Lafayette to Summon Up New Love Interest in HBO's TRUE BLOOD Season 7

According to TVLine's Tom Ausiello, True Blood will welcome a new character in its seventh and final season on HBO -- a new boyfriend for Lafayette (Nelson Ellis).

Here's the scoop: "Lafayette's getting a new boyfriend -- and a serious one at that. After spending much of Season 6 in the shadows, Nelsan Ellis will sashay back to the forefront in True Blood's final season - with a little help from Drake. Described as a cross between Jim Morrison and James Dean, this brooding and insanely good-looking vamp is a compassionate protector with a poet's edge. The series-regular role calls for a twentysomething actor who is comfortable performing in simulated (and near-naked) sex scenes with another man in front of the director, assistant director, stage manager, script supervisor, camera operator, first assistant camera, second assistant camera, boom operator, production sound mixer, key grip, best boy grip, gaffer, lighting technician, makeup artist, hairdresser, costume designer, a half-dozen production assistants and Sally with craft services (who shouldn't be peeking in but probably will be)."

Read TVLine's full column here.

BWW previously revealed several other spoilers for the upcoming season of TRUE BLOOD, including:

• Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard) is alive, and he is getting a new, French-speaking love interest named 'Sylvie'.
• Macklyn Warlow (Rob Kazinsky) will return more powerful than last season.
• There will be a major death in the first episode of the season, directed by Stephen Moyer.
• Tara's mother Lettie Mae Thornton (Adina Porter) will play a bigger role.
• The Hepatits-V-infected vampires from last season need to drink more human blood at a higher frequency to survive.

Plus, Stephen Moyer, who portrays 'Bill Compton' on the show, also recently revealed a few details about the upcoming final season of the popular drama series, which begins filming in January 2014.

Asked about the possibility of a Sookie-Bill reconciliation, Moyer told The Huffington Post, "I don't know whether it's possible given everything that's happened. The first mistakes he made at the beginning of the relationship were definitely mistakes that were trying to protect her. It's not anything he was doing that was necessarily bad. He was sent there, but he kept that from her purely because he didn't want to hurt her and he didn't know he was going to fall in love with this girl. I think that he will always be and always was a key for Sookie to unlocking her womanhood and who she became and who she is and who she was. She won't forget that part of him. Whether there's any possibility of anything else, I don't know."

Moyer has his own ideas of how he'd like to see the series conclude. "Alex (Skarsgard) and I have been pushing for an Eric-Bill love scene for a long time, but they always said no." says the actor. "But our dream would be for my football team, West Ham United, to play his Swedish team, and would end up in some match-up that Bill and Eric happen to be able to get to."

The latest hit series from 'Six Feet Under' creator Alan Ball, True Blood delves into the meticulously-crafted world of novelist Charlaine Harris.

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