Emmy-Nominated Anna Paquin Recalls Awfulness of Oscar Win

Anna Paquin plans to be in L.A. for the Sept. 16 Emmys, but gives the impression she’s not particularly looking forward to the event.

The 25-year-old actress, who earned an Oscar at age 11 for “The Piano,” is up for Emmy honors for her role as Elaine Goodale in HBO’s “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.” She doesn’t expect to win and doesn’t even plan to prepare an acceptance speech.

“Why set yourself up for disappointment?” says Paquin, who recalls how it felt when she was called to the stage to accept her “Piano” Oscar. “I was terrified. I was a very shy, very, very young 11. I don’t think I had ever seen so many people at one time and to have them all sitting there waiting for me to say something … It was awful.”

She doesn’t think the Emmys will be any better. “It will probably be more fun to just sit in the audience and clap for the winner. It’s nice to be acknowledged — that’s enough for me.”

She goes on to say she hasn’t yet seen the Emmy-nominated work of the competing actresses (Greta Scacchi for “Broken Trail,” Samantha Morton for “Longford,” Toni Collette for “Tsunami, The Aftermath” and Judy Davis for “The Starter Wife”). She notes, “It’s odd that I’m being honored for television, because I have so little connection to the medium. I don’t even own a TV, though I plan to someday get cable.”

That would be nice, real nice, because she’s going to have a firm attachment to cable soon, real soon — as star of Alan Ball’s “True Blood,” a series set in small-town Louisiana, about vampires who co-exist with humans by drinking synthetic blood. In the HBO series, which starts production late next month in L.A., Paquin will play a waitress who winds up falling for a vampire played by Stephen Moyer. “I’m extraordinarily excited. It’s really cool and funny and done like no one does but Alan Ball,” she says of the creator of the wonderful, quirky “Six Feet Under.”

Source: Creators.Com

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