I’m currently speaking to you in the accent that was learned. But this was less about that and more about getting into that world and the energy of it. With the Wounded Knee project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we’re talking about. MM: Did you do any research before slipping into the shoes of Sookie?ĪP: We all had to learn Southern accents. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you’re going to be at any given moment.ĪP: Not really. But I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. You get episode after episode of really interesting writing that makes you go to more and more complex places and you really get deep into a part-ugh, that’s a vampire pun that’s terrible. Why did you want to go into TV?ĪP: You get to actually develop the characters past an hour and a half. MM: You’ve done a lot of theater and movies. and everyone’s covered in mud and blood and whatever, he still keeps everyone having a good time. When he’s directing or on set, he’s like the favorite parent. He can make you believe things even if they’re not 100 percent based in reality. I love how real all of those relationships are, and how he depicts families but also weaves in these odd elements, like the figure of the dead father, in a way that’s not cheesy or crazy. I’ve seen every episode at least two or three times. The script I read was incredibly funny, sexy, odd, and weird, and the characters were really amazing I just fell in love with it.ĪP: Huge. I had worked previously for HBO and had an amazing experience. MM: Why did you get involved with the show?ĪP: Alan Ball is a massive hero of mine. My lease was up right about the time I had to go out to Los Angeles to do True Blood. I have friends and a life here, so I’ve just been hanging out, which is awesome.ĪP: No, I’m staying in hotels, which is kind of weird. right now?ĪNNA PAQUIN: I’m in New York, actually. But for now, on the subject of those short shorts and staying on this side of the human-vampire divide. She’ll star next in Margaret, a psychological drama by Kenneth Lonergan (the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of 2000’s You Can Count on Me) about a girl who believes she caused a bus accident. Their first feature film, Blue State, premiered last year. In her spare time, Paquin runs the indie production company Paquin Films with her brother, Andrew, in Los Angeles. Based on the popular Southern Vampire Mysteries series of pulp novels by Charlaine Harris, the show is executive-produced by Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, and it shows his trademark wit and grit-and plenty of bare boobs, both male and female, for good measure. Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse, a backwater waitress with an endless supply of short shorts and peroxide, who forms an unlikely alliance with a 173-year-old vampire (played by the British actor Stephen Moyer, who looks like the love child of Michael Vartan and Paul Rudd). Currently, she’s starring in the new HBO series True Blood, a darkly sexy take on vampires who live among humans in the swamps of Louisiana. Paquin has also taken to the stage, starring Off Broadway in a Neil LaBute drama, in a London production of This Is Our Youth, and in The Glory of Living directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.īasically, Paquin, at 26, has done everything an actor can do except for a regular TV gig. Her career since has also been fairly memorable: She’s worked with directors like Steven Spielberg, Bryan Singer, and Gus Van Sant showed up with superpowers in three X-Men movies and driven home complicated characters in indies like Hurlyburly (1998) and The Squid and the Whale (2005). That made her the second-youngest Academy Award winner in a competitive acting category in history. Anna Paquin was 11 years old when she won her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 1993’s The Piano.
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