VIDEO: True Blood’s Stephen, Alex and Ryan Are On The Sexiest Men List

True Blood’s Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgard and Ryan Kwanten have been included in this year’s People’s Magazine “100 Sexy Men In 1 Minute Sexiest Man Alive Video.”  The video shows Alex at the 20 second mark, Ryan at the 39 second mark and Stephen at the 1 minute mark.  Good to see our True Blood men represented but they left out a few of our other good looking men from True Blood such as Sam, Nelsan, Todd, Jim and Michael.

VIDEO: True Blood Cast in Paris For Season 2 Premiere

On November 5, 2009 Alexander Skarsgard, Sam Trammell, Michelle Forbes, and Rutina Wesley attended the premiere of Season 2 of True Blood in Paris, France at the Max Linder Cinema.  In the video Alex, Sam, Rutina and Michelle do a Q & A session before the screening of episode 1 and 2. Sam has studied in France before yet he was hesitate to give his answer in French.  Now my French is a little rusty but I believe the announcer is informing the audience that Sam can speak French and then asks Sam to explain the spirit of True Blood to which Sam states in French, “My God, I don’t speak French very well.”

VIDEOS: Charlaine Harris At The New Orleans Vampire Ball

Charlaine Harris was a special guest at the Tru Blood & Gold Ball in New Orleans, La on October 30.  The Ball was  sponsored by the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club (ARVLFC) who reached out to True Blood and Sookie Stackhouse fans with vampire solidarity.  Charlaine wore the special costume she had made for the occasion and was crowned “Queen of Louisiana” and was serenaded by “Bubba” himself.  Enjoy the videos!

VIDEO: Sam Trammell Interviewed On HomeTown Radio Station

Our favorite shapeshifter from Alan Ball’s hit HBO TV vampire series True Blood, Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte) recently returned to his hometown of Charleston, WV, to help support the town’s East End Main Street historic preservation program by participating in the city’s HallowEast fundraising festival and taking part in the “Inside the Main Street Studio” event.  While back home Sam stopped by Electric 102.7 FM’s radio station to chat about his success on True Blood, the nude scenes and dealing with his new found fame.  Below are the two videos from that session which are incredibly fun to watch.  In one of the videos we learn, along with Sam, a new term to refer to fans of Sam’s.  The radio host states in the video there are several female fans waiting to meet him as they all have be “Trammelltized” by him. Sam and everyone in the studio had lots of fun with that new word.  We must agree that if you do meet Sam in person that you too would be “Trammelltized” by him.  Enjoy the video!

SOURCE:  electric102.com

VIDEO: Charlaine Harris Interviewed at BoucherCon 2009 – Part 2

Charlaine Harris attended the 40th BoucherCon World Mystery Convention 2009 at the Hyatt Regency in Indianapolis where she was a panel member at the convention.  BoucherCon is the world’s largest annual meeting for the mystery genre.  While she was at the convention, Charlaine sat down with Reel Deal’s Austin Luger to talk about her writing, about Alan Ball’s True Blood HBO vampire series based on her books, and about how she’s handled her increased fame now that the show has become so wildly popular.

We brought you the first part of this video interview already, but the second half is now available, so we bring it to you now.  Enjoy!

Sam Trammell Talks True Blood at West Virginia Hometown Fundraising Event

This weekend, Sam Trammel returns to his hometown of Charleston, W.Va., to help support the town’s East End Main Street historic preservation program by participating in the city’s HallowEast fundraising festival.

Born in Louisiana, True Blood’s Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte) spent a large part of his childhood in Charleston, W.Va., and many of his friends and family, including his parents, still live there.

“I consider Charleston home. My mom and dad still live there. I really miss it, and I’m excited to see all my friends and family. It’s great to be coming home. …Downtown Charleston and the East End are just amazing. Today, when you look at the ballpark, the Clay Center and Capitol Street, you understand the revitalization has been great. I want to see it continue.

It’s [the fundraiser event] a good fit for Halloween. If you’ve read the Charlaine Harris books (on which the show is based), you know she introduces a whole host of fantastical creatures. For sure, it’s a Halloween sort of show.”

On Oct. 30, Charleston’s Cultural Center hosted two receptions with Sam. He then moved to Kanawha Players at 309 Beauregard Street, to sit down for an Inside the Actor’s Studio style interview, answering questions posed by David Wohl, dean of arts and sciences at West Virginia State University.

According to event organizers, money raised during the festival will be used to help neighborhood businesses in downtown Charleston to promote and preserve the historic district.

While in town, Sam spoke with Bill Lynch of The Charleston Gazette about his experience working on True Blood. According to Sam, the most difficult aspect of working on a show like HBO’s True Blood isn’t the bloody effects.  It also isn’t the late nights, though he says that they start shooting around 5 p.m. for all night shoots that last until dawn and he is sometimes sleep deprived from the schedule.  Sam expected all of that since, after all, it is a show about vampires.  Sam says that the thing he has the hardest time adjusting to is:

“…the cold, believe it or not. I don’t like the cold.”

