New Alan Ball Interview

ICG Magazine’s Matt Hurwitz got to talk with Alan recently about True Blood’s second season and some behind the scenes chatting.

ICG: I get the sense from watching the show that you’ve been able to create your own rulebook for how to approach the vampire genre, which must be a lot of fun. Alan Ball: Well, some credit must be given to Charlaine Harris, the woman who wrote the books that the show is based upon. But, it is true, there’s a certain freedom in this kind of storytelling, because of the supernatural element, that I haven’t experienced before. The whole premise of vampires mainstreaming into real life is fascinating. We wanted to avoid all the vampire movie clichés because these are vampires and humans living together in the real world. The vampires don’t have weird prosthetic heads or crazy contact lenses that come out, like we’re used to seeing in movies. They just have fangs, which we designed to look biological as opposed to magical. We modeled them after rattlesnake fangs that lay along the roof of their mouth.

The fangs are a visual effect? When they drop down we use an effect. When the fangs are already in, they are just wearing mouthpieces.

You can read the entire interview here. Thanks to Barbie for the heads up!