What do you make of the relationship with Anna Paquins character Sookie?
She’s naïve, she’s spunky, she’s courageous, she’s so open-minded, she’s intelligent, she’s funny. She is other and there’s something about her that’s different from anybody else he’s ever met. He can’t work out what’s different about her and he’s held by her otherness. Will the love scenes continue to be as explicit throughout the series? I’ll say no to that because I think that their sex is based on love as opposed to sexual desire. There’s a very definite line between their lovemaking and the other lovemaking on the show, which is more about sex. Howdo you feel about doing sex scenes? I’ve always rather liked doing sex scenes [at this point, Stephen’s publicist sadly interrupts before he can explain]. Is this your favorite character so far? What’s great about my job is I get to do so many different things. Last year I went from playing a posh British 20s shipping magnate in a thing called Lilies for the BBC, to somebody who was convicted of murder in modern day, who was in prison fo
