickets, calm a particularly threatening human, or erase the short-term memories of innocent witnesses to a particularly bloody scene, but this clip will show you that glamour can be used for good.
Remember this the next time you think of calling one of us a bloodsucker.
True Blood Interview with Ryan Kwanten
from iesb.net
Returning for a highly anticipated second season, the critically acclaimed HBO television series True Blood promises twists and turns that will shock and surprise. On the fan favorite show, from creator Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) and based on the Southern Vampire books by Charlaine Harris,
This season, Jason gets involved with anti-vampire sect Fellowship of the Sun, which he later discovers has a really dark side. In this exclusive interview, Ryan Kwanten spoke about his character’s new storyline, along with his role as an animated character in Zack Snyder’s(Watchmen) upcoming film, Guardians of Ga’Hoole.
IESB: Without giving anything away, what can viewers expect from Season 2 of True Blood?
Ryan: The tone will still be True Blood, in its essence, but the series has expanded enormously. If we opened the door in the first season, we’ve kicked it down this year. There are more characters and more worlds. This show has moved into Dallas, so it’s cutting back and forth between Dallas and Bon Temps. And, the madness will and does ensue.
IESB: Is Season 2 a more emotional, vulnerable, soul-searching season for Jason Stackhouse?
Ryan: Absolutely! You couldn’t have put it better, actually. He’s looking for a real sense of who he is, of belonging and his purpose in the world. In Season 2, he thinks he’s found it, until cracks start appearing. But, he’s definitely trying to mend his wayward ways. Anything that he does is always out of a sense of innocence. When he hit Sookie in the first season, and a bunch of other things that he did that would not be considered right or good, just because of his innocence and his childlike nature, he can be forgiven. There’s redeeming qualities in there.
What you might have missed from Loving True Blood in Dallas blog yesterday
"Loving True Blood in Dallas" - 16 new articles
1. @SookieBonTemps tells us what we'd find in Sookies 's purse
2. True Blood BloodCopy: Reader-Submitted Vampire Erotica
3. True Blood's Anna Paquin Talks X-Men Future
4. True Blood Season 2 Title Song change for Episode 4 (16)
5. True Blood Season 2 Schedule and Episode title change
6. True Blood's Stephen Moyer to be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
7. First True Blood DVD Sales numbers released
8. True Blood Bloodcopy: Vampire On Trial
9. True Blood BloodCopy: Real Vampires Don't Wear Capes
10. What you might have missed from Loving True Blood in Dallas blog yesterday?
11. True Blood premiers in UK on Friday 17th July at 10pm exclusively on FX.
12. True Blood Fangtasia Craft challenge
13. Autographed Sookie Stackhouse book to winner of True Blood contest!
14. "The Impaler." a self-described vampire and one-time fringe candidate for Minnesota governor pleads guilty to harassment
15. Wanna know how Anna maintains Sookie's perfect tan ?
16. True Blood Music Video of the Day: Kill With Me Tonight by the Devlins
True Blood: "She's Given Him Reason to Live Again"
EOnline interviews Stephen Moyer. Best Question: What about your vampire daughter, Jessica—does that continue to be a fractured fairy tale? haha
Is it possible that Twilight is only the second-most-romantic vampire saga of the moment?
Being on premium cable as they are, True Blood's Sookie and Bill certainly give virginal Edward and Bella a run for their money when it comes to blood-hot sex, but what about love?
We just spoke exclusively with True Blood's leading man, Stephen Moyer, aka Bill Compton himself, to find out what's in store for the vampires of the dirty, dirty South in season two. He told us that while there will be just as many near-pornographic sex scenes, his character is still primarily driven by an overiding morality and an abiding passion for Sookie Stackhouse.
Read on to find out what he told us about sex scenes, his "hideous" vampire daughter and falling in love with Anna Paquin, onscreen and off...
Is True Blood going to stay as explicitly sexual this season or will you dial that back a bit?
The show is ridiculously f--king sexy…I think Alan Ball and the writers do very well in pushing the envelope. I think one of the things that drives me nuts about society is that you can watch hours about terrorists but you can't look at a human nipple. What the f--k is that about? Sex is part of our lives. It's part of our existence. So I kind of embrace the fact that we hit it full on the head.
True Blood creator Alan Ball reveals what's coming in season two
If you didn't see the first season of HBO's True Blood, you'd better pay attention if you want be able to follow the show's second season, said creator and executive producer Alan Ball in an exclusive interview with SCI FI Wire.
"Everything gets deeper," Ball said on Tuesday. "Everything gets more intense. It's a lot scarier. It's sexier. It's just really, really fun. I feel like each season is a novel, and the episodes are just chapters. Especially the way our show is. The episodes are not self-contained. You know, you gotta be involved in the story, and you gotta know what's going on."
True Blood's second season begins June 14 in its Sunday 9 p.m. ET/PT timeslot. The season is based loosely on the second book in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Series, Living Dead in Dallas, Ball said.
