True Blood Gets Gayer In Third Season!
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Bring it on!!!
Everyone is LOVING True Blood and next season, writer-director Alan Ball is giving everyone even more juicy story lines to suck on!
The big news for season 3 is the introduction of the much awaited homo-erotic vampire king of Mississippi. Alan sat down for an interview recently and discussed how the show is going to be taking a big, gay leap in the new season:
Were the gay metaphors something you envisioned immediately as you read the books?
Alan Ball: All that is in the books. Also, there are a lot of gay characters in the books as you get further and further into them. We'll be introducing some of those gay characters this new season.What other gay characters will be introduced in season 3?
We'll be meeting the vampire king of Mississippi and his long, long-term companion — and by long-term I mean really long-term — Talbot. I think Lafayette may meet a love interest, and certainly Pam, who works with Eric, she's certainly got a lesbian vibe — I don't know that that's all she is, but she certainly does seem to appreciate the women.What do you think it is about the vampire genre that’s so appealing to LGBT fans?
I think it's certainly not a huge step for LGBT people to identify with any group of characters that are, as a group, outsiders, that mainstream society feels threatened by; that are fabulous and powerful and sexy and all of that stuff.Lesbian vampire queen Sophie-Anne is romantically linked to Sookie’s cousin, Hadley. Is there a possibility that the queen will also fall for Sookie?
I think Sophie-Anne is definitely interested in Sookie; I don't believe it's for sexual or romantic reasons but she is definitely interested in Sookie and whatever it is about Sookie that is special beyond the realm of what is human, and that's something that we definitely will learn more about in the upcoming season.Denis O’Hare has just been cast as a regular for season 3. His character Russell Edgington, the vampire king of Mississippi, is gay in the books, so is this something we can expect to see in season 3?
I think the kings and queens of the various states are aware of each other, and yes, he definitely knows who she is. Whether or not they end up in a scene together I can't really say; it depends on actors' availability and scheduling and those kinds of things. But they definitely are aware of each other.
Everything sounds good to us except for one major problem:
At what point will Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgård be making sweet, sweet love to one another?
Remember, Stephen is totally up for it!
Why deny us what would clearly be the hottest couple on TV????
weird. gay vampires aren't very scary….
Perez I demand more naked Eric nude scenes! I'm not into the whole gay porn thing but Bill and Eric would be HOTTT!!
I'd LOVE to be the filling in the Moyer/Skarsgard sandwich!!!!
I can see Sookie end up hooking up wit Queen Sophie tho. Thats like a given.
When are vampires over?
doesn't that poster looks just like megan fox's jennifers body?
The show would be nothing without Lafayette. Nelsan Ellis is a brilliant actor. I can't wait for season 3.
Moyer is so fucking hot!!!!!! Paquin is one lucky bitch!
GO @ IT
just because they are gay dosnt mean they will be the hottest couple on tv oh and you would think that somebody would be creative and try and come up with something unique but ever since twilight people have been jumping on the vampire bandwagon and seriously it works for twilight I LOVE TWILIGHT but people need to start coming up with more original stuff btw i watch true blood sometimes and its ok but i tried watching the vampire diaries once and it was soo funny i found it soo ammusing how unoriginal it was agree with my comment or hate it i dont give a crap its my opinion
I don't want Bill anywhere near Eric. Eric is way too hot for Bill. If Eric goes gay, the casting people should find him a man deserving of his hotness.
Re: cupcakehell – yes it does
LOVE LOVE LOVE ME SOME ERIC!
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Anyone notice how many stories on this blog are now either gay or Mario's lusting after young boys? I think it's enough to fully qualify this site as a gay blog now, no longer a mainstream gossip site.
Re: blahblah12 – The year 2008 is when the world got introduced 2 Twilight, True Blood the show is based off of a book series – the entire first season of the HBO show was based upon a single volume of the series called Dead Until Dark (The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 1) (1995) by Charlaine Harris – who also a rather devoted fan-base.
Sorry but True Blood came first! Twilights just a wannabe vamp book written by a messed up woman. Twilight is for teens and tweens, True Blood has an actual real vampire appreciation feel 2 it. Of course you'd have 2 b a fan of vampire movies and books before Twilight came out, which I'm betting your not.
So happy for True Blood. I can't wait to see who all Alan Ball brings in to be the Mississippi Vampires. But just a word to all of you, Twilight was not the first vampire series to jump start the craze. The Sookie Stackhouse Novels(the basis for true blood) were written long before that no talent author coined her little books about sparkly vampires. Twilight is just for angst ridden teeny boppers. True Blood is for adults. It's darker and sexier.
Re: blahblah12 – Vampire Diaries/Twilight series are both tween crap and have no substance. True Blood is a smart, well written show with oscar winning actors, when you become a grown up maybe you can appreciate it. We can do without the other two…
Re: Leila65 – Re: lisa00789 – VAMPIRES ARE BECOMING BIG IN 2009 BECAUSE OF TWILIGHT ,TWILIGHT HAS FAR MORE HYSTERIA THAN TRUE BLOOD THATS WHAT I MENT
cant wait anymore longer for the 3rd season 2 start!!!!
just finished book 3. i think that was the one that hinted pam was not gay. bi, she may be. who knows. i loved book 3. i just wish they would get rid of tara.
