More True Blood season 3 spoiler news from Alan Ball regarding the romantic adventures our telepathic waitress, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is going to experience in season 3. Alan spoke with Michael Ausiello from EW.com and stated that whether you want to see Bill and Sookie together or Eric and Sookie you are going to be “very unhappy and oddly, very happy” this season. The reasoning behind his comment is the addition of another hunk into the mix, namely werewolf Alcide Herveaux (portrayed by Joe Manganiello) who will be adding to the sexual tension on the show. As Alan explains:
“Take a look at Joe [Manganiello],” he teases of the hunk he cast as the psychic’s new love interest, the werewolf Alcide. “Do you think [they] have reason to be worried? We were looking for a guy who was big, sexy, decent and heroic, with some darkness,” he says. “And [Manganiello] showed us all of that in the audition.”
Alan was so confident in Joe‘s ability to convey the necessary attributes of the character that he didn’t ask him to do a chemistry test with Anna, which is normally done when there are several other actors who are vying for a role.
Alan mentions that although Alcide is not introduced to the audience at first as a potential suitor for Sookie, the circumstances that both characters find themselves in creates the dynamics for some sparks to fly between them.
“As in the book, he’s helping her find [her kidnapped boyfriend] Bill,” Ball notes, “and he has a business reason for owing Eric a favor” — one (bad) thing leads to an (incredibly sexy) other. “He’s there with her during a very painful time in her life — and his life, actually. And they’re thrown into some pretty intense situations together.” “And hello, he’s hot!” he adds with a laugh. “And hello, so is she. Two hot people in some intense situations and, for whatever reasons, their significant others are not there… they’re human.”
Whether it is right or wrong that two people who are extremely attractive and facing stressful situations will fall into the arms of one another while their significant other is not around is up for debate, however it does make interesting television.
So how to do you feel about the introduction of another guy to heat up the screen with Sookie? Are you happy about it or, as Michael says “should the show have spent a season exploring the Bill/Sookie/Eric triangle before making it a square?”
Let your comments be heard.
SOURCE: EW.com
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Lori
Hi! Everyone has an opinion so I hope that no one gets upset for me voicing mine, it’s just an opinion. Anyways, I have watched both seasons of true blood now, I am addicted, I can’t wait for the third. I am totally in love with bill and sookie together, no I haven’t read the books, but I don’t think that a friendship will suffice, he is totally in love with her, I mean look what he has been through for her. True, he has put her in situations, but not intentionally. I can see the love he has for her in his face, when he asked her if her answer was no, he looked so distraught, I almost cried, and I had a little anger for sookie for a second. She is really IN LOVE with him, and he is really IN LOVE with her. Plus he is so sexy, not just looks, but because of how he is with sookie. I pray that Alan Ball keeps them together, yes they have to have obstacles, but I hope that at the end of all the seasons, or sooner, there is a wedding, maybe a baby if that’s possible, for sookie and bill. If they don’t end up together, I have to be honest, I don’t think I will watch the show anymore, and I will be very disappointed. I am so happy that he asked her, and though it took her a minute, she said yes. So please let them stay together, like I said there has to be obstacles to make it interesting, but let them be just that “obstacles”, and nothing else. Thank you for reading my opinion, I hope that most TB fans agree so maybe mr. ball will listen and make it happen.