The vampire kiddy in fresh HBO lamia satrico - play True profligate are hornier than the entire cast of every WB show ever . But allot to author and manager Alan Ball , the serial — free-base on books by Charlaine Harris — is much deeper than that . “ These are fictitious character that hopefully we grow to sleep together and care about , ” he said in a press league yesterday . “ [ We ’re ] see them deal with living their lives and trying to find out a home for themselves in the world , with lots of gender and violence . ” Ball shared some secrets about the making of truthful Blood , his strange Dark Shadows asphyxiation custom as a nestling , and gave us more details about the Viking lamia ( Vikings — yes!).How will dependable Blood the HBO series be different from the books ? The good thing about Charlaine ’s books is that the stories mould — however the book really center on [ main grapheme ] Sookie ’s story . So unless the other lineament are in the same scene as her they do n’t come out in the book of account that much . So I finger that we have the dependable of both worlds . We have an luxuriant account that works , and we have a lot of other character reference and we can organize history for them that continue true to Charlaine ’s existence . So there will be something in there for the masses who were fan of the books and there will be surprise prospect as well .
What are you judge to say by having vampires in your floor ? If it ’s just a taradiddle twist with fang then I ’m just not that interested . I ’m not interested in special effects . We ’re really try out to concentre on who Bill is , what ’s his history . What ’s the curse of being immortal , how is that a forged matter ? What ’s it care to be immortal and still seem to be human ? Those are the thing that are important to me . It ’s always interesting to read the vampires as a metaphor for this or that — that adds texture but it ’s not what this is about . When someone at HBO first ask me what this was about I say it ’s about the terror of intimacy , and at the sentence I thought , “ Who knows what that means but it sounds good . ” But over time I ’ve really started to think that this is the deeper meaning of the show . Six pes Under had always been about subduing one ’s emotions and being afraid of key smell we all have — they ’re the byproduct of being puppet with souls — and dealing with knowing we ’re going to die . It feel sort of emancipate just to go a little crazy . And I want to do something different evidently . Why did you decide to cast Anna Paquin as the main character Sookie ? Anna pursued the role . In the beginning I thought “ Well why would Anna want to do TV ? She ’s have a moving picture career . ” I ’m used to American actors who have a motion-picture show career thinking television acting is beneath them . I thought about it and I thought of class she ’d wish to do this , it ’s a howling office , a great role . Nobody is going to barf her like this in a movie yet . I was a little apprehensive that she would n’t want to dye her hair’s-breadth blond , but actually she was very unforced . I finger a responsibility to be as true as I could to the Koran . You have to be skinny enough so they do n’t think , “ Whoa it does n’t make any sense . ” But in the end forcible resemblance is n’t as significant as whether this person can impart this character to life in a way that ’s compelling and makes me worry about what happens to them .
Tell us more about the lamia Eric flirt by Alex Skarsgard . Will he be in a lot of episodes ? Eric is a 1,000 - year - old vampire who descend to America from Scandinavia . He was a Viking who became a lamia either on the ocean trip over or once he land . He ’s a huge character in the serial . He was the character who lover were most obsessed with how he would be cast , and he ’s a series veritable . How much are you going to adhere to the books ? We stuck really , really penny-pinching to the first book as the basis for the first season . But by episodes 11 or 12 we start to veer into book 2 to just set thing up for the next time of year — if there is one , because it ’s not prescribed . We ’re going to stick to the Sookie and Bill story very tight . The other character we ’re run short to experiment with but we ’ll remain passably true to Charlaine ’s tale . What ’s appealing to you about making a show with so much sex and vehemence ? I believe sex is a window into someone ’s individual . [ But ] it ’s fun . It ’s like Zea mays everta TV — it ’s like a drive . Six foot Under was all about repression , and this [ series ] seemed to me to be about abandon . I find the show really entertaining to produce and to be a part of making . It ’s escapist — it ’s totally escapist . How much of the humor in the record book scarper through the series ? Part of what I enjoyed about the books was in summation to the romance and the intrigue and sex and the violence was that these character were funny . They were comic without trying . We ’ve assembled a cast of people who are really good at playing the humor straight . For model Ryan , who plays Jason , that ’s a really tough theatrical role to play because usually when an histrion is playing a character who is not the sharpest knife in the draftsman the actor demand needs to let the audience know that he ’s not this dumb , and then it becomes not funny . Whereas Ryan is a really chic guy rope and he fuck that his character is dimwitted . It seems like vampire are in vogue again . Although there are great differences , there are a lot of similarity between what you do and what Stephenie Myers does in Twilight . Can you expand on that ? I have not read Twilight so I do n’t know what those similarities are . I think vampires are a timeless powerful original that can tap into hoi polloi ’s psyche . They ’ve been around forever , even before the reinvention of vampires in the nineties with [ Francis Ford Coppola ’s picture ] Bram Stoker ’s Dracula . A lot of world mythology all over the world has creature like the succubus , the one that feeds on the essence of people . I do n’t really experience why this is all go on at this prison term . I ’m just glad it ’s hap .
Did you ever watch Dark Shadows ? When Dark Shadows came on I was in unproblematic shoal . My next door neighbor and I , it would arrive on in good order after we got home from school and we would hasten into out household . We would posture there when the theme medicine descend on and we would hold our throat like we could n’t breathe . I have no melodic theme where this came from but we would dissemble like we were decease until the rubric sequence . We did n’t really watch it . To an 8 - class - older I suppose Dark Shadows was really slow . Certainly it was something about vampires — the upheaval that made us do this weird little psychodrama , while that pipe organ euphony played and those waves crashed against the rock . Do you guess child will have that reaction to straight Blood ? I go for kids do n’t keep an eye on this show . I hope parent know well than to let their kids watch this show .
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