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Anna Paquin was not the only True Blood actor who worked all night before attending the football game on Saturday, Stephen Moyer got off from work at 6 am as well.

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Ok, I don’t know what they did wrong with the microphone, but it is bad….

Photos of the “Footy and Meat Pies” charity event in Pacific Palisades, February 28, 2009

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Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin at the "Footy and Meat Pies" charity event - Stephen wears a Bon Temps Football shirt

With actress Gracie Otto

Professional soccer players and celebrities including True Blood’s Stephen Moyer, played in yesterday’s charity match, organised by Australian actor Anthony LaPaglia to raise money for the Austalian wildfire victims.

A group photo of all three teams before playing in the 'Footy and Meat Pies' Australian Bush Fire Relief event

LaPaglia said the plight of Victorians affected by the devastating fires had inspired him to call on his friends and co-ordinate the fundraiser through his Californian soccer club Hollywood United.

“When we started to see all of the images coming through from the Victorian fires, I just thought this is what were here for, this is what we do,” he said. “It was terrible to see entire towns wiped out and to see images of cars burnt to a crisp trying to get out just horrifying images. Without hesitation, people – world-class soccer players and celebrities not just from Australia but from America and Britain too – put up their hands to use their profile to help.”

Anna Paquin came straight from the True Blood set and was very tired, but said that she was still very happy to be there to cheer on her boyfriend Stephen Moyer. Despite long shooting schedule previous night, Anna cheerfully accepted numerous interview and photo requests. She did politely refuse to take off her sunglasses when requested by photographers, sighting that her eyes weren’t in good shape after the previous night shooting of “True Blood.”

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If you would like to make a donation by check please mail to 11630 Chayote Street, #4. Los Angeles, CA, 90049 and make payable to Australian Red Cross. Ref. HUFC Donation.

You can also make donations online at www.redcross.org.au and click ‘Make a Donation’.

source: MeetTheFamous, CourierMail

photo credits: Photo by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images North America

The Hollywood United Football Club reports that not only Stephen Moyer will be present at the Australian Bush Fire Relief Event tomorrow February 28, but also Anna Paquin will participate.

Updated list of participants:

Participants will include Alexi Lalas, Anna Paquin, Danny Cannon, Billy Duffy, Nuno Bettencourt, Jesse Spencer, Gia Carides, Skeet Ulrich, Christian Olde Wolbers, Ben Lawson, Gilles Marini, Frank LeBoeuf, Richard Gough, Vinnie Jones, Donal Logue, Cameron Daddo, Dominic Purcell, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Johns, David Lyons, Damon Herriman, Stephen Moyer, Poppy Montgomery, Simon Baker, Chris Harrison, Colin Hay, Gracie Otto, Kym Johnson, Jacqueline McKenzie, Paul Ashton, Suzy DeMarchi, Eric Braeden, Ioan Gruffudd and many more.

The event will be held at Palisades Charter High School, 15777 Bowdoin Street, Pacific Palisades.  The games will kick off at 11 a.m. To help raise funds donations will be welcomed at the gate. All money generated on the day will go directly to the relief fund.

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Stephen Moyer will participate in the Australian Bush Fire Relief Event that will be held February 28 in Los Angeles.

The benefit, Footy and Meat Pies, combine the world’s most popular sport along with a  mix of Aussie and American celebs from the world of music and sport. Hollywood United Football Club will take part in a short 7 aside tournament with that will include participants Ben Lawson, Gilles Marini, Frank LeBoeuf, Richard Gough, Donal Logue, Christian Olde Wolbers, Cameron Daddo, Dominic Purcell, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Johns, David Lyons, Damon Herriman, Stephen Moyer, Poppy Montgomery and many more.

The event will be held at Palisades Charter High School, 15777 Bowdoin Street, Pacific Palisades.  The games will kick off at 11 a.m. To help raise funds donations will be welcomed at the gate. All money generated on the day will go directly to the relief fund.

Invitation by Anthony LaPaglia

Dear fellow Australians and our American colleagues,

Anthony LaPaglia

As many of you know, Bush fires that exceed any natural disaster in Australian history have devastated the State of Victoria in Australia. Entire towns and communities have been wiped out. The estimated death toll is expected to exceed 300 and there is the inestimable loss of homes, businesses and jobs. The cost of relief for the victims and rebuilding all that was lost will most likely run at $500 Million. Of course, no price can be placed on the loss of family and loved ones and the suffering caused by the loss of your community.

That’s why I’m asking the vast Australian community residing in Los Angeles to join me on February 28 for an afternoon of “Footy and Meat pies.” Hollywood United Football Club, in conjunction with our various partners and sponsors present an afternoon where you can come with your families and watch your favorite Aussie celebs and fellow professionals play a short swift 7 aside tournament against a mix of American celebs and current and former pro soccer players. Participants will include Ben Lawson, Gilles Marini, Frank LeBoeuf, Richard Gough, Donal Logue, Christian Olde Wolbers, Cameron Daddo, Dominic Purcell, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Johns, David Lyons, Damon Herriman, Stephen Moyer, Poppy Montgomery and many more. It will be fast, fun and furious and a great afternoon for the whole family, where the LA Aussie community can join forces with the multi cultural LA American community in a show of support and relief for this terrible tragedy in our home, Australia.

