These were some of the best years of most of our lives for the cast and crew. So if he asked me, there’s a solid chance I’d say ‘yes.’ But I had absolutely no idea what that would even look like or if they’d want us old folks. “I think Alan Ball is part of it and I owe him a lot of my career. “It depends on in what regard,” she says. On the possibility of appearing in the reboot, Paquin says there are several factors. We told seven years’ worth, but there’s no limit in genre stuff.” “The reason I feel like reboots and reimaginings do so well is that there’s an endless number of stories you can tell. I don’t know what the concept is, but it’s a rich world,” she says. “Not a single member of the cast or crew knew anything about it. Anna Paquin played telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse in HBO’s hit “True Blood.” HBO Paquin says she found out when the rest of the world did. In December, news broke that HBO is developing a “True Blood” reboot, produced by original showrunner Alan Ball. I don’t want to just do the thing that you expect me to do.” So the evolution of has been both just because I grew up and also because I don’t like being put in a box. “I finished childhood and did adolescence and young adulthood on camera. “It’s not by calculated design, but also I get bored of doing the same thing over and over again,” Paquin says about the variety in her projects. Most recently she appeared in the Martin Scorsese crime movie “The Irishman,” the final season of domestic drama “The Affair” and historical murder mystery “Alias Grace.” Paquin, who’s the second-youngest Oscar winner in history (for 1993’s “The Piano” at age 11), is best known for playing Rogue in the “X-Men” movies and telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse in HBO’s hit “True Blood” (which introduced her to her husband, former co-star Stephen Moyer). “I didn’t see it as an obstacle it was more like, ‘Okay, we’ve got another opportunity.’” “Nobody can account for a corporate merger that eats your network - their entire slate was canceled. Season 2 was originally bound for Pop but was axed over restructuring at parent company ViacomCBS. One of the things that was very important to me was establishing that her life had been there long enough that we could keep the English humor.”īefore the series landed at Amazon, “Flack” aired its first season on Pop. “We sort of ended up with this hybrid model of her being American. Anna Paquin stars as a publicist who puts out fires for celeb clients in the dramedy “Flack.” Amazon Studios Originally was supposed to be English, and it was an entirely English show,” says Paquin, who’s Canadian/Kiwi and resides in California with her husband and 8-year-old twins. “The pace and the intellect and the wit of the dialogue was just delicious. Brisk and unflappable, she’s got a knack for getting clients out of hairy situations - even as her personal life is in shambles (when the show begins, she’s living on her sister’s couch). Premiering Friday, Jan 22, on Amazon, “Flack” (which Paquin also executive-produces) follows Robyn (Paquin), an American public relations exec living in London. So I don’t have firsthand experience of, ‘Oh Lord, my publicist is going to kill me this morning!’ But I’ve seen it.” That’s not how I conduct myself and I’ve always been serious about my work. “I don’t live in the sort of scandal tabloid-heavy end of it. “I’ve lived in the world of entertainment my entire life,” Paquin, 38, tells The Post. These babies were more or less conceived on TVĪnna Paquin didn’t have to do much research for her latest role as a publicist who puts out fires for celeb clients in the dramedy “Flack,” now streaming on Amazon. Stephen Moyer’s ‘Gifted’ family man is a far cry from bloodsucker on ‘True Blood’ The 15 youngest Oscar winners and nominees of all time Young star on ‘A Friend of the Family’ predator: I wanted to ‘vomit from how gross it is’
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