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The August issue of Fangoria magazine contains a 4-page article on the new season of True Blood. Yes, there are some spoilers here.

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Article on Charleston Daily Mail by Michelle Saxton

On HBO’s True Blood, former Charleston resident Sam Trammell plays Sam Merlotte, a shape-shifting bar owner who often turns into a collie dog. And Trammell is fairly certain who has the upper hand in the romance department.

“Of course the heroine should choose the shape-shifter, for sure,” Trammell said in a recent telephone interview.

“I’m not dead,” Trammell added with a laugh, “which is an advantage, you know. I’m not cold to the touch. So I’d have to say I think I’m a better match for Sookie.”

Sookie, of course, is waitress Sookie Stackhouse, the central character in Charlaine Harris’ novels set in Bon Temps, La. Sookie, played by Golden Globe-winner Anna Paquin, is dating vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) and also is loved by Sam.

Trammell, who grew up in Charleston, is in Los Angeles while the show shoots its last couple episodes for the second season, which now airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO.

“This season is really crazy and really fun,” Trammell said. “Everything is just amped up and kind of scarier, sexier. The dial is just turned way up this year.”

True Blood’s main characters are somewhat split up this season, with various interweaving storylines. Sookie and Bill have some vampire business in Dallas and Sookie’s brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten) is becoming involved with the anti-vampire church, the Fellowship of the Sun.

More will be revealed about Trammell’s character and his relationship with the mysterious Maryann (Michelle Forbes).

“Her whole character is really intense and very dangerous, and my character is very much wrapped up with hers this year,” Trammell said. “He kind of understands Maryann in a way that other people don’t in town.

“He’s really a magnet for punishment and abuse this year, Sam – the writers were very sadistic,” he joked.

But Sam also will show more of a vulnerable side and open up to people more, Trammell said.

“They really just wrote great stuff for all the characters,” Trammell said.

While True Blood follows Harris’ books, the show’s creator and producer, Alan Ball, takes some liberties with the storyline, Trammell said. Ball, who created HBO’s Six Feet Under and wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for American Beauty, was a big reason Trammell wanted to do the show.

“I really do like good horror and good fantasy,” Trammell said. “A lot of times it can be cheesy if it’s not done well, and I think I’m really lucky to have ended up in Alan Ball’s hands because our show is very much a character-driven drama.

“Really the show is about relationships and people in this town,” Trammell said. “It’s not writing built around the fantastical, it’s writing built around characters.”

Another draw was that True Blood takes place in the South.

Trammell is originally from Louisiana and grew up in West Virginia.

“I sort of have that southern blood in me,” Trammell said. “I love playing country people, and it’s great to be in a world that I kind of grew up in. So I was excited about it.”

Trammell went to Overbrook Elementary, John Adams Junior High and George Washington High schools. His parents still live in Charleston; his father, Willis, is a surgeon and his mother, Betsy, is an artist.

“Charleston’s where I grew up and I think it’s a great place,” Trammell said. “It’s such a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful town, which you really realize once you get out and see the rest of the country.

“It’s just so green, and you have the river – I loved growing up there.”

Some of Trammell’s favorite memories include making ski jumps in South Hills with his brother during the winter and catching a view of Charleston from his favorite rock on a neighborhood cliff.

“We’d sneak up there during high school and sit up there and just look at the city,” Trammell recalled.

Trammell makes it back home about once a year, sometimes longer. His brother, Paul, and sister, Elizabeth, live in different states and so family get-togethers are sometimes outside of West Virginia.

“I don’t get back as much as I’d like to,” Trammell said.

But he still keeps in touch with several high school friends – Andy Cooke, Spencer Elliot and Rod Smith, all attorneys in Charleston.

Cooke remembers spending weekends with Trammell and other friends at a farm in Putnam County, riding horses and helping a friend’s grandfather put up hay.

“Sam was just a very earnest and nice and good friend,” Cooke said.

Cooke said he enjoys catching Trammell in movies and on TV.

“It’s an interesting series,” Cooke said of True Blood. “I never ever would have predicted that he would be a changeling. It’s ironic because he knows who he is. He’s a very sincere person.”

Cooke said he was not surprised Trammell went into acting, but it was not something he talked much about growing up.

