Denis O’Hare Discusses King of Mississippi, Sookie, Bill and Eric and More

Denis O’Hare recently spoke with NYMag.com about his character on True Blood, some of his other projects, and who he thinks Sookie should be with, Eric or Bill.

On his accent:

Well, I was born in Missouri, but I was raised in Detroit. One of my stock and trades is accents. I hired a dialect coach and said I wanted to do a full straight on Mississippi, and I want upper-caste. I listened to Hailey Barber, a lot, the Mississippi governor. I also learned some words in Gaulish. We decided to give Russell a Germanic tinge, figuring he spent most of his time from about 500 A.D. to 1200 A.D. in Charlemagne’s kingdom and the Frankish kingdom. When he reverts to type, he reverts to German.

On whether Sookie should end up with Eric or Bill:

[Laughs.] You know, I couldn’t choose. That would be disloyal. Like Queen Victoria said, the minute she marries somebody, she loses a lot of her allure. So I think as a good Queen Victoria, she needs to keep her options open.

On what he can say about the finale:

Come on! We have days to go. I’ve been so good. Will I blow it now? I will tell you this, it’s fun and it’s dramatic. There’s some great writing in this episode. I have a fantastic scene with Sookie. It’s a bookend scene of the one where we had a long fireside chat and I ask, “What are you?” Now we have another scene where I’m negotiating trying to get her to help me and it comes to a bad end.

Read the entire interview at Vulture.