Alan Ball and his writing and producing team for HBO’s True Blood talked gay undertones, spoilers and why pop culture is currently obsessed with vampires Wednesday night during a Paley Center for Media panel in Beverly Hills.
Ball, who created the books based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, said the gay rights metaphors built into the series were “not the main point of the show; that’s just kind of some fun window dressing. It only is a symbol for the gay and lesbian community because that’s what’s going on right now. I mean, 50 years ago it would have been African-Americans, 100 years ago it would have been women and their struggles for equality and the right to vote, that kind of thing.”
“To me, that’s all from Charlaine’s books and it makes it relevant in a way that is kind of fun and contemporary,” the series creator/executive producer added. “But to me it’s not the heart of the show; it’s part of the fabric.”
Co-executive producer Nancy Oliver added that the gay rights metaphors are “part of the vampire myth as well. I think part of the appeal is the outsider appeal for the supernatural and that (vampires) don’t belong to this (group) and they don’t belong to that (group).”
Touching on the nature of what it means to be on pay cable network HBO, Oliver said one of the many benefits is that “anything goes” when it comes to the frequent sex scenes on True Blood.
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