WARNING – SEASON 5 CASTING – don’t read below if you don’t want to know!
True-blood.net is today reporting that the role of the vampire Alexander Drew (who was turned vampire when he was just 9 years old) has now been cast and has gone to young actor Jacob Hopkins.
Jacob certainly has the right angelic look that could more than adequately disguise the dangerous vampire that lies beneath, and those baby blue eyes would surely melt the hardest of hearts. Child vampires such as Anne Rice’s tragic Claudia or the eerie Eli from “Let the right one in” can have an amazing impact on the mostly adult vamp-loving audience. We will have to wait and see if this member of The Authority is going to become a classic child vamp or whether the True Blood writers will play him for laughs and make Alexander, who loves smoking and razzing his fellow council members, a more comic character.
Let us know what you think of the newest casting and whether you are looking forward to seeing a child vamp on True Blood.
