As if "True Blood" couldn't get any hotter – or more perverse – the show's stars Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer grace the cover of Rolling Stone wearing nothing but spatters of blood.In the cover photo, Paquin stands between the show's two brooding actors, with her leg strategically placed over Skarsgard's frontside and her breasts covered by the hand of Moyer, her real-life fiance.
Much like the cover art, "True Blood" exudes sex and explores the primal instinct vampires have toward humans. A raw emotion that is a distinct difference from the celibacy-promoting vampires in "Twilight."
"To me, vampires are sex," "True Blood" creator Alan Ball tells the magazine. "I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed."
On his hit HBO show, none of the characters are deprived of intercourse. Between straight people, gay people, supernatural beings, werewolves and even creatures that have yet to be explained, no one is discounted from Ball's imaginative, yet obscure bedroom scenes.
Moyer, who plays undead southern Civil War veteran Bill Compton, also views the sexual nature of vampires as quite erotic.
"If we go from a base level, vampires create a hole in the neck where there wasn't one before. It's a de-virginization - breaking the hymen, creating blood and then drinking the virginal blood," he says. "And there's something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it. So that's pretty sexy. I think that makes vampires attractive."He laughs, adding, "Plus, Robert Pattinson is just hot, right?"
