Blood Splatters

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Alan Ball’s hit HBO series, the sensually sizzling story of the lives and loves of vampires, mind readers, and all manner of creatures, continues in this ongoing series! Now that the “Shake For Me” storyline has come to a close, we take a closer look at ALCIDE HERVEAUX and what makes this brooding werewolf tick, in this special one-off story!
32 pages. All-new one-shot story featuring Alcide! Available now at the HBO store, links up top.
Written by Michael McMillian, “the Rev. Steve Newlin” from the show!

Joe at the airport with Kevin Nash, who dwarfs him, I used to love Vinnie Vegas.



Our True Blood cast are busy this hiatus, working and doing charity events for good causes. In real life they seem to be pretty nice humans.

Turns out there is a good reason for the would be porn 'stache. 

During November each year, Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces, in the US and around the world. With their Mo's, these men raise vital awareness and funds for men's health issues, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.STEPHEN'S MOTIVATION-
To show the world we have balls, and that the world needs those balls fighting fit. Through facial reforestation the men of CASM join their Mo Bros around the world to fight the good fight. You can donate HERE

BuzzineTV-Whole interview is at the link-
Joy In Directing and Reprising A Fan-Favorite Role On 'The Good Wife'
Jesse Livingston: The Good Wife has been getting quite a bit of praise, not to mention winning a Peabody Award and multiple Emmys – and CBS has renewed it for a fourth season. When you joined the cast in Season One, did you already know the show was going to be a hit, or did you have a strong feeling about it?
Carrie Preston: I was a fan of it from day one. I know Julianna Margulies – we did a play together about seven years ago. So, she was a friend, and I started watching it for her. I liked it immediately. I had wanted and hoped to go on the show in some capacity. At the end of the first season, when they asked me to play this incredible role, I was really excited. At that point, the show had found its audience and was turning into a hit. I didn't do any of the second season at all, so I thought, “All right, that was it. I had a great time. I played a fun part," and then when they came back and asked me to do those episodes last season, I was just thrilled.JL: Your character Elsbeth Tascioni has been described as “quirky.” Do you see her that way, or would you use a different word to describe her?
CP: I guess maybe I would use the word “dizzy.” I would say that she's brilliant; her mind works very quickly – like quicksilver – and her mouth and her body are always trying to keep up with her mind. That's what makes her so fun to play.
JL: Do you know yet if Elsbeth will be returning for Season Four?
CP: Yes, actually I'm shooting right now. I'm going to be doing three episodes, I think.
JL: You and your husband Michael [Emerson] have appeared in several projects together. You played his mother on Lost and his ex-fiance on Person of Interest. Plus, you were both in Straight-Jacket; Ready? OK!; and a stage production of A. R. Gurney's Love Letters, if I'm not mistaken?
CP: We did, yeah. That was just a one-off benefit reading of Love Letters. But we met doing a production of Hamleteighteen years ago at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Since then we've done a production of Measure for Measure, another totally different production of Hamlet, an independent film called The Journey – so, we've done a lot of things together over the years. Plus, I've just recently done a couple more episodes of Person of Interest.
JL: It sounds like the two of you try to work together as much as possible?
CP: If it works out, yeah. A lot of times, it's not up to us – you know, it's up to whoever is producing and directing. But we enjoy it very much. I have a production company, and I've put him in movies that I've produced or directed. [laughs] I like to take advantage of his talents and his visibility. More
Another interview with Carrie in it's entirety at CWAtlanta  here's a bit-
Which do you enjoy more, directing or acting?I can’t really say I enjoy one or the other more. I think that both complement each other. Acting is my first love, but directing is very exciting that allows me to exercise all my creative muscles.
So have you picked anything out for next project to direct?
I do have a couple of things, there’s a project that I am attached to now called “Hope and Salvation,” a southern story and I am hoping that we are going to be able to get that off the ground. And my producing partners are working on something else that we are in development on. And then I have a web series that I have been writing and starring in that will hopefully premiere in the summer
Aw, what a good guy-

New project for Ryan-
Tom Berenger, Kevin Connolly, Thomas Jane, Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick, Kelsey Grammer, Nelly, Danny Aiello, Terry Crews, David O'Hara, Omari Hardwick, Lauren Cohan, Elizabeth Henstridge, Cary Elwes and Ryan Kwanten have been cast in John Herzfeld's feature Reach Me. Reach Me is an uplifting ensemble comedy/drama about a dozen fractured characters whose lives intertwine and eventually collide as a result of a self-published motivational book and its anonymous author. ComingSoon,net

                             Photo from Jillian Barberie on the set of Reach Me.

Janina Gavankar guests on the CW's Arrow, from EW-

A familiar face from True Blood is coming to Starling City.
Actress Janina Gavankar will play “McKenna Hall” in a multi-episode arc on The CW’s Arrow.McKenna is a Starling City PD vice cop, but she knew Oliver Queen back in his pre-island bad boy days. When a new drug called Vertigo — dealt by a dealer character played by Fringeactor Seth Gabel — starts wrecking havoc, their paths will cross in more ways than one. Gavankar plays Luna Garza on the HBO vampire hit and was also on Showtime’s The L Word. Arrow airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. More on the casting at ZAP2it.

Don't forget you can still vote for your favorites at The People's Choice Awards.


Saturday, November 17th is the very talented Audrey Fisher's Birthday, we wish her the best!

Joe Manganiello talks shooting David Ayer's gritty 'Ten' (and why it's already cut down on those body roll requests) Interview from EW (more at the link)-
With Channing Tatum being named People‘s Sexiest Man Alive, Magic Mike is back on the brain. But Joe Manganiello is confident that if fans see him now (pictured, via Twitter), as he shoots David Ayer’s Ten in Atlanta with Arnold Schwarzenegger, they would not ask him to do one of his famous body rolls. “Now I have a huge Unabomber beard, with cornrows and full-sleeve tattoos, and I’ve put on probably like 20 pounds. I look like a biker/murderer, which is really what I’m playing,” he tells EW. “So the body roll asks have subsided. People come up to me now, and they’re like, ‘Hey, I went to go get my car fixed and I’m pretty sure that they screwed me over. Can you go and talk to these people for me?’ That’s my request now. I’m sure after this movie comes out, people are gonna ask me to start killing people for money. Which I guess is a good thing. I’m an actor, so I’m supposed to change.”
In the film, he plays Grinder, a member of a task force the DEA has put together to fight against the Mexican cartels. “I’ve spent the past four months training with guys who do it for a living. That’s complete with ridealongs with narcotics officers in South Central, where, like, I saw some stuff go down. I’ve been training with a task force that goes around the world training SWAT teams how to sweep buildings, which is amazing. I’ve been out on the shooting range firing fully automatic weapons with the sheriff’s department. I’ve trained MMA stand-up and ground fighting, which is stuff that I’ve done before,” he says. “My character’s deep undercover within a biker gang. I got to design my own biker cut. I helped design the tattoos that I’m covered in. My character’s part Native American, so there’s a skull in a headdress on one arm. He was also a former Marine, so there’s a couple different takes on that. Basically, his job is to rid the planet of souls that shouldn’t be here. So the tattoos are death-themed. I’ve got a rattle snake skeleton on one forearm.”

Joe guests on this Monday's How I Met Your Mother, sneak peek at the CBS 

Carolyn Hennesy and Kristin at Drag Queen Bingo for charity.

This Week Needs Some True Blood

Courtesy of HBO John P. Johnson. For a limited time take 20% off at the HBO Shop site wide with Friends & Family discount. Use code FF20

From Ausiello, this must be Ben- Move over, Bill. And Eric. And Alcide. There’s a new man in Sookie’s life — and he’s putting down stakes in Bon Temps. True Blood has tapped  English actor Rob Kazinsky (EastEnders) to join the Season 6 cast as a series regular, TVLine has learned.  Kazinsky — whose biggest TV credit stateside was an arc on Brothers & Sisters — will play Ben, a highly charismatic faerie who takes a liking to Sookie (and vice-versa) and helps Sookie and Jason delve deeper into the mystery of their parents’ murders. This marks True Blood‘s second major Season 6 hire. As TVLine reported last month, acting vet Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) has also come on board in the series regular role of Macklyn, a mysterious and sinister figure with deep ties to Sookie and Jason. True Blood‘s sixth season is slated to premiere in June.  Deadline confirms he is Ben-
British actor Rob Kazinsky has joined the cast of HBO‘s vampire dramaTrue Blood as new regular for the upcoming sixth season. He will play Ben, a highly charismatic faerie who takes a liking to Sookie (and vice-versa) and helps Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Jason (Ryan Kwanten) delve deeper into the mystery of their parents’ murders. Kazinsky, repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment, spent seven years on the popular British soap EastEnders. He will next be seen in Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim.

Chris Heyerdahl talks about his many roles, including The Authority's Dieter.

Sam Trammell at the Life Rolls On Benefit, Peter Mensah (Kibwe) too! More

Actor Ryan Kwanten arrives at the GQ Men of the Year Party at Chateau Marmont - Source: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images North America via Zimbio

Penny Stamps poses with celebrity presenter Joe Manganiello at Destination Fashion 2012 To Benefit The Buoniconti Fund To Cure Paralysis, the fundraising arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, on November 10, 2012 at Bal Harbour Shops in Miami, Florida. Source: John Parra/Getty Images North America ZIMBIO

Actor Chris Bauer attends Resident Magazine's 25th Anniversary Party at Noir NYC. Source: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images North America ZIMBIO

Beware something porn-stached this way comes! Actor Steven Moyer arrives at the GQ Men of the Year Party at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.Source: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images North America, ZIMBIO has more pics
                                                   If you are in Los Angeles-

Great list, most have been featured on this blog at one time or another, but they missed a few I'd add. 

                        Joe tweeted another pic of him in character for the movie "Ten".

Life and Style say "a Pal" told them the sexes of Anna's and Stephen's babies.

Since welcoming twins in September, Anna Paquin, 30, and Stephen Moyer, 43, have kept all the details — even the kids’ sex — secret. Now Life & Style has exclusively learned the True Blood lovebirds have one of each! “They had a baby boy and a girl and thought that was perfect,” reveals a pal in the new issue of Life & Style. 

Designing Woman of True Blood and More

Alexander did phone interviews last week, one was posted earlier in the week. Here's another by Jody K, you might remember her from the much missed, The Nest. Photo courtesy of Skarsgardfans
I had a phone interview yesterday afternoon with Alexander…
There was a lot of feed back so AGAIN he had problems hearing me but I edited the conversation, removing the confusion between questions.
He had just returned to LA after a month of traveling and a short stop home to visit with family in Sweden. I’m sure he was exhausted but still had time to answer a few questions from you guys.
20 minutes goes by pretty quick…sorry I couldn’t get more answered…but maybe next time!!!

Listen to the whole interview at Askarsgard.com
The London Evening Standard has 10 Minutes with Alexander Skarsgard-
You’ve spent the past two months shacked up with Andrea Riseborough in a bomb shelter for the film Hidden, how was that?
Intense: we were surrounded by soot, dust and ash, and living on a diet of kale salad, a bit of protein and water. I’m pretty thrilled to be in New York now, eating like a horse.The advert you’ve done with Lara Stone for the new Calvin Klein fragrance is very sensual, did you enjoy filming it?
It was wild and very gripping. We filmed in this weird dungeon with lots of sweat and leather, so it was very sexy and film noir.
Talking of sweat and leather, you’ve been identified as a potential Christian Grey in the film version ofFifty Shades of Grey, are you flattered or offended?
Of course it’s flattering, but I haven’t even read the novels so I don’t know whether I’m interested in doing it or not. I am interested to see what the hype is about.
Which smells remind you of your childhood?
It’s not very sexy, but there was a sausage factory near my house in South Stockholm so I remember the foul smell going to school every morning. It wasn’t the smell of a nice cooked sausage. More at link.

This week's Person of Interest featured Carrie Preston as Grace (again), from io9's recap of the episode-
We go back to 2004, when Finch was first training the Machine. He's showing Ingram how he's trained the Machine to find "anomalous" people, or "outliers." ("Should an introvert like you really be teaching a Machine about human nature?" Ingram wonders kind of rudely.) After singling out a few unusual people in the park, the Machine highlights a woman who is painting nearby. It's Finch's future wife Grace (played by Michael Emerson's real-life wife Carrie Preston)! There's nothing unusual about her, other than the fact that she seems extremely nice, so Finch assumes it's a bug. But then, a year later, the Machine singles her out again when Finch is teaching it to find connections between people.

By now you've figured out that the Machine played matchmaker between Finch and Grace. Which is kind of awesome. Eventually, a year after the Machine points out the connection between Finch and Grace, Finch finally gets up the nerve to talk to her. I think by now we have ample evidence that not only is the Machine a sentient creature, but it also cares deeply for Finch and probably knows him better than any human. It knows and loves him enough to introduce him to a woman it has picked out as anomalously connected to Finch in some way.

The very talented Audrey Fisher has her own website now, featuring her costumes through the five seasons of the show as well as other work she's done. If you need a reminder (as if, right?) of the varied personalities she dresses in such a perfect way the gallery will bring all the good memories rushing back.

Fisher finds designing for Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) inspiring, as almost anything goes, especially the color palette. Equally enjoyable is Pam (Kristin Bauer), who she dresses in dramatic, sexy shapes to fit the story line that this fashion-forward vampiress has personal shoppers at her disposal in Los Angeles and New York. Fisher is most energized, though, when creating period costumes for the show’s flashbacks that in past episodes have included the 1920s, 1930s, 1850s, Vikings, fairies and even goblins. “If we were just doing rural Bon Temp all the time, that would get a little tedious and this allows me to do crazy, weird,” she laughs. She thrives on the change-up because it jump-starts her creativity within a restrictive set of boundaries in terms of budget and prep time. Where some designers may find this process nerve-racking, she finds it exciting. SOURCE

 Photos by John P. Johnson of HBO. 

Nelsan Ellis is in Oz for the Supernova Festival via Brisbane Times,
Filming HBO vampire drama True Blood may look like a lot of fun, but it turns out there is a downside.“The consensus on our show is that everybody hates the f---ing blood,” says the Nelsan Ellis, 34, who plays flamboyant clairvoyant Lafayette Reynolds.
The series, which eschews the twinkly bloodsuckers of Twilight in favour of rip and raw tactics, is infamously bloody.
“It's sweet and sticky and we hate it, because once it gets on the skin it dries," he said.
“But our boss is our boss,” he grins. “We can suffer in silence and with each other, but we can't do anything about it. So we just deal with it.”
Ellis is in Brisbane for Supanova, the annual pop culture pilgrimage for geeks, nerds and fanatics of all kinds.

more pics on Tumblr from Supanova. 

True Blood has featured vampires, werewolves, shape-shifters, fairies, and witches. But are fans as out there as the show itself?
“Yes,” Ellis replies immediately.
“The sci-fi fans in America ... they are die-hard. They will follow you to the ends of the Earth.
“Once they attach themselves to a show, and believe in the show and love the characters, they're there forever, and they're unshakeable."
Ellis expects to meet similarly obsessed Australian fans as part of the weekend event at the RNA showgrounds, although you'll have to forgive him if he's still a bit jet-lagged.
Ellis left Los Angeles as results from the US election began flowing in, and was relieved to find out mid-flight that Barack Obama had been re-elected president.
“The best person for the job is Obama,” he says. “And Obama needs to finish what he started.
“Rebuilding the middle class is the most important thing for our country, because the middle class supports everything else, the rich and the poor.”
True Blood's creator, Alan Ball, is a supremely adroit observer of the middle class, from his Oscar-winning American Beauty, to Emmy-winning Six Feet Under.
And Season five of True Blood (which screens in Australia on Showtime) has a definite political bent; with in-fighting at the vampire Authority, and a bunch of Bon Temps rednecks hiding themselves behind President Obama masks to target so-called “supes”.
“When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life,” says Ellis. “I think he makes a statement, and I think it's bold in season five.”

Carolyn Hennesy's photo By Carolyn Hennesy @carolynhennesy An overlooked photo from last Weds.' Drag Queen Bingo evening with Kristin Bauer. Now this is what I call a good sport!

A richly-illustrated adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, told through the eyes of the vampire Claudia, who was just a little girl when she was turned by the vampire Lestat. Though she spends many years of happiness with her two vampire fathers, she gradually grows discontent with their insistence upon treating her like a little girl, even though she has lived as long as any mortal man...and her lust to kill is certainly no less than theirs. Available now at Amazon, link uptop.

 The poster for one of Anna's new movies is out, no trailer yet. Source and info

                                             We salute our Veterans, the Vampire ones also.

The Making of Not Suitable for Children

Kristin Bauer on the Sundance Channel's The Mortified Sessions-

Abre Los Ojos Sangrientos

BABIEEZ!! 

From HuffPo

Is it too much to want to live in a country where everyone is equal, treated fairly and have equal rights?  I could care less who anyone else wants to marry or not marry, live with, love. As far as someone dictating what a woman can or can't do with her own body by law sets me off, so I don't even want to go there. Things that should be regulated are Wall Street, banks and automatic weapons, not vaginas. Science should be taught in all schools, education should be absolutely available for every American child, our future is bleak if it isn't. We should want the best for them and for each other. All this backsliding is why we are becoming like a third world nation, not because of any healthcare plan by a politician. Humans need to get their heads out of their asses, wake up and smell the True Blood. True Blood, a show that is an allegory for the human condition in the broadest sense, but it speaks to issues of love and equality and that's why we are all fans, we can identify.  
Audio Interview from my first TB site True-Blood.net


From Mohegan Sun- We celebrated Halloween early with Rutina Wesley of HBO's True Blood, costume contests, masquerades and more on Saturday, October 27th.

This isnt new but we could always use some Kwality Kwanten, right?

                                   via  ‏@TrueBloodQuoter

TVOvermind has the Top Five HBO Badasses and of course Eric Northman is one of them, along with Al Swearengen, Omar Little and Arya.
True Blood has kind of gone goofy in recent years, but I remember back when it first started, there was no bigger badass than Eric. He's a vampire AND a viking? You really can't get much more badass than that. Unlike the constantly shifting Bill, Eric has always been straight up about his will to get the job done, no matter what. He's an impressive figure, and has earned a spot here.

McMillz tweeted this look inside of the ongoing comic #6, on sale today!

Back From the Undead

This is how I looked and felt all week, minus the Fae bliss.

Back among the living and non-living, Sandy was the biggest bitch to bitch in bitchville. Hope you all made it through and are in one piece, I don't think any of us expected this storm to be so tragically epic. It was like a N'oreaster wrapped in a hurricane with a tsunami twist and it was a knockout to us city folk like no other. I only found out the absurdity of a postponed halloween when I went to a store with power and asked if the candy was half off. I was thrown when the guy said. "no because Halloween is Monday"! As if you can change the day of the New year, Xmas or Valentine's day, the world is bizarro right now peoples of earth.

