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"Time for our final panel of the day from Ballroom 20! It&amp;#039;s been another packed day, but we&amp;#039;re finishing on a high with True Blood. Who knows what spoilers and gossip could be revealed? We&amp;#039;ll be finding out shortly, so join us as the panel kicks off at 5pm PT / 8pm ET / 1am UK...  18:19Well, it certainly looks like we&amp;#039;re in for a lot of action from the final five episodes... and the crowd here are whooping and cheering, so they seem excited! But that&amp;#039;s a wrap for today - thanks for joining us! 18:16We&amp;#039;re almost done - but we&amp;#039;re getting a sneak preview of the final episodes of True Blood first! (Oh, and Kristin is crying again.) 18:16Brian says episode four - when Sookie had to put on a brave face - shows everything. He says he trusts the actors to be able to play multiple things at different times: &amp;quot;Life is complicated.&amp;quot;  18:15Anna Paquin adds that people mourn in different ways - and at the moment, Sookie doesn&amp;#039;t have the luxury to break down and has to put on a brave face at the moment. 18:15Brian says this season is about the &amp;quot;love&amp;quot; the characters share, and they&amp;#039;ve given them their due. But it&amp;#039;s the last season, so it had to be about Bill and Sookie (&amp;quot;It isn&amp;#039;t going to be exactly what you think it is&amp;quot;) so Alcide had to go - though it doesn&amp;#039;t mean Sookie&amp;#039;s not done being sad. 18:14Final fan question now - is there a reason there hasn&amp;#039;t been much time to mourn Tara and Alcide? Brian says you often don&amp;#039;t see it coming when people you love die - he says they are honouring the characters. &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t get to mourn before you know what&amp;#039;s going to happen,&amp;quot; he says.  18:12The next question is for Anna Paquin - who would she pick for Sookie to end up with? &amp;quot;Arlene!&amp;quot; she jokes. &amp;quot;Pam has the best clothes, maybe we could share.&amp;quot; She admits she doesn&amp;#039;t want to get in trouble with a faction of fans - so much so that she hasn&amp;#039;t really formed a real opinion on it! 18:11Nelsan says this is his favourite season, Carrie loves season one (&amp;quot;We were all so new, the world was new, we were all exploring it and finding it and discovering it&amp;quot;) but six was her favourite as an actor, Chris picks this one, Anna Camp says it&amp;#039;s a tie between this and last season, Kristin says this season has been &amp;quot;really amazing&amp;quot; (though she liked Pam&amp;#039;s rotting face!), Sam liked the stuff with his brother, Stephen picks season one for the memories (and meeting Anna!) and the season with Denis O&amp;#039;Hare as Rusell Edgington, and Anna Paquin picks the first because it was all so new and they were creating a world. 18:07The next fan - dressed in Merlotte&amp;#039;s uniform - asks the cast for their favourite seasons. Nathan kicks things off by picking this one, obviously! Deborah finds it tough to answer but chooses either season four or six, because they were hard for Jessica - she went through a lot. 18:06Anna Paquin agrees that Rutina getting her head blown off was very emotional. She admits that when they kill off cast members she loves, it&amp;#039;s not difficult to play pain and emotion. 18:06Stephen also mentions the glamouring sequences - for example, when Bill told his wife to forget him. 18:04Stephen promises some stuff coming &amp;quot;in a similar vein&amp;quot;, and adds that Bill&amp;#039;s gone through some serious stuff. He says Bill returning to his human house and discovering his son has died of smallpox was tough - his own son was about 10 at the time. 18:04Sam says an upcoming scene with Carrie is &amp;quot;very emotional&amp;quot; - he thought it was great to have a scene with her that was just two people talking. 18:03Rutina says when Tara was shot in the head, she thought it was &amp;quot;incredibly moving&amp;quot; - she had to keep it together because Anna Paquin and Nelsan were so good. 18:03Kristin says in past years when she read the scene where Eric releases Pam, she said, &amp;#039;No!&amp;quot; Brian jokes that she started crying, and Kristin is tearing up again of course! She even has to wipe her eyes on Brian&amp;#039;s sleeve.  18:02Anna Camp jokes that she hasn&amp;#039;t had many &amp;quot;moving&amp;quot; scenes, but she likes her final scene of the season - &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s at her lowest. That was a hard one for me.&amp;quot; 18:02Chris says scenes sometimes parallel things that happen to you in real life. So when Andy proposed to Holly, Chris took the opportunity to tell his wife that he wanted to make up for his own proposal, so she had to imagine she was Holly. &amp;quot;And she bought it,&amp;quot; he jokes. 