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Allan Hyde has been gracious enough to answer just a few question for the site, and frankly I wanted to ask things you don’t normally see in interviews, something that might give us a different view of the man. So there are just a few, not terribly serious, questions here, some with my on silly comments accompanying them.

I wish to say thank you once again to Allan Hyde for taking time out of his busy schedule for this.

When you come back to the U.S. from a visit home, do you try to bring home large quantities of rye bread and liver pate? Or is there some other Danish delight that you have trouble living without?

I actually can’t say that I do. I do indeed miss all these things but I don’t think enough in advance to remember to brings stuff over with me. I have been compensating for it though. I was craving rye bread like crazy at one point in LA and decided to start my own little baking project – problem is, rye bread is hard to bake and I am still struggling with the principal piece of sour dough that is very vital and characterisitic for rye bread. Basically once you get it right you keep a little dough from every time you bake and that is what will be your sour dough next time. I might sneak a little piece over with me from someone who already has a good sample. Easier than bringing loaf upon loaf of the beautiful sandwich making.

What is the oddest thing you have come across in the U.S.?

The Segway. I Don’t feel a need to elaborate…

What states have you visited besides California and Florida? Any really normal states, like in the middle of the country? Or any really really Southern states like Mississippi or Louisiana? Or even Texas, which you know has even been its own country at one point. (Yes they are EXTREMELY proud of that fact, obnoxiously so)

Unfortunately I haven’t been around much. I have stayed in LA with very few exceptions. I went to Vegas once which I believe is in Nevada is it not? [Ed. Yes it is] This is something I want to change though. Travel more and maybe do one of those praised road trips across country.

Ever thought about doing the cross country driving thing, a la Route 66 like Paul McCartney did a few years ago?

I might have gotten ahead of myself on the previous question. I really want to do that, yes. It’s all about taking the time out of my schedule and just doing it. I hope I will have the chance soon. But I do believe that I will be visiting Texas with my friend Tom and Jackson WY with my friend Christian before doing the big trip.

Is there one thing that really bugs you about the U.S.? (I know in Europe it made me nuts trying to figure out what was a correct tip for washroom attendants at historic buildings and such. We just do not have them here! Or volunteer museum guides!)

Definitely how people drive when it rains just the slightest. People freak out and crash into each other. It’s not that hard. Just slow down a little bit and be aware.

What is your favorite thing to do online: games, Skype, ichat, Facebook, forums, google   (personally my newest thing is trying to translate words from Danish and Norwegian that the online translators refuse to translate. My eye will stop twitching soon)

Skype – for sure. The best way to keep contact to people far away and actually feel that you are with them to some extent. Facebook is alright for that too, but it is more impersonal than Skype.

What is your favorite colour?

Always has been blue.

Dog, cat, rat, or ferret?

Dog. I don’t think I would want to have one right now, but it’s definitely an animal that can imagine meaning a great deal in my life and become a close friend.

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Director Scott Winant talks to DGA Quarterly (Directors Guild of America) about his experience of working on the television series True Blood. Winant has directed seven shows for the hit HBO show so far. He is impressed with the commitment of the cast and crew to the realism and quality of the show saying:

“For Winant, a crucial moment came late in the second season, when he had to shoot a scene in which Sookie watched a vampire willingly kill himself by standing on a rooftop at sunrise. “To the credit of the production, they did not want to do it as a CG effect,” Winant says. “They wanted me to go 30 stories up and shoot a four-and-a-half page scene at dawn. Now, dawn doesn’t last that long—30 to 45 minutes, maybe.” Fienberg, the executive producer, worked out a schedule so Winant could take the entire cast and crew to a downtown Los Angeles rooftop days in advance, where they rehearsed the scene and blocked out every movement of the actors and cameras. “I marked every camera position, every alternate position, and every lens change on the roofof the building,” he says. “And knowing that we were going to move fast, they allowed me to keep bold markson the fl oor that we would later remove optically.”

When the shooting day arrived, the call was set for 2:30 a.m. “We had our positions worked out, we knew our shift moments, and we shot the whole four pages, with lighting and special effects, in 40 minutes,” he says. “And then that was matched to a reverse that was shot on a stage, because we had to create a fake sunrise. On most shows, if I pitched taking the entire company up to the top of a building and shooting in a 30-minute window, they’d turn me down. On this show, they insisted on it.” ”

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Vampires are everywhere. “Twilight” movies ravaging the cinema and the steaming Southern series “True Blood” does the same on television.

Something that fits Allan Hyde perfectly.

With a central role in the second season of what has become the major new television hit, the Danish 20-year-old got his big international breakthrough.

But the acting life as an immortal bloodsucker is not easy.

For example, fangs offer unforeseen challenges.

“They take too much space in your mouth and makes it difficult to speak. You feel very amazing and bad ass when you put them in, but then you begin to lisp and lose intensity completely. It requires some training, ” Hyde told Dagbladet.

Norwegian turbo movie

As Dagbladet wrote recently, the young “True Blood” hero is in the Norwegian film “Exterior.”

The film was made in record time after the artist Marie Kristiansen and “Predator” director Patrik Syversen came together in Los Angeles earlier this year.

They were fascinated by how young hopefuls prefer to film in the city with dreams of becoming big stars. In just one week, they recorded the movie, which is about just that, and is coming to the theaters next year.

“It was really fun. I have great sense for small, spontaneous productions where people are because they want, and not because they make money on it.”

Hyde was aware of Kristiansen and Syversen by Gitte Witt, who plays one of two female lead roles.

“Gitte is one of my best friends, and I also play her friend. We would improvise a lot, so we could basically just act like we normally do when we’re together. In all, Scandinavians stick together in Hollywood, ” says Hyde.

“When I moved there and stayed for two months to record “True Blood,” I spoke exclusively with Norwegians and Swedes. That’s how it works.”

Making a comeback

In “True Blood” plays Hyde role of Godric, the nation’s most powerful vampire. The character died at the end of the second season, but still shows up in the third season, which is now being broadcast in the United States.

“It is exciting to work on this kind of huge productions. As an actor you can find out quickly that it requires something else from you when it’s all about effects rather than dialogue. It is difficult to discuss character development, you should only do what you’re told because it looks out of synch and will make sense in the finished product.

In the series Godric a repentant vampire, seeking reconciliation with humans. Hyde sees much of himself in the character.

“He has realized that his deeds as a vampire have not been good. Murders and rapes he has committed can not be excused. He has had a revelation. I have also realized this with relation to any pranks in my youth. They were obviously not as serious as this, but the feeling is the same.”

source: Dagblaget.no

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