Lack of electricity had one positive, I was re-reading the SVM books to pass the dark night away by candlelight. I'd forgotten so much of their plots because of watching the show. I suggest to any of you fans to grab them off your shelves and do the same, there are some goodies that the show just ignored that would have been better than any Authority crap and a happy wedding for king Russell as a bonus. I'm only up to book 8, after I catch up on everything I missed this week (like TWD, Dexter, AHS, Supernatural etc.) I'll get back to reading, because it's fundaMENTAL and all that.

I watch these movies and always laugh but now I have no doubt this is high comedy, see our Dieter? Michael Sheen is great in everything (Underworld's sexy Julien), he doesnt even have to wink in this one.

We had the pic on the right up last week but Celebuzz has it enlarged and a new one too, Holy Children of the Cornrow Batman!

DailyChilli has a nice long interview with Mr. Skarsgard, all at the link-
DC: What are you working on?
AS: We wrapped True Blood season five end of June early July, then I went to Vancouver for two months. I shot a film called Hidden. It's a post-apocalyptic film about a family in a bomb shelter. We wrapped just a couple of days ago.DC: How was the experience filming Hidden?
AS: Pretty intense because the movie is based on a bomb shelter. It was pretty claustrophobic and I was low on energy. I was on this diet because I had to lose weight—my character was kind of skinny. For a couple of months I ate small salads and a bit of protein to lose weight. It was difficult. It was tough. I was tired and exhausted and it was very intense, but a great experience and I really enjoyed working on it. It's not a fun character to play, but I'm very happy I did it.

DC: Tell us about the character.
AS: It's about a family—a husband, a wife, their 10-year-old daughter—they're hiding in a bomb shelter, or actually a fallout shelter, that they found and have been down there almost a year. I don't want to reveal too much, but there's something—or someone—looking for them. So they're trying to hide and trying to survive.DC: What other movies are next?
AS: I shot three films last year that are on the festival circuit now, or at least two of them are—Henry James' novel, What Maisie Knew, with Julianne Moore. We were in Toronto for the film festival and I shot another one called Disconnect. One calledThe East, about a group of eco-anarchist; they're editing it. All three will be out next year.

A behind the scenes pic from the Encounter commercial short film.

Win a lunch with Kristin Bauer and Mariana Klaveno at CharityBuzz-

Join True Blood stars Mariana Klaveno (vampire Lorena Krasiki, Bill's maker) and Kristen Bauer van Straten (vampire Pam De Beaufort) for an intimate lunch in Los Angeles. 

This is your chance to chat with the ladies of True Blood and find out what being a vampire is REALLY like!
Terms: Valid for 2 people. Approximate duration: 2 hours. Based upon availability. To be scheduled at a mutually agreed upon date. Expires 1 year from the auction. 
Donated by: Mariana Klaveno and Kristen Bauer van Straten.

Favorite Female TV or Movie Vampire: Deborah Ann Woll – True Blood Source

From THR-TORONTO – True Blood’s Sam Trammell has joined the Canadian theatrical thriller Deadweight from director Leah Walker. Trammell plays a young partner in a prestigious law firm, with Laura Harris(Defying Gravity), Josh Close and Lina Roessler rounding out the ensemble cast. Deadweight, produced by Neophyte Productions, in association with Buck Productions, is shooting in Sudbury, Ontario.

True-Blood.net has a new interview with Scrappy Doo, Marshall Allman and Ginger,Tara Buck, read the interview at the link.

 

An ancient and powerful nomadic wolf pack comes to Bon Temps to conduct its annual "Great Hunt," a ritualistic culling of an entire town over the course of a weekend. Can Sookie and Alcide convince the werewolves and vampires to work together and save the town? #6

With Bon Temps facing eradication by an ancient and powerful wolf pack, the town's best hope lies with Sookie and Alcide convincing the werewolves and vampires to set aside their differences and work together. But first, Sookie must survive her initial encounter with the Ghost Wolves. #7 all available at the HBO store, use links to the right.