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 creator of the show, Alan Ball, also weighs in, saying: 'The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. 'To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence.'
The quote is obviously a thinly veiled comment on Stephenie Meyer's smash hit Twilight series of books and movies. Meyer is a Mormon and in her books, the vampires in question have to abstain from sex with their human counterparts so as not to kill them.
And Ball isn't afraid of alienating the core teenage audience that is drawn to the Twilight projects. True Blood already has a huge following on the HBO channel.
'I'm 53,' says Ball. 'I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.'
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.”
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