Kristin Bauer Van Straten Video Interview On ‘True Blood’ Season 5

uInterview presents an exclusive interview with fan questions for True Blood star Kristin Bauer.

Q: How do you feel about your character Pam’s development over the past few seasons and did this evolution present any particular challenges or excitement for you as an actor?

BAUER: I feel really great about how Pam has evolved. Every year I got a little more piece of the puzzle, and there’s a couple reasons why I love that. One is that it’s a challenge as an actor, but a great challenge and not too hard of a challenge because you have this incredible scaffold of the writing. The writing is so clear and so wonderful, and you have the directors there and the producers to guide you in what they saw. For example, when my face was rotting and Eric had lost his memory, I thought that Pam would crumble, that this would be too much of an Achilles heel, and the producers said oh no no, she’s pissed. It’s very character-defining because we find out that when, you know the shit hits the fan, she’s a warrior, so she’s gonna go down fighting. So every year I get another piece, and this year we get Pam’s backstory, so I got this other piece and I get to show this other side and I have the layers of the previous seasons. So for me it just builds, it becomes a 3D sculpture as opposed to two-dimensional, so it’s really fun.

Q: Pam and Eric have such an interesting relationship and it looks like it’s going to be tested a lot this season. I wonder why you think Pam has such love for Eric, it seems like it goes beyond him just being her maker. What do you think?

BAUER: As far as Pam’s relationship to Eric, we find out a lot more this season about how that does go beyond. It’s a very sweet story. I can’t give it away, but it explains so much of how, that where she came from as a human and her vulnerability and how she became a vampire has a lot to do with her choices. And it really informs us of who she is, what we’ve seen for four years, and also why Eric is her one person. So you’ll see, this year I think that question should be answered a lot in the first four episodes.