When TrueBlood’s Bailey Noble got her job as Adilyn she had a ritual she’d go through every time she received the next week’s shooting script.
“I never knew how long I’d last on the show,” says the actress from her home in Los Angeles. “So I’d sit down and scan the script to make sure I was still alive at the end of the episode.”
Given “True Blood’s” propensity for spilling the red stuff, you can’t blame Noble for being worried. After playing a big part in the finale of the sixth season, Noble was upgraded to series regular for the show’s seventh and final season.
“It was like a dream come true,” says Noble. “I’m having such a blast. Everybody in the cast is so wonderful. And from day one, they all welcomed me with open arms.”
As the half-faerie, half-human Adilyn Bellefleur, the daughter of Sheriff Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer) and faerie Maurella (Kristina Anapau) she already has been through a lot in fictional burg of Bon Temps, La., including an attack from vampire Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) which took the lives of all three of her half-faerie sisters.
Since faeries age so rapidly, Adilyn looks Noble’s age of 23 but she’s really only 6 months old, if that.
“I kind of have to remember what I was like when I was a teenager, a young teenager,” Noble says. “Adilyn is having a lot of firsts. She’s so hungry to learn things. I have to be a bit naïve as well as optimistic and open.”
Noble can’t reveal what happens to Adilyn in Season 7 but she promises the show will go back to its roots with plenty of action, romance and scares.
Noble likely survives until the series finale since she was on the set for a June table read of the last episode. Emotions ran high as the cast members gathered together to wring the last drops from the final episode.
“I’ve already grown to love everybody so it’s been sad,” Noble says. “It didn’t hit me before but on Monday we had our final table read and it suddenly seemed surreal that it was coming to an end. Emotions were coming up that I didn’t think were there.”
In the seventh season, Noble has gotten to work regularly alongside Chris Bauer — one of her favorite castmates — and she’s had the opportunity of being directed by Stephen Moyer, who stars in the series, alongside his real-life wife Anna Paquin, as the gentlemanly vamp Bill.
“I feel like I’ve learned so much from Chris Bauer and it was great to be directed by Stephen, who is as amazing a director as he is an actor,” she says.
Read the complete interview with Bailey at articles.mcall.com
