i went to you and i had an audition for the piano that was advertised in our local newspaper and i got the take you acted before we know. what made you go tagging along with records all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king our special guest at a packed with the oscar and golden globe winning actress personally and for her role as safety stackhouse to have a fairy tale of the waitress on the h.b.o. vampire thriller true blood it's now in its final season true blood airs sundays at nine pm on h.b.o. you like there were funny wars and this is i'm happy i mean it so it's been an amazing run it's kind of sad that it's coming to an end for various reasons but it's also really exciting you know means we kind of we did it with all divisions. i

think that the crew that i've been able to work with on the show are pretty much hands down the most incredibly talented people i never hope to work with and obviously i'm sure some of us will cross paths in later years but i'll never read this exact group again because it was time to you know and but it's and you know you can't ever completely recreate have and so that's sad but also you know we've made some amazing friendships some you know it's time to move on this season started with you two other shows principle to do is the killing yeah we've got the script surprise you i mean true blood has a high body count so you know we like to kill people and how we keep it interesting especially people who the audience actually cares about because sometimes in previous years has been times where we're killing a lot of people but they're not people the character the audience are invested in so you know if it doesn't make us sad then it's probably not going to the audience that is that you. do you think. it's

a good tell me they never show run the brand but mr though this is his direct quote heads are going to roll. more that we said can we say this a lot more. us feel in the final it's all done yeah we're done when you shoot the final of the sort of anything i did twenty five of them have us at c.n.n. that unless there was hard well what was it like for you well last day i mean it was hard but also doesn't really feel like it you know has really really finished i mean because the show still airing we still have you know we're all heading off like comic-con and various other things as a group together so we're kind of getting to sort of weaned off but it is still it's very surreal and at savin but also kind of exciting you never play the kind of go do you. know them i mean by conventionally like in the act of i'm blonde and

perky and happy very sexy and yet as opposed to like you know dark and brooding yeah no did you get it or did you before i auditioned. quite persistently. really well i was in the few times and you know kept on sort of being surprised that they actually wanted to see me back because usually you know being a brunette is like an insurmountable obstacle to being cast as somebody who's blonde. i mean i've literally had for you know something like a blond person i don't actually know what that means i kind of use and take it as a compliment. to show off i still are now. some good colorist as it turns out. but no and then you know eventually they offered me the part did you like this group did you think true blood would be a hit i mean my taste is pretty skewed sort of left of center so i mean it was right up my alley to whether or not other people were going to like it was like

while you there were all completely lost our minds which is completely implausible or this is going to be fantastic but either way it's been so much fun you know in retrospect it was a bit. because it's so out there and it's incredibly fun escapism and fantasy but also with you know aspects that are incredibly strong emotionally poignant and truthful and it's fun to watch but all the said and as you said to be nude is yeah losses like the time she agreed to do more so almost to me told me once that six scenes are the hardest to do one because it's hard to get turned on two because the crew standing room got to do certain positioning i mean we just are so much of a perfect it's kind of become relatively monday i mean that in the best possible way i mean it'll be sort of you know four five in the morning we're out the middle of some cemetery or woods or something i mean it does become rather technical you

know on the show weird it is very weird i mean alan ball's weird we're all weird i mean that as you know a badge of honor did you have any trouble playing movie you know if you played move before. in movies you know so it was no problem for you i mean you know. what is good green and i grew up in new zealand we're not particularly hung up on nudity as being a sort of very scandalous. thing i mean you know a little all right it's part of life as you know if you go to cemeteries you is was that was it a weird showed to do i mean that's why moments where you realize you're having a really earnest conversation about the most outlandish. bizarre out of you know this planet kind of thing that you know like wow we're having on like a really detailed multiple department heads like all comes you know but if this and that and then if he explodes like that should the blood go like. this weird but

they have what is that doing i do but it's so much fun it is my cut are you kidding me i mean that some of the best stuff is the out so far detached from actual reality as a viewer why do you think we do we like them. i mean there's a sort of. mystery and intenseness to their carnal and primitive drives and death and it's all kind of you know death and sexuality and. ravenous desires all being kind of mixed up together and it being sort of dangerous and scary you know it doesn't totally surprise me that people got into television which they had to go anywhere right and then they will h.b.o. i mean h.b.o. lets us their limits everything. and we have pushed that you know that on you met

