TRUE BLOOD SEASON 7 SPOILER ALERT: In the last episode of True Blood we finally got to see how Pam and Eric got stuck in the Boondocks. We also got to see how everyone’s favorite fang banger, Ginger, got hooked up with them in the first place. Now Ginger actress Tara Buck is opening up about her big episode, and what it was like seeing Alexander Skarsgard in 90’s attire.
Tara Buck recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly about her big new episode.
“I never sat down with the writers and spoke to them about it. But when I got that script, I was like, “This is amazing. You read my mind.” It was much more elaborate, fantastic, and funny than I had imagined, but it was this instinct connection, like, ‘This is right. That’s absolutely Ginger’s backstory.’ I always thought of Ginger as a vampire groupie. I felt like she had this relationship with Pam and Eric--but specifically Eric, like he was Mick Jagger or Michael Jackson.“
Of course she couldn't resist talking about seeing Alexander Skarsgard in full 90’s attire:
“I was like, ‘You’re Jason Priestley.’ [Laughs] I mean, truly. The hair up. When we all got to the video store for the first time [in full costume], we were all just too geeked out. We kept laughing at each other. We were really giddy, like little kids. In fact, Gregg Fienberg, who directed this episode, kept saying, ‘You guys, seriously. Okay, it’s time to work.’ We’re like, ‘Yeah, but his shirt is unbuttoned to here. It’s hilarious.’”
Turns out for Ginger, when Eric Northman came in the air went out, as Buck added:
“It was written in the script that Ginger is going on and on about these videos, and then she turns, and in walks Eric, and suddenly the air gets sucked out of the room. To me, that was the most vivid, perfect way to imagine it. This is Ginger’s whole True Blood experience in this moment. [Laughs] At first Gregg wanted it to be pretty subtle. And then we laughed, and we’re like, “You know what, let’s try not subtle, but it’s all internal. It’s still Ginger in 1996, so it’s not like a screaming over-the-top Ginger. It’s still a smart girl whose knees go weak and she can hardly stand up.” And then Gregg and I were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if there was a take where she almost screams, but doesn’t?’”
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