Get a True Blood Sneak Peek from Alan, Sam, Deborah & Michelle

The wait between new episodes of True Blood may have seemed hellacious these last couple of weeks, but the sneak peeks that are coming out now are almost worse! Not that we aren’t devouring every word.

Michelle Forbes gives TV Guide some juicy insights into Maryann with more to come on Monday:

TVGuide.com: What did they tell you in advance about Maryann?
Forbes: There were discussions about Greek mythology, and yet you open a script and you’re dancing to the B-52’s. It was a little hard trying to understand how the two mesh together, but with these writers and [series creator Alan Ball], the trust factor is massive. Everything became evident the more I sat still.

TVGuide.com: What exactly did you talk about?
Forbes: We talked about Bacchus and Dionysus; what a maenad is, how they’re led by appetite, how they thrive off other peoples’ appetites, chaos and destruction. But, you know, that was the diving board, but it wasn’t the pool.

TVGuide.com: So Maryann is a hybrid of some sort?
Forbes: Yes. With these characters, you can do as much research as you want, but you’re not going to find out that vampires sometimes wear tracksuits and flip-flops. So you take that foundation, and then you jump into the pool. You just get wet.

(Read the entire interview here…)

Meanwhile, E!Online got some scoop from Sam Trammell, Deborah Ann Woll and Alan Ball himself. Here’s a snippet from Alan:

Sometimes people on this show are just covered in blood—the first episodes are so graphic. Are you going for a comic-book look for the show? Are you going for a specific visual type?
The reality of the fictional world of vampires is that it’s bloody. Blood is everywhere, they feed on it, and they feed on people when they are having sex, so it’s a messy world. If you’re a vampire you’re not going to want an all-white house. You’re going to need a lot of Scotchgard.

(Read the full article here…)

Need more to tide you over until Sunday evening? Check out video previews here , read our fashion profile on Maryann here, and get some words of wisdom for Tara here.