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Season 5 of HBO's sexy hit series True Blood ended with Bill Compton covered in blood and naked after he drank the blood of the first vampire. So coming into the 2013 season of the vampire drama, actor Stephen Moyer had to deal with even more blood since the new season starts off where the last ended. In fact Moyer even directed the season 6 premiere, so he had to work double shifts while covered in the goop. Do you think his costar and wife Anna Paquin minded the nudity?
"You can imagine for as long as Bill is like that, that is how I had to direct it when I was acting on set," Moyer revealed to The Hollywood Reporter. "It was quite comic walking around naked, covered in red blood."
The 43-year-old English actor also directed the eighth episode of season five, and wanted to helm this Sunday's premiere so that he had more time to focus on direction without having to act in episodes leading up to it.
He also got to talk about the anticipated opening scene of the next season.
"What I tried to do was create something that we haven't necessarily seen before," he said. "I wanted to make it into an action thriller. I wanted to make the camera another member of the cast."
Also during his interview with THR, Moyer also revealed that he had a humorous prop made for him and his character for the show.
"The modern phenomenon in terms of body hair is to groom, but that is something that maybe wouldn't have happened thousands of years ago. We played that character as having a lot of hair downstairs, so the poor makeup artist had to create these mirkins, as they're known," he explained. "And so when I had to be on set like that I made them make me a giant fur piece."
Check out the interview right here:
