The year was 2008 . Barack Obama was in the last leg of his ultimately successful tender for the U.S. presidency and the violent matter on television aside from election coverage was a quirky small show on HBO called unfeigned Blood . The camp lamia soap opera quickly win a report for the way its intact castchewed up scene , spit it out , and made audiences implore to outflank it up off the ground .
True descent was a lot — you’ll recall io9 ’s deep backlog ofthorough recaps of the series — and while it ’s been a while since we looked back at what spirit in Bon Temps was like , it ’s interesting to get in that headspace again , given a moment of new selective information about the show that ’s recently come courtesy of Maker Alan Ball .
While speaking about True Blood atthis twelvemonth ’s Vulture Festival in Los Angeles , Ball explained how , before Anna Paquin became HBO ’s choice to impersonate Sookie Stackhouse , Jessica Chastain was also in the running , and that Chastain’sX - Men : Dark Phoenixcostar Jennifer Lawrence also record for a part on the show . Even more shocking is that Benedict Cumberbatch might have ended up playing Vampire Bill , one of the show ’s early ahead workforce , whose whole rationality for being was to exude new intimate energy on the screen . formal said , “ I read Benedict Cumberbatch . He came and take for Bill … Jessica Chastain read for Sookie . Jennifer Lawrence study for , in time of year 3 there ’s this werepanther girl , and she was peachy . ”
Now , let ’s be open about something : Everyone on True Blood was attractive to the compass point of ridiculousness , and that almost made the show unwatchable more than once . In another world , the same would have been said for Cumberbatch who , knowing he was slated to toy an ageless sexpot , in all likelihood would have drop dead through a shift of sorting to get him more into that beefcake land . Of course , he ’d go on to become a heartthrob anyway , thanks to Sherlock becoming such a massive hit .
What ’s unmanageable to twine your idea around is the idea of Cumberbatch doing that kind of uniquely unrealistic , almost cartoony Southern dialect that became a hallmark of True Blood . Just , like , shut your centre and seek to imagine that .
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