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Frenzy was the episode in which queen Sophie-Anne made her first appearance and she owned it.
When it was first announced that Evan Rachel Wood would portray the queen, many fans were disappointed and thought she that was a miscast. But the casting of Evan Rachel Wood is just another example of how the show differences from the books and I think she makes a wonderful queen, decadent, bored and beautiful. Kudos to set design for the beautiful day room.

“Never underestimate the power of blind faith.” That sentence reminded me immediately of “American Beauty” where Ricky says: “Never underestimate the power of denial.” Both great quotes and both so very true.

It is quite obvious that Sophie-Anne and Bill have met before and the queen knows who Sookie is… The book readers will have a theory about that….I will not get into that here, but I am sure it will be discussed in the comments on this article and I will allow those spoilers to be posted in the comments (just this once), so be spoiler warned if you haven’t read the books.

Sophie-Anne about Bill and Eric: “You two should just fuck each other and get it over with, I could watch.”
Save me a seat…
But that is not going to happen any time soon because the boys continue their fight over Sookie. Finally Bill has a weapon against Eric: he knows that Eric is forcing Lafayette to sell V.

Interesting is that Sookie feels attracted towards Eric because she drank his blood. She drank Bill’s blood too and that increased the initial attraction she felt towards him.

Hoyt realizes that having a vampire for a girlfriend maybe wasn’t such a good idea after all, specially when she is having you momma for dinner. Jessica is struggling, alone again, in the no-mans land between vampire and human.
Maxine tells the truth about his daddy to Hoyt and destroys Hoyt’s memory of his father.

Tara started out saying some very reasonable things about why she wanted to go and rescue Eggs, she loves him  and is convinced that he loves her too. But as soon as she is handcuffed to the table (with purple furry handcuffs) it seems she is possessed again, saying some very nasty things to the people who just saved her. She succeeds in tricking Lettie Mae to let her go.

One of the biggest issues discussed on the message boards these past few weeks has been cleared up in last night’s episode. Many wondered why Lafayette doesn’t have any sex dreams about Eric, well…. he does.
Poor Lafayette is having PTSD delusions and mistakes Lettie Mae for vampire Eric with a dress on.

Jason feels invincible after his week of leadership training. He is ready to take his town back, but still has time for a dirty thought or two. He wonders if Sam has ever shifted into a dog and then had sex with a lady dog.
At the sheriff’s station Jason and Andy have to deal with Rosy who acts like a cat in heat and sheriff Dearnborn who is dancing around in his underwear.

Sam takes Arlene’s children with him to Fangtasia to see Eric. I really like how Sam talks to the children, he tells them no lies, like many adults would have done in the same situation. According to Eric the children are teacup humans and Pam thinks they smell bad.
Wow, Eric can fly! Great detail that his hair is all messed up when he lands at the queen’s residence.

An egg? Now what is all that about???

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Anna Paquin is in Gdańsk, Poland for the premiere of her movie “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler”.

The film tell the story of Irena Sendler (Anna Paquin) a Polish woman who saved the lives of over 2500 Jewish children by helping them escape from the ghetto in Warsaw. Showing this film now in Poland has an extra significance because this year is the 70th anniversary of the beginning of WWII.

This afternoon Anna, her co-star Marcia Gay Harden and director John Kent Harrison left their hand prints on the Alley of Stars in Gdańsk.

True Blood fan Ania was present at the event. She and her friends prepared an album with information about Poland and a letter for the True Blood cast and crew, they had the opportunity to present it to Anna.

Anna was really surprised that they have heard about the show and even more surprised about the gift (which she looked at closely when she got into the car). She looked very natural and pretty and had really high heels which was a challenge to walked in on that pavement. Anna was really nice to everybody, she shook everybody’s hands, she signed autographs and posed for photos with the fans.

The Presidents, Prime Ministers and other important guests who were invited for the 70th anniversary of World War II to Gdańsk were also among attendants of the movie premiere.

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Alexander Skarsgård has gotten his final breakthrough in the States by playing a Viking vampire in the TV-series “True blood” DNs Erik Ohlsson has met the new born Hollywood star that is still picking up his own laundry.

“There are 600 churches here,” Alexander Skarsgård informs us, while folding his long body into a purple-red Toyota Prius and taking us sightseeing in the town that will be his home for the next seven weeks.