18:00Nelsan says he was moved by every scene with Nathan and Deborah this season - he calls Deborah a &amp;quot;marvellous&amp;quot; actress. As for Carrie, she liked the scene where Terry gets killed because it was so &amp;quot;powerful&amp;quot;. 17:59Deborah is praising an emotional scene she did with Ryan - and stops to pay tribute to him, since he&amp;#039;s not here. &amp;quot;Every day working with him was a pleasure,&amp;quot; she says. 17:58Sam says he has some Merlotte&amp;#039;s matchbooks, but he really wants the wooden sign from the bar - unfortunately Warner Bros have taken it! Apparently, a lot of Merlotte&amp;#039;s and Fangtasia is being archived. 17:56Nelsan jokes that they should probably sue him because he&amp;#039;s been stealing for years - he always forgot he was wearing Lafayette&amp;#039;s jewellery or clothes, and he kind of never took them back... 17:56The next question is whether the cast have taken anything from the show as a personal token. Anna Camp took home her wig - so she has brown hair if she ever needs it (&amp;quot;But it&amp;#039;s kind of a sad wig.&amp;quot;) Brian actually took Sookie&amp;#039;s porch swing - he would sit there between takes. And Stephen kept two dead deer feet from Merlotte&amp;#039;s that have been there from the beginning. Anna Paquin doesn&amp;#039;t seem very happy about those being in her house. 17:54Kristin reveals that she was given some amazing jewellery that she wore as Pam on the show.  17:54We&amp;#039;re on to fan questions now - is there anything from fan fiction that the cast took and made part of their characters? Nelsan says fans gave them scarves, and he gave them to the costume designer to incorporate into his outfits. 17:53So, a tease for the final few episodes? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not done changing, it&amp;#039;s not going to slow down,&amp;quot; Brian says. He promises relationships will be important, and that it will be emotional and satisfying. &amp;quot;You guys love these characters and we felt we had to land them in places where you would be okay not seeing them anymore,&amp;quot; he adds. 17:52Stephen reveals that Deborah made an entire wall of shelves for her comic book collection, With one of her outfits, she ended up on four &amp;#039;best costume&amp;#039; lists without the people compiling them knowing who she was! 17:51Stephen says one of his favourite Comic-Con moments was running into Deborah dressed as Hit-Girl! Apparently she walks the floor in costume because she loves Comic-Con. But she didn&amp;#039;t have time this year - she was going to come as Crow from Mystery Science Theater. She also reveals she plays Dungeons &amp;amp; Dragons, so she&amp;#039;s like Comic-Con gold. &amp;quot;She owns a glue gun,&amp;quot; Kristin deadpans. 17:50The cast are asked about their favourite Comic-Con moments - this is Carrie&amp;#039;s first time, so she picks this one! Anna Paquin says she was blown away by how interested people were from the beginning, thanks to Charlaine Harris&amp;#039;s fans.  17:48Stephen reveals that every time someone had to wear the Toad, they took a picture and put it on the Wall of Shame (there are about 250 pictures!) And you had to wear the Toad until the next person committed a worthy offence. 17:48Kristin got the Toad of Shame twice in her last week - once when her phone alarm went off because she was trying to bid on some plates on eBay! Deborah says she asked for the toad - they weren&amp;#039;t going to give it to them but she believed she committed a toad-worthy offence when she knocked over a prop beer barrel and got the floor all sticky. Everyone said it was okay, but she replied: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not made of glass, give me the f**king toad!&amp;quot; 17:47Someone&amp;#039;s phone goes off so Anna Paquin is discussing the &amp;quot;toad&amp;quot; punishment on True Blood. One of the crew members found a completely flat, dead toad on the ground - so he laminated and made it into a necklace. It&amp;#039;s now the Toad of Shame - given to people who misbehave (most often when someone&amp;#039;s phone went off during a take). 17:46Rutina says she loves to act and sing so would &amp;quot;definitely&amp;quot; like to be involved in a musical, while Stephen says he recorded some songs a while ago to see if a True Blood musical would be of interest. But that&amp;#039;s all he wanted to do for it, because he wants to move on from Bill. 17:44Anna Camp is asked if she can improvise a Sarah gospel song, which is obviously not going to happen - talk about pressure. Moving on, though, Carrie says she pictures Arlene as like Reba McIntyre and even Rutina gives us a little blast of a song! 17:43So would the cast want to do a True Blood musical? Anna Camp thinks Sarah could have an amazing gospel number at the end of act one and then could get attacked before the interval.  