Kevin Alejandro Is Having Fun on True Blood
Kevin Alejandro joins True Blood this season as Jesus Velasquez. In a new interview with IESB’s Christine Radish, he reveals that, well, he can’t reveal a lot about the story, but he is having fun!
IESB: You get to distract yourself from waiting to hear if the show will get picked up, by playing a role in Season 3 of True Blood. What can you say about your involvement with the show and what it’s like to play somebody so different from Nate Moretta on Southland?
Kevin: Part of the reason why I really wanted to do the show was because it is completely different from Nate Moretta. But, there’s not a whole lot I can tell you about True Blood. They’re very secretive about what they do over there, but I am having a good time with that. Just the fact that the characters are so different is great, and Alan Ball and all those guys are awesome to work for. It’s just completely different. That’s what I like about it.
IESB: Your character, Jesus Velasquez, is connected to Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) and his mother (Alfre Woodard). How has it been to work with those two?
Kevin: I feel honored that people would actually trust me to be part of a crew like that. Nelsan is a Juilliard man. And, Alfre Woodard is Alfre Woodard. I just feel great that people think that I can hold my own with those guys and that I have good chemistry with them.
IESB: Were you nervous about going into an already established and successful show as the new guy, as opposed to having been there from the beginning?
Kevin: It’s a very different kind of nerves. To sit in the table reads for True Blood, with it going on its third season, you see all these very evolved characters, whereas I’m coming in to try to create one on this show that’s already been established. That’s nerve-wracking. I hope that I can hold up my end of the deal. Whereas going into Southland and being a part of it from the very beginning is nerve-wracking, but it’s something that you’re whole group of people are going through together. We’re all creating the same thing, at the same time. So, they’re two totally different worlds.
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