Have a good day everyone…

~M.

and

From the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly via Lori W.

Yes, I know a lot of you miss Michelle and a lot of you are looking forward to Joe Manganiello’s portrayal of Alcide Herveaux. So, I want to thank Lori for sending these to us. Btw, doesn’t Joe look good with long hair.

From Allison C…. who loves Brits!

My husband said, “WOW,” when I showed him Rutina’s picture from January’s Allure. The pictures were supplied by the Fans of the Rutina Wesley page on FB.

Nighty night my lovelies….

~M.

P.S. Did you read the whole Alan Ball article???? They are signed through season 4. We may actually see Quinn and all the drama that weretiger brings.

and the best for last…

Yes, I know… all you Alex fans out there are jumping for joy.

Have a great day!

~M.

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Ok, so ummmmmmmmm, I forgot to mention this bit yesterday. Sorry to you Bill/Stephen fans.

~M.

So, um, Maria, I just can’t help myself – I have to add, “Yay for Damon!!!  He got number 2!! “

~Tamara

~M.

Kev Geoghegan- bbc.co.uk

Stephen Moyer is the latest British actor to take US television by storm as vampire good guy Bill Compton in the hit show True Blood, which starts on Channel 4 later.

Moyer has played a vampire once before for a BBC show

With his flawless southern-US drawl and chiselled Hollywood good looks, it is a surprise that the 39-year-old hails from Essex, far from the fictional swampy Louisiana town of Bon Temps.

In the show, vampires have been drawn into the open after the invention of a new synthetic human blood substitute called True Blood.

Moyer’s character – an American civil war soldier who turned vamp in 1868 – begins a love affair with telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, played by Anna Paquin.

He is now engaged to his co-star who, in 1994 at the age of 11, became one of the youngest Oscar winners in history for her performance in The Piano.

However much press that Hugh Laurie does and however many interviews they see him sounding English, when they meet him in the street, they still can’t believe it and that’s the reaction I get.

It’s lovely for me, you know, I have dark hair in the show and I’m pale and I have the dark sideburns so it’s like a whole costume by itself. It’s very enjoyable.

I would ask how exciting it was to be play a vampire, but you’ve already played one in the Channel 4 series Ultraviolet. Did that make it easier the second time around?

Well, the character I played in Ultraviolet loved being a vampire and the character this time is somebody who struggles with it. He struggles with the fact that he has to feed on humans.

He’s trying to live a decent life and is very conflicted and tortured which is great fun to play.

The cast is about to begin filming the third season of True Blood

At the moment, most vampires seem to be brooding and self-loathing – don’t you miss the gleefully evil, sexy vamps who enjoy drinking the blood of young virgins?

Oh, there’s plenty of them in our show. And as we get deeper into the show, we get to meet those vampires that you’re talking about . And Bill, for all his attempts at being a decent – for want of a better word, human – is conflicted and he won’t prey on the innocent.

But he’s quite happy to find people who cause pain to Sookie and if he finds them, he will take them down.

There are quite a few parallels in the story with, for example, the American civil rights struggle. Many vampires are just looking for social acceptance.

Definitely, as soon as you get told that Alan Ball [Oscar-winning writer of American Beauty and Six Feet Under] is involved, you have to take it a bit more seriously. It’s not going to be just some camp romp, although there is some of that.

But when I read it, I saw parallels between segregation between black and white and the issue of homosexuality and any minority that you want to bring to the table. Bill has gone through such pain and has lost his wife and children and you really do feel for him.

Do you have a favourite portrayal of a vampire – who is the definitive bloodsucker?

For me , the original Nosferatu is just so compelling and dark and weird. Our fascination with vampires didn’t really start until after that and they made the vampire attractive.

I’m a massive fan of Gary Oldman and I also love Hammer and the new Swedish movie, Let The Right One In, was an extraordinary film.

There’s a current revived interest in vampires which has surely helped True Blood’s success. On the flipside, are you worried that people will start to tire of the craze?

You do think when will the zeitgeist end and when will people stop being interested, but I think that Alan has created so many ideas within our show.

The second season has already gone out in America and it was even bigger than the first season so there’s going to be werewolves, there’s going to be other supernatural characters.

Ultimately it’s just a framework for telling a story. Our show isn’t really about vampires, it’s about human relationships and how people interact with each other.

Paquin’s character is initially ostracised for her relationship with Bill

You met your new fiancee on the show. Do you find it hard to switch off when you go home for the day?

We both love the show, Anna and I, and if we have a scene coming up, maybe we feel that we’ve seen before, we’ll try and do it in a different way and we’ll talk about work then. We always try and make it fresh, but when we’ve done that – it just becomes about life, not vampires any more. We met on set, everyone knows us on set and as a couple, but that’s really where it stops.

You celebrate your 40th birthday later this week, have you got a big party planned?

I’ve got a bunch of friends coming out to a country house that I have rented for the weekend and we are going to make merry.

We’ve got an Indian Elvis playing and we’ve got some children’s entertainers and it’s going to be a riot.

I’m sure my ‘hilarious’ friends will be doing something with comedy teeth.

by Marc Malkin- eonline

Jamie Trueblood/HBO

Stephen Moyer knows how to give good interview.

In the British magazine Company, the True Blood stud teases us with some frisky thoughts and recollections.

Among the goodies…

Moyer, 39, admits to enjoying romps in public places.

“I once accidentally messaged one of my friends something meant for a girlfriend, and it was incredibly inappropriate,” Anna Paquin’s onscreen and real-life love says.

“It was a proposal of sorts, to go and do something in a park. It was rather filthy, so I’ve since got used to triple-checking before I send texts now.”

While Mr. Moyer didn’t reveal exactly what was in that text, he did give his approval for sex on the first date. “It depends whether the two consenting adults know what they’re getting into,” he said. “If it’s just going to be that, and that’s the agreed perception, then whatever works.”

Now, for all you vampire fans who can’t separate fact from fiction, listen up! Bill Compton and Edward Cullen are not real!

“Robert Pattinson and I are probably the only people where the first thing people say is, ‘Bite me,’” Moyer said. “Sometimes they try and bite me, which is weird.”

Also weird? The woman who asked him to autograph her breast: “I kept thinking, ‘Do you really want my illegible script over your nipple?’”

Here is an article I found on The Marquee Blog at cnn.com.  Part one to this blog was the Cast thank you video posted last week.  I found this intriguing.

Kelly

Hi Marquee Blog readers–ready for part two of my True Blood HBO Emmy After Party Special? Well here you go—an exclusive tidbit about the new season from Stephen Moyer.

When I asked Stephen about working with Anna Paquin, his real life fiancée, he told me how much he loves getting to spend all of that extra time with her, but warned that it might not last for long.

 “I love working with Anna–I don’t think we will be working together this season only because it’s very hard to make Bill and Sookie the couple just be Bill and Sookie the couple. Nobody wants to watch that forever–every single drama you’ve ever watched has that thing where now you’ve watched and now let’s put him over there and see how he works with her and how she works with him…so we’ll see!”

Uh-oh, sounds like there may be some trouble in Bill and Sookie paradise next season! What do you guys think? Do you agree with Stephen? Would you like to see Bill and Sookie paired with other people next season?