Shreveport’s central parts are strange. The town, which is situated in northern Louisiana and is the size of Malmö, has a central core where decayed store houses are mixed with shiny polished sky scrapers. In addition the town consists mainly of churches and casinos. A merciless sun is burning the dusty roads. We see some occasional cars but not one single pedestrian.

This part of Louisiana is heavily struck by unemployment. To improve the economy, the state rulers have decided to give movie companies big reductions in taxes if they record in Louisiana.

Alexander Skarsgård has one of the leading roles in a new version of Sam Peckinpahs drama “Straw Dogs,” that right now is being recorded in and outside of Shreveport. The original movie came out in 1971 and was heavily debated due to its content of heavy violence. The new version of “Straw Dogs” will also turn bloody, Alexander lets us know.

Read the complete article on Skarsgardnews.

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We have already made several posts about the Choroideremia Research Foundation and we will continue to raise awareness for this degenerative hereditary eye disease leads to total blindness.

One might ask what the connection is between True Blood and the Choroideremia Research Foundation. The answer simply is EJ Scott.  EJ is the boyfriend of True Blood actress, Deborah Ann Woll (Jessica Hamby) and he and several of his family members have been diagnosed with Choroideremia.

There is no cure for Choroideremia.

But the Choroideremia Research Foundation has made enormous progress in the development of a cure.
Cory MacDonald, Executive Director of the Choroideremia Research Foundation: “At this point, we are potentially within two short years of human clinical trials to CURE Choroideremia! Yes, we have come this far, and with the proper funding, we can ensure that people like EJ (and me, for that matter) don’t have to lose the rest of their sight!”

You can ensure that the Choroideremia Research Foundation will be able to continue their work by making a donation, no amount is too small. Many True Blood fans have already donated, join us…. so we can all say in a couple of years that the True Blood fans helped to cure blindness!

Donate safely with your credit card or PayPal clicking the button. Donations are tax deductible for US residents.

This PayPal button was provided to the Vault by Cory MacDonald, Executive Director of the Choroideremia Research Foundation.

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Alexander Skarsgård photographed in Shreveport by Chris Maluszynski. Watch the slide show on the photographer’s website here.

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The show of “Live With Regis and Kelly” featuring Stephen Moyer will air on September 7, 9:00 AM on WABC. The show was originally recorded on June 10.

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After doing research on Queen Sophie-Anne, seeing last week’s episode, “New World in My View“, and looking forward to this weeks, “Frenzy“,  I was inspired to do a some wallpapers. I’m looking forward to seeing how the Queen and Bill Compton interact and what help she can give to Bon Temps. To see all of my wallpapers, go to Sunlight On Your Skin Wallpapers where there are many more. I provide two sizes for each wallpaper on the site, but they can also be custom sized to fit your monitor.

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After reading so much about Evan Rachel Ward recently, I thought it would be interesting to dissect what we know about Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne  Leclerq overall before we learn about how Alan Ball will treat her in the series, True Blood.

First off, we know little about how she will be portrayed in the series.

What we know so far about her in the SERIES

The casting call for True Blood described Queen Sophie-Anne as an almost five hundred year old vampire. She is charming, wily, ruthless and wise. With one foot in the old world and one in the new, she rules all vampires in the state of Louisiana, and engages with Kings and Queens from other states. Brilliant and far-sighted, she is a consummate diplomat, politician and adversary. Incredibly cultured, has known many of history’s most famous people personally — as well as had affairs with many of them — she is entertaining, funny, dangerous and delightful.

Wood revealed in a recent interview with The Daily News that “Sophie-Anne has a female human partner who will play a large part in the series, and that Sophie-Anne possesses one particularly interesting capability that may connect her to another main character”. “She can communicate telepathically with other vampires,” Evan Rachel Wood teased. “That’s something that was in the books. I don’t know how much they’re really going to explore it on the show, but that might lead to a connection with Sookie.”

Wood told EOnline.com. “Her human partner is a girl, but I’m pretty sure she goes both ways. I think vampires are like that in general.” Wood promises that Queen Sophie-Anne’s love life will be unpredictable.

