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Several True Blood cast members were spotted out and about at parties.

Joe Manganiello attended the Virgin America Official Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF) After Party on August 27, 2010 in West Hollywood. More in the Photo Gallery.

Mariana Klaveno and her boyfriend Luis Patino attended the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards Performer Nominee Reception held at the Pacific Design Center on August 27, 2010 in West Hollywood. More in the Photo Gallery.

Grant Bowler and actress Anna Hutchison sat in the front row for the Rosemount Australian Fashion Week Review Show 10 group show as part of Rosemount Sydney Fashion Festival 2010, at Sydney Town Hall on August 28, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. More in the Photo Gallery.

Lara Pulver attended the 8th Annul BAFTA/LA TV Tea Party at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on August 28, 2010 in Century City, California.

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Grant Bowler recently did an interview with Australia’s OK Magazine where he talks about his role as a werewolf on the HBO series True Blood and mentioned his role as “Jesus Christ” in The City Of Gardens. Check out the exclusive photo from the film. Click the images below for enlarged versions.
Images courtesy of The City Of Gardens website.

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True Blood’s Grant Bowler (Coot) will be in a new telemovie called “Panic At Rock Island” which has been commissioned by TVNZ and NZ On Air.  It will feature the talents of New Zealand actors and the music of some of its best artists.

Panic At Rock Island, tells the story of how a deadly virus strikes an idyllic island during a rock concert.

Top music acts Smashproof and Gin Wigmore will perform, and in addition to Grant Bowler, Go Girl’s Anna Hutchison and Underbelly’s Simone Kessell all have starring roles.

Underbelly’s Tony Tilse will co-produce and direct the joint venture between Wellington’s Gibson Group and Sydney’s Goalpost Pictures.

Pre-production is well underway, with filming due to start soon and a broadcast date of early 2011.

Source : Nzherald.co.nz

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Recently, we posted photos from the magazine “Da Man” featuring Grant Bowler. Below are those photos as they appear in the magazine article.

Click on the images for a larger view.

Courtesy of DaMan Magazine

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True Blood actor Grant Bowler is featured in Da Man magazine in the newest issue.

Here’s what the 42-year-old actor had to share:

On playing Coot, the biker werewolf: “Coot is a redneck biker werewolf, who is the leader (alpha male) of a particularly nasty bunch of werewolves. To get into Coot, I let go of all of the niceties of being a civilized man, and do whatever feels good, in an id-driven way.”

On starting his career in a Shakespeare company: “Starting out a career in a Shakespeare Company was the best grounding I could have wished for. I fell in love with the classics, with touring and with performing in repertory. Doing three different plays in the space of 36 hours is a challenge I’d love to take on again at some point in my career … now to find the time!”

On making new friends from True Blood: “My favorite cast-mates have been Steve Moyer, Anna Paquin, Brit Morgan, Dennis O’Hare and Joe Manganiello. I hang with them all the time.”

Courtesy of DaMan Magazine

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Grant Bowler

True Blood’s Grant Bowler to be in  the film “The City of Gardens” produced by Four Fish Films/Dragon Tree Media.

In addition to Grant Bowler, The City of Gardens stars John Robinson, Alex Meraz, Johnny Lewis , Michael DeLorenzo and James Remar.

The film is directed by Camilo Vila, who wrote the script with Monty Fisher and with revisions by Milo Addica. Fisher and Alicia Rivera Frankl are producing alongside co-producer Rami Rivera Frankl. DragonTree Media president Rami Rivera Frankl is in discussions for Domestic and International Distribution. Production is currently casting the role of Wayne’s (John Robinson) mother.

The action drama, The City of Gardens follows a blond Californian surfer, Wayne Montgomery (John Robinson), who is a fun loving beach bum escaping the influence of his wealthy and powerful father (James Remar). Wayne leaves his home in Beverly Hills for the enchantment of exotic Peru. Wayne’s carefree lifestyle and love affair with his beautiful girlfriend, Maritza, ends when he is framed during a political upraising. Framing turns into extortion in the sadistic prison.

In the nightmarish Peruvian Prison, Wayne finds himself surrounded by a group of social misfits and political activists. There his eyes begin to open to the political strife of a people on the verge of a revolution and the value of freedom. Wayne is forced to confront the animalistic beast named Nicaragua (Alex Meraz).

