The above photo was taken on the set of “True Blood” with Annalise Basso in the center, Deborah Ann Woll to the left and Anna Paquin on the right.
SOURCE: IMDb.com
(Photo credit: IMDb.com)
"True Blood season 2 news about another cast member has just been published in IMDb. The latest addition to Alan Ball’s hit HBO TV series “True Blood” is Annalise Basso. Annalise has been cast to play the role of Eden Hamby, Jessica’s 9 year old younger sister. She will make her appearance in Season 2 Episode 2: “Keep This Party Going” with a recurring role. She has also appeared in two movies “Ghost Image” and Bedtime Stories”. She will be appearing in two new upcoming films entitled “Dark House” and “Alabama Moon”.
Cheryl White has been cast as Mrs. Hamby - Jessica’s mother
On the casting call Mrs. Hamby is described as:
40
- 50, Jessica’s grief-stricken and tearful mother, she appears on the
news begging for information on Jessica’s whereabouts. Mrs. Hamby is an
uncertain woman who completely submits to her husband’s decisions and
can’t make a move without consulting him. (Guest star)
Missy Doty has been cast for the role of Vonetta.
The casting call describes her as: Coralee’s
friend, this bar patron in her 30s gossips avidly about the recent
murder — right up until Terry throws her off the premises.
Source: The Vault
Sookie's
power is not unique to her. She'll meet a young Texan named Barry who
reads minds, and they freak each other a little when they discover each
other's powers. Also, great news for us Eric fans: We'll be catching up
with him in 10th century Scandinavia, likely when he was first turned
into a vampire. Holler!
Source: E!Online
If you've read the Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse book series, you know about Barry. You also know that Ms. Harris hasn't explored Eric's "roots" yet so Alan Balls' take on that outta be very interesting--in a good way!
Michelle Forbes is the Maenad, Marianne.
And from Entertainment Weekly:
Killer True Blood spoilers!
Season 2 of HBO’s fangtastic True Blood doesn’t bow until summer, but I’ve already got intel from series creator Alan Ball. Fancy a bite?
Three’s Company: Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Bill (Stephen Moyer) will wing it to Dallas, where they’ll assist the local bloodsuckers in locating their MIA sheriff. But the couple’s bigger problem may be their new third wheel, the irritating Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll). ”She’s part of their life now,” says Ball. ”Bill made her; he’s responsible for her.”
Diff’rent Strokes: The question of who — or what — Maryann (Michelle Forbes) is will play out, and the answer doesn’t lie in Charlaine Harris’ books. ”She’s a new kind of supernatural creature.”
Dead Like Me: ”I can’t tell you if Lafayette [played by Nelsan Ellis] will be back,” says Ball, adding ominously, ”He did die in the books.” He will reveal that Lois Smith’s Gran returns in flashbacks.
Highway to Heaven: Sookie’s sex-obsessed bro, Jason (Ryan Kwanten), will get mixed up with the nefarious Fellowship of the Sun. ”He realizes something’s missing in his life,” says Ball. Aside from his pants?
Sources: npr.org, i09.com, mediablvd.com, People Magazine, true-blood.net.
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.
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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.”
Above: Bill's new "child" Jessica.
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.”
Above: Vampire Bill Compton
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.”
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