But before he was an actor himself Trammell got to know actor Nick Nolte, who had a home in Charleston in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

“It looked like he had a pretty fun life,” Trammell said.

Trammell also knew Jennifer Garner back when they both went to George Washington. The two later paired up in Harvest of Fire, a 1996 Hallmark Hall of Fame movie.

“We ended up getting married; I forget about that,” Trammell said of their movie characters. “We were married in an Amish ceremony.”

Trammell did theater work as well, earning a Tony nomination for Ah, Wilderness!, a 1998 play by Eugene O’Neill in New York. He won an Outer Critics Circle award for the play.

“That was just an amazing part to do,” Trammell said.

Trammell also did a Showtime series called Going to California.

“That was sort of under the radar, but that was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had,” Trammell said. “That was just a really fun job where we got to travel across the country.”

Nowadays – or nights – Trammell spends much of his time filming in and around Los Angeles and at some locations in Louisiana and a canyon in Malibu.

“Believe it or not during the winter in that canyon it gets down into the 30s.

And a lot of time we’ll have our shirts off or we’ll be in short-sleeve shirts or we’ll be, uh, naked,” Trammell said. “It’s so cold and you’re trying to pretend like it’s the summer in Louisiana.”

Trammell describes the supernatural series’ set as fun and relaxed and considers several of his cast members good friends, including Chris Bauer, who plays Detective Andy Bellefleur, and Carrie Preston, who plays the red-headed waitress Arlene.

And although their onscreen relationship is a bit prickly, Trammell is close with Forbes, whom he calls Mishka.

“I really love her even though we’re head to head and she tortures me in the show,” Trammell said. “She’s really, really a fun person to work with.”

When not working, Trammell spends time with his serious girlfriend, actress Missy Yager, who recently portrayed Sarah Beth Carson on the TV series “Mad Men.” He met Yager in New York when she also was doing theater work.

“She’s a really talented actress,” Trammell said.

He also enjoys one of California’s well-known pastimes – surfing.

“That’s sort of my sport, that’s the thing I love to do most,” Trammell said. “I go surfing up and down the coast, all the way as far north as Ventura, all the way as far south as San Clemente.

“It’s a lot of fun and exciting.”

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Anna Paquin will be chatting live on the LA Times website on Tuesday June 30, 2009 at 4 p.m. PDT / 8 p.m. EDT.

Here’s your big chance to ask her your most interesting and exciting questions.

This is the link to the event.

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ITN Extreme made their top 5 of the Sexiest vampires ever. No surprise that our very own Stephen Moyer tops that list on the #1 position.

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Article on Out.com by Parker Anderson

This article doesn’t contain spoilers.

Bleeding into a highly anticipated second season, True Blood, Alan Ball’s dark and drawling Southern vamp drama returns, riddled with thinly veiled metaphors for LGBT rights. On and off-screen the show’s lead vampire lover, Sookie Stackhouse, played by X-Men’s Anna Paquin, aches for the bite of her vampire lover, solves mysteries telepathically…and waits tables.

The Canadian-born, New Zealand raised Oscar winner (she won Best Supporting Actress at the ripe age of 11 for The Piano), recently chatted with Out about the new season, her uncanny ability to play metaphorically gay roles, her off-screen romance with co-star Stephen Moyer, and sweet Sookie’s newfound love of S&M.

Out: How did you get involved with True Blood?
Anna Paquin: Well, I read the pilot script and completely fell in love with it and then pursued it incredibly hard, auditioned 100 times — I mean four or five times — until they said yes.

Sookie initially comes across as a innocent and incredibly virtuous girl. What drew you to the role: was it that sweet nature or was it her darker moments?
Well, it’s the fact that she’s all of it [rolled into] one, because I feel like that’s real. You can be someone who’s gone through a lot of crap in your life and who has survived a lot of ups and downs and whatevers and still be someone with a positive outlook. You can be sweet and kind and treat people the way you want to be treated even if that’s not the way you’ve been treated. She’s not a victim. I love that about her, and she’s really tough — mostly she just kicks ass.

Both of your recent roles in X-Men and True Blood, have centered around storylines involving metaphors for minority rights. Is that a coincidence?
It is a coincidence, but kind of a nice coincidence. Cause when is it not a good time for those sorts of messages to be put out there into the world in a sort of non-threatening, non-beat-you-over-the-head with it kind of way?