steven moore acting with them yes i did tell me about that we should. be doing the said she knows it. well i got cast and then we were still they were still looking for their bill compton. first i was actually stand travelcard cast and ryan kwanten got cast and then i think i was the third one and then we were still looking for a bill so i came in to read opposite him for his you know studio audition is. all. so what happens while i mean they they do these chemistry it's to make sure that you guys are going to click. so then i always find it funny when people are shocked that like oh you guys are together it's like whoa whoa you know. we did it was it right away you know i mean you know we're both professionals and i was signing up for very long job and obviously you don't know like you know ruin things for everybody else if you're a little fling go sideways so you know we're relatively so as being sexual scenes

with your husband was i mean. was it good was it was anything weird but i mean. really. i mean all the stuff that we shoot sort of all the sex stuff is always quite sort of melodramatic and there's fangs and there's blood and there's all kinds of stuff that just you know i mean i don't know about your bedroom but doesn't happen on mine. so there's a huff of how to just not really so well you can't take it too seriously or search through some of those who was in with those to do what he did he did i mean suck envelop kind of you know done the rounds but also that's how we met and that was the show we were on and from the pilot i mean obviously wasn't either of our characters but ryan kwanten character has some pretty frisky action with you know one of the gals and i was like oh ok that's sort of where the show is heading we were exactly shod zoomed pregnancy doing the shooting while they we tried to time

it quite carefully. and they're up until last couple episodes there was a lot of creative costuming and creative blocking and then they just kind of like c.g.i. i doubt the bump. really literally but you had a play scenes with the oh yeah absolutely sex scenes with the back actually so he's got less action that. they're good yeah there was want there was only one scene that we had to shoot while i was in front pregnant that was basically i mean it's he's having this like fantasy while he's having sex with salomon who turns into a little it and then it turns into me and then back into her so i was like oh wow it's like a basically like a a lineup of gang bang of my husband was pregnant i mean obviously not all of the same time but you know we shot from shoulders up just to make it not like ok that's actually kind of creepy and none producing bisexual while i mean i am married to my husband and we are happily monogamously married were bush said no i don't think

it's a past tense thing you know what are you still straight if you're with somebody i mean doesn't mean you're not you know if you were to break up with them or they were to die you know it doesn't prevent your sexuality for a big ok now i'm just saying you know it doesn't but they really work like that are you surprised as as left as you are as you say are you surprised how quickly public perception of same sex is changed while i think it's fantastic years ago but the same sex marriage is on the way to every state i mean i don't think anyone would have believed comfort her i can't for it what happened i mean honestly. that i can't really answer i do know that the more people who are outspoken advocate for you know same sex unions and the rights i have to believe that that makes a difference and the sort of level of ignorance and hatred just becomes less acceptable

. and the more people understand i don't know i just education education and exposure and just like well you don't really have an option of being completely closed minded and bigoted so you've been television on the up to do with it. said i i watch a lot of t.v. but our show certainly has a lot of you know we're going to hear a lot of a lot of sexual fluidity so i mean but then i think there are still people who you know they have their feelings and their beliefs and their car and want to stay there you grew up in new zealand we had parents open about this too to raise a child is sure but i also grew up on movie sets like there's kind of see a lot of a lot of everything i just never thought it was a big deal or sort of the i don't know it was there was no stigma did you have an action and me of course we didn't already know you using it now and i don't know is

this i kind of turns off and on if i'm speaking to my mother my sister on the phone my accent kind of comes back a lot more when you're at home with my husband cause he's english that sort of dulls down my american accent but it's not quite my full new zealand accent or the twins going to speak live i have no idea what a good let's find out when they start talking the world will never forget her us we're up next. conkling the academy awards as a kid about would be the mother of genetic. technology innovation. developments around russia. the future covered.

