Stephen Moyer who plays Bill Compton in our favorite HBO show True Blood sat down with the Advocate to talk about True Blood, wishing he had a bigger gay following and more.
It seemed from the very beginning of True Blood the LGBT community has embraced the show. Are you aware of your own gay fans?
“I feel very at home in that world, so I’m very pleased about it, but I may come in fourth behind Joe Manganiello (Alcide Herveaux), Alex Skarsgård (Eric Northman), and Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse), if I’m really honest. I’m a little upset. Once upon a time I was doing very well in that area, but after Alex and Joe joined the show, I naturally went down in the pecking order.”
You have said in the past that women have asked you to bite them. Have men ever asked you to bite them?
“I’ve been asked to bite in West Hollywood. If the person looks clean and wholesome, I might oblige.”
There has been a lot of hear say that True Blood has alienated some of the viewers of the show because it has become “too gay”. What’s your thought on this?
“Is there such a thing as too gay? We live in a very different world than we grew up in, so if people can’t embrace that aspect of our show, then that’s a shame. I certainly don’t think it’s specifically gay, but our show ticks a lot of boxes for a lot of people. We have an incredibly broad audience, one of the widest demographics in terms of sexuality and age groups, so obviously we’re doing something right.”
You have gotten some action with a fantasy scene that had you and Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte). Was that a hard scene to do?
“Not at all. We had an awful lot of fun that day, and I happen to think Sam’s a very good-looking man. We also had a lot of fun lighting the scene with our shirtless stand-ins, Nate and Lenny. [Laughs] Not that that particular scene was a challenge, but anything that seems like it could be a challenge in the script is just meat for an actor. So I looked at that scene like, Oh, my God, that’s fantastic. I can’t wait to do that!”
Sam’s character also had a sex dream and a very imminent kiss between you two that was cut short by Sam’s phone ringing. Did you secretly wish that the phone has gone off just a little later then it did?
“[Laughs] I think we’ve all had times where the alarm’s gone off or the phone’s rung earlier than you wanted it to.”
Now will Bill and Eric just have angry vampire sex already and get the sexual tension out of the way?
“I’ve been asking myself that question for a long time. Alex and I would absolutely embrace that. Last year, when Sookie had her fantasy about the two of them with her, we even suggested it. Of course, Bill and Eric together isn’t necessarily Sookie’s fantasy.”
We are sure you’ve seen the photoshopped version of your nude 2010 Rolling Stone cover that had Anna removed from the shoot completely and pushed you and Alex together.
“That happened very quickly, didn’t it? Alex and I were both made aware of it right away. I thought it was hilarious. When the photographer suggested the idea for the original shot, we had already shot what we thought would be the cover. Alex and I were actually sitting there eating, and the last thing we wanted to do was take our tops off. Literally 10 minutes later, we had dropped trou and were in position being sprayed with blood. It was only until an hour later, when Anna and I were driving home and stopped at a traffic light, that we looked at each other and said, “What in God’s name did we just agree to?” Then Alex pulled up to the side of us, we rolled down our window, and he said, “What did we just do?””
Have you seen the bromance building between Bill and Eric this season as the two of them have been forced to become greater allies this season?
“Yeah, it’s a situation where the two of them realize that it’s pointless to be against each other. They’ve both been rejected by Sookie, and they’re both in deep water because of what they’ve done, so they both know that the best thing to do is to join forces. I like to think that somewhere in their past, maybe the ’40s, ’50s, ’60s, or earlier on, Bill and Eric were actually friends and partners in crime. I think they had a messy breakup, which is why there’s an animosity between them when we first see them in season 1. Hopefully we’ll get to see what really went on between them in a future season.”
Are you a little bit excited to see Joe Manganiello in Magic Mike?
“We’ve been privy to most of Joe’s performance in Magic Mike just from being on set with him. Joe is not somebody who’s afraid to take his top off or hump desks. If you went up to Joe and said, “I hear you’re playing a stripper,” he would do the dance for you then and there. He would probably do it for my dog Banjo. He has no shame.”
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Source: Advocate.com – “Stephen Moyer Asks Is There Such a Thing as Too Gay”
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