In the last episode of the first season there is a scene featuring a state legalizing vampire-human marriages. Have you noticed Alan Ball pushing the current LGBT struggle through the show?
I mean pushed sort of sounds like it’s being forced. I think those ideas were in the books already. The metaphor that is used is coming out of the coffin; I don’t think it takes a genius to turn that into a pretty good metaphor for gay rights. Obviously the big issue now is legalizing marriages, that’s been in the works for a very long time. Yeah, I think it was a very good way to put it in there.

I think a major indicator of that is the character Lafayette who, obviously, is pretty interesting as an LGBT character.
Of course, does anyone not find him interesting?

That’s true, I think it’s also fascinating because there’s that overlying metaphor for vampire rights, and then there’s Lafayette who’s the literal interpretation of all that. What exactly would Sookie’s opinion of Lafayette be?
Sookie’s a little more prim when we first meet her so she’s more easily shocked but he’s family, you know, as Tara’s cousin and someone she’s brought up with — he’s an important part of her life. I don’t think it would occur to her to be in any way judgy — it’s just not in her nature. She really doesn’t judge. And, frankly, he’s the first person she goes to when she has crazy, kinky, vampire-biting sex. He’s the person she goes to and is like, “blah, blah, blah, blah, blah — I did this.” Finally she cannot be the big old prude in his eyes, which I find very sweet.

Speaking of kinky sex, the first episode definitely heated up for Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Sookie. There’s been talk about the second season’s focus on their S & M. Does it feel like a major shift?
Well, part of vampire-human sex is biting, I mean that’s part of how they express their desire and it’s just part of the relationship. And, it’s exciting and dangerous and sort of scary at first for Sookie, but you know it’s part of how they make love. It becomes her normal. And, she likes it.

It doesn’t seem like she’s in any sort of pain at all.
Yes. Well — not any bad pain.

You and Stephen are in a relationship off-camera as well. The passion you have on the show is palpable — did it transition from on-screen to off-screen or vise-versa?
We met at his screen test when they were doing, essentially, a chemistry read to make sure the Sookie they had cast was going to click with the Bill they wanted to cast, and shockingly enough we ended up liking each other. But, it kind of all happened at the same time — it’s kind of hard to say which came first because when you click with someone and you have that sort of – vibe — that’s just how we’ve always been around each other. Nothing’s really changed except we live together now.

Was your first kiss then on-screen or off-screen?
Ha. I’m not telling you that.

Oh come on, it’s nothing lewd.
Yeah – No – I — why would I want to ruin the whole mystery and allure of “did they or didn’t they?” But also it’s the fact that if you work an eighteen-hour day job six-months out of the year where else are you going to meet people?

Whether it’s the power to touch someone and almost kill them or read their minds and invade their privacy, in your largest roles you’ve been an outcast. Is this outsider theme something you are personally invested in or drawn to for a particular reason?
I don’t know — it’s kind of hard to say. My life has been very blessed and I’m very lucky, and things have been, by most standards, incredibly easy for me as far as what I’ve been allowed to do with my life. I guess maybe it’s not as interesting to tell stories about people who have perfect lives and for whom things have always been easy. The stories that I think are interesting and that are important to tell are the people who have to struggle to get to where they want to be, and to be allowed to live their own lives the way they want to live them.

Have you noticed a larger gay following because of this?
Well, apparently there were a lot of boys in New York dressed as Sookie for Halloween last year. And, I’ve got to say that’s the highest compliment there is, you know, whether or not I like that some of them had better legs than me and were prettier. I will get over that.

Well, you know, we can’t resist those short shorts.
I mean come on. I think when you have boys dressing as you for Halloween that’s pretty cool.

It’s a good diva moment. Other than the obvious choice, who do you think is your sexiest cast member?
That’s a completely unfair question. We have some pretty sexy ladies on our show; let’s not leave out the girls and their amazing and gorgeous ways. I mean Tina and Terry and Mishka and all the unfortunately dead girls from last season, those were some pretty hot ladies. That’s other than the obvious guys who never keep their shirts on. Our show does not want for eye candy, no matter what you’re into.

Are you saying that you are into your brother a little bit then?
No, I’m just saying that objectively he has a very nice physical situation going on. I mean he never wears a shirt on our show so we’ve all seen it a lot.