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pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i'm wrong researcher. what's it like having twins. it's got to be a hassle part to it as well i'm pretty sure that most of parenting involves some kind of hassles i don't think it's a home you know if you have a big family i'm sure that has its own challenges and you said that you were painfully shy. you are absolutely right if you get over shyness right now. i still am sort of uncertain context not big and good in big groups oh you know.

and you can a shi'a and large groups of people that i know is your husband like being a father i hope sarkozy has four kids only as. long as it is of course and that of course the you don't have the oh you mean in the sort of like cinderella. like disney version where the wicked witch i am now we're all good one another screw the age of eleven how did you deal with too much too soon what i mean or oh ha. well again i mean i didn't have anything else to compare it to that was just sort of something that happened and then this but you know my parents were really really conservative about what they wanted me to do as far as you know they weren't really too keen on me actually continuing with acting they were kind of worried that it would be sort of damaging to get into it i went to you and i had an audition for the piano that was advertised in our local newspaper and i got the part if you acted before i don't know what made you go. you know what

friends really they were dish and. she said i'll give it a shot there's like oh i'll come to. all right what was it like to work a mud film i mean. my leg really specific memories are a little fuzzy because that was twenty three years ago. but i mean i remember enjoying it enough that i wanted to do it again well you shocked about nomination winning that whole while i didn't know what an oscar was so after someone explained to me exactly what that was. i was pretty surprised spink true to read the legacy reported that you saw the piano for the first time as an adult why did you say that was eleven it would have been a bit inappropriate and then i'd you know i don't really sit around and watch my movies so i didn't really kind of come up and really i only watch it because i stop i get asked if i'd seen a lot i was like oh i haven't seen it yet i got sort of bored of having to say no i

haven't seen it would you think of it i mean you know they should watch it when i'm a bit older and be more detached about it the time is now it's a great film well i'm in it so that's kind of hard to judge. ok i'm not very like you know i don't have a lot of objectivity in your and then also watching the people that you know like like holly was like my mom like have a graphic sex which was kind of the. other unique career for someone you know yeah you know i'm very fortunate and also directed by philip seymour hoffman right i was in the play with rory of living when i was that push that was broadway in new york what was it like working with him extraordinary extraordinary he was great director great i mean i've never been to drama school or acting school larry and anyway and that was the first time i'd ever been on stage and. i mean it is a completely different beast which he was very kind of you know heavy about in the beginning was like you and i was like just how we want to know and you know. you

say jump out like a high you know. and he in the you know best possible way beat the everloving whatever me oh my god he's missed you know hasn't had extraordinary high standards for himself and expected that of everyone else nobody comes around until now but it was a very tough and like i respond well to you know it was a real tragedy his loss is a great. you and your husband have a deal to develop other projects with h.b.o. what's in the works. we have a bunch of stuff both some potential stuff or series from an acer is leaving him and nothing totally imminent we're kind of looking to sort of take a minute and you know breathe relax and get some sleep before we jump back into anything i get into the business because i've been doing this a really long time and that things fun but you know it's also you know interesting to expand and give yourself more responsibilities and more challenges and sort of

create your own destiny as opposed to just sitting there waiting for stuff to land on your lap when you do other work to help salute but you know i. just interesting i like i know there's probably some actors who don't really pay a lot of attention to the production end of stuff on their arms that i always do i find interesting i you know i am you know the details are things they're not doing yeah exactly or like why are we not doing this or i would you know the details interest me and i'm a bit of a geek so i think being a producer is probably a pretty well the details are too blood was to drive you wild well i mean i think nature of all of us a lot of it is that things that. you know i or our producers and everyone are incredibly incredibly. wonderful but must. just such a headache for the last seven years trying to make all the crazy moving parts actually land in the right place at the right time i mean it's just it's

a very high concept show a little nuts right oh yeah absolutely no need to do shoot your pursuit well that depends anywhere from fourteen to twenty five days i think was a lot so we'll yeah that's a lot of t.v. series delusion usually it's a week we we've had some very long episodes but that's the other thing about h.b.o. they they put their you know put their support behind the actual products of the biggest movie maker no it's me yes i mean no i can't i can't imagine having to work anywhere else because of the amount of creative freedom that you have and the degree to which they will financially support that i just i'm sure there's other places that i just haven't worked for yet that has that but nothing i've experienced so far comes even close to being like that and that's why i want to keep working with them and you do a sitcom i don't know if i'm funny no i don't know i've never done comedy so i might not be funny were born to new blonde well who knows i mean war again only people in the room to do you know i'd kill people i think

