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True Blood newcomer, Carolyn Hennesy was recently interviewed by Lena Lamoray (an interviewer and reviewer; who is firmly on Team Eric).
Carolyn describes the background of her character, Rosalyn Harris, and her storyline in Season 5. She also reveals which “team” she’s on, and she talks about which past True Blood scenes were her faves.
Carolyn’s projects include; Cougar Town, General Hospital, and her Pandora book series for young adults. Book six of the Pandora series, Pandora Gets Greedy, comes out in June.
WARNING: This post may contain mild spoilers. If you don’t want to know – don’t read below!
Here are portions from the interview.
Lena: You also have Chris Meloni (from Law & Order: SVU) coming in.
Carolyn Hennesy: Yes, Chris Meloni and you have to give a tremendous amount of credit to the writers. The writing on that show is spectacular. The material that they give us to work with is fantastic, no slouch there.
Lena: I can’t wait to see Chris.
Carolyn Hennesy: Yes, I’ll just give you one word and that’s sexy.
Lena: Season 4 ended with Sookie (Anna Paquin) deciding not to choose Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) or Bill (Stephen Moyer) but rather go it alone. Tara (Rutina Wesley) was also shot in the head, but I’m assuming that she recovers (or they work around that because it is True Blood afterall).
Carolyn Hennesy: What I can say it this; the actress has not left the show at all (laughing).
Lena: It’s a supernatural show so they can make anything work.
Carolyn Hennesy: Yes, it’s a supernatural show and the actor is still a member of the cast. I invite you to draw your conclusions, as you will (laughing).
Lena: What can you tell me about season 5 and of course, Rosalyn Harris?
Carolyn Hennesy: She’s a vampire, very old, from Texas but Texas, in the timeline, is not very old. Rosalyn has come from somewhere else but we are just not quite sure where but she has made Texas her home for the past 100 to 200 years. She’s one of those game gals that helped to settle the Old West. She’s very comfortable branding a calf. She knows that pearls can go with anything, so she is always a lady. She can brand a calf in the morning and go to the opera at night. She’s a man’s woman. She’s what we would call a great broad. She’s very funny and very folksy, but if you cross her she will drain you on the spot. As they say with regards to Texas hair, big is just a place to start. Rosalyn has hair high enough to interfere with air traffic control.
Lena: I am looking forward to seeing that.
Carolyn Hennesy: She’s a lot of fun. I’m not wearing a wig so somehow they were able to get my short bob up into the heavens.
Lena: How did she become an Authority Council Member?
Carolyn Hennesy: She was made an Authority Council Member by the Guardian, Chris Meloni’s character (Roman). This happened centuries ago so what their relationship was like, we don’t know yet. If the Authority has been around 2000 years then she has been a member for 1900 years. As long as the Authority has been around she’s pretty much been a part of it.
Lena: What characters are we going to be seeing her with the most?
Carolyn Hennesy: All of my other Authority members as it stands now like Christopher Heyerdahl (as Dieter Braun), Peter Mensah (as Kibwe), and Chris Meloni. There are some huge, huge political battles being fought in the vampire world this season. There are a lot of heavy duty and very important council meetings.
Lena: I hope you filmed some scenes with Alexander Skarsgård because he is my favorite.
Carolyn Hennesy: Well, I have worked and I can tell you that I have worked with Alexander and Stephen and I count myself as pretty much the luckiest gal on the face of this Earth because…(expressed with a sultry voice) yes, I have worked with them (laughing).
Lena: (Laughing) Sookie is an idiot for not choosing Eric.
Carolyn Hennesy: I know but a lot of people are Team Bill. Team Bill and Team Eric, what side do you fall on. I of course, have fallen on the side of Team Sam. I love Sam. I’m a big Sam gal. I just think he’s wonderful. He’s got such heart. He’s just such tremendous heart and we find out some pretty interesting things about him. He’s not squeaky clean, but I still think he’s a wonderful guy.
Lena: I love the scene with Eric and Sookie when she sucked the silver out of him and she was disgusted by it. Are you kidding? Any girl would do that. I would certainly volunteer for that one (laughing).
Carolyn Hennesy: Anyone would (laughing) and she gets mad at him for tricking her, really…okay (laughing)…
Lena: His face was brilliant. Alexander is amazing.
Carolyn Hennesy: He is and it was wonderful, so passive like okay, now I can read your thoughts so there you go. Oh well (laughing).
Lena: (Laughing) One of my favorite scenes in the show is when Eric rips the guy apart with the highlighting foil in his hair.
Carolyn Hennesy: They (Alexander and Alan) realized that they just wanted to change Eric’s hair but how could they do it so for him to agree to that with his highlighting foils, I think that scene got the biggest laugh from me in the series so far. Watching him struggle wearing the highlighting foil, that was hilarious.
Lena: Are you prepared for the True Blood fandom?
Carolyn Hennesy: I can’t wait for the True Blood fandom. I’m used to dealing with loyal, committed, smart, intelligent, and fun fans thanks to General Hospital. I’ll match you fan for fan, in terms of loyalty, but I have a feeling that we might be dealing with a little bit of a different animal here. I can’t wait.
If you would like to read the rest of the interview, please click here!
For what it’s worth…here’s my 
Wait a minute…did she say that A LOT of people are on Team Beehl? I believe she’s wrong about that. Most people I know can’t stand him. WTF? Is she seriously deluded? And what’s up with the Sam love? While I like the character, I don’t think he belongs with Sookie at all.
What she said about her character and The Authority sounds very intriguing. I enjoyed Lena’s comments about Eric Northman, as much as I did Carolyn’s answers (for the most part). It was a great interview for me, but I think she’s in way over her head. I’m sure she’ll be introduced very quickly to the real fandom, if she keeps going with her pro-Bill, pro-Sam comments! LOL
What are your thoughts? Share ‘em below!