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Written by Shadaliza for The Vault

Marcia Derousse is the actress who portrays Dr. Ludwig in the episode “Scratches”. I had the pleasure to get to know this extraordinary lady who, besides acting, has another very special talent.

Who is Marcia Derousse?

Although I live in the Los Angeles area now, I am from southern Missouri, the foothills of the Ozarks. Beautiful area, but not much opportunity for acting. I did study acting in college, and did a good bit of theatre performance there. My degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia, is a BS in Ed, for Speech/Drama/English. I did teach both junior high and high school. Since I am only 4′4″ tall, my students were usually taller than me! But we had mutual respect, so that was never a problem.
I also have been a stand up comedienne in the midwest, including Chicago, and then out here in LA. Theatre is my passion, like several other of the actors in True Blood., including Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgård, who I had the pleasure of working with. Alan Ball worked a lot in theatre, so I think he appreciates the discipline we theatre folk have. I have done TV and film, including guest star work on The Fall Guy, St Elsewhere, Divorce Court and I did work on Small Wonder, Gimme a Break, Highway to Heaven, Faerie Tale Theatre, and I did monster voices on Little Monsters. I stopped to take care of my beloved mother until she passed away in 2000. Then I started full tilt in theatre again, doing a lot of Shakespeare and other classical theatre. Then in 2002, I was cast in the film Tiptoes, playing Mom to Matthew McCouaughey and Gary Oldman (Gary played a little person!). Now, I am thrilled to be bringing Dr. Ludwig to life.

When and how did you decide to pursue a career in acting?

Since I was always “different”, I used that to my advantage and made my friends and family my captive audiences, even as a kid. I started my stand up comedy in junior high school, much to my teachers dismay! But I became really serious about acting as a profession when I moved to LA. I moved here in September, and got my first film job in December that same year. Not bad, huh?

You are a little person, how are the opportunities for you as an actress?

In theatre, I have never played a role that called for a little person. I was always just a person. So in many ways, this could be one of the reasons I love the stage so much. TV and film work is much more narrow- if the role doesn’t call for a little woman, chances are, I won’t be called in- at least not very often. I would love to see that change. See people realize myself and all little people, in fact any people with differences or disabilities, are people first, and “unique” second. So the opportunities in TV and film are sadly, few and far between. It seems to come in phases.

How did you get involved in True Blood? What can you tell us about the audition?

I have absolutely wonderful agents. They do submit me for anything calling for a little woman, as well as other roles. My friend had seen the breakdown for True Blood and called me to give me a heads up. I called my agents and they had submitted me that morning- a Thursday. The next day, I was at the studio for the audition. There was myself and one other little woman, who is a dear friend. So to me, which ever one of us got the role would be a winning situation. But I have to admit, I am thrilled it was me! Alan Ball, Rayelle Tucker, Scott Winant, and the other folks present were very receptive to my reading and interpretation. They were a fun “audience”!

Did you watch True Blood prior to the audition?

Last fall I was co star in a play called The Sugar Bean Sisters (for which I was named runner up for best actress in theatre in LA for 2008), and my sister co star, Pattie Tierce, has already been on the show. So I watched her episode, and was a fan from that moment on…still am!

You play the role of Dr. Ludwig. Who is Dr. Ludwig?

I have also read the books by Charlaine Harris, and I found Dr Ludwig to be an almost intimidating character, in spite of her small size. She is a no nonsense, pragmatic doctor/healer, who is willing to work with the vampires and other worldly characters. I know she returns quite a bit later in the books, but honestly, as much as these beings are getting hurt, she could be in a lot more! Her size has nothing to do with her authoritative manner, and she is not scared of anyone or anything! I hope the fans love her as much as I do.

You read the books by Charlaine Harris. Is show Dr. Ludwig different from book Dr. Ludwig?

In the books, Dr. Ludwig is described as olive skinned, dark haired and has a very big nose. When I read the books, I thought, “What a great character!” But I knew if they followed the books, I would not be considered. Thank you Alan Ball for going against type! Personality wise, the TV version is pretty close to the book version. She’s matter of fact, curt, all business- and someone who is not afraid to work with vampires. She was really fun to interpret. Raelle Tucker’s great script really captured a unique essence for Dr. Ludwig.