The event will be held at Palisades Charter High School, 15777 Bowdoin Street, Pacific Palisades. The games will kick off at 11 a.m. To help raise funds donations will be welcomed at the gate. All money generated on the day will go directly to the relief fund. Snacks, soft drinks and meat pies will be available for purchase and raffle tickets will be sold with various signed items including signed jerseys being offered up as prizes.

Please join me and a host of fellow Aussies in this event. In this time of tragedy and pain let’s do what we’ve always done. Throw in together and show we care.

Sincerely,
Anthony LaPaglia.

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source: SMNnews, Altsounds

It’s official! Anna Paquin has a “True Blood” boyfriend!

True Blood stars Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin say it’s true love. The pair—who play romantically linked 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton and telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse on the HBO series—have confirmed they are dating. “We are together,” Moyer told TV Guide Magazine exclusively on the True Blood set—right after finishing an intense scene where Bill and Sookie have a major lover’s quarrel.

Moyer and Paquin’s real-life romance first sparked at the True Blood audition, but the couple decided to wait to go public. “The reason it was dodged last year was very intentional on both our parts,” says Moyer. “It was very important to me that the cast and crew we were working with didn’t feel it was fickle, and didn’t feel it could possibly potentially encroach on their lives, you know, just like, ‘Oh the two stars are having a thing.’ We didn’t want to take anything away from the show. The show is the star, not the two people having a relationship.”

So where is this romance going? Well, it seems Moyer, 37, and Paquin, 26, are living together—at least on this side of the pond. Moyer, who is British, divides his time between Los Angeles and London where he has two young children from a previous relationship. “It’s just exciting and that was there from day one,” Moyer says. “We always take the piss out of each other and are silly with each other and it is great. We’re very, very happy. She’s the best.”

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PopWrap makes comments about the stars who attended the various parties last night. They make a funny remark about Anna and Stephen.

And staying on the couple tip, here are “True Blood” co-stars and real life lovah’s — Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton. I wonder if it’s hard for Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer to be sexually adventurous. I mean, what beats him crawling out of the ground, ripping open her gossamer nightgown and having insane graveyard sex? No, seriously, I’m looking for suggestions.

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer attend the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar party hosted by Graydon Carter at the Sunset Tower Hotel on February 22, 2009 in West Hollywood, California.

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The staff of the Brentwood Theatre has sent out a press release to inform us that the backstage facilities are about to be completed, with the builders moving back on site on 23 February, and this final phase of the fit out is due for completion at the end of May.

This means that the fundraiser for the Brentwood Theatre “Reaching Out, Building on” has come to an end.

Mark Reed, the administrator of the theatre, tells us that they will carry on fundraising as the theatre needs a few thousand pounds a year to keep going, and he has plans to extend the front of house/bar area.
A date for the bricks has not been set yet, but Mark assures me that he will let everyone know as soon as it happens.

Jean Armitage, Volunteer Fundraising Coordinator, adds: “Bricks have been ordered, but being held until April or May, since there is no place to store them safely.  For anyone who ordered a brick late in December or during the extended period of January, Steve will be signing the next batch of certificates in April or May as well…”.

Brentwood theatre with the added on dressing rooms at the back

From the press release and related email

We delighted to announce that ALL of our backstage facilities are about to be completed, with the builders moving back on site on 23 February, and this final phase of the fit out is due for completion at the end of May.

We cannot believe that this project is coming to an end. The fundraising was only launched in September 2005, and less than four years later, we have raised around £400,000 which will have been efficiently spent providing outstanding facilities for the local community.

We reopened on 1 November, as planned, to a complete sell-out with the kids from BOSSY performing FAME, which was supported by the Theatre’s Patron, Stephen Moyer, currently in America from where he sent this message :-

‘I am currently in LA filming the second series of TRUE BLOOD for HBO. True Blood was nominated for two Golden Globes, one for best dramatic TV series and one for best Actress, which Anna Paquin won for her role as Sookie Stackhouse. And, the American Cinema Editors (ACE) just presented TRUE BLOOD’S Michael Ruscio and Andy Keir with the 2009 Eddie Award for ‘Best Edited One-Hour Series For Non-Com Television.’ We cannot wait until the show launches in April in the UK when I hope to dash back to see how this final phase is progressing.’

We are honored beyond words that fans of TRUE BLOOD from America and all over the world – including author CHARLAINE HARRIS — have contributed nearly FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS in the past three months, which has also ensured that we had enough money to go ahead with this final phase!!

Productions will continue without interruption during the final fitting out, with the builders working around rehearsals and performances to bring into use a new theatre office, washroom facilities, a galley kitchen, and a multi-use space which will be able to be used as a dance studio (with full mirrors), rehearsal area, overflow dressing room, or even a forty-seat studio theatre.

