Deborah Ann Woll
"TRUE BLOOD Interview with Deborah Ann Woll" - IESB
June/12/09 22:21 Filed in: Off-Site
/ IESB: How did you originally become a part of True Blood? Was it just through the regular auditioning process?
Deborah: Yeah. Well, I came on as a guest star, originally. I got sides, auditioned once and I don’t think I had a callback. Alan Ball was in the room, with the director and the writers, and I just did these two absolutely crazy scenes. One was at a junkyard and the other was in the woods, and I was really in an office. I remember that I was rolling around on the ground and just trying to be as generally weird as I could get. And then, three or four days later, I was on set filming. It was a really fast process. I had an audition and a table read, and that was it. It was great, though. It was a nice, low pressure way to get into it. It was a guest star audition, like any other, that ended up becoming something that has been really great, for the past couple of months.
IESB: For those who might not be familiar with the series yet, can you talk about who your character is and how she fits into the overall story?
Deborah: Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) is Sookie’s (Anna Paquin) boyfriend now, for good and for real. In order to save her life, he killed a vampire, so he went to a tribunal hearing and his punishment for taking a vampire life was to make a new vampire life. So, they kidnapped my character, Jessica, who’s this poor, innocent, little God-fearing child, and Bill turned her. Just when you think she’s going to be devastated by the turn of events, she’s actually thrilled because her life at home was not what she wanted. It was very oppressed, and she did not feel free to be who she was or express her feelings. Particularly being 17 and in that situation, I can only imagine when you already have to repress everything you’re thinking and saying, to have someone going further and telling you that what you’re thinking and feeling is wrong, is an incredibly difficult and lonely situation. As soon as she’s turned, there’s a freedom that comes with that, and a sense that maybe she will finally get to be herself. Never again is she going to let anybody tell her what to do or how to do it, or who she’s supposed to be. /
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Deborah: Yeah. Well, I came on as a guest star, originally. I got sides, auditioned once and I don’t think I had a callback. Alan Ball was in the room, with the director and the writers, and I just did these two absolutely crazy scenes. One was at a junkyard and the other was in the woods, and I was really in an office. I remember that I was rolling around on the ground and just trying to be as generally weird as I could get. And then, three or four days later, I was on set filming. It was a really fast process. I had an audition and a table read, and that was it. It was great, though. It was a nice, low pressure way to get into it. It was a guest star audition, like any other, that ended up becoming something that has been really great, for the past couple of months.
IESB: For those who might not be familiar with the series yet, can you talk about who your character is and how she fits into the overall story?
Deborah: Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) is Sookie’s (Anna Paquin) boyfriend now, for good and for real. In order to save her life, he killed a vampire, so he went to a tribunal hearing and his punishment for taking a vampire life was to make a new vampire life. So, they kidnapped my character, Jessica, who’s this poor, innocent, little God-fearing child, and Bill turned her. Just when you think she’s going to be devastated by the turn of events, she’s actually thrilled because her life at home was not what she wanted. It was very oppressed, and she did not feel free to be who she was or express her feelings. Particularly being 17 and in that situation, I can only imagine when you already have to repress everything you’re thinking and saying, to have someone going further and telling you that what you’re thinking and feeling is wrong, is an incredibly difficult and lonely situation. As soon as she’s turned, there’s a freedom that comes with that, and a sense that maybe she will finally get to be herself. Never again is she going to let anybody tell her what to do or how to do it, or who she’s supposed to be. /
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