How do you feel about the differences between the books and the show? Do you prefer one or the other?

I feel like the show incorporates the really salient points in the books, but it also surprises us with different twists and turns that are not in the books. That’s fun to see how or what will be the same and what will be created. And I love both. I like the surprises the TV show comes up with. And being an avid reader all my life, I love the books.

What can you tell us about your time on the set. You made a guest appearance and worked with actors who have been working as a team for some time now. How did you fit in?

Anna Paquin came up to me after the first full reading and introduced herself, saying we’d be working together. She made me feel comfortable at once. On the set, I was in the make up chair next to Stephen (eat your hearts out, ladies) and he was so warm and easy going it was like we were old friends. When I met Alex on the set, he was also extremely welcoming and nice. Again, the theatre training tends to make people more accepting and friendly. They were absolutely wonderful, and I felt like I had gone home while working with them.

Team Bill or Team Eric?

Dr. Ludwig hates both of them, but perhaps feels a bit more disdainful towards Eric because she’s had prior dealings with him. So, if she were to pick a team, it would probably be Team Bill. But if he’s smart, he won’t bet his life on her…unless he pays her VERY well.
As for Marcia, I was equally charmed by both of them- “glamoured”, in fact!

Do you have any films or upcoming theatre appearances in the pipeline ?

I am working on two independent films this summer, each very different from the other, and both fun. “Piehead” is the name of the first one. I play the grandma of the lead character. I ADORE playing the little old ladies- they are fun! The lead, also the writer and producer, is making a film about her move from Pennsylvania to Hollywood.
The second, still untitled, is being produced by one of Joey Travolta’s groups. It is about a comedy duo who break up, and only one of them goes on to become a star. Geri Jewell (Deadwood, Facts of Life, 21 Jump Street and more) and I play the comedy duo. Two stand ups playing stand ups- what a concept! But the film has a lot of really interesting twists and arcs.

Besides acting you also work as a psychic/medium/pet communicator. What is your talent exactly and how do you use it?

As I say when I do public speaking, I see dead people and I talk to the animals- sort of like a mini Sixth Sense and Dr Doolittle all rolled into one! I help people realize their loved ones who have crossed over are not dead- just in a different place. I really see them- people and pets- who have crossed over- in their spirit form, and they communicate messages to me to give to the people I am reading for, usually messages of love, and assurances they are still alive. I also give psychic advice to people via my Spirit guides, who are extremely wise and wonderful. I can also “sense” what past lives people have lived, which can be helpful to people in their lives now.

How can people contact you for a consult? The best way to contact me for a consult is via my email for that purpose: smallmedium@sbcglobal.net.

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The Billsbabe’s Shoppe added t-shirts with the text I want Bill to be my maker and I want Eric to be my maker. They come in white and in black.

The Billsbabe’s Shoppe is a non-profit – at cost fansite store. With every item purchased a small charitable donation will be made to the Brentwood Theatre in Essex, UK, of which Stephen Moyer is patron.

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Article on Nola.com by Dave Walker

It is not such a long way from New Orleans to Bon Temps, La.

The Crescent City and the fictional setting of HBO’s “True Blood” cast similar shadows.

They’re both places where you can comfortably change your shape, howl at the moon and acquire unexplained bite marks. The trip from suburban Maryland Avenue in Metairie to Bon Temps is a different kind of journey.

Sam Trammell, who plays the Sookie-struck roadhouse owner Sam Merlotte on the saucy vampire drama (Sunday, 8 p.m.), traversed that route via West Virginia, Brown University, the New York stage, prime-time TV and feature films. Born at Ochsner Medical Center in 1971 while his father was in medical school at Tulane University (both his mother and father earlier attended LSU), Trammell bounced around with his family early on but they landed long enough on Maryland Avenue for him to compile glowing childhood memories.

“I remember it being pretty big,” he said during a recent telephone interview. “I went back a few years ago and it’s just so tiny. I remember playing kick-the-can right before dusk. It was such a great neighborhood to grow up in. I also remember going to Mardi Gras parades and just yelling at the people, ‘Give me something, mister!’ That was what I was taught to yell. I think that’s what all the kids yelled back then. I remember the doubloons and the beads. It was really fun, really exciting.”

Trammell’s family moved to West Virginia when he was midway through elementary school, but he’s still got tons of Louisiana kin, a fact he was reminded of during location shooting for the first season of “True Blood.”

