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True Blood gets nominated for 2010 WGA awards

Posted by Luciana on 14 December 2009 | Filed under True Blood | Leave a Comment

The Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East today announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, radio, news, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2009 season to be honored at the upcoming 2010 Writers Guild Awards on February 20, 2010, in Los Angeles and New York. True Blood’s episode entitled “I Will Rise Up” has been nominated.

The list of all nominations in category of Episodic Drama-any-length-one airing time is:

• “Broken, Part 1 and Part 2? (House), Written by Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & David Foster & David Shore; Fox*”Come, Ye Saints” (Big Love), Written by Melanie Marnich; HBO
• “The Grown Ups” (Mad Men), Written by Brett Johnson and Matthew Weiner; AMC
• “Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency” (Mad Men), Written by Robin Veith and Matthew Weiner; AMC
• “I Will Rise Up” (True Blood), Written by Nancy Oliver; HBO
• “Phoenix” (Breaking Bad), Written by John Shiban; AMC

True Blood: more flashbacks for Alexander

Posted by Luciana on 11 December 2009 | Filed under True Blood | Leave a Comment

The cast of HBO’s vampiric sensation True Blood has only been back to work on their third season for a few days, but Rutina Wesley and Alexander Skarsgard say they’re already sinking their teeth into some bloody interesting storylines.

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“There’s more of people with different agendas,” Skarsgard – who had a breakout season as his not-always-bad boy vampire Eric emerged as a contender for Sookie Stackhouse’s heart and soul – told TVGuideMagazine.com. “Sam’s got his stuff to deal with, his background and who he is, trying to figure that out. There might be some more tension between the vampire kingdoms and queendoms and they might introduce other creatures than just vampires.”

“There’s a lot of new characters that will be introduced,” confirms Wesley. “We’ve got some werewolves that are coming in. Everyone is back now, so it’ll be interesting to see how Tara deals with everything that happens with the last season. She’s got a lot grieving she has to do, but I have a feeling that someone’s going to come in and sweep her off of her feet. Then we’ve got Sookie there to help her out as well. They’re making a lot of people the focus. That’s the one thing that I love about being on the show – that it’s truly an ensemble. All of us have really good and meaty stuff to work on.”

Skarsgard said that Eric’s ancient history is going to be further explored during the season as well. “In Season 2 there was a flashback. We see when Eric was a Viking, and there will be another flashback. We’ll see Eric and someone else as a tag team – I don’t want to reveal from what era, but it’s a couple of really fun scenes.”

“It’s amazing because he’s been around for a thousand years and lived all over the world, so you can put him in any situation in any country,” said Skarsgard. “I want more of the stuff from his earlier days when he was in Scandinavia, during the Viking days. I’d love that because you don’t see much of that in movies or on television from that era – and obviously because I’m from Sweden I’m quite fascinated by it. It’s my heritage, that culture with the Vikings, and so hopefully we’ll get to see a little more of that.”

There are also some guest stars waiting in the wings: Wesley said she’s heard that actor Don Swayze, brother of the late Patrick Swayze, will appear on the show, and Skarsgard says there’s a well-known name who just might be making a visit to Bon Temps. “There’s one that I’m hoping we can get towards the end of Season 3,” he revealed. “It’s not official yet and something I’m pretty excited about – someone that I’d very, very much enjoy working with.

Source: TVGuide Magazine | SpoilerTV

Alexander at 2nd Golden Globes party

Posted by Luciana on 9 December 2009 | Filed under Appearances | 3 Comments

Alex attended last night the 2nd Annual Golden Globes Party Saluting Young Hollywood. I added a few pictures and more will come.

Public Appearances > 2009 > 2nd Annual Golden Globes Party Saluting Young Hollywood – Dec 08

Alexander on Blackbook Magazine

Posted by Luciana on 9 December 2009 | Filed under Press | Leave a Comment

Magazine Scans > Blackbook – December09/January10

Alexander is currently featured on Blackbook Magazine. He’s being called as “the new carnivore”, in a issue talking about ‘new stars”. Thanks to Kelly for the heads up, you can find the picture and article in the gallery.

Interview – Alexander Skarsgård at Paris premiere of Season 2

Posted by Luciana on 7 December 2009 | Filed under Press, True Blood | 1 Comment

As we have already reported, several of the cast recently went to Paris for the premiere of True Blood Season 2. Here’s the interview (translated from French to English) with Alexander Skarsgård.

Tony Cotte: You appear in the first season of True Blood, but your character becomes much more important in Season 2. Did you expect this trend by starting of the filming of the series?

Alexander Skarsgård: Before starting the first episodes of True Blood, I read the first five volumes of the Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries (from which books are based). Eric isn’t there until the second book, except for a brief mention in the first. So, I knew that I did not have much work to be done before taking more importance during the second season.

Tony Cotte: Has the evolution of your character had an impact on how people see you?

Alexander Skarsgård: Actually, things have changed dramatically between the first and second season. At first, nobody knew me; I was wearing a long wig. For the latest episodes, this is my real hair. Suddenly, people came to me saying that Eric was the devil. I always defended my character because it is much more than that. Having read the books, I know he has more depth than being simply Bill’s evil boss. Eric has a sensitive side; he can be very loyal, be a good friend and have compassion.

TV’s 100 Sexiest Men of 2009

Posted by Luciana on 3 December 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous | Leave a Comment

The site Buddy TV has chosen the 100 sexiest men of 2009 on TV. Guess who is listed at #2?