USA Today Talks to Alan Ball, Anna Paquin, Etc. About True Blood

True Blood spoilers have been lean lately, but Bill Keveney at USA Today managed to wrangle a little bit of information out of Alan Ball, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer.

Bill’s disappearance “is not really the way every romantic dream proposal goes. The girl bursts into tears, runs to the bathroom, comes back to say yes, and the dude is gone,” says Paquin. “That’s going to be a pretty major plotline for Sookie.”

As Season 3 begins, Sookie will go in search of Bill, aided by handsome werewolf Alcide Herveaux (Joe Manganiello), who’s assigned to the task by vampire sheriff Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard). Despite that arrangement, vampires and werewolves (who have been at each other’s throats in the Twilight and Underworld movie series) are not the best of super-friends.

“Eric hates them,” says Skarsgard, covered with white makeup and accents of blood red during a break on the show’s L.A. set. “In his opinion, werewolves are very primitive, stupid, disgusting, not sophisticated. After a while, you’ll find out there’s a deeper reason he hates them.”

At the same time, the actors were delighted with real wolves on the set. “They’re extraordinary creatures,” says Moyer, also sporting vampiric pallor. “They never stop moving. They’re enormous and powerful. That’s been the highlight so far — of the things I’m allowed to talk about.”

True-Blood.net is quoted in the article, too. We hope we sound smart! Read the full article – including Anna Paquin’s thoughts on continuing the show for 10 seasons, why Alexander Skarsgard thinks the show is a hit, and how Kristin Bauer prepares in her coffin – here.