True Blood’s Anna Paquin is featured in this month’s Zooey Magazine. Anna is seen in two photos from the photoshoot below as well as a video.
Additionally, here’s are some excerpts from the interview Anna gave to the magazine:
In an era where reality TV, Twitter, and TMZ have excessively fed our addiction for knowing all there is to know about stars? Any mystery has seemingly faded. At least I thought it had until I sat down for a sunny March afternoon lunch at Santa Monica’s M Kitchen with Anna Paquin and the orange peach smoothie she ordered. Successfully concealing a baby bump under layers of charcoal wool along with those Raisinette eyes hiding behind turquoise shades, I realized that she just might be our contemporary mysterious starlet.
Despite being part of the Xmen ensemble, Paquin didn’t actually step into a true starring role until she took on psychic waitress/ half-faerie/ “fang banger” Sookie Stackhouse in HBO’s triumphant True Blood. Leaving behind that little brunette girl from New Zealand who captured our hearts in the 90’s, she strutted onto our TVs as blonde, sassy, sexy and southern…and even more bewildering than before.
As an adolescent, I was obsessed with Nancy Drew mysteries. Intentional or not, Paquin has been just that. A mystery. One to keep her personal life fiercely private, she set off a whirl of media curiosity when she declared her bi-sexuality in a 2010 PSA for the Give a Damn campaign while engaged to husband and True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer. Her answer to the numerous inquiries of why she chose to come out now? “I’m not someone who endlessly talks about her personal life for no reason, but obviously, as someone who identifies as bisexual, those are issues I really care about.”
Sitting across from me stroking her unpolished, neatly cut nails and keeping a protective grasp on any and all words departing from her lips, I knew after getting “I don’t know” and “I can’t answer that” to several questions, I was going to have to convert into my beloved girl detective if I was going to get any insights into who she was.
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Anna is an understated beauty – elegant and a Tom boy all in one. <3 her.
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The video, photos and interview peek are all much appreciated. Anna is one gorgeous woman, as evidenced in this photo shoot.
Thanks for providing.
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Anna looks wonderful in pink, red, white…….all the outfits. Thanks for providing the pics and video.
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What a horrible uninspiring studio for a photoshoot, Anna doesn’t seem to be having fun at all.
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LuvMyVamps! Reply:
May 2nd, 2012 at 16:47
Hmmm, I sense a little contradiction in the air? FUN-schmun, at the end of the day does it really matter?… NO!
Anna Looks absolutely *stunning!* With or without PHOTO-RETOUCHING. Stephen is one lucky guy and vise-versa.
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WHEN she looks to have fun?
I mean, come on: to be photographed, styled, try the fabulous clothes, then become fotoretuscherat so that you’re beautiful, beautiful … is it not every woman’s dream? Imagine just try it once a life! Once a life to be a fairy princess!
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Shadaliza Reply:
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:30
If you do it once in your life, yes it’s fun, but when it becomes work…. I wouldn’t want to do it on a regular basis.
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I mean: photo-retouching
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LuvMyVamps! Reply:
May 2nd, 2012 at 16:48
Anna Looks absolutely *stunning!* With or without PHOTO-RETOUCHING. Stephen is one lucky guy and vise-versa.
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Good for Anna on keeping her private life private. I can’t blame her a bit. …….I think doing a certain number of these photo-interview combo’s is part of their HBO contract.
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Good for Anna on keeping her private life private. I can’t blame her a bit. …….I think doing a certain number of these photo-interview combo’s is part of their HBO contract.
I used to work with a gal who’d done a huge amount of modeling, including a lot of covers of magazines. She quit because she said the whole thing of posing and modeling is painful. The photographers and their assistants are continuously making comments like “adjust that light because she has a huge forehead and we don’t need to light it up” and “keep the right side of your face forward because your face is asymmetrical and we need to make it look straight” and “push out your upper lip please, not so much, a little less, now hold that”. And it goes on and on. By the time you’re done with the session, you can’t stand to look at yourself in the mirror.
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LuvMyVamps! Reply:
May 2nd, 2012 at 17:03
Yeah, Johnny Depp said the same thing recently about his shoot in Vanity Fair.
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Susanna Reply:
May 3rd, 2012 at 0:02
Selle, I can think of 1000 +1 professions where you’re as broken after having some work done in unsexy clothes, sweaty and could barely stand upright, to 1% of what Anna and alll these women get paid .. I’m sure that almost every woman would like to exchange with Anna and have those luxuries troubles … No, now I lie, to have her husband, of course .. lol …
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Anna is a fashion fan, and I don’t think she minded doing the shoot with all the fabulous clothes – and they are gorgeous clothes. But
standing in those sky-high heels is probably really uncomfortable!
She is notoriously private and guarded. That’s sometimes interpreted as snobbish and standoff-ish. I have to believe she is a warm and caring person who just wants her personal life to be her own.
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Susanna Reply:
May 3rd, 2012 at 0:07
But what BEAUTIFUL shoes! OMG! BEAUYIFUL !
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Anna looks lovely, especially in that hot pink number.
I appreciate her desire to keep her private life private. Don’t blame her at all!
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