17:42Nathan also says he&amp;#039;d like to be Lafayette - Nelsan is obviously loving this. 17:42Deborah says she&amp;#039;d like to play Sarah... but she thinks that&amp;#039;s because Anna Camp plays her so well and she wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to repeat it! &amp;quot;Aww, thanks, I would be you,&amp;quot; Anna replies! Kristin jokes that she would pick Pam, while Carrie says she&amp;#039;d be Sam... until she realises that would mean being naked a lot! Now she wants to be Lafayette. 17:41Anna Paquin says she would love to play Russell Edgington: &amp;quot;And also, while we&amp;#039;re at it, can I please be Denis O&amp;#039;Hare?&amp;quot; Chris jokes that it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;really obvious&amp;quot; that Andy wants to be Jason Stackhouse, while Nelsan would like to play Pam (Kristin says there are some crossovers, like their eyelashes!) 17:39Stephen says when actors can&amp;#039;t make it to a table read, other actors fill in for them. Turns out Sam does a pretty good &amp;#039;Eric&amp;#039;... Everyone wants to hear it, even though Sam pleads food poisoning but gives it a go - though he&amp;#039;s not happy with his performance! 17:38Yep, Kristin really is crying - she&amp;#039;s getting a kiss on the head from Brian! The audience cheering her probably didn&amp;#039;t help her keep it together. 17:37Kristin says she&amp;#039;s been crying for &amp;quot;about a year&amp;quot; about her final scene with Alexander Skarsgard! (She&amp;#039;s tearing up again, by the way.) She says there were so many &amp;quot;lasts&amp;quot;, and Alex was the most significant relationship for her. She thought he would be rock solid, but she saw him start to cry! And when she crumbled she just tried to get out... &amp;quot;It was really sweet.&amp;quot;  17:35Anna Paquin says filming the big party was really hard - it took about a month because of scheduling and so on. But Carrie says some of her favourite stuff was in that because she loves Drunk Arlene! 17:34Brian repeats that Tara&amp;#039;s story isn&amp;#039;t over and the backlash against her death has been a little premature. 17:34Rutina says she wasn&amp;#039;t prepared for the news but was okay with it, especially because of her &amp;quot;kickass&amp;quot; fight! 17:33Brian says it would be &amp;quot;barbaric&amp;quot; to wait to tell Rutina about Tara&amp;#039;s death. He admits it&amp;#039;s hard to take the news but something has to happen if a group of marauding vampires come to town... &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s sad, I feel like an executioner, but I think we handled it as best we could between us,&amp;quot; he says. 17:32Stephen says working with Anna Paquin and Deborah has been an &amp;quot;unbelievable embarrassment of riches&amp;quot; - and he has an &amp;quot;enormous respect&amp;quot; for Chris Bauer, too. He&amp;#039;s just starting a bit of a love-in, basically! 17:31&amp;quot;I hate spending time with him,&amp;quot; Anna Paquin jokes, when asked if she&amp;#039;s liked having more scenes with Stephen lately. She admits when they don&amp;#039;t have many scenes together it&amp;#039;s like they&amp;#039;re on two different TV shows - so yes, she does enjoy it! Stephen says he feels &amp;quot;incredibly lucky&amp;quot; to have been able to work with Anna and he has missed it. 17:30Can Bill and Sookie make it? Brian says they... er... might. He says the show works because of the chemistry between Stephen and Anna - hell, they got married! (&amp;quot;As soon as this is over...&amp;quot; Stephen jokes that they&amp;#039;ll split.)  17:29Carrie promises that Arlene has some scenes with Keith coming up - in which she has to do things she&amp;#039;s never done on the show before! 17:29So is Arlene going to get a new hot vampire man in her life? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think you introduce a hot vampire to True Blood without doing something with him,&amp;quot; Carrie jokes. She laughs about having a vampire explode in her crotch - she had to ask the other cast members how to get rid of the blood (shaving cream, FYI). 17:27Chris says the most gratifying thing about the show has been to look back and see how much Andy has grown. &amp;quot;Basically he&amp;#039;s become as loveable as I am in real life,&amp;quot; he jokes. 17:26What about Sam and Nicole? Sam says that Nicole has a very &amp;quot;outside&amp;quot; view of the town - &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll see how committed I am to her and how committed she is...&amp;quot; 17:25Kristin jokes that Sarah Palin will &amp;quot;weigh in on anything&amp;quot; after her recent comments! &amp;quot;Being an animal rights person, when I first knew of her she was just the wolf-killer lady from Alaska, so it&amp;#039;s sweet that many, many years later I&amp;#039;ve made her angry,&amp;quot; she says. 17:24Was the scene in which Anna Camp runs through the Republican fundraiser a direct homage to Terminator 2, the moderator asks? Erm, no. Awkward. 