With all the new cast members on this seasons True Blood, it would be easy to skip over a few, but so far that isn’t the case, they all seem to be excellent additions to the cast and story. Grant Bowler showed up in the first episode this season playing the werewolf, Coot and we got to see his power and that he will be a sizeable foe for Bill. In the interview below, Grant speaks to PopWatch about his new role and his interaction with the rest of the cast including Stephen Moyer, Don Swazye and Joe Manganiello.
It’s been a month since we were introduced to Coot, the biker who helped abduct Bill for the King of Mississippi, played by Grant Bowler. But that was definitely a memorable first impression — for everyone. “When you get an audition scene where you’ve got a silver chain wrapped around Bill Compton’s neck and you’re feeding off him and howling, you kinda go, I think I’m a werewolf addicted to V,” Bowler says. “That was a love scene. It took all day to shoot, and Stephen Moyer and I laughed so hard in the back of the car – we were almost blowing takes, we were giggling so much — that we actually fell in love.
We’re having a bromance.”
Moyer may have some competition. Bring up how fantastic Don Swayze was on the other side of Moyer, and Bowler — who phoned PopWatch yesterday while on a break from shooting the adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged — can’t help but rave. “Don Swayze was irrepressible. Swapping the blood [with the front seat passenger] was in the script, but the entire way Don went about doing it, the complete wrongness of it, that was all him. ‘Shall I lean in right over his mouth?’ Ahhh. Don is fearless. He’s absolutely fearless. We’re in the back of that shot, and I’m howling with laughter and it’s all that Moyer can do to keep a straight face and look like he’s in agony ’cause Don Swayze just pushed the boat out and let go.”
How will last week’s cliffhanger resolve itself? You might recall that Coot and the other werewolves at Debbie’s initiation/engagement party started transforming in front of Sookie. (“I think that’s just the best way to get engaged, to brand your intended with a hot iron,” Bowler quips. “That screams romance to me. And love. Commitment!” ) Well, he’s not saying. “Look, Coot absolutely delights in Bill Compton’s misery… I get a wonderful chance to revel in his misery. That’s about as much as I can tease. I can’t get in trouble with Alan.”
To read the rest of this interview go to: Popwatch.ew.com
They must have an absolute blast filming … love all the behind-the-scenes hijinx that go on. I can visualize Stephen and Grant giggling in the back seat and vainly trying to keep straight faces.
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How funny. See, stories like this show how HBO really needs to include outtakes and gag reels on the DVD’s. I bet it would be a blast to see.
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I would really want to see an out take tape! Everyone seems to have a ball doing this show! I can just visualise Stephen giggling in the back seat! Go Brolove!
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