Cast and crew of “True Blood” came to Clinton (La) for several days of location shooting, and the town’s streets (and trees) were strategically strewn with trash but mostly clothing, for a saucy storyline to play out in a few weeks on the show’s 10th episode of the current season.
Saturday, shooting started at about noon and concluded after 2 a.m. Sunday. Wilting heat and humidity prevailed, broken occasionally by light rain. Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin and Ryan Kwanten were on hand for scenes as several dozen curious locals watched on from an out-of-frame.
And — incredibly, amazingly, appropriately – an ailing Clinton bat owes its life to “True Blood’s” visit.
The tiny animal fell from a tree near the courthouse as the production was preparing to shoot a scene.
Crew medic Holly O’Quin, whose day job is nurse at Ochsner Health Center, leapt into action.
O’Quin called her brother, Jeff Galpin, a New Orleans stunt coordinator and animal wrangler for film-and-TV productions, who recommended that the baby bat be nursed back to health by feeding it regular doses of evaporated milk and egg whites, which O’Quin administered by needle-less syringe. Paquin, among many others on set, took great interest in the bat’s recovery. (O’Quin reported Monday that the bat had recovered enough to fly away at the end of the production day.)
Sunday, on a day off from shooting, Stephen, Anna and several production officials made a tourist trip to New Orleans. The visit culminated with a large dinner party at Galatoire’s. (Deborah Ann Woll, who plays vampire conscript Jessica Hamby on the show, joined the group there.)
A couple of days earlier, Moyer made the drive into the city from the production’s Baton Rouge base to wander the streets of the French Quarter – by himself – shooting pictures.
“I saw a coffeehouse in a courtyard, and I wandered in there,” said Moyer, about his first-ever trip to New Orleans. “The coffee looked great. And sitting at the table were two New Orleans mimes, dressed in silver, having a coffee break.
“They were talking (but) went into mime (poses) as I walked past.”
Moyer got his coffee and came back to the table and offered a gratuity in exchange for photographing the scene.
“This is the only thing she said,” said Moyer of one of the mimes, approximating her thick “True Blood”-homage accent. ” ‘Anything for you, Bill Compton.’”
Source: Nola.com
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Great article! I’m originally from New Orleans! Crazy Cajuns! :0)
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Oh…..I love the mime story.
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Lucky mime.
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Bah! I was in NOLA this weekend too and saw those exact same mimes he mentioned. I wish I would have seen him!
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I enjoyed the video. Thanks for the post, Shad. I wonder if the big old antibellum mansion will be used as the Bellfleur house.
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too bad that stephen went alone to new orleans. that is a romantic city to share with your love.
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cocoablossoms Reply:
July 14th, 2009 at 18:17
he was spotted with anna later having dinner. it said they held hands and shared dessert. sounds like they definitely had some romance there. maybe he ventured on his own while they were doing the daytime shoots.
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Shadaliza Reply:
July 14th, 2009 at 18:25
I posted that story on the Stephen Moyer Fan page Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Vault-Stephen-Moyer/103003174713
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wow~~~~chinese words!but in fact,the correct translation is‘真爱如血 ’not‘真血’，这翻译也太低级了““
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