Since “True Blood,” Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer have labored collectively many, many occasions. Moyer directed Paquin within the 2018 movie “The Parting Glass,” which additionally stars Cynthia Nixon, Melissa Leo, Rhys Ifans, and Ed Asner, and he additionally stepped in to direct two episodes of her sequence “Flack.” Their most up-to-date collaboration, “A Little bit of Gentle,” simply launched in April of 2024, and the couple solely had unimaginable issues to say about working collectively.
“One of many nice joys of working with Anna is that I believe she’s a superb, genius actor,” Moyer informed the Submit. “However we even have a shorthand. We do not speak about [a scene] the night time earlier than like, ‘Proper, tomorrow, that is what we will do.’ We type of skirt round that as a result of we have now a deep understanding of one another as performers and we belief one another.” Moyer additionally stated that typically the 2 step away from the set totally to debate a selected take or scene.
Paquin clearly agreed, saying, “As an actress [and] producer, I all the time act with one eye on the clock. To a sure extent, there are conversations that occur at residence, however these are to do with the logistics of how we will get XYZ achieved, like what does the scene want that the film would not exist with out? We discover that in discussing mechanical issues typically little bits of inventive stuff get labored out within the course of.”