Carrie Preston on Her Emmy Win and True Blood with Hollywood Take

Carrie Preston (Arlene Fowler) recently spoke with Hollywood Take about her current projects and of course her Emmy win for Elsbeth Tascioni on the Good Wife. Carrie talked about also True Blood’s upcoming season and her upcoming appearence on FOX’s the Following as well as her recently released film Vino Veritas.

Winning an Emmy Award is a prestigious honor. But when one actually wins, what do you say? Preston found herself in this situation when she won one this past September and revealed that she was terrified of being played off the stage:

“I was so thrilled and excited. I really did not think I was going to win because I’d been nominated for a Critics’ Choice award, which Jane Fonda won, so I thought she was also going to win the Emmy. I had 30 seconds to get to the stage and give an acceptance speech. All I was thinking was, I better talk really fast so they don’t cut me off. I was in complete and utter terror. I remember watching the clock flashing in the back, and I finished just as it went to zero. I’m a theater person. So luckily all those years of being on stage came in handy.”

Being on the Good Wife thankfully is the exact opposite. The actress filmed a new episode of the series last month says that when she’s on set, she’s treated like family and not as a guest. She also had nothing but nice things to say about the show’s leading lady.

“Julianna [Margulies] and I were friends before I got the job. We did a short-lived Broadway play together about seven years ago. She’s just a peach – a great cast leader and down-to-earth, kind, talented woman.”

Intelligence relating to what’s actually happening in True Blood season 7 has been scarce. Last time we saw Arlene, she had taken over Sam’s (Sam Trammell) bar and called it Bellefleur’s. Hep-V infected vampires were also running wild drawing the lines between humans and vampires even though the vampires now need humans more than ever. For Arlene, she’s content to stay right with the humans:

“We have the first couple of scripts, and it’s going to be an exciting ride. My character pretty much lives in the human world and is less inclined to be hanging out with the vampires.”

Carrie also talked a little bit about her upcoming appearance on the Following, where she plays a follower of leading man James Purefoy’s character. But she remained tight-lipped on specifics:

 “I work with James Purefoy, who is lovely and very talented at being creepy. We have some really interesting stuff, and I’ll be interested in seeing the final edit.”

On the film front, fans can see Carrie in Vino Veritas, a film recently released on VOD. Shot in 12 days in Nebraska, Vino tells the story of Claire, a straight-laced conservative wife and mother who drinks a truth telling wine on Halloween:

“That was really fun for me, uncovering the real Claire underneath this shell, all the delicious stuff going on inside. It’s the shell we all present to the world. We all have things we are afraid to share with others, that we feel we’d be judged for. I relate in that way. I liked getting inside someone who could let herself be free. We all long for that freedom, whether like Claire it’s through a glass of wine or, for me, in my work.”

Source: HollywoodTake.com- “CARRIE PRESTON ON ‘TRUE BLOOD’ VAMPIRES, WINNING THE EMMY FOR ‘GOOD WIFE’ AND HER NEW FILM ‘VINO VERITAS’

Image Credits: Gabriel Olson and Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images, HBO, CBS, and Vino Veritas Film

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