True Blood Adds More Gay Blood
Written by Ian Cullen on October 29, 2009 – 12:00 pm -
For quite some time Lafayette Reynolds who is played by Nelsan Ellis has been the only Gay in True Bloods village, when it comes to principal cast members. However all that is set to change when the popular HBO series returns for a third season in June of 2010.
In a recent interview for Advocate writer and series creator Alan ball revealed that fans can look forward to additional gay characters in the third series. One of which will be the vampire king of Mississippi.
“There are a lot of gay characters in the books as you get further and further into them. We’ll be introducing some of those gay characters this new season.
“We’ll be meeting the vampire king of Mississippi and his long, long-term companion – and by long-term I mean really long-term – Talbot.”
He added: “I think Lafayette may meet a love interest, and certainly Pam, who works with Eric, she’s certainly got a lesbian vibe. I don’t know that that’s all she is, but she certainly does seem to appreciate the women.”
Ball also revealed that fans who have read the Charlaine Harris novels will not be to surprised at a pending death in the third season.
In other True Blood related news buddytv.com have uncovered yet more potential season three spoilers for fans to chew on. (Note that none of these have been confirmed as fact by HBO, but its always fun to speculate. So treat as you would any rumours.)
Over the course of its two seasons on television True Blood has bowled us over with some shocking plot twists, and if the following information on plot developments for season three turn out to be true. Then we’d better brace ourselves for yet another fun ride.
The Bombshell Secret
Ever since Queen Sophie-Anne graced the second season of True Blood, Bill and Sookie fans have been haunted with a theory from the Charlaine Harris books that would certainly destroy their favorite vampire-human couple: that Bill is working for the Queen and he came to Bon Temps to seduce Sookie with ulterior motives. It’s certainly an issue that would divide True Blood fans as this will push Sookie right into the arms of Eric, and while series creator Alan Ball hasn’t really followed the novels to the letter, he isn’t completely shutting out the idea either.
“It’s certainly something that I found really compelling in the books,” Ball told Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello of Bill’s deep dark secret. “I was like, ‘Wow.’ But I can’t really tell you what I’m going to do story-wise. So much of the appeal of the show depends on the element of surprise.”
“I try to stay out of how the fans are responding to the show,” he added. “I have to tell the story that I think is the most interesting story. Certainly, the main ingredient in drama is conflict and revelations. For every person who loves Bill and wants him and Sookie to just be in love always, there’s another person who’s like, ‘I’m sick of Bill. He’s such a wuss. I like Eric. He’s dangerous.’ Especially when you’re working on a show like this with the kind of palette and the colors you use; you want it to be continually surprising and shocking. Not for the sake of being shocking, but that’s part of the fun.”
Sookie and Eric, will they or won’t they?
Season 2 left fans with a cliffhanger that saw Bill being abducted just before Sookie was supposed to accept his marriage proposal. Now that Bill is seemingly and temporarily out of the picture, we are now left wondering if Eric and Sookie will finally get together in season 3. But Ball tells TV Squad, “I can’t tell you if they’re going to get together, because that’s going to ruin the anticipation. But, if you’ve been following season two, he’s definitely been doing things to make her more vulnerable and more susceptible to him. And he does want her, he’s just not sure why. I think it’s deeper than just, ‘I want her because Bill Compton has her.’ Although that’s part of it, because Eric is a total alpha-dog.
New Cast Members For Season Three
- Tony winner Denis O’Hare has been cast to play Russell Edgington, the King of Mississippi. There’s no word yet on how far the series will deviate from the books, but based on the Charlaine Harris novels, Russell is described as the perfect southern gentleman who prefers men. O’Hare joins season 3 as one of the regulars and is expected to make his debut early on.
- Season 3 will also include werewolf Alcide, super bad vampire Franklin Mott, Sam’s blood relatives and a character named Debbie Pelt, who is “bad news” and an ex-girlfriend of a guy who’s helping Sookie find Bill.
- Tommy Mickens will be introduced as a scruffy but attractive man in his early ’20s who just so happens to be Sam Merlotte’s long-lost younger brother. According to Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello, he’ll be showing his “unadorned backside, which, with Sam’s similar feral tendency towards the ‘full moon,’ proves that they really must be related after all.”
- Beginning the second episode, Talbot, a sarcastic vampire with a model’s looks, will surface as a “guide of sorts” for the kidnapped Bill.
- A character named Jesus Velasquez, an “unordinary orderly with a heart to match his good looks,” will also introduced in the third season.
- A guy named Coot will lead a pack of rednecks this season.
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