“We shot in and around Shreveport, and one day we were going to shoot this scene and we were driving and driving into the country and all of a sudden we turned this corner and go over this railroad crossing and I realized we were in Doyline.

“Doyline is a tiny town where my father’s side of the family all grew up. I have 13 relatives buried in the cemetery.” The scene itself was shot near Lake Bistineau, on land that Trammell’s great-grandfather once owned.

“I was tripping out,” Trammell said. “I am born in Louisiana. All of my family are from there. I moved to West Virginia, New York, went to school in Rhode Island, California, and here I am shooting a scene for an HBO series on this land I used to go to as a kid. It was so circular.

“Nobody could believe it. I told everyone on the set and everybody was freaking out. We were so out in the middle of nowhere.”

Just as well. Trammell was running through the countryside naked in the scene, which appeared in an episode about halfway through the first season. This is a series that does not squander liberal premium-cable standards for adult situations.

It’s a weird claim given Trammell’s character’s ability to change into a dog, but Sam Merlotte is one of the most grounded of all the Bon Temps tribe.

“I’m kind of the clear eye in the maelstrom,” he said. “The things that he knows that nobody else knows are so massive, it’s just hard playing high stakes like that.

“You have this rich material to work with, and the (fantasy) element sort of demands that you play very high stakes — stakes you probably haven’t experienced in your own life. It can get very heavy. It’s a challenge to do that justice.”

So far, it’s working. The second-season “True Blood” premiere drew HBO its largest audience since “The Sopranos” finale.

The network has done its part, with a clever marketing campaign that grew from viral to almost inescapable: Four full-page ads in The Los Angeles Times — one wrapping around the entire front page — trumpeted the second-season premiere.

But creator and executive producer Alan Ball (“Six Feet Under,” “American Beauty”), working with characters from Charlaine Harris’ series of Southern vampire novels, has created a hot-blooded hit that lives up to the best opening-credits sequence on TV.

“We’re all stunned,” Trammell said. “When I first got this project, it was Alan Ball and HBO — I wanted to do it and I hadn’t even read it.” Shooting on the first season was completed before the series premiered.

“We were shooting on the smallest lot in Los Angeles,” Trammell said. “It felt like we were doing this tiny little backyard production. We didn’t have any feedback.

“We sort of knew HBO was happy and that was good, but we had no idea if people were going to like it.

“You never know, even if you think you’re doing something good. You don’t know if people are going to watch it and you don’t know if it works until it comes out.”

Trammell’s middle name, Foote, reveals that he’s a distant relative to historian Shelby Foote, star of Ken Burns’ PBS documentary “The Civil War.” Trammell said he borrows some of Merlotte’s accent from Foote, who died in 2005.

“I feel like the South is in my body and in my brain and in my DNA,” Trammell said. “I just love that feeling of being a Southerner. It’s just great that I’m from there and get to do this role.”

Pre-”True Blood,” Trammell’s career included starring roles in films (“Beat,” “Followers”), lead and guest roles on TV (“Maximum Bob,” “Going to California,” “House,” “Dexter, “Cold Case”) and a Tony Award nomination (for a late-1990s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Ah, Wilderness!”).

The road to Bon Temps has taken him back to his roots and to the big time simultaneously.

“Nobody’s been too weird or crazy,” Trammell said of fans. “One thing that’s strange is that people will come up and ask me if I’m Sam Trammell. They’ll know not just that I’m a character on a show — that has happened before — but they know my actual name, which is pretty wild.

“I was in a Starbucks and one of the baristas sort of was looking at me and came up really timidly and asked if I was Sam Trammell. ‘Yeah, it’s just me. I live right down the street. I’m nothing special, but I’m really flattered that you’re so impressed.’

“Sometimes I’ll be somewhere and somebody will come up and say something and I’ll realize they were looking at me for the past 10 minutes I was in that room, and I’ll go, ‘God, I hope I didn’t do anything embarrassing.’ You start worrying about what kind of habits you have when you know that people are looking at you.

“It’s all exciting. At this point, I’m not even going to pretend that it’s a hassle. It’s awesome. It’s great to be in something that people like.”

TV columnist Dave Walker can be reached at dwalker@timespicayune.com or 504.826.3429

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