Talk a little bit about your character in Season Four, what's happening to her?
Oh God, everything! Jess's story has been kind of a coming-of-age story… this sort of transformation of a girl to woman and human to vampire, and finding your first love. She's been struggling with who she is personally. So that's sort of the direction that this takes, she actually really embraces the vampire side of herself.
She seems to have a lot of bad conscience… she seems to feel bad about what she's doing and…
Yeah, most of my scenes end with Jessica hating herself. Yes, Jessica is closer to her humanity than some of the other vampires, so I think some of that human guilt still lives with her. She hasn't completely given in to the vampire side, but she's also in a tricky situation this season. She's deeply in love with Hoyt, but what he needs from her, is something she can't give. He wants a wife, he wants a very conventional, beautiful household where he gets to be a man, and she's not capable of that. Nor does she want that. She's stuck in it, and I think acting out against it. So the journey here is really, can they find a compromise? Or is she compromising too much of herself right now to be with him?
Did you ever dream of playing a vampire?
No, not before it came along really. I'm a fan of genre fiction and all that, and I've seen many, many different portrayals of vampires, but I've never really thought about it before I got this. It was fun though, I'd do it again!
What about the sexual element and the nudity and all that stuff, are you comfortable with all of that?
I'm pretty much game. I think the internet has ruined nudity a little bit for actors. I love nudity, I love seeing naked people. The interesting thing to me about nudity in acting versus say pornography is the context. If you are having nudity, it's for a reason and hopefully it says something. I am wearier of doing all that nudity on film though, because anyone can take it out of context and use it in a way I never intended. So while I love sexuality, and I love nudity and I certainly don't have any judgment about people who choose to do it, I'm a lot more careful about how and when I choose to be nude on film, than I would if I were doing a stage production.
Are you so comfortable with nudity because of a certain upbringing? Most American's are not that comfortable…
(Laughs) It's funny, I feel a lot of guilt and strange feelings about a lot of things, but sex is the only one I don't feel any guilt about. I think it's beautiful and natural, and kind of amazing. I know my mother was always more concerned about us seeing violence than she was with sex. And I agree with her. When I think about PG-13 films, where they show 50 people dead and you don't see any blood, I go "Well that's not real." Why is that better for a kid to see? It takes an adult mind to look at that and say, "Those people are dead, even though I don't see any consequence of it." It's the young mind really that needs to be shown that this is a consequence. And so that's why I sort of think we are more off track with the violence than we are with nudity.
It seems as though all the people on nude beaches generally don't have the most attractive bodies, well compared to actors…Do you still not have a problem with nudity here?
These are our bodies and I think we all have things that we like and don't like. I admire the people on a beach who you might not consider to have a classically great body, but who say "You know what? It's me, and I love me so deal with it." I don't really like my legs, I think I have kind of meaty, not so great legs and I don't show them very often. But sometimes the costume requires it, so you just kind of go "Great, I'd love the world to see my meaty legs". (Laughter) And then all the girls with meaty legs go "That's okay."
Television Series: True Blood (S04E012- And When I Die)
Release Date: September 2011
Actress: Deborah Ann Woll
Video Clip Credit: Zither
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