Joe Manganiello, who plays werewolf Alcide on True Blood is getting lots of attention these days, but with this attention comes some crazy stuff. One woman has already asked him to lick her, and a FedEx driver jumped out of his truck to snap a picture of him.

But, the weirdest is where some are happening:

The funniest thing is all of the guys that come up to me and tell me that I’m on their wives’ favorite show,” Manganiello told EOnline last night at TAG Heuer’s Odyssey of Pioneers event in Malibu.

They chase me into the bathroom to tell me that,” he continued. “I’ve only been on two episodes and they know exactly what I look like.

As if Manganiello’s face and body are hard to forget.

During the season I work out twice a day, six days a week,” he said of keeping his 6’5″-self in tip-top werewolf condition. “And it’s protein from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed. It’s just protein and vegetables every day. But I get one cheat meal a week.”

His favorites? L.A.’s legendary Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles and one of the city’s more recent dining hotspots, Umami Burger.

source: EOnline

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Alfre Woodard, who plays Lafayette’s mother on True Blood, support the campaign ‘Be The One.’ The celebrity-backed initiative is soliciting everyone to sign their petition which states, “I demand that a plan to restore America’s Gulf be fully funded and implemented for me and future generations.” You can sign the petition to the Be The One website.

This video was shot in the New Orleans area and in various other locations around the country. It features (in order of appearance) Sandra Bullock, Blake Lively, Wendell Pierce, Lenny Kravitz, Jack Del Rio, Alfre Woodard, Dr. John, Harry Shearer, Clay Hensley, Dave Matthews, Bryan Batt, Justin Shiels, John Goodman, Emeril Lagasse, Roberto Méndez, Eric Harvey, Payton Manning, Leah Chase, James Carville, Drew Brees, Eli Manning, Lisa Mackel Smith, Shirley Lee, Anne Milling and Mary Matalin.

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Dawn Olivieri, who plays Alcide’s sister, Janice Herveaux on True Blood, has posted some great photos on her Facebook fan page.  The photos were done by by Caesar Lima, make up by Angelique Cerniglia and Styling by Miram Choi.  Here’s two of the photographs:

Click here to go to Facebook and see the other photos.

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Zeljko Ivanek certainly inspires fear as “the magister” on True Blood. Whenever he shows up, you know someone is going to be in trouble. This season it looks like Queen Sophie Ann and Eric are of interest to him. In a recent episode he took Eric’s projeny, Pam hostage and she is suffering as his victim until Eric solves the V selling issue that he has blamed on Bill.

Ivanek seems to be enjoying the role as he explains below.

It’s fun to play power,” Ivanek said at the Television Critics Association tour.

It’s just fun to walk into a situation where everyone has to kind of turn to you. And how that plays out in the end, it’s actually really cool.

So when are fans of True Blood going to find out how the magister’s current story-line is going to “play out in the end”, as Ivanek put it?

I think you’ll find out very, very soon, is all I can say about that,” Ivanek said. “I think (in the episodes that air) this week or next week, all that will be clarified.

Ivanek also will be starring the fall in the new series The Event on NBC and Citytv.

source: Toronto Sun

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True Blood’s Nelsan Ellis hit the red carpet at the EW/Syfy Party held on the last night of the 2010 San Diego Comic Con and before heading in to have fun, Ellis chatted about life on the ‘True Blood’ set and playing Lafayette.

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Source: About.com

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Video: Rutina Wesley – all tied up!

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Rutina Wesley, who when we caught up with her at the Entertainment Weekly/SyFy Comic-Con party last week, gave a lighthearted perspective on her character’s many trials and tribulations this season, and her thoughts on talented (although super creepy in the show) actor James Frain.

“He’s one of the most amazing actors I’ve worked with – ever. We had a lot of fun together,” Rutina revealed. “We have a lot of hard times sometimes keeping a straight face in those scenes, but it’s been lovely. It’s funny me being tied up most of the season but I enjoy doing challenging things so it’s really great.”

And how did Alan Ball and Co. break the news to her that she’d be tied up for half the season?

They actually came to me and they were like, ‘We love you, just don’t think we don’t but you’re going to be tied up… you’re going to be tied to a bed… you’re going to be duct taped to a toilet,’” she explained. “I was like, ‘OK fine! As long as you love me, everything’s all good.’ ”

Regarding her character’s seemingly constant tortured state, Rutina said she’s hopeful Tara will exercise some of those demons (for good) in the future.

