Alan Ball Interview
The LA Times has an interview with Alan Ball.
Check it all out here.
Here is an excerpt:
GM: What’s your take on the current vampire craze?
AB: I think vampires are just a huge metaphor for sex. I think obviously a lot of people fantasize about being taken by a vampire. Maybe that’s a way to fantasize about being taken in a way that is so not possible of happening that it makes it safer to have those fantasies, I don’t know.
GM: Denis O’Hare‘s Russell Edgington really stole the show last year. Did you and he work closely developing that character?
AB: We did. Once we started breaking the stories for the season, we were saying who’s going to play this guy. I can’t remember who came up with it, but everybody was like, “oh we love him, he’s such a great actor.” I called him and said would you like to do this. He was in Romania doing some movie where he played a Roman, I think it was “The Eagle” movie with Channing Tatum. I said, “I’m just such a huge fan of yours, I just have to gush shamelessly.” He said, “Right back at you.” I talked to him about it. He basically said, that sounds good to me and then business affairs got into it. It was great. Denis is a great actor. He would send me these long emails of his back story that he was coming up with and I would say, “Well, this all works except for this thing because in four episodes this is going to happen so it has to be this kind of thing.” He was just a delight from beginning to end.
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