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• The vampire in the 'French Tru Blood Commercial' is actor (Nevin Millan)
  
  
• The part of Tara Thornton was originally given to Brook Kerr. Rutina Wesley replaced her after two episodes were filmed. All of Kerr's scenes were re-shot.
  
  
• The first season is based mostly on the first book of Charlaine Harris' book 'Dead Until Dark'.
  
  
• This is not the first time that actor 'Stephen Moyer' has played a vampire. He also was a vampire in the British 6-part TV series, "Ultraviolet" (1998).
  
  
• Anna Paquin and 'Lynn Collins' are co-stars in the show. Both have co-starred with Hugh Jackman in X-Men movies but even then they didn't share any screen place working in them. Anna starred in X-Men, X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand whereas Lynn Collins starred in X-Men Origins:Wolverine. Hugh Jackman's character had a special connection with both of them. His character acted as a friend, philosopher and guide to Anna's character (she had a slight crush also on him for a while). Lynn played Hugh Jackman's love interest in the X-Men movie.
  
  
• Each episode title is also the title of a song from popular or Christian music.
  
  
• The name of the fictional northern Louisiana town, Bon Temps, means "good time" in French.
  
  
• Alexander Skarsgård, who plays Eric, is from Sweden and the language spoken by him and his subjects is Swedish.
  
  

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