Denis O'Hare Talks TRUE BLOOD Return

In an interview with Film School Rejects, Denis O'Hare revealed that his character will be back for the fifth season of HBO's 'True Blood,' which will air in summer 2012. O'Hare joined the show last year as a 2,800 year old vampire king of Mississipi.

O'Hare commented: "They were definitely bringing me back, it was just a matter of if they wanted to bring me back the last couple episodes or bring me back at the beginning. So they decided to do it at the beginning of season 5."

On the development of his character, he continued "It's funny because when we started talking about the character, obviously characters evolve, and part of the reason he evolved was they kept making him older and older. At first he was supposed to be like 1,100 years old, and so I was doing a lot of research about Charlemagne and all these people and figuring, 'Oh, he must have been in Charlemagne's court.' And then he kept getting older, and finally he got to like 2,800-3,000 years old. I was looking at history about where he might be able to come from, and there's only two sources. He can come from the Levant's from Palestine, or what they call Philistine, or he could have been somewhere really interesting like the Danube. I just thought, 'Let's not make him a Roman or Greek. Let's make him something else.'"

To read the full interview click here.

Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, TRUE BLOOD takes place in the not-too-distant future, when vampires have come out of the coffin, thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood that means they no longer need humans as a nutritional source. The show follows the romance between waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who can hear people's thoughts, and her boyfriend, 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), who went missing at the end of season two, and is now the object of a frantic search. Alan Ball (creator of the Emmy(R)-winning HBO series "Six Feet Under") created and executive produces the show, which is based on the best-selling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris.