Stephen Moyer, 39, had a very frank and kind of gushing chat with E!’s Giuliana Rancic on the red carpet at the Emmys. He was inevitably asked a ton of questions about his relationship with on and off-screen love interest Anna Paquin, 27, and to his credit he was open about how much he cares for her and he even gave some personal details about how he proposed to Anna earlier this year. Moyer previously told Access Hollywood that he designed Paquin’s engagement ring with his friend, the jeweler Kathy Waterman. (Link leads to video.)
I’ve said before that I find Moyer a little self-absorbed and I do sense something preening about the guy. He sucks in his cheeks a lot and strikes me as kind of stuck-up, but the more he talks about how much he loves Anna the more he’s growing on me. He told Rancic that he fell for Anna partly because she doesn’t take any of his crap. Now that’s a man after my own heart:
Stephen Moyer didn’t need a red carpet to see stars tonight.
The very-much-in-love True Blood star had far more to say about his “very funny and very frank and very direct and beautiful” costar and fiancée, Anna Paquin, than he did about any of the Emmy nominees.
“Firstly, I fell in love with her talent,” Moyer told E! News while walking the carpet outside Los Angeles’ Staples Center. “We were actually improvising and trying stuff, [like] ‘It doesn’t work this way, let’s do it another way,’ and so immediately I was very excited about that.
“And then after a few weeks, we’d finished working and I was back in London and she was in New York and I really, really missed her…”
It was then he knew she was the one.
And what about that proposal?
Moyer said he asked True Blood’s costume designer what his beloved’s ring size was so that he could plan for the ultimate surprise.
The proposal “was very intimate and quite surprising for her, I think, and we were by ourselves at dinner in Hawaii and…I surprised her.
“But it was something that surprised me probably more than it surprised her.”
Paquin, of course, has remained her frank, direct self throughout their courtship.
“She doesn’t take any of my nonsense,” Moyer said.
[From E! Online]
I like these two together and there’s something so straightforward and cool about Anna that I think that anyone she picks has to be decent by association. I’m still not 100% sold on Moyer, but we’ll see. Many of you commented that you find him charming and don’t get an arrogant vibe from him, and I think I’m coming around on that.
Moyer is also quoted as giving his sort-of blessing to the tamer, some-say lamer, “Twilight” vamps. He previously called Robert Pattinson’s character Edward Cullen the “Diet Coke of Vampires”, but now he’s trying to be more generous toward the younger competition. Moyer told E! at an Emmy after party “I think they serve a certain audience and we serve a certain demographic, so we can all exist happily together.” I bet he wanted to add “We can still kick their asses with our hands tied, though.”
Vague True Blood maybe-spoilers
In terms of the “True Blood” finale I just want to add that I really liked how they wrapped up that one pesky plot point and then added another semi-cliffhanger at the end. I don’t think it will be that much of a complication, considering how swiftly Sookie addressed that same problem earlier in the series, but you never know. At this point I’ve read all the books and you just can’t tell what will happen in the series because it doesn’t closely follow the novels at all. There’s one big revelation about Bill and Sookie in the books that may – and there is serious spoiler territory in the article linked in the next sentence – be incorporated into the series. Entertainment Weekly’s resident TV expert, Bill Ausiello, spoke with True Blood creator Alan Ball, and Ball wouldn’t say whether or not he would use that plot point in the show. I hope I worded all that vaguely enough for those of you are are fans and those who still want the chance to get into the show. It’s one of my favorites.
Anna and Stephen are shown at LAX airport on 9/20/09. Stephen is also shown at the Emmy Awards. Credit: Bauergriffinonline.com
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