![]() ![]() When she was only 11, Paquin won an Academy Award for her performance in the movie “The Piano” and continued acting through her adolescence. The opportunity to really, really, really do something different.” Sookie couldn’t be more different than everything about me, but that’s kind of what you always hope for. “It’s really (just) add some hair dye, fake tan and some tiny outfits, and it kind of was done for me. To become Sookie, Paquin worked with a vocal coach to hone her accent and visits a hair colorist every 10 days. People often, in my experience, do not have the imagination and the trust that something like coloring won’t be a big deal.” They’re never going to cast me in a million years.’ For no other reason than there were like 15 blond girls and I was the only brunette at the audition. “I looked at the script and I was like, ‘Oh, it’s the perky blond waitress cheerleader type gal. It’s a part the actress, best known for playing the mutant Rogue in the “X-Men” films, never thought she would get. In the series based on the novels by Charlaine Harris, Paquin stars as Sookie Stackhouse, a Louisiana waitress who falls for 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer). Because what’s the point of doing something unless its going to affect people strongly in some way?” We are doing a pretty odd show and, to me, that’s really exciting. We all really believe in what we’re doing. “It’s my favorite kind of work to do, where either someone is going to love it or they’ll hate it. “We definitely don’t pull any punches as far as what shows up onscreen. Anna Paquin knows that some viewers won’t enjoy her new series “True Blood” (tonight at 9 on HBO). ![]()
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