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No True Blood without vampires and no vampires without fangs. But what makes the True Blood fangs so special? In what way are they different from other fangs? All about the FANGS!

All the dental work on our favorite vamps is done by Dan Repert and his team at MasterFX.
MasterFX is an award winning prosthetics, animatronics and character effects company responsible for some of the most impressive, scary and gruesome scenes ever seen in modern movie.

Dan Repert recalls: “Way back before we even did the pilot, Alan Ball called a meeting with Todd Masters (MasterFX founder) and myself to come in and talk about vampire teeth. They wanted something new; they wanted something no one’s seen before, and they still want it to be sexy and cool.
And the first thing I thought of, and the design that Alan really liked, is modeling the teeth more mechanically off of the way snakes teeth work, the way they unfold from the back of the palate of the mouth as opposed to disappear from, like, a stiletto-type action from the gums. And Alan really liked that idea, and, again, it was based on basically the way the anatomy of a snake’s inner mouth works.
Obviously we didn’t make it needle-thin like a snake’s would be, but we basically mixed what was already there on a snake with what’s already there on a human, and even down to the detail of the fang – which I doubt we’ll ever see in the show – but there is little holes where they would suck the blood up, up through the fang.

We started out with doing some Photoshops, and that was the one Alan liked the best. But then it also came down to this is in terms of – what we thought out on this – we were talking to the visual effects, who were actually doing the fang emergence from the palate.
That was always decided: that was going to be a visual effect. But everyone had a different idea about how that would look. So what we did to make it so everyone was on the same page – all the animators, all our guys making the actual prosthetic fangs – is we made a mechanical mock-up that actually shows this.
It was the upper and lower palate and the tongue and the teeth of one of the actual performers. It had a little mechanism on the top that you pulled the levers. And the really cool thing about these teeth – which isn’t really like a snake – but the eye teeth that you see in front are actually false little fronts, and they fold back into the gums as the vampire/snake teeth come out.”

Alan Ball explains: “In keeping with our idea about the supernatural being a deeper more profound manifestation of nature we really thought a lot about the physiology of the fangs. And we created fangs that actually lie flat along the roof of the mouth and than click into place when a vampire is in danger or aroused or ready to feed. Much like a rattlesnake’s fangs click into place.
We actually created a model of teeth with showing how the fangs click in and click out. And we put the fangs not with the forefront teeth between them but with only two because it worked better for the physiology. I like that because it looks different and it’s not like the classic thing and there is a sound that it makes when they click, like a weapon being loaded. It really works well for the show.

All the actors, even when we cast guest vampires for only one episode, they have to go to the dentist and make impressions of their teeth when they make fangs. It’s hilarious to watch the dailies because the actors will make a face and then we’ll stop and everybody will go and get their little plastic cup with their fangs and put their fangs in and then the scene keeps going.
The extending and the retracting of the fangs is done with a visual effect, we have to place little dots on the actors face as tracking marks. So if you every watch an unfinished cut of our show there is some unintentional humor in those moments.”

Stephen Moyer had some difficulties at first trying to speak with his fangs in: “As a kid, I had to wear a retainer to push my teeth straight, and it’s kind of like having a retainer. You have to learn to talk with them in. There was this hilarious thing, in episode three or four, where there are four vampires, all sitting around, chatting, and then we all have to have our teeth in, so everybody reaches down and sticks their teeth in and they start talking funny, and it really wasn’t very cool at all. It’s quite difficult, but we’ve all gotten much, much better at talking with them in. And, we’ve reduced the back plate on the teeth a little bit, so people have gotten better at talking with them in.”
He adds that kissing with fangs is really hard. “You can’t do a proper open-mouth washing-machine-type thing. They are sharp!”

And portraying his love-interest Anna Paquin knows all about that. “You do get fangs caught in places,” Paquin says, remembering her first lip lock with Bill’s lethal teeth, which pop down when he’s lost in bloodlust. “Perhaps it’s like people with braces trying to make it work. Puncture wounds aside, one gets used to it,” she teases.

Kristin Bauer, who portrays vampire Pam, remembers her first time with fangs very well.
“The first time I had to say a line with those teeth in, I had never worn them. It was the scene with Jason Stackhouse when he comes to Fangtasia  and they said “you’re going to say your lines, we’re going to keep the camera rolling, put in your teeth and say the line again.” And I said: “Can I rehearse that?” And they we’re like: “ROLLING”. They handed me my teeth, I put them in and what came out of my mouth… one tooth got caught inside my lip, one got caught outside my lip and I sounded like an evil Bugs Bunny character. And the entire set, which I could not see because we were shooting at night and there was a bright light on me, all I heard was that I brought the house down, they were laughing so hard.
I went to Stephen (Moyer) and I asked him how the hell do you speak with these things in? And he told me exactly what to do. He said that you can’t try have the teeth avoid your bottom lip, you just have to take the pain.”

sources: npr.org, i09.com, mediablvd.com, People Magazine, true-blood.net