Stephen Moyer Chats Final Season of TRUE BLOOD

In an interview with The Huffington Post, Stephen Moyer, who portrays Bill Compton in HBO's True Blood spoke about the upcoming final season of the popular drama series.

The actor, who will direct the first episode of the season shared, "I haven't gotten a script yet and we start shooting in January. I'm really excited, really sad. It's just a group of people that I absolutely love and it's certainly the happiest and warmest set I've ever been on, so that's going to be hard to walk away from."

Asked about the possibility of a Sookie-Bill reconciliation, Moyer revealed, "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."

Read the interview in full here

Moyer will portray decorated World War I hero Capt. Georg Von Trapp in NBC's THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE, airing December 5th. The three-hour production will be based on the original 1959 Broadway production of "The Sound of Music," which starred Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel.

Moyer, a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, is best known to U.S. audiences for his role as Bill Compton in HBO's "True Blood." He has appeared on the series since it began in 2008 and was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the show's ensemble. Last month he starred in the Hollywood Bowl's production of the iconic musical "Chicago," where he played charismatic attorney Billy Flynn. (check out the performance below!)

Moyer is a stage veteran in the U.K., having spent time with the National Theatre of Wales, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Oxford Stage Company and the Young Vic in England. He has played the lead role "Romeo and Juliet" as well as several other legit productions early in his career.

Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBC

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