We all want to know who was his childhood crush??
“I saw Tootsie with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. [Laughs] I didn’t know what it was, but I wanted to watch that move over and over again.”
Not a lot of people know but he grew up in a bohemian household with his dads friends around must of the time. With that he must have learned a lot about women then.
“I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild. Illegal substances floating around. People were drunk. I was born in the late ‘70s. There was so much love there.”
So does that mean there were a bunch of older women offering to take his virginity??
“[Laughs] No, no, it wasn’t like that. The problem was when I got a little older- when I was 12, 13, 14- and bringing girls over after school. Dad was always walking around naked with a glass of red wine in his hand. He didn’t care if there were people he didn’t know at the house. My buddies didn’t care. They’d seen him naked a million times. But it got a little uncomfortable when you brought a girl over, and dad showed up naked with a glass of wine and tried to give her a hug.”
So growing up in a household like that must have made him very comfortable with being naked. So what does he think about nudity since there is a lot of it on True Blood.
“Culturally, it’s a little different. There’s such a taboo here with nudity. In some people’s eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that. If a kid sees a nipple on television, how is that more damaging than watching someone bash someone else’s head in with a baseball bat?”
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Source: Elle Magazine – “Once Bitten…”
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