Sam Trammell Says This Season Will Be Dark for Sam
Jarrett at PopWrap has a new, exclusive interview with our favorite barkeep, Sam Trammell, about what’s in store for his character in True Blood season 3. Sounds like the poor guy is in for a dark and twisty few weeks, and that his connection to Bill may not be a one-time encounter.
PopWrap: When we spoke at the end of season two, you hoped this season would follow Sam on the journey to meet his parents. Has it lived up to your expectations?
Sam Trammell: Oh yea. I mean it’s really deep and it’s fraught with twists and surprises. There are some majorly cool things that happen you will never see coming. They’re really twisted people.PW: Why do you think it took Sam so long to seek them out?
Sam: I think Sam has been scared to find his parents. First because they gave him up and he doesn’t know why. Also, Sam does have a bit of a dark side that emerges later this season and he starts to wonder where that came from. If his parents are the origin of that. Then there was also the warning my adopted parents give him, that they were not good people. There’s part of Sam that expects them to be a rough crew, but he couldn’t have imagined what he was getting into.PW: Sam also learns that he’s got a younger brother named Tommy — will Sam begin to question why they kept Tommy and not him?
Sam: Oh yea. Absolutely. There’s that as well. Why did they keep Tommy and not Sam? There are so many different kinds of emotion that come up in this situation. For Tommy too, I think he feels betrayed by his parents for not being told he has a brother. That’s a different kind of betrayal than Sam might feel. He literally has been lied to his whole life, it’s a pretty major deal for him.
