**Julie** Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 H&A's Kwanten scores 'mostly naked role' News.com.au September 08 2008 AUSTRALIA's Ryan Kwanten is setting female pulses racing in the US with his mostly naked role in America's hot new vampire TV series. The former Home and Away star is one of the leads in True Blood, a show US network HBO hopes will replace its retired hits The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and Sex and the City. True Blood, also starring New Zealand Oscar winner Anna Paquin, premiered in the US tonight with plenty of fanfare. Kwanten plays a small town Louisiana hillbilly with an insatiable appetite for bedding women. The New York Times calls Kwanten's character a "strapping, dimwitted Casanova" while the Washington Post describes him as "the randiest non-vampire in the area". "He does wear clothes, but he takes them off a lot," True Blood's creator, Alan Ball, who also created Six Feet Under and wrote the script for 2000 best picture Oscar winner, American Beauty, laughed during an interview. "He gets his self-esteem and his sense of who he is by all the women he has sex with." Kwanten, 31, who played lifeguard Vinnie Paterson in Home and Away for four years, quit the soap in 2002 and moved to Los Angeles where he had instant success, starring in the Aaron Spelling TV series Summerland, and earning roles in the movies Dead Silence, America Brown and Flicka. True Blood has taken Kwanten's fame in the US to a new level. With the show's debut, the number of hits on his profile on the US movie database website, imdb.com, rose 263 per cent this week with fans declaring on message boards "Ryan's Hot!!" and "Hotness!" In interviews with the US media, Kwanten has made light of his many sex scenes in True Blood. He said the show's crew members are used to seeing him naked. "One of the grips jokes that he sees me naked more than he does his girlfriend," Kwanten said. Kwanten said his parents are not concerned about his sex scenes and actually held a viewing party for family and friends in their Sydney home when he sent an episode over in the post. "You know, she's seen me naked before," Kwanten, referring to his mum, told E!Online. "Probably not in those positions before, but we come from a pretty liberal society when it comes to sex and your body. "So it wasn't too bad."
Drew Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Vampire series... Naked Ryan in sexcapdes... Sounds like a great show
emmasi Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 "the randiest non-vampire in the area" That may be my favourite description of the day I'll just assume "True Blood" is a cross between True Calling and Buffy, starring Eliza Dushku as a slayer who also repeats the day to save dead people from dying... and who has lots of sex with Ryan Kwanten apparently
lolajaney Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 just saw the trailer on youtube and he looks hot... but yankee accent does little for me
claire_louise Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 I'm so so happy that Ryan is becoming such a big star. The lack of clothes is an added bonus! Are we going to get the show over here?
Drew Posted September 9, 2008 Report Posted September 9, 2008 I saw the trailer on youtube... I sorta cringed at the southern accents hopefully that'll fly right passed me because it looks like a good show.
Natalia Posted September 9, 2008 Report Posted September 9, 2008 I've seen this show, and yes, he is naked A LOT!! I actually think it was completely unnecessary, and that seems to have been the general consensus after the episode aired. True Blood has nothing to do with other vampire shows. It is based on a best-selling series of books that have never been released in Australia for some reason (we miss out on a lot!!). I liked the first episode, however I would have loved it if there wasn't all that sex. It wasn't just 'television sex', it was full on nudity, perversions, and could practically have been considered pornography. I am looking forward to the next episode, and I love the other stars - Anna Paquin and most of the other male leads. There are some big names involved in this show, so there's a lot of potential for the episodes to come.
Drew Posted September 9, 2008 Report Posted September 9, 2008 I saw a clip on youtube where Ryan's character was getting... Umm... You know, and then there was this vampire doing... you know to this naked girl really really fast... It was so weird and laughable. I have no idea what the story was behind it, but it's nothing like I've seen on tv before
Natalia Posted September 9, 2008 Report Posted September 9, 2008 I saw a clip on youtube where Ryan's character was getting... Umm... You know, and then there was this vampire doing... you know to this naked girl really really fast... It was so weird and laughable. I have no idea what the story was behind it, but it's nothing like I've seen on tv before I almost turned off when that happened. I'm glad I didn't, because I liked the rest of the show. But honestly, it's all too much. If I want to watch that kind of thing I would visit an 'adult store'!! I hope they only put all of that in the pilot to get viewers. Ryan can do a hell of a lot more than, um, THAT.
Drew Posted September 9, 2008 Report Posted September 9, 2008 Just watched the whole episode... Yeah, it was good... But... A bit too much sex... The dialogue was pretty, ugh, basic "F*** this, f*** that," and plenty other dirty *cough*sextalk*cough*... I can't see it as normal show I would sit down and watch though I'll watch the next few eps and see where it goes. Gave me a good laugh however... I wonder if it'll ever air here.
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