We have to talk about True Blood since creator Alan Ball is from Atlanta.
He sure is! I first met him when I did a film called Towelhead, and that was about five years ago. When we were shooting that, we got to be friends, obviously because of the Georgia connection, and we were on set one day and I asked, “What are you doing next?” He said, “I’m actually gonna be doing a vampire show for HBO and I might have something for you.”
I can see you two getting together and dishing about the South.
I think being southern was just one way for us to connect. But yeah, there’s definitely a shorthand there.
You’re probably best known as Arlene Fowler, the redhead, but you’re also a redhead in real life now.
It was a wig at first because when we shot the pilot, I was a blonde in another film, so I couldn’t change it. The character in the book is a redhead, so I wanted to keep her that way. Each season of True Blood is like two weeks, so there was literally no time for the character to have cut her hair or anything. Once we got to season four, there was a bit of a break in the timeline, so everybody took that opportunity to change their looks up. I wanted to get rid of the wig and use my own hair.
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