17:24So Sarah is back as a Buddhist! Anna Camp says she was really excited to come back (she thought she deserved to be killed off!) &amp;quot;I think I get what I deserve,&amp;quot; she says about this season. Apparently even Anna&amp;#039;s boyfriend thought she deserved the &amp;quot;punishment&amp;quot; she gets! 17:23Brian says he knew the show needed to be reinvigorated with &amp;quot;love complications&amp;quot;, and they&amp;#039;re not over yet!  17:22Deborah reveals that she went to school with Nathan - so she really liked him coming on the show! 17:21Nathan says he had an &amp;quot;incredible&amp;quot; time working on the show - while he doesn&amp;#039;t have the same memories as the rest of the cast, he felt &amp;quot;right at home&amp;quot; from day one and feels thrilled to have been part of the show. 17:21&amp;quot;I couldn&amp;#039;t find my clothes which is a problem I had a lot in True Blood,&amp;quot; she jokes. 17:20Anna Paquin says her last day was pretty much the last day of shooting - and she had a pretty bad time of it, because there was no power when she got back to her trailer and she couldn&amp;#039;t get dressed! 17:19Stephen says he wrapped at 5am - and pays tribute to the crew who are involved in making the show. &amp;quot;Seven years is like doing a doctorate in vampirism,&amp;quot; he jokes. He admits that he found it really hard to say goodbye to the people who worked on the series - more so than the cast, who he knew he&amp;#039;d see again. 17:17Carrie says she was the first to &amp;quot;crumble&amp;quot; - she looked over at Chris and then came the &amp;quot;waterworks&amp;quot;! She says they were all hugging, mourning and celebrating. But they all cried at the final table read, too, she says. (Chris jokes that he&amp;#039;s still waiting to cry!) 17:17Deborah says that her last day wrapped at 4am in the middle of some woods! She says that was &amp;quot;fitting&amp;quot; - but earlier in the day about half the cast were there to say goodbye, because a whole bunch of people wrapped at once. Nelsan says it was a &amp;quot;beautiful&amp;quot; scene and &amp;quot;appropriate&amp;quot;. 17:16Brian promises that we haven&amp;#039;t seen the last of Rutina on the show yet! 17:16The cast have all finished filming - what were their last days like? It&amp;#039;s silence from the panel! Rutina says her last day was &amp;quot;very weird&amp;quot; - she says it hit her all at once. &amp;quot;It was beautiful and sad,&amp;quot; she says.  17:15Kristin begins crying again thinking about her last day shooting in Fangtasia - she says that&amp;#039;s the 96th time today! 17:13Kristin says the 80s were &amp;quot;another level&amp;quot; and she had great fun going back to that period. She liked seeing how she met Ginger and the transformation. 17:13Pam and Eric&amp;#039;s video store franchise comes up! But who came up with that? Brian says they needed to think up the worst punishment imaginable, so one of the writers suggested a video store. 17:12Brian says the flashbacks in the show are designed to give viewers context about the characters and fill in some holes. 17:11Stephen says there was a moment in the pilot where Nelsan was cooking and he started grinding against the grill, then started talking about how &amp;quot;Everyone is scared of p***y, even Big John is scared of p***y&amp;quot;! There was an extra there that day playing Big John - and because Nelsan mentioned him, he&amp;#039;s been in every episode since! 17:10Nelsan jokes that the thing he remembers most is thinking: &amp;quot;Do my shirts have to be this tight?&amp;quot; 17:09Rutina says one of her favourite scenes is Tara yelling in the store room! She admits she was &amp;quot;terrified&amp;quot; during the pilot and worried she would get fired, but she had a lot of fun.  17:08Stephen says Merlotte&amp;#039;s was one of the only sets properly built at the time and he remembered looking around at all of the details - including posters for the Louisiana peach eating festival! He says he remembers being amazed by the world they were setting up. 17:07So the show is coming to an end - but what are the cast&amp;#039;s memories of filming the pilot? &amp;quot;Can anyone remember?&amp;quot; Stephen jokes. Sam reveals that The Suite Life of Zack and Cody was shooting in the next lot! 17:06Here are the panellists, though - Nathan Parsons, Deborah Ann Woll, Nelsan Ellis (who gets a huge cheer and is rocking a fantastic hat), Carrie Preston, Chris Bauer, Anna Camp, exec producer Brian Buckner, Kristin Bauer van Straten (who&amp;#039;s looking very teary at her warm reception), Rutina Wesley (wearing a fab bomber jacket with a bloody mouth on the back!), Sam Trammell, Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin. 17:04Aww, that was sweet - it was all very much &amp;quot;thank you fans&amp;quot;! 17:03Here we go - it&amp;#039;s time for the final True Blood Comic-Con panel! But first we&amp;#039;re seeing a video of them saying goodbye to the fans. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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