Carrie Preston Video Interview On ‘True Blood’ Season 5

As waitress Arelene Fowler on HBO’s True Blood, actress Carrie Preston adds to the show’s campy sense of humor (it’s not all dark and stormy), providing many of the laughs with her paranoid hijinks and virulent abhorrence of vampires. A native of Macon, Ga., and a graduate of the Juilliard School’s prestigious drama program, Preston tells fans in our exclusive video interview that she has almost always landed in clown roles. No wonder — despite Arlene’s somewhat prejudiced notions about vampires, her comedic presence on True Blood is indispensable.

Now in its fifth season, True Blood has amassed more than just a cult following despite taking enormous risks in terms of storyline, character and fantasy-world logic (if there is such a thing). Also starring Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Ryan Kwanten and Kristin Bauer van Straten, as well as many others, True Blood is created by Academy Award winner Alan Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under) and based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries (commonly called “The Sookie Stackhouse Novels”) by bestselling author Charlaine Harris.