Alexander Skarsgrd says flying in True Blood was childish but fun. The actor is famed for his role as vampire Eric Northman on the popular HBO series. Alexander has recalled his favourite experience on the show so far. Its childish, but it was fun flying. I liked that. I want to do more of that. And the flashbacks have been fun. I mean, there are so many amazing moments on the show, but I loved shooting the stuff in Swedish the flashbacks and the Viking stuff was great, he told SciFi Now. I always think those are great moments, you get to learn so much more about Eric in those flashbacks, where he comes from and why he is like he is today, so those have been great to shoot. Alexander stars alongside Anna Paquin on the show. The star finds the blonde beauty is a joy to work with. Its been great. Weve had a lot of fun. That whole relationship has been so interesting, how over three years my character has been chasing her, and now suddenly Im vulnerable and need her help, he said. It cha...

Anna Paquin is careful of the outlandish things she says around the True Blood writers as they sometimes end up in the show. The actress is famed for her role as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series. True Blood follows the co-existence of vampires and humans in a fictional town in Louisiana. Because of the fantasy content, Anna has to bite her tongue with discussing far-fetched ideas around the production team, as they sometimes end up working them into the script. Sometimes I pitch things that are a joke. There was a scene in episode nine [of season four] with me Steve [Moyer] and Alex [Skarsgrd] that I pitched, which I cant you about, but was sort of a joke, but not really, she explained in an interview with SciFi Now. Sometimes I wonder if I say things that are really outlandish and because of the nature of our show, they actually end up in the show. Annas character Sookie has a complicated relationship with vampire Bill. The star likes to get her teeth stuck into the intricate roman...

Two films that initially received very different theatrical runs are finding their way back to the big screen Friday: Rango, the Gore Verbinski-directed animated film that charts the adventures of a chameleon voiced by Johnny Depp who finds himself the sheriff of an Old West town, and Margaret, a drama starring Anna Paquin as a teenager who struggles with guilt over her role in a deadly traffic accident. In the case of Paramounts Rango, the re-release comes on the heels of the movies Oscar nomination for animated feature the film, which originally opened in March of last year and grossed upward of $123 million at the domestic box office, is one of five titles that will compete for the top prize in the category at the 84th Academy Awards next month. Verbinski, a director who typically works in live action, made a fan of Depp in his handling of the animated production that won over critics and moviegoers last year. Gore amazed me right away with his technical ability, Depp told The Enve...

Movie review 'Margaret,' with Anna Paquin, J. Smith-Cameron, Jean Reno, Jeannie Berlin, Allison Janney, Matthew Broderick, Kieran Culkin, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. 149 minutes. Rated R for strong language, sexuality, some drug use and disturbing images. SIFF Cinema at the Uptown. 'Margaret' "It is the blight man was born for It is Margaret you mourn for." Gerard Manley Hopkins Kenneth Lonergan's wonderful "Margaret" gets its title not from a character, but from a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, read aloud by a character in the movie. Called "Spring and Fall," it is addressed to a child Margaret weeping over the change of seasons, realizing perhaps for the first time that loss is part of life, and that she is helpless to change it. That's the theme of this sprawling movie about a Manhattan teenager named Lisa (Anna Paquin) who early in the film is witness to a terrible bus accident that sh...

If you go to see Kenneth Lonergan's drama "Margaret" this weekend at the Uptown (and you should), you might notice that Anna Paquin looks a little younger in the movie than she looks these days in "True Blood." That's because she is younger: "Margaret," in which Paquin plays a Manhattan teen struggling to come to terms with her role in a tragedy, was shot in 2005. Lawsuits (at least one still pending) and editing delays held the film up for many years, and it almost disappeared from view: Fox Searchlight, its distributor, finally released the film in a tiny handful of cities (not Seattle; this week's release is its debut here) in late September, during which time it earned about $47,000. Then something unexpected happened: buzz. An online campaign , started by Jaime Christley, built some momentum. "Margaret" began turning up on yearend best-of lists. And people just started talking about this movie -- and now, finally, we in Seattle ...

The Weinstein Co. "The Artist" LONDON Michel Hazanavicius The Artist silently walked away with three trophies at the London Film Critics Circle Awards , winning for film of the year, director and best actor ( Jean Dujardin ) . Hazanavicius and Dujardin were on hand to pick up the plaudits at the ceremony held Thursday at the BFI Southbank in the British capital. Meryl Streep , nominated for her turn in The Iron Lady , shared the evenings best actress prize with Anna Paquin for her outing in Margaret , directed by Kenneth Lonergan. PHOTOS: The Making of 'The Artist' Kenneth Branagh accepted his supporting actor plaudit for his outing as Laurence Olivier in My Week With Marilyn , while Michael Fassbender collected the British actor of the year award for his performances as Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method and as a sex addict in Shame . Olivia Colman s turns in low-budget movie Tyrannosaur and The Iron Lady earned her the British actress of the year award. Director...

When Kenneth Lonergan's "Margaret" was quietly released last September, it seemed the end of a very, very long journey for a film caught up for years in post-production problems and various legal disputes. Although very few people saw the movie during its brief theatrical run, a vocal group of critics began to lobby on its behalf -- the unusual groundswell of support prompted in part by the year-end awards season crush and in part by a desire to simply be able to see a movie that had not played in their towns. "Margaret" has since been inching its way toward reassessment and in some sense resurrection, to the point where there is now an undercurrent of backlash from those who feel its movie-you-can't-see mystique is too much a part of its appeal. In the film, Anna Paquin plays an Upper East Side teenager named Lisa Cohen -- in one of the movie's signature quirks, "Margaret" has no character named Margaret -- who feels in part responsible for a ...

Oscar ballots are due tomorrow at 5 p.m., but as LA Weekly reported , Fox Searchlight has booked Kenneth Lonergan's long-delayed, virtually ignored "Margaret" for a one-week run at the Cinefamily in Los Angeles, along with sending screeners to all Academy members and making star Anna Paquin available for interviews. As Indiewire's Reel Politik reported last month, "Margaret" also had a one-week run in New York's Cinema Village. However, that wasn't initiated by Searchlight, but by the theater. Said booker Ed Arentz, "I booked it because I missed it, and figured there were plenty like me that wanted to see it." The film is now going into its fourth weekend in New York. In Indiewire's 2011 Criticwire poll , "Margaret" came in at #9. The film also benefited from anonline petitionas well as a Twitter hashtag,#teammargaret. Wrotefreelance critic Mike D'Angelo, "People just flat-out refused to let that movie die, even afte...

It's hard to look at Anna Paquin now and remember her as the speechless 11-year-old accepting the supporting actress Oscar for "The Piano." What's less hard to remember this year is what an influence young actors can have in films. There's no kids' table this season, as several young performers took on adult-sized roles and themes dealing with the loss of parents, alcoholism, a national tragedy and basic survival (with such concerns as finding enough food to live on and avoiding becoming an alien's dinner). Here we talk to four such standout actors. Thomas Horn, 14 "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" For any actor to carry a film that delves into the still-raw memories of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, would be a heavy load emotionally and a risky prospect commercially. For a teenager to do so raises the stakes considerably, and for a teen acting for the first time, well, that seems almost too much pressure to bear. But Thomas Horn...