From USA Today:
Anna Paquin, who is married to her True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer, says in the new issue of V magazine, out July 7, that people shouldn’t care that she is bisexual, something she opened up about last year).

“Frankly no one had ever asked me before … There is a lot of prejudice against us but the more people talk about it, the less of a deal it will be. Who people choose to sleep with – or spend their lives with-shouldn’t matter, not that anyone particularly cares who I’m attracted to.”

Other highlights from her V interview:

- ” While I have always, felt like an outsider, it’s because of the professional choices I have made, so it’s not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.”

- “On stage you don’t have anything to hide behind. I have never felt so naked.”

-”Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn’t be True Blood if someone wasn’t trying to kill her.”

-On sleeping with her husband on set: “Maybe it should be weird, simulating sex with your husband in front of people. But it’s really not. When it’s a love scene with someone you actually love it’s no ‘Can I touch him here, can I touch him there?’ You know what your boundaries are – or aren’t.”

- About her husbands fans: “There is probably something wrong with me, but I find it amusing to watch these men and women fawn all over him. It’s not like anyone is really trying to do anything inappropriate. They just want him to hug them… or bite them.”

From New York Times:
When television viewers were introduced to Sookie Stackhouse, three years ago in real time but only a few weeks ago in the chronology of “True Blood,” she was a guileless Louisiana waitress with telepathic powers but without much knowledge of how the world worked, and – oh, right – she was a virgin.

How times have changed.

Over the first three seasons of “True Blood,” Sookie has grown into a take-charge heroine who can contend with shapeshifters, maenads, werewolves and – in Season 4 – witches, but no longer depends on her vampire paramour, Bill Compton, or his fanged rival, Eric Northman. During that time, Anna Paquin, the 28-year-old actress who plays Sookie, has evolved, too, into an increasingly central figure on this increasingly popular, explicit-in-all-kinds-of-ways HBO series, who has comfortably outgrown her former status as a precocious phenomenon (and is now married to co-star Stephen Moyer, who plays vampire Bill).

As anticipation builds for the June 26 season premiere of “True Blood,” Ms. Paquin spoke recently for this Arts & Leisure article about her maturation on the show. In these excerpts from that conversation, she talks about her time on “True Blood,” what Season 4 holds in store for Sookie, and the unusual gift she and Mr. Moyer gave to the crew.

Q. I noticed that you seem to have squeezed all the New Zealand out of your accent, whether or not you’re on camera.
A. Absolutely. It switches in and out a bit, depending who I’m talking to. It gets a little boring when you’re going about your daily life and you end up having multiple conversations with random people, when you’re just trying to run errands. They’re like, “Oh, my God! Where are you from?” I’m like, “Can I just buy my milk and go home?” Sometimes if I’m feeling a little more antagonistic, I’ll give people a bit of a hard time. Like, “Where are you from?” I’ll be like, “Here.” “You don’t sound like it.”

Q. You do have a sarcastic side.
A. I like to poke people. I do. But I like to hang out and play with people that will poke back. And our set has a lot of that. It’s a very, very loving environment, and the way most of us express our affection is by gentle-to-severe ribbing. It’s a bad sign if you’re not someone that anyone teases on set. It usually means that no one knows you that well.

Q. One of the words I most often heard your colleagues use to describe you was professional. Was there concern when the series started that, because of your youth, you might be somehow unprofessional?
A. I’ve always worked incredibly hard, and for me sometimes to a fault, my job comes first. I’ve never really been treated as if I was the kid that didn’t know better or didn’t know enough, or wasn’t good enough or working hard enough. But I was an incredibly hardworking kid. You just don’t want to be the flaky, weakling teenager. If I didn’t feel like I had anything to contribute I’d just keep my damn mouth shut, you know?

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From Health:
You could envy Anna Paquin a lot of things. Starting with her rocking body, which is on full display one hot morning when the 28-year-old Academy Award–winning actress shows up for our chat at a cafe in Venice, California, absolutely killing it in cutoff jeans shorts and a paper-thin white T-shirt. Then there’s her red-hot career—her fourth season playing telepathic waitress Sookie on the HBO hit True Blood debuts this month. And what about her recent marriage to hunky co-star Stephen Moyer?

But after our day with Anna, we long most for her amazing energy. This is a girl who likes her workouts hard, her coffee “giant,” and admits that she doesn’t like to sit still. After Stephen drops her off and takes their two dogs to the park, Anna dishes about everything from the pressure to stay thin in Hollywood to whether she sees True Blood kiddies in her future.

Q: You started out acting and got an Oscar for The Piano at such a young age. How did you turn out so, well, sane?
A: I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we’re all nuts on some level. I think you’ve gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn’t rebel in the traditional sense.

Q: In what areas of your life are you healthiest—and less so?
A: Well, I could probably drink less coffee and drink more water. I try to eat well, but sometimes you can be a little too obsessive. It’s good to remember it’s actually not the be-all and end-all, and if you’re absolutely falling down with exhaustion, really, do you need to go to the gym? I’m very hard on myself. So I’ll be inclined to go until I hit a wall and collapse, or someone is like, “Mmm, stop.” Contrary to what you believe, you are not actually superhuman.

Q: Right, you’re not being chased for your life.
A: As I get older, I’m learning to balance that stuff better. Not focus on one thing at the expense of everything else. Sometimes it’s like, walk away from the elliptical machine. Go sit outside. Do something relaxing. Because you’ll be in a better mood.

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From People:

Anna Paquin‘s True Blood alter-ego may have to worry about fangs coming out at night, but it turns out in real life, it’s her laptop that magically appears after midnight! The self-confessed “shamefully” big online shopper took a little bit of loving ribbing from her husband (and co-star) Stephen Moyer at the boutiques.com launch in N.Y.C. on Wednesday night. “If I wake up in the middle of the night, and I’ll kind of feel the light and I’ll open my eyes and it’ll just be the glow of the computer, and she’s even shopping in her sleep!” said Moyer. “She loves it.” Paquin defends herself, explaining “I don’t always buy, I’m almost more of a window shopper!”