What we know about her in the BOOKS

The first time we see Sophie-Anne is not in the books, but a  short story ‘One Word Answer’, by Charlaine Harris, when Sophie-Anne comes to Sookie’s house to tell her that her cousin Hadley has died.  We then, “officially” meet her when Sookie describes Sophie-Anne in book 6 of the Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries, Definitely Dead, as beautiful and pale as milk, with reddish brown hair, large and tilted brown eyes. Sophie-Anne is also portrayed as an elegant woman, around five foot two, always groomed down to the last eyelash. “Makeup, dress, hair, stockings, jewelry-the whole nine yards”^.

According to Wikepedia, Sophie-Anne is portrayed in the books as an 1100 year old vampire, (although some say 500-600 years old) , who died in her early teens. She is originally from northern France (Lotharingia) and was the daughter of the wealthiest man in town. Her name then was Judith. When she was about ten or twelve, a peddler came to her village carrying what Sophie-Anne now believes to be a form of influenza. Within two weeks of his visit the town was wiped out except for her and an older boy named Clovis. Though she’s forgotten why, the boy did not like her. He raped Sophie-Anne and took her to the next town, where he offered her for money and food. They were camped out in the woods when a very hungry vampire attacked Clovis, most likely because he was bigger, and then decided that Sophie-Anne would make a good companion. His name was Alain, and they traveled together for around three years. Alain kept promising Sophie-Anne that he would bring her over – she wanted the strength – but he would do the same thing Clovis had, selling her for money. One night they came to a village where the head-man knew what Alain really was – Alain had forgotten that he killed the man’s wife while passing through. The villagers bound him with silver and left him in a hut to keep him until the priest returned from a trip. They did not tie Sophie-Anne up for they knew that she was human and that Alain had abused her. The head-man’s family wanted to take her as a slave. She sneaked into the hut and told Alain that she would free him when he changed her. After some bargaining, he agreed. She dug a hole big enough for her body in the dirt floor. They planned that Alain would drain her and bury her under that pallet that he lay on, smoothing the dirt floor as best he could. On the third night, she would rise, break his chains, and they would flee in the darkness. But the priest returned before the three days were up. By the time Sophie-Anne dug herself out, Alain was dead. The hut the villagers stored Alain in was the priest’s, and he was the one who told Sophie-Anne what had happened. She told him that she was the angel of death and that she was passing him over for being so virtuous. After a few years, she discovered an orphan, like her, roaming in the woods, like her, being forced, like her. That orphan was Andre, and they’ve been together ever since. Andre becomes Sophie-Anne’s personal bodyguard, companion, and, at a time, lover. She has also made Sigebert and Wybert (Saxon warriors) vampire and they are also Sophie-Anne’s bodyguards. She has a special ability, a gift, in which she can talk to her “children” telepathically. She says she can keep her children with her, talking to and loving each other physically. This differs from normal “maker”/”child” relationships which start out as companions or lovers but do not last long (in vampire standards). Usually, the child will leave the maker, and must only come again when he/she is called upon by the maker.

When we meet up with her in the books, Sophie-Anne is the vampire queen of Louisiana. She is New Orleans’s most famous and visible vampire and she has been brave, strategic, and busy in her career as a vampire leader. Sophie Anne sends Bill Compton back to his hometown of Bon Temps to find and seduce, if necessary, Sookie Stackhouse because Sookie’s telepathic ability might be valuable.

In the sixth book, Definitely Dead, Sookie learns that Sophie-Anne turned Sookie’s cousin, Hadley, into a vampire and had a romantic relationship with her. Unfortunately, the queen had to end their relationship due to the queen’s business commitment to Peter Threadgill, vampire king of Arkansas. They had previously agreed to marry each other. In this same book her political marriage to Peter Threadgill ends (he is killed), thus making her queen of Arkansas. In the seventh book, All Together Dead, Hurricane Katrina damaged her New Orleans headquarters as well as her entertainment estate. Also in this novel, the queen is tried in the vampire summit for her husband’s death. Jennifer Cater, Peter’s second in command, brings a lawsuit against Sophie-Anne for murdering him, but the queen is found innocent. Unfortunately, a bomb explosion in the hotel where the summit was held left her severely injured and she eventually loses her legs. Sophie-Anne is killed in the take over by the Nevada king, Felipe de Castro in the eighth book of the series, From Dead to Worse.

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True Blood is EW “Entertainer of the Month” and is featured with a 2 page article in the September 4 issue.

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Evan Rachel Wood

In the next episode of True Blood, we get to meet the Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne Leclerq as played by Evan Rachel Wood.