Trammell, a George Washington High School graduate, remembers one particular night this past season when they were shooting a scene involving an orgy and a bonfire. Some of the townspeople of Bon Temps (the fictional town where the show is set) were under the sway of an evil temptress. There was a lot of bare skin and everyone had to pretend it was a sweltering, summer night in Louisiana.

Of course, they’re not filming in Louisiana but in a canyon in Malibu, where it gets down into the 30s.

“I didn’t have to be naked or anything,” he said, “but I was in short sleeves. It was pretty cold.”

Sam, 38, is mindful of just how chilly it gets because of the nature of his character, Sam Merlotte. Merlotte is a shapeshifter who can turn from a man into a dog, a bull and who knows what else. The side effect is that he tends to lose his clothes in the transformation and gets to do scenes in the buff.

In addition to talking about last season, Sam also spoke a little bit about working on season three and what it is like to work with Alan Ball.  According to Sam, Alan tends to work in advance, so the scripts for next season are probably already finished.  This kind of advance preparation isn’t always the case, however, says Sam:

“Most TV shows, you get scripts a week before you shoot them.  You might get pages the day before you shoot.”

Often, a show begins its season with only some of the episodes completed. This especially happens with shows like Lost and Heroes, which have broad storylines but are open to making changes later in the season based on earlier rating successes or failures.Ball doesn’t work that way.

“Alan likes to have everything done,” Sam said. “He wants to finish shooting the season before it airs — just in case he needs a re-shoot.”

So what’s coming up next for Sam Merlotte?  Sam didn’t give much away, but he did tell the Gazette:

“I think Sam is going to go toward the vein of trying to find his biological parents. That will definitely end in some bad stuff.”

I hate to think that we’ll have to see Sam crying once again.  The season finale, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’,” was heart rending for his character from beginning to end.  Perhaps we will learn a little good news for Sam in season three from this Q & A event but more than likely, we will simply have to wait until June 2010 for the answers we want.

Jessica Ralston from WSAZ had the chance to catch up with Sam and discuss his homecoming and True Blood.

SOURCE: The Charleston Gazette

(Photo credit: HBO Inc.)

VIDEO: Anna Paquin Winning At The 2009 SCREAM Awards

Here it is finally.  Everybody has seen the videos of Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton), Alexander Skarsgard (Eric Northman) and Alan Ball and the entire cast of True Blood onstage  accepting their award except Anna Paquin.  Well, finally there is a video that has been posted of Anna Paquin (Sookie Stackhouse) accepting her award for Best Horror Actress at Spike TV’s 2009 SCREAM Awards for those who missed the telecast.  Enjoy!

VIDEO: Nelsan Ellis Speaks From the London MCM Expo

Nelsan Ellis, who plays the flamboyant short-order cook, Lafayette Reynold on Alan Ball’s hit HBO TV vampire series True Blood recently attended the London MCM Expo where his interview was captured on video by Essex UK TV. Nelsan discusses in detail his character Lafayette, his experiences with the fans and working on the show.  It was a pleasure to watch Nelsan and to get to know him better outside of his Lafayette character because as we all know, and Nelsan has mentioned it many times, he is nothing like his character.  Enjoy!

VIDEO: Stephen Moyer Interview From A Coffin

Stephen Moyer who plays the handsome vampire Bill Compton on Alan Ball’s hit HBO TV vampire series True Blood recently conducted an interview with Steve Jones from UK Channel 4 from the comforts of a coffin.  That’s right you heard me correctly, a coffin!  As Steve Jones states Transylvania was too far and the local graveyard was just not right so the next best place to interview a vampire would be in a coffin.  This is a fun interview with Stephen as he discusses his character, the blood that he drinks on the show and his response to the comment about the racy scenes to which Stepehn says,

“that there is a little a bit of saucy actions every now and then and sometimes backstage as well.”

You have to love Stephen’s interviews, they are always so much fun to listen to. Enjoy the video and many thanks to UK Channel 4 for informing us about this video.

SOURCE: UK Channel 4

VIDEOS: True Blood at the 2009 SCREAM Awards

If you missed watching last night’s Spike TV’s 2009 SCREAM Awards then you missed watching the cast of True Blood walking up the stage and accepting their awards.  Well you almost missed it.  Here are a few clips from last night’s award show as the whole cast was thrilled at winning the awards.  As always they were gracious and showed how much of a close “family” they have all become.  A funny point in one of the videos was when during Alan’s speech a group of women scream “We love you Stephen!” and everybody’s enthusiastic response particularly Anna’s.  It was great to watch the whole cast having so much fun with each other that those few moments helped feed the True Blood withdrawal many are feeling.  Enjoy the videos!  The videos are slow loading so please be patient.

SOURCE: Spike TV

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