Walter Scott asks … Joe Manganiello (star of HBO’s True Blood, 33)

WS: Did you get cast as the werewolf Alcide Herveaux thanks to your muscles?

JM: In the books he’s physically imposing, but if he had a beer gut and a comb-over and was missing his teeth, that’s how I’d look in the part.

True Blood’s Joe Manganiello Talks ‘Werewolf Dating’

WS: You were an athletic kid. How did your dad react when you wanted to become an actor?

JM: Any father who has a 6-foot-5 kid who can run, throw, catch, dunk, and slide — I mean, you’re gonna be upset. But recently he wrote me a poem about a werewolf and framed it and brought it to me. I started crying. It was just this magical moment.

WS: Are there any similarities between you and Alcide?

JM: Yeah, there’s an episode where I cook a steak and walk off to eat it without a fork. That’s me — but not on a date. At least not on a first date.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “True Blood” co-stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer have taken their true love to the altar.

The couple’s publicists said in a statement the 28-year-old Paquin and 40-year-old Moyer were married Saturday night at a ceremony in Malibu, Calif., “surrounded by their family and friends.”

On the hit HBO series, Paquin stars as Sookie Stackhouse, a Southern waitress who falls for vampire Bill Compton, played by Moyer. Compton is a Confederate veteran who was turned into a bloodsucker around the Civil War era.

Paquin also co-starred in the first three “X-Men” superhero movies and won a supporting-actress Academy Award at age 11 for 1993′s “The Piano.”

The stars of HBO’s hit series True Blood, Alexander Sarsgaard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, have stepped up the “wow” level a good deal with their appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone. More from E! News:

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The third season of True Blood started with near-record ratings, and HBO is already looking forward to next year. The network has renewed the blood-sucking series for another season.

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“The new season of True Blood is off to a terrific start, as enthusiasm for this unique show continues to build among both subscribers and critics,” Michael Lombardo, HBO’s president, said in a statement. “We’re looking forward to more chills from Alan Ball and his gifted team next year.”

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Season 4 of True Blood is set to begin production in early 2011, with the 12 brand-new episodes scheduled to air on HBO later that summer.

“I am beyond thrilled to be able to continue working with this amazing cast and crew,” series creator Alan Ball said. “This is the most fun I have ever had.”

The wait is over!

Season 3 of HBO’s True Blood premiered last night and, thankfully, picked right back up where it left off last season.

Warning: If you haven’t watched it yet, go do that first and then come back here. Spoilers abound.

So, as you remember from the end of last season, Bill has been vampire-napped from the fancy French restaurant and a confused Sookie is left wondering what happened.
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As fans of the HBO series True Blood squirm with anticipation for Season 3 — which won’t be here until June 13 — the network’s marketing of the show has taken a pretty cool tack.

Posters available on the show’s site at HBO.com don’t play off the series’ sexy stars, but instead focus on bringing the vampire angle home to viewers. It’s some fun stuff, and here are a couple of examples of what will be a 12-poster series:

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Wow.

First of all, this post is filled to the brim with spoilers so if you haven’t yet watched the season 2 finale of “True Blood,” stop what you’re doing and go watch it right now. And then come back here and read this.

Moving on …

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This is one of those do-not-miss television moments.

Tonight – finally – we find out just what it will take to stop evil Maryann. But we know it will not be without great sacrifice … if she can even be stopped at all. Who will be her final victim this season?

What else will be resolved tonight?

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Evan Rachel Wood is rumored to be dating her ‘True Blood’ co-star Alexander Skarsgard.

The ‘Wrestler’ actress is said to be so smitten with the actor she even flew to the set of his latest film this weekend so she could spend time with him.

A source told gossip blogger Perez Hilton: “Evan Rachel Wood and Alexander Skarsgard might be a thing.

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Well, whaddya know. Hugo’s a traitor, too.