Playing a vampire is in Evan Rachel Wood’s blood. Pun intended. The “Thirteen” actress’ father, Ira David Wood, once appeared as Dracula in a theater production, her brothers are huge fans of horror, and her mother used to read Anne Rice to her when she was a kid.“Vampires are both romantic and dangerous,” Wood told the Daily News of the undead’s appeal. “They could kill you or they could make you live forever. And it’s that anticipation of what’s going to happen that drives people crazy.”

Wood is an accomplished actress who in 1994, auditioned for the role of Claudia in “Interview with the Vampire“, but Kirsten Dunst got the part. She then moved to L.A. with her mom and brother, Ira, to pursue acting. She guest starred on “American Gothic” for a couple of episodes, and appeared in some movies including “Digging to China” and “Practical Magic” before landing her big break on the tv show “Once and Again” playing Jessie Sammler. The show lasted 3 seasons and was suddenly canceled in 2002. Since then, Wood has appeared in a number of movies, including “Little Secrets“, “Thirteen“, “The Missing“, and most recently, “The Upside of Anger” and “The Wrestler”. She is trained in dance and has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. She loves to sing, swim, rollerblade and go horseback riding. Her favorite actress is Cate Blanchett and her favorite actors are Edward Norton and Ewan McGregor. In 2003, Vogue Magazine named her one of the “It Girls of Hollywood.”

On a conference call in which The Vault participated, Alan Ball said the following about Evan Rachel Wood playing Sophie-Anne:

“She is going to be playing, Sophie-Anne the vampire queen of Louisiana. The vampire political structure in the state is that each state has a king or queen they are where the buck stops in terms of vampire politics. She does exist in the books but she doesn’t show up until the fifth or sixth book. It turned out that it had made sense for her to show up in the second season. I had actually gotten a call from Evan’s manager last year, during season one, saying that said she loved the show and would like to do it sometime. I thought great, if we find a role where she fits we’ll definitely make that happen. Then we decided to have the queen appear in season 2 that was the first person that came to mind. In the book she is a young woman, or a young looking woman, she’s more than 400 years old. And Evan is really beautiful and pale and she looks like a vampire to me!”

Wood said, that when he finally called with a part, she didn’t even read the script before saying yes and she thinks she’s perfect for the role of a bloodsucking queen because she has a vampire complexion.

The former girlfriend of goth rocker Marilyn Manson, says she’s sure she’ll become a hit among the make-up team. She says: “Make-up is gonna love me because I’ve got the skin for it; they don’t have to put white make-up on me – to look like a vampire – because I never go in the sun.” The actress added: “I can’t wait to get fitted for the fangs. I’ll probably steal the fangs when I’m done.”

Wood expects that somewhere down the road, she’ll have to get naked for the role. “It’s happened to everyone on the show, so it will probably happen to me,” said Wood. “For me, it always depends on who it’s for and what the context is. I’d probably do it for Alan Ball.”

Queen Sophie-Anne, is decidedly open to trying new things. “She’s not necessarily a lesbian, and I don’t know if I am having sex with anyone yet,” she says, “but I certainly have a steamy scene with someone that I don’t think you’d really expect.” While vampires do have a history of being quite omnisexual, there has been quite a bit of hype surrounding Wood’s character, and based on her own comments as well as those of others involved with the show, it’s been reported that Sophie-Anne was going to be a lesbian. But with only two episodes left of season two, it doesn’t leave much development for Sophie-Anne, so we’ll have to wait and see. I’m glad that it’s already been determined that Sophie-Anne will return in Season 3.

Wood says, “I feel like I have 500 different sides of myself, so when I read something that’s kind of different and weird, I’m curious about it and I want to dive in,” she said. “I love the acting on the show. There are a lot of new faces involved, everybody does a great job. I love the writing – it’s funny, it’s sexy, it’s vampires, it’s me.” The best part about guest starring on True Blood are the sexy costars. “That’s another great thing about my job,” Wood says with a laugh, “I was surrounded by beautiful people constantly.”

She will make her first appearance on August 30 when a desperate Bill seeks Sophie-Anne’s advice. When asked about Wood’s participation on the show, creator Alan Ball was tight-lipped about her character’s significance, though, saying that she will be “more important to some than others.”

You can find out lots more about Evan Rachel Wood by visiting this fan site.

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