When season five of ‘True Blood’ ended last year we saw Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton) turn from Bill to what we are calling now Billith. This happened by his character drinking the blood of the first vampire, turning into a pile of goop then rising from it covered from head to toe in blood.
With only hours left until the new season starts the first episode of the new season starts where it left off. Stephen will not just be coming back this season as an actor but also a director on a few episodes. As you may remember he directed an episode last season and to start off this season he is doing it again. The premiere episode of this season was directed by him.
“You can imagine for as long as Bill is like that, that is how I had to direct it when I was acting on set. It was quite comic walking around naked, covered in red blood.”
Not only was he naked but he had to have the make up artist make something special for his character.
“The modern phenomenon is terms of body hair is to groom, but that is something that maybe wouldn’t have happened thousands of years ago. We played that character as having a lot of hair downstairs, so the poor makeup artist had to create these mirkins, as they’re known. And so when I had to be on set like that I made them make me a giant fur piece.”
So how is the first episode of the season going to look?
“What I tried to do was create something that we haven’t necessarily seen before. I wanted to make it into a action thriller. I wanted to make the camera another member of the cast.”
I don’t see how that will be to hard to do since when were we left last season Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard) will have to try to escape the compound.
Feel free to watch the video below of Stephen talking about the new season.
Source: Hollywood Reporter.com – “‘True Blood’ Premiere: Stephen Moyer on Directing as Naked, Bloody Bill”
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