Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin

"True Blood" fans got a taste of the season 4 premiere with the show’s stars out on the red carpet. Anna Paquin told Extra that viewers can expect more excitement from her character Sookie: "People are trying to kill her all the time. On the other hand, she has a lot of attractive male suitors."

As if Sookie (Anna Paquin) didn't have enough problems, True Blood's fourth season will see her in charge of a very vulnerable Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) after he loses his memory, the result of a run-in with some dangerous witches.

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Unaware of his past misdeeds, Eric is an entirely different vampire rediscovering the world.

"The old Eric is gone," Skarsgard says. "He's very innocent and nave, and then he finds out who he is and what he's done in the past
— Eric has done some pretty bad things in the past
— and it's tough for him to digest that and to deal with that."

Fortunately for Team Eric fans, the softer side of the Fangtasia bar owner opens up new possibilities for him to explore with Sookie. "She sees Eric in a whole new way," Paquin says. "Sometimes it takes a slight shift in perspective for people to see what's right in front of them."

The fourth Charlaine Harris novel also features Sookie and Eric becoming very close, like, in the biblical sense. "If you know the books and you like the fourth book in the series, you won't be disappointed,"

 Alan Ball says. they have a pretty hot hookup that goes on for a while, but all I'm saying is fans of Team Eric will be very happy this year."