Re: Leila65 – i like all, twilight is not meant to be scary, but true blood is pure trash. entertaining, but over the top sometimes. vamp diaries lead men are great!
in that proo pic its Jessica….but hurry up 4 seas 3..im dying…i need 2 suck it up…
can't wait for next season, it's going to be great not a big fan of the gay vampire shit but it's true blood i'll watch it
Y'all forgetting Anne Rice. But i love Charlaine Harris as well.
lol I love the King of Mississippi in the books! I really hope that they continue using the books as a frame for the show…I heard that theyre going to stray away even more because of the other things the books get into. When that happens Ill probably stop watching the show. Which will be sad for me. Im even going as Sookie for Halloween LOL. Love the books, Love the show, cant wait for the 10th book and then Season 3!!!!
Yeah sure why not, let's just change the entire fucking storyline and social dynamics portrayed in the books so you can see one stupid little gay fantasy. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Asshole.
And Eric is wayyyy too hot for bill on tv and in the books, Eric is gawd.
yessss i love it!!!! i would like to be in the middle of eric & anyone
because while the whole gay part is exciting for some, the entire serie does not need to turn gay for it to be successful! Come on Perez, do you want the entire program to be gay? What about the huge straight audience????
In the books Pam goes on a date with Amelia (sookies flatmate). Does that mean they are going to introduce her or writie something else? Can't wait for next season as Alcide will be poping up. Can't wait for new book!
If they go in this direction, I will stop watching the show.
Stephen Moyer has no business being in a gay scene with Alex Skarsgard and why would he? He is nearly a foot shorter. It would be like a pug trying hump a Great Dane. It wouldn't be hot, it would be comical.
Well, I guess you don't need to protect your neck any more on TB. Just wear a steel condom.
Sucking cock with fangs?
Why do all of these shows suddenly have to have gay and lesbian hook-ups in them? It seems to me that they all trying to prove that they are not homophobic. Enough already!!! I don't care who wants to hook-up. I just don't want to turn to every channel and see men with their tongues down each others throats and groping each others ass. It is not visually appealing to me. I, also, don't care if no one agrees with me. Everyone seem pressured these days to agree with the masses. I don't.
Re: binkie – "Why do all of these shows suddenly have to have gay and lesbian hook-ups in them?"
I'm just going on a wild hunch here, but I'm pretty sure it's because it's in the book. Call me crazy, but I think that might just be it. Me? I'm sick of the gayness. I'm also sick of vampires. I'm with you, though. They should have done something ballsy like make them all pirates and set the movie in 1950s Brooklyn, but nooooooo… they have to actually follow the source material. What assholes.
Re: gossipygab – Those questions are easy to answer! Perez doesn't care about a straight audience, and yes….he wants everything to be gay…it's all for publicity and ratings….they don't care about the entire audience anymore….just the once who cry "foul" and bitch the loudest.
Re: binkie – Thank you and amen!
Awesome! I can't wait! I still haven't heard him mention anything about casting ALCIDE the werewolf…he HAS to be on the show. Sookie is with him all of book 3.
I've read all the books and Bill(Moyer) and Eric(Skarsgaard) never get together. So if they do this, it will be in a different direction than the books. However, there are a TON of gay characters in the books.
I guess gay is the new black.
Can't wait!!
Does this picture annoy anyone else? The fang is in the wrong place.
im soooo excited. I've read all 9 books so far, so its neat to see what the show does to the story plots. love love love true blood.
Re: Stepy – lol! Im going as sookie too! My hubby is going as Bill;)
Will never happen Perez since its very obvious that you know NOTHING of the actual storylines and the books. Maybe you should stop stroking yourself and pick up one of her books so you actually KNOW what your talking about. Dumbass.
Re: blahblah12 – These books were way before Twilight. It was unfortunate that the popularity brough it to the open though.
Not sure if I'm into this but I sure am looking forward to Season 3! Love love love True Blood!
Season three is just so far away. I can't wait to see Eric and Sookie together…… again. And I do hope Alan does introduce Alcide the werewolf into the Trueblood episodes. I think having love triangle would fun!
yay for gay!
Eric and Bill should get it on!!!
that photoshopped mouth is awful…teeth in the wrong place much>
Re: blahblah12 – No The Underworld movie Series were pretty big! You know, Vamp vrse. Werewolf, sound familiar?
Eric and Bill never hook up. That'd just be weird.
Read the books, Perez, before you start throwing stuff out there. Stephen Moyer was obviously joking if he read them as character research. Alex did.
seriously people, they cannot make Eric or Bill gay, one of the things in the contract for this show was that the love triangle with sookie & eric, and sookie & bill must remain in tact for the show… so you can't make them not love her and love each other. thats weird. there are tons of gay characters in it, no need to make the straight ones gay… its not a gay show.. its a vampire show based on LOYALLLL fans from the books. thats too far of a stretch… although a dream scene of it would be hott