Saturday, August 15, 2009

Sam Trammel Discusses the True Blood Frenzy

Edmonton Sun has featured an interview with Sam Trammell. We have included an excerpt here:

Just what is an innocent shape-shifter to do when the whole dang town is going nuts?“I’m kind of trying to rein in everybody,” said Sam Trammell, who plays Sam Merlotte in True Blood.Uh, that isn’t going very well at this point, is it, Sam?“No, it’s not,” Trammell said with a chuckle. “Everybody’s satisfying their lusty desires.”
"When I saw the words 'created by Alan Ball' and 'HBO', I was interested before I even read the pilot, and of course you hope things take off," Trammell said. "I was hoping we might be half as popular as Six Feet Under (Ball's previous series). But right now it's at a frenzy. I was at the Mad Men premiere and people in the business were calling relatives and asking me to talk to them on the phone. I don't know if it's vampires or if it's the talent of the people who have decided to write in that genre. It's a chicken-or-the-egg thing."

Click on the follwing link to read the entire interview here.