15
Mar
Bad Girl Bombshell of the Day: Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse
So some of you may have noticed at this point that every once in a while I feature a character instead of an actress. I think this is probably the most distinctive time I’ve done so because Anna Paquin has never looked better than she does playing Sookie on True Blood.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s a great actress regardless, and I’m a huge Rogue fan, but this is definitely her calling. I tuned into True Blood late, as I’ve done with most of my favorite shows like Weeds. I wait till the show generates steam, then I buy the season blindly without having sampled anything. That’s in my nature as a film kid, I think. Having said that, I think I ate through True Blood faster than any other series, and I find myself craving more.
I tuned in with just a bare skeleton of an understanding of how it worked, but I can say that I expected Paquin’s Sookie to play damsel in distress. She actually kind of reminds me of a Willow Rosenberg type, (if you didn’t know that was a Buffy reference, get off the blog.) only hotter, in that she is thrown into an alternate reality kind of universe and is forced to adjust regardless of her feelings. Instead of rejecting it, she embraces it and pretty much kicks ass.
Also, I think there’s something innate in Anna that makes Sookie hot beyond just looks, which was obviously a priority in casting the character. A lot of the show surrounds Sookie’s x-factor and attractiveness to guys, both human and not-so-much-human. I like Sookie because in a reality filled with vampires and shape shifters, she still stands out. Granted she has telekinetic abilities, but she still comes off as pretty human. I think this is a credit to both Paquin’s acting, and the show’s writers… but more so to Paquin. The show on the surface is vampire themed, but when you really get into it you realize it’s Sookie themed, in that you slowly begin to realize that’s she’s something special.