I hope she can find some power and some stability somewhere along the way,” she said. “I think we might see that. I don’t know if it will be this season though.

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Video: Denis O’Hare in Brooklyn AP-Red

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AP-RED’s Jason Drew sits down for a quiet summer afternoon chat in the park with brilliant actor Denis O’Hare, one of the leading actors in HBO’s True Blood.

Having been in everything from The Proposal with Sandra Bullock, CSI Miami, Law & Order, Brothers and Sisters, The Good Wife to theater performances such as Pig Farm, Sweet Charity, Inherit The Wind, Roundabout’s revival of Cabaret, and way more, Denis is regarded as one of the world’s most prolific actors.

Here, Denis talks about various roles, details about his character Russell, with some really cool behind-the-scenes stories about his work on True Blood.

source: AP-Red

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At last week’s Comic-Con, Kristin Bauer talked with Zap2It about her role of Pam and what we can expect later in the season. She also tells us that being made a regular on the show is like being invited to the best party ever.

source: Zap2It

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More behind the scenes of True Blood

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We love learning about how True Blood is made and have reported about it before.  We have provided interviews with those involved in the making of the series such as Production Design by Suzuki Ingerslev, and Director Michael Lehmann. The article below by Steve Pond of DGA Quarterly further delves into the intricacies of the vampire series development and creation.

Beginning with Alan Ball’s vision there is now an ever increasing team working on the production to insure that it will continue to be quality television and remain the hit that it is today.

On a movie lot tucked away in a nondescript area of West Hollywood, the director of True Blood huddles with actor Alexander Skarsgård on the soundstage where a vampire bar called Fangtasia sits. At the same time, on an adjoining stage, the director of True Blood walks through a basement set with his production designer and AD, trying to decide if a set of shackles should hang from an overhead pipe or be secured to pillars. No, True Blood hasn’t found the secret to putting a director in two places at once. Instead, this is simply business as usual on the lot that’s home to the HBO series about vampires, shape-shifters and other assorted denizens of the night who make their homes in a fictional little Louisiana town called Bon Temps.

“Every year, the show gets progressively more complicated,” says the show’s executive producer, Alan Ball, who directed the first season’s pilot and finale episodes, but now delegates those duties to a relatively small group of directors. “You’re doing what is essentially a 60-minute movie with a lot of special effects, action sequences and storyboarding. The only way to do it in our schedule is to overlap, to schedule three different episodes at one time to best utilize locations and actors.”

Lesli Linka Glatter (center) with Brit Morgan (left) and Anna Paquin directed her first episode this season. Photo: John P. Johnson/HBO

For much of its November to July production schedule, True Blood, which began its third season in June, works on a couple of episodes simultaneously: one director will shoot with his team while a different director works on another stage. The show employs two first ADs and two DPs who alternate episodes. “You keep the same DP and AD on your episode, but this crew is so good the rest of the people are pretty interchangeable,” says Michael Lehmann, whose eight episodes make him the most frequent True Blood director. “We share props and wardrobe, and with the script supervisors we try to make sure the actors are comfortable.”

Today, Scott Winant, a veteran of seven episodes, is directing a barroom scene for the season’s ninth episode, in which Skarsgård’s vampire character, Eric, is interrogated by a severe, black-clad female vampire. Meanwhile, Lehmann is taking a tour of his sets before he starts shooting episode 10 tomorrow. “We’re overlapping a lot,” says Winant. “This last episode, I think I’ve only done three days that haven’t been doubled up with another episode. Frankly, we’ve become dependent on the ADs’ ability to schedule, and to make sure we’re in the right place at the right time.”

The director is talking as he takes his lunch break; while he and his crew are eating, the actors walk across the lot for the table read for Lehmann’s episode. In addition to Lehmann and Winant, John Dahl and Daniel Minahan have also handled multiple episodes. This season, Lesli Linka Glatter and David Petrarca were hired to direct their first episodes; Ball says he expects to invite both back next season. So what does it take to be a good fit for the show? “I think you have to appreciate the sensibility,” says Ball. “It’s less about shots and more about characters. You have to be okay being efficient in a very laid-back atmosphere— people who need pressure and chaos don’t really work here.”

To read the rest of this article, please go to dgaquarterly.org

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True Blood’s Nelsan Ellis talks with AccessHollywood.com’s Laura Saltman about how much more attention the show is getting this year from fans at Comic-Con. Plus, what does he think about “True Blood’s” chances at the Emmys?

Soucce: Access Hollywood

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