In un’intervista a The Daily Beast, Anne Rice (“Intervista con il Vampiro”, “The Vampire Lestat” e “The Queen of the Damned”) ha dichiarato di apprezzare molto il lavoro di Charlaine Harris:
“Charlaine Harris is doing something different by imagining what it’s like if vampires are legal and you have them living in your Southern town,” Anne says, “and I think she gets a tremendous amount of energy out of that. She’s very witty — there’s a lot of satire there — and on the HBO show True Blood, there’s even a romance with Vampire Bill.”
Oltre a questo, si è anche soffermata sull’aspetto sessuale delle sue storie, ribadendo che per i suoi vampiri, l’atto di bere sangue è di per sé orgasmico, per cui non hanno rapporti sessuali.
Back to True Blood, how do you feel about the show’s depiction of vampires as these uninhibited, primal, sexual beings?
I’m a fan of the show. I see it as a logical part of it all. [Harris] has expanded the sexuality that’s inherent in that idea. I didn’t think of that, but as my books went on, I involved my vampires in more sexuality. But I couldn’t go as far as Charlaine Harris did, because I had said that my vampires can’t have sex; that the act of drinking blood is orgasmic for them. She’s doing it a different way. She’s saying that this blood drinker must also be dynamite in bed. Makes sense!
E riguardo i lupi mannari? Anne Rice ha sicuramente un debole per Alcide…
I think True Blood does werewolves justice with Alcide.
Oh, yeah, I like Alcide. I like that actor [Joe Manganiello] a lot, and I think the character’s hot.
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