True Blood protagonist Anna Paquin is featured in the new British issue of Marie Claire magazine, the same issue that features Nicole Richie on the cover, and in her interview Anna opens up about working with and falling in love with her TB co-star Stephen Moyer. According to Anna, she and Stephen easily fell in love, enjoy a pretty mundane life together and are very happily looking forward to gettin’ hitched:
She has been in the Hollywood spotlight since she won an Oscar at the tender age of 11. But somehow, Anna Paquin has remained something of an enigma – especially where her private life is concerned. But after falling in love with co-star Stephen Moyer, 40, on the set of True Blood, the 27-year-old actress has opened up about their relationship. The couple, who met while filming the HBO show, have announced they plan to marry. They share an intense on-screen chemistry, playing telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse and her 172-year-old vampire love interest, Bill Compton. But Anna says the development of their off-screen relationship caught everyone by surprise. ‘Put it this way, I don’t think anyone knew before we did,’ she told Marie Claire magazine. ‘Clearly there was a reason we were cast in that particular combination but… it’s not like either of us were looking for love or anything trite like that. It wasn’t something we saw happening.’ The actress says the couple are united by their passion for acting. ‘We’re pretty mundane. We walk our dogs, rehearse lines. But our shared passion for our jobs is a really exciting thing. It’s part of the reason we ended up together’ … ‘I had no idea 2009 was going to be the vampire year,’ she said, referring to the recent trend for blood-sucking romance epics. ‘I just loved [True Blood’s] mix of funny, campy and weird.’ But she says despite her wedding plans she and her fiancé aren’t planning on starting a family just yet. ‘We’re doing nights on season three now,’ she said. ‘I have trouble planning anything more than brunch with my friends. ‘But when the time’s right, we’ll do it.’
It’s nice to hear that Anna and Stephen are so down-to-Earth and, well, boring. David and I are terribly boring … and that may just be the kind of happy life together that will stand the test of time. I’m always weary of work romances lasting but, meh, things might be different for these two. After the jump, check out another photo from Anna’s Marie Claire photospread …
I love the colors in these photos … she looks really good. I’m happy know that it’s smooth sailing for the True Blood lurvers. It sounds like they might actually be in True Love too 