Fans of the hit HBO series True Blood are going crazy over the September issue of Rolling Stone. Why, you ask? Because the show’s three hottest stars (Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgard and Stephen Moyer) are naked – and covered in blood - on the cover.
While many think the cover is gruesome (after all, the actors are stripped nude and splattered with blood), True Blood fans are crazy excited to see the issue hit newsstands this week.
Perhaps even more shocking than the splattered blood and lack of clothing is the position of the stars in the photo. Real-life couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer (who just got engaged at the beginning of the month), are striking a provocative pose in the controversial pic, with Stephen grabbing Anna’s naked breast with his blood-covered hand.
The highly anticipated cover hits newsstands today and is expected to be one of the highest selling issues of the year. The caption on the cover reads “True Blood, They’re Hot, They’re Sexy, They’re Undead.”
Do you think the True Blood Rolling Stone Cover is sexy?
I love Anna Paquin but hate True Blood. I think this photo is disturbing. I also think it’s inappropriate for an off-screen couple to be posing like they are here. They might as well be having sex for everyone to see. I’m disappointed in you anna!
Love it! Artistic and sexy. You won’t understand just how amazing this cover is unless you’re a fan of the show. SOme people just dont get it.
“i don’t get a vampire story about abstinence.” is an obvious reference. by Ball to the BBC series BEING HUMAN, a superior show in every respect. It’s easy to throw blood around like paint and say “vampire”. BEING HUMAN creates characters you care about that happen to be vampires within a story that’s both terrifying, funny and real with just enough blood to make it believable. It is so much better than True Blood which is just a big red mess of a show.
@Jf: Ball is more likely referring to Twilight. Regardless, from a literary/symbolic point of view, he’s absolutely right. Vampires have long been used as a symbol of the innate dangers of sexuality. To the Victorians, they were representative of the danger of moral corruption that society of the time believed an unchaste life could lead to. Today, vampires are a literal representation of the ‘bad boy’ archetype, inherently connected with danger and sex.
Death and sex will be forever linked in the human psyche and I can’t imagine a better personification than ‘The Vampire’.
An abstinent vampire is symbolically impotent.