In a desperate attempt to gain freedom, Wayne meets with Consul Powers (Debra Unger) whose hands are tied by the false drug charges. As Wayne’s naivety dissipates, another nemesis, the power hungry Lt. Gutierrez (Michael DeLorenzo), is bent on breaking Wayne’s spirit and extorting money from Wayne and his family. Left with few options, Wayne adopts a new ethic – engaging the Peruvian activists, sharing his gifts with them and learning the importance of hard work and faith through his sympathetic friend, Jorge (Johnny Lewis). Wayne challenges Lt. Gutierrez’s authority, confronting the depravity of corruption and abuse with his newfound spirit and courage and in doing so finds the redemption through his relationship with a schizophrenic named Jesus Christ (Grant Bowler).

Source: The City Of Gardens

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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

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There’s lots of new hot men on True Blood this season and Grant Bowler is certainly one of them. We first saw him in last week’s Episode 2 of Season 3 and in his first scene he sure started out the season right. We loved it when Bill laughed at his name of Cooter, which it appears his character is very sensitive about.

Grant Bowler spoke to TVGuide and we have part of that interview below:

True Blood is all about werewolves this season — and not the pretty-boy Twilight kind. We’re talking vicious, neck-branded neo-Nazis who drink vampire blood to feed their addiction. TVGuide.com caught up with Grant Bowler, who plays werewolf pack leader Cooter in seven episodes this season, to find out who Cooter really works for, how far is too far for executive producer Alan Ball, what it will mean for his relationship with Bill (Stephen Moyer) and what’s down the road for Sookie (Anna Paquin).

TVGuide.com: What can we expect between Cooter and Bill now that Bill seems to be cooperating with the King of Mississippi (Denis O’Hare)?
Bowler: It starts off professional with them, but it gets personal very, very quickly. I love the relationship that develops between the two. They just hate each others’ guts and need each other dead. It’s a really strong, fun dynamic to play.

TVGuide.com: Were you a fan of the show before signing on?
Bowler: Yes. Right from the beginning, I felt like Alan was writing a comedy — like the world’s darkest comedy. And I love it. I got on to the show very quickly.

TVGuide.com: What can you tell us about Cooter and his pack?
Grant Bowler: Cooter is a joy to play. I play him like a redneck Romeo. [Laughs] These werewolves have a very strong agenda; they’re not just kicking around looking for someone to beat on.

To read the rest of this article, click here.

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Grant Bowler, True Blood’s Coot was recently interviewed by the New Zealand Herald.

Here’s an excerpt from that interview.

So, from Wolf West to a wolfman named Coot. You’ve lost the beard – what else has changed?
Well, I’m still acting for a living [but] I guess I live mainly in the States these days – that would be a change. And now I shoot films much more than I shoot television.

Is Coot the biker werewolf at all like Wolf West?
One’s named Wolf, one is a wolf. They are both more on the working class side of the equation than not, and they pretty much do what they want most of the time. So those would be the commonalities.

So what are the rules of your werewolf? Do you morph at the full moon?
Every time someone does vampires or werewolves or ghosties or whatever, the trickiest part is figuring out the rules and sticking to them, I guess. On True Blood there are times when werewolvess really, really want to shift – you know like maybe a full moon or whatever, they have a really strong desire to shift. But they can also shift at will.

Okay, so they are more like the Twilight ones then.
I don’t know. I’ve never seen Twilight.

Is there anything your werewolf has to avoid?
Apart from traffic cops and dog-catchers, no.

And how did Coot become a werewolf?
Basically the rule in True Blood is that the weres are like the pure-bloods of shifters. They are at the top of the food chain in terms of any creature that can shift. So for a were to be a were they have to have two were-parents.

Did I read somewhere that you like scenes where you get to bash people?
I said the older I got, the stranger I found it that the jobs I tend to get offered are jobs where I bash the guys and kiss girls – and that was fine with me.

Do you kiss girls on True Blood?
Yep, I get to kiss girls, terrorise people and get into a bit of biffo, so it’s a trifecta.

And when you do your transformations, how much is you and how much is done behind the scenes later, digitally?
Basically [creator] Alan Ball’s take on shifting is that the whole bones popping, hair growing out of the face kind of thing works in a movie because you do it twice maybe three times, but in a series you are looking at doing it 25, maybe 30 times. And so the whole way that weres shift in True Blood is based on wanting to get on with the bloody story, so we shift quite simply and quickly.

How does it compare to doing a show closer to reality like Outrageous Fortune or Ugly Betty?
I would put Outrageous Fortune right up there with True Blood for fantasy – do you really think with that bone-headed bunch we would have got away with any crime whatsoever? But how does it compare? It’s nice there is a real freedom in it, [away] from the bounds of having to justify normal behaviour.

To read the entire interview, go here.

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Here’s the latest Truebies and Newbies video, Bill and Coot where they discuss the role that Grant Bowler plays of Coot and the difference between werewolves and vampires.

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