"Sookie [Anna Paquin] and Bill [Stephen Moyer] will go to Dallas to help find a missing vampire who is the sheriff of the Dallas area," Ball said. "And Jason [Ryan Kwanten] is going to become involved in the Fellowship of the Sun Church in a way that is really surprising. ... There's a very interesting relationship in the show between Rev. Steve Newland of the Fellowship of the Sun Church and his wife, Sarah [Anna Camp], and Jason, that just took on its own life as we were shooting, and it's hilarious. I can't get enough of the Newlands and Jason together."
And Sookie's hometown of Bon Temps will have some drama as well when Maryann Forrester, played by Michelle Forbes, "begins stirring up all kinds of trouble," Ball said. Last season Maryann appeared to offer Tara (Rutina Wesley) some goodwill and a place to stay. But "she's got an agenda, and it's not a good one," Ball said.
According to Ball, the vampire series will continue to explore the "terrors of intimacy, in that when you really, really open up and let another person into your life and your psyche, it can be terrifying—especially when that person is a vampire. ... And then there's just the whole exploration of the dark side of human nature," he said.
"True Blood" Season 1: Why would anyone want Edward when they can have Vampire Bill from "True Blood"?
Hans at Hallucina blog gets us ready for season 2 -Ha!
He can't have mint juleps anymore, but Vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) has kept up with the finer points of being a southern gentleman. You totally get why telepatic waitress Sookie Stackhouse all but shines with orgasmic afterglow everytime Bill decides to burst out of his grave and rub his muddy self all over her breasts. It sounds yucky, but GOSH, do these two sell their sex scenes! Talking about Sookie's breasts, I don't recommend watching "Fly Away Home" ever again after being glamoured by HBO's version of Charlaine Harris' bestselling series. Here, the erotic subtext behind vampirism is taken to its obvious limits. There is no coy "Twilight" bull about: "Will he suck her or not?" He WILL suck her, and it's going to be HOT.
read on and its funny
Gawker : All the Summer TV You'll Need to Watch
So you guys know the Gawker stuff with BloodCopy
So Gawker writes an article about new summer shows and writes this:
True Blood; June 14th, 9pm
HBO's kitschy vampire series started off wildly uneven last season, veering from scary-sexy to scary-stupid in the middle of episodes. But it eventually found its deep-fried Southern Gothic stride, with clever storytelling and ever-deepening characters gushing out of every orifice. And, yes, Anna Paquin is ungodly annoying, thus rendering the show's central relationship something of a bore, but she's more than made up for by the dangerously sexy Ryan Kwanten, the filthy-fascinating Nelsan Ellis, and the as-yet-unexplored-but-still-intriguing lesbodrone that is Michelle Forbes. As entertaining a show as one could want during the hot 'n sticky months. [See Ed. note below]
Editor's note: True Blood, like other TV shows (even some mentioned in this very post!), is a Gawker advertiser. Their campaign, though, includes sponsored posts via Bloodcopy.com, which when it was introduced generated some discussion in the media about media. So here is the boring disclosure: Those Bloodcopy posts are written by the advertising department. Editorial posts are written independent of who advertises; we might endorse, trash or simply ignore TV shows that happen to advertise. And that's why you keep a bright line separating the editorial and advertising in the first place, kids.
So writing a review where you call the lead actress ( who's an Oscar and Golden Globe winner ) annoying and the central relationship boring is supposed to show that even though HBO is advertising on Gawker ( in a BIG way ) you are really nuetral as to how you will review the show ..really is that the best way?
True Blood Music Video of the Day: Wonderwall by Oasis
Wonderwall (by Oasis) sung by Ryan Adams LYRICS
Thanks, VampyrMe
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
@SookieBonTemps tells us what we'd 'really' find in Sookies 's purse
our friend the Twitter Sookie, @SookieBonTemps has really worked on my question (originally posed by Charlaine) 'What would we find in Sookies 's purse?'
This is great answer...
Loving True Blood in Dallas posed this question on her blog last week. Dallas got an interesting array of answers from both blog readers and tweeters ranging from a condom (God knows why, since Sookie isn’t currently sleeping with anyone who’s going to get her pregnant) to lipgloss.
The question was asked in response to a comment Charlaine Harris made about going through the age-old exercise of thinking about what’s in a character’s purse, on her bookshelf, in her nightstand drawer, etc. in order to get a more intimate sense of who that person was.
Here’s what I think is in Sookie’s purse:
1) Picture of her and Jason with Gran. It’s a childhood photo, not a recent one, that she keeps in her wallet. I’m guessing that the wallet is leather, but it’s not an expensive one. The wallet is probably three or four years old with faded corners and it’s probably been scratched more than a few times by Sookie’s car keys. She’s had this wallet since she replaced the last one.