a couple times on. but obviously that wasn't real no i you know honestly i don't really have a sort of specific plan of things i definitely you know want to do or definitely not want to do is really more you know character and story and who i'd be working with but you know i guess at some point i'll find out whether i'm funny and if i'm not that might be really funny. and i'll never do that again we have some social media questions crystal for radio via twitter wants to know if you think good trueblood movie could ever have them i mean i don't really know where. that's a little hard to answer because obviously i can't tell you what happened at the very end of the season but i'm not really sure where it would go from where we were going up to the embassy i hope so. i love b s twenty three tweets what was your favorite part about playing suki on true blood so he is kind of the ultimate. compilation female character that doesn't really exist she gets to sort of like

where cute clothes and be cute and blonde and perky but like kick ass and get the everloving whatever kicked out of her and be involved in all the stuff that normally plot wise would be sort of the male characters like her oh she's awesome i mean ok she makes imports royce's sometimes but. but then also if she doesn't make poor choices there's no drama at vinnie's in tweets any funny stories from the said digital laughs yes yeah not want of them that are super simple you know just via instagram want to know what made you want to become an actress and you went on that i mean i think with your friends i didn't actually really intend to be an actress i kind of ended up having opportunities and sort of gradually realising i liked it and then did you get stuff right after the piano yeah but my my mum was pretty and i were pretty you know sort of careful about what they let me into rosemary all done in ceramic do you have any experiences of the spirit world like your character . no. thank heavens brigid tweets is jo is huge in person as you

would probably bigger bigger because i'm usually in like heels or standing on like a half up walks so the resident cage wants to know if you miss new zealand i mean i haven't lived there in a really long time i miss my family. but you know that sort of. not quite as of nostalgist yeah yeah. for true go via twitter is there any kind of role in particular you'd like to play. oh god so many but i mean. i don't really i can't really say well this is exactly what i want to do next i mean you know how to start continuing to work with interesting paper on rom com ted tweets would you ever want to be in another huge t.v. series like true blood yeah sure of course we finish the show a little game called of you only knew our childhood questions remember the first boy you kissed yes was his name not on. how old were you. fifteen f.t. a mate you won an oscar you haven't kissed the boy you. fifteen ok so i get

a feeling this guy still around. but your guilt was a guilty pleasure. procedural cop shows or really. i love him to law and order all the original actually i'm not guilty about it i'm very you know i mean to do a little or getting about the best yes if you had a superpower what would it be. i think flying would be pretty cool i don't really think airplanes have a secret talent. i really have a lot of secrets left i've been touring for such who thought i'm really open craziest thing a fan has ever done to get your attention. and we see in general some pretty wild stuff at comic-con every year i never go there again no comment comes great you think so but yeah you actually get to meet these people who watch your stuff and sometimes people are very enthusiastic maybe is my age or something i just would

think it's crazy what is crazy but that's why i like it it's fun but i guess i go you know i was only can you stress it's a center on a desert island what three things you want with you. sling the twins and your husband give that's a. oh i don't know i mean i was being really practical or like oh you would be practical i don't know water matches and a satellite talk. if not an actor what would you be. i never really had the opportunity to fully explore that so i'm not really sure is this something you wish you were good at i wish that i played piano. i. i wish i had a sense of direction a slightly better spatial awareness and that i didn't get lost in the places that i've been to seven hundred times you are right now i'm not even slightly k. if you think you would not do well in comedy good luck. with that literally will

come out of the same stage door that i've been out of like eight hundred times and turn the wrong i guess you could be anywhere else in the world right now where would be my bet. ok i don't assume. there's fees would rise you ever received. as a piece of advice i'm sure i've had lots but i can't think of anything really picking up that would make them give you good i mean he just you know kind of railed on mercilessly for for weeks on end so i mean you know he kicked my ass and that's possible ways but i can't think of like one singular thing tell me something people don't know about. oh i don't know i mean everybody knows everything well no i'm not saying everything because i'm not really that you know i don't know my stuff way out there but i don't know i don't really know what people do know or don't know are you a good fan of movies. that are really. you don't go to film

another i usually see things like like ten years after the fact after everybody else that one movie yeah or like you know i like ten ten years after finished airing i was like oh my god there's amazing show it's called the west wing i am obsessed with it i was like yeah we were scammed by the title read it was better late than never right and a year ago i thank you thank you i guess that about going to a bloody airs sundays at nine pm on a few of them up to the point of view on whether it came to things i'll see you next hour or so hot you're fired.