Anna Paquin is going to star in the HBO TV series True Blood. The series is based on the book Southern Vampire by Charlaine Harris, the story takes place in a world in which vampires can buy synthetic blood. They try to integrate into a small town in Louisiana causes a stir when a vampire and a waitress (Anna’s character) fall in love.

The show is basically the successor to Six Feet Under which was also made by director/producer Alan Ball. The shooting for the show will start in the fall.

It’s not uncommon for Hollywood stars to do shows on pay cable channels like HBO. With Anna Paquin there’s just one issue; since she won her Oscar at age twelve that was pretty much the high of her career. After that she never really appeared in a lot of big productions, she had some minor successes but never anything that really made her stand out. And I’m not counting X-Men in this case because the supporting cast for those movies is just too big for anyone to stand out.

So in this case it might be a sign of an ever declining career as far as success in the movie business goes. There are more movies in her production schedule so this really might just be a sidestep into the world of television.

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