The photo is kept in one of those little plastic photosleeves that wallets come with — at this point the plastic is probably a little yellowed. The picture itself is probably faded and dog-eared at the edges because she looks at it from time to time and it’s survived being transferred from wallet to wallet.
2) Old address book. While she’s gotten around to getting a cellphone, she still carries her address book out of habit. After all, Sookie probably inputted in new numbers into the phone when they were being told to her, but the older numbers are still in the book. If you flip through the pages, addresses are crossed or whited out and re-written.
The address book may be old, but it’s not full — she’s kept in close contact with only a few people her entire life and she probably has their information committed to memory.
Read onTrue Blood BloodCopy: Reader-Submitted Vampire Erotica
In our mailbag a couple of days ago we received a link to a short film made by a Bloodcopy reader Ben Coello. So we watched it, and we think you should too.
Coello, a human, describes Want as "a dark and erotic short film about a pair of vampire lovers struggling to survive in an unfriendly world." Based on a short comic of the same name by Wendy Snow-Lang, it's a sexy, blue-lit, vampire love story starring Ewa Da Cruz—a woman who is so stunningly gorgeous that she could make any vampire-hater want to be turned.
Of course a few major details were missed, like the fact that real vampires wouldn't (couldn't) ever tool around in their cars in broad daylight, but it's worth a look.
Watch the entire film here. It borders on NSFW, so wait until dark. Or at least until you get home from work.
Thanks, Ben...
http://bloodcopy.com/5276022/reader+submitted-vampire-erotica
True Blood's Anna Paquin Talks X-Men Future
Rogue chats with IGN about a return to the franchise.
June 2, 2009 - IGN chatted with True Blood star Anna Paquin this morning, during which time we had the chance to ask her about the possibility of returning to the X-Men franchise. The Oscar-winning actress played Rogue in the first three X-Men films.
When it was announced that Josh Schwartz was writing X-Men: First Class, Variety said that the movie would likely "enlist such characters as Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat."
So would Paquin be up for playing Rogue again? "Absolutely. Yeah," she told us. "I would hope I could do a little bit more action next time, though. I kind of find it ironic that I did three big action films and did, actually, no action whatsoever. I mean I got some really amazing emotional story moments, but I didn't really get to do the physical stuff."
She continued, "You know, as much as I loved doing those films I was kind of like, 'OK, so when do I get to beat someone up? When do I get to steal some powers?' You know Sookie [Paquin's True Blood character] gets to do more action than Rogue ever did. So I'm just putting that out there. More action please, for next time."
http://movies.ign.com/articles/989/989758p1.html
True Blood Season 2 Possible Title Song: Ep. 4 ' Shake and Fingerpop'
We have noticed that according to the HBO schedule Season 2 episode 4 (16) isn't any longer being called 'Let's Take a Trip together' it's now called 'Shake and Fingerpop'
So we'll look at what that means to what we think our episode title song will be ..
So far for Season 2 we have :
Episode 2.01 - Nothing but the Blood
Episode 2.02 - Keep this Party Going
Episode 2.03 - Changed to Scratches from Scratch My Back
Episode 2.04 - Changed to Shake and Fingerpop from Let's Take a Trip Together
Episode 2.05 - Never let me go
Episode 2.06 - Friend is a Four Letter Word
Episode 2.07 - Release me
Episode 2.08 - Timebomb
Episode 2.09 - I will rise up
Episode 2.10 - New World In My View
All we know about Season 2 spoilers, casting calls etc. can be found here
All Season 2 videos ( including my great slide shows) here
We know that Alan Ball and the amazing Gary Calamar put great effort into musically curating True Blood !
Episode 2.04 title was called 'Let's Take a Trip Together' and now it's called 'Shake And Fingerpop' that has to be the song by Junior Walker.
Junior Walker was born in Blytheville, Arkansas and grew up in South Bend, Indiana. His saxophone style was the anchor for the band's overall sound.
The other original members of the group were drummer Tony Washington, guitarist Willie Woods, and keyboardist Vic Thomas.
His career started when he developed his own band at the age of 14, in the mid 1950s as the 'Jumping Jacks'. His longtime friend Billy Nix (drummer) started his own group the 'Rhythm Rockers.' Periodically Nix would sit in on Jumping Jack's shows, and Walker would sit in on the Rhythm Rockers shows.
"Shake And Fingerpop" was released in 1965
Lyrics
Said put on your wig, woman
We're goin out to shake and fingerpop! Hey, baby!
I said put on your wig, woman
Goin out to shake and fingerpop! Hey, girl!
Were gonna get out on the floor, now
Dance like we never did before, right on, sugar!
I said, look at the people, find a place in line Doin the barracuda, the jerk and the twine Kick off your shoes baby and get in the groove Cause when you hear the music, you feet has got to move
I said, put on your wig, woman
Goin out to shake and fingerpop, thats what I said We gonna get out on the floor now Dance like we never did before, hey, hey!
I said, do the boomerang, the twine and the jerk They're jammin up the band now, so everybody work!
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