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January 9, 2014

Many people are familiar with Stephen Moyer, the actor, specifically from the hit HBO show "True Blood". He plays vampire Bill Compton. Others may have seen him last month on TV in the live version of "The Sound of Music". He played Captain Von Trapp. However, most people probably don't know Stephen Moyer is also a producer.

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He and his wife, Anna Paquin, took on producing roles in the new movie "Free Ride" which opens this Friday, December 10 at select theaters in New York and Los Angeles and will also be available through Video on Demand. The movie stars Academy Award winner Anna Paquin in the lead role.

At the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, I had the opportunity to speak to Stephen Moyer about his role as producer and what he did to help bring this movie to life. l. I decided to work in a fun question about the upcoming season of "True Blood" and the answer I got back was both shocking and surprising exclusive news regarding the show's future.

You've been an actor for a while now. As an actor your job has been to memorize your lines, hit your marks and emote, but on "Free Ride" your job wasproducer. What were some of the jobs you did during the making of this film? I was actually making a movie in Toronto at the time called "The Barrens". It was one of those situations where we had a window to make "Free Ride" because Anna was going back to work and I was going back to work as well. We had this window, so we took it. That meant while I was on set in Toronto, I was on the phone doing deals for "Free Ride", trying to make it happen. My co-producers kind of ran it and every weekend I'd run down to Sarasota to try and do as much as I can and pull ropes and make everything happen. It's been a great experience. It's the first movie that our company has taken from beginning to end and we got many more to come, but we are very excited about this one.

On "True Blood" you get to work alongside your wife as an actor, on "Free Ride" you were working with her as a co-producer. Was that any kind of different experience? I first got this script as an actor. It was a great part for me, but I decided I didn't want to do it because I wanted her to play this part. I thought it was an amazing part for Anna. She is one of the hardest working, most committed actors/actresses that I've ever worked with, so I knew that having her on board and having her play this part, she'd just dive in, which she did. It's a story about a real life situation about this fantastic female protagonist who is here tonight at FLIFF. She's pretty amazing and it's this incredible story of her life.

And that story is what really drew you to it. Yeah and Anna is magnificent in it. I think the two extraordinary performances are really... everybody is great, but Anna and Liana Liberato, who plays her daughter, is a beautiful understanding of what it must have been like to go through it.

What is the aspect of being a producer that you really loved the most? I started out in a little town in Essex in England and I watched everybody else kind of creating stuff. It was all musicals back then. Amateur, I'm talking amateur. I decided I wanted to set up my own theater company and I did that when I was 17, so I've been doing this for a long while. I set that up with paper round money. I had my own paper round. I did it with flipping burgers money too. We were pretty successful, actually. I like the fact that it's not me in front of the lights when I'm doing this part of the job. Of course, I then have to make up for it by doing it now (laughs). So there is no getting away from it really.

HBO announced that the next season is going to be the last season of "True Blood". So what are fans supposed to do in the summer of 2015? What are you going to do in the summer of 2015? I'm not sure about the summer of 2015, but if things go the way I'm hoping there will be something to watch in the summer of 2016. We'll have an announcement about that... soonish.

There you have it! If luck holds out then "True Blood" may follow in the footsteps of "Sex and the City" and "Entourage" and have its own movie released in the summer of 2016. In the meantime, the final season of "True Blood" has begun filming and will premiere this summer. Don't forget, you can catch "Free Ride" beginning this weekend On Demand or maybe in your local movie theater. Check your local listings.

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Anna And Stephen talk about colaborating as a couple-Courtesy of The Vault

We all know the story about Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer falling in love while playing star-crossed lovers on True Blood. Nowadays, Stephen and Anna have been married for several years with four children, but they also keep busy in other ways than family life. To promote CASM’s new film, in which Anna is starring, “Free Ride,” the couple sat down for an interview with Elle Magazine. Below is part of that interview.

And though season seven of the vampire drama doesn’t return until summer, the couple’s latest effort, co-producing the thriller Free Ride (out today) stars Paquin as Christina, a single mom in the late ’70s who turns to pot smuggling to make ends meet. In real life, however, these two couldn’t be further from dire straits. The frisky duo let ELLE.com in on their disparate uses for cough medicine, bedroom seduction tactics, and how not to make an indie film.

What’s it like when you’re working together in different capacities?
Anna Paquin: It’s just as well that we like each other. [Giggles]
Stephen Moyer: It’s how we met; I think that’s key. We met working, and seeing each other in each other’s working environment. And she works really hard, which always makes me feel like I don’t do enough. So that’s really good to be around, because that makes me kind of ramp up.
So you don’t have to crack the whip with her,when you’re directing or producing…
SM: That’s at home. That’s in the bedroom.
AP: Excuse me! [Laughs] Please try to restrain yourself from saying anything completely inappropriate. Ignore him.
Are we getting a little sneak peek at how you guys would handle disputes, either on set or not?
SM: When it comes to disputes, it’s usually more of a …
AP: Discussion.
SM: … a discussion about where you’re trying to get to and what you’re trying to do. Anna was very good to me the first couple of times I directed, because she knew that I was under pressure, so she did everything that I asked. By the second or third time, it was more like, ‘You’re asking me to do something that is actually not humanly possible.’
AP: I’d go, ‘Actually, I can’t. I’m really sorry. My go-go dancer arms are at home.’ [Laughs]
You start shooting ‘True Blood’ again this month—and it’s the final season. What do you hope happens for Sookie?
AP: Honestly? There’s so many directions it could go in, and one of the things I love about our show is that I still get excited reading the scripts. There’s a part of me that doesn’t want to do the, ‘Oh, I hope this happens,’ or ‘What if this happens?’ because they’re pretty damn good.
SM: Three or four seasons into the show, we might have been able to tell you what we thought would be the end, or what we hoped would be the end. But by the time you get to season seven, I don’t know if anybody other than the guys creating it know what the best ending is. And so ultimately you have to sort of trust them to wind it up in a way that hopefully satisfies everybody a little bit. Because you’re not ever going to be able to make everybody happy. And the huge Eric fans…
AP: …or the huge Alcide fans…
SM: …or the huge Bill fans…
Or the huge Bill-and-Eric fans…
SM: Or the huge Bill-and-Eric fans …
AP: Beric?
SM: Beric fans! They’ll hopefully be able to tick off a lot of boxes, but you’re not going to be able to make that perfect ending.
One way to maybe satisfy everyone at once is to make Sookie’s fantasy of a Bill-Eric threesome come true.
AP: Yeah, that was an interesting day of production. And not just because I ended up half-naked on a couch with two different men. But just because that’s an awfully long time to spend walking around…
SM: …in red lingerie. Particularly attractive red lingerie!
AP: This is the point where he would say something that you don’t need to know about!
SM: Because he can’t help himself.
Go over to elle.com to read the entire interview and see their exclusive clip from Free Ride with Anna Paquin.