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Song Sparked Stephen Moyer's Marriage Proposal to Anna Paquin
Originally posted 10/26/2009 07:30AM
When Stephen Moyer proposed marriage to his True Blood costar Anna Paquin, he looked to his onscreen vampire character, Bill Compton, for a little inspiration.
"There's a song Bill listens to in the car about a white sandy beach," Moyer tells British Glamour magazine in its November issue. "So we decided to go away for a break – to a white sandy beach – and that's where it happened."
Moyer, 39, and Paquin, 27, managed to keep their off-screen romance a secret on the set until an awkward love scene forced the actor to do the honorable thing and 'fess up.
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Stephen Moyer Injures His Knee
Originally posted 10/19/2009 03:35PM
He plays a vampire with super strength on True Blood, but Stephen Moyer is just as fragile as the rest of us mortals in real life.
The actor arrived at the taping of the Spike Scream Awards in Los Angeles Saturday night with his fiancé Anna Paquin, 27, walking with a cane due to a torn meniscus he acquired while playing with his kids.
"I'd like to say it as some kind of thrusting, sexy injury," joked the British actor, 40, who picked up the award for best horror actor. "But it really isn't." Moyer has two children from previous relationships.
Despite "feeling great," Moyer said, "[my doctors] told me I wasn't allowed to not use the cane. So I thought if I'm going to have it I may as well use it at the Spike Awards." And it seems he's taken a liking to his accessory. "I might just keep it forever," he said.
The Scream Awards will air Oct. 27 on Spike.
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Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer's Romance Not True Secret at Work
Originally posted 10/11/2009 11:15AM
They purposely played down their romance on set – even fooling their costars – but True Blood creator Alan Ball says he was on to Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer from the start.
"I know that they think that
nobody knew about it until the end of the season," Ball tells PEOPLE at the 5th annual GLSEN Respect Awards in Los Angeles, "but I knew about it by episode two."
Ball, 52, sensed a connection between the stars after filming the scene where their characters first meet. "Stephen comes into the bar, and takes [Anna's] hand, [and] I thought, "Wow, they have chemistry!" But sometimes actors have chemistry when they're acting together, but they cannot stand each other while off set."
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No Hot Vampire Love on the True Blood Set
Originally posted 09/24/2009 03:25PM
They may be all over each other off-duty, but when True Blood couple Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin are together on set, they're as smooth and cool as, well, vampires, according to costar Sam Trammell.
"They're so professional, I had no idea they were together at first," he said at the PEOPLE/Entertainment Tonight Emmys after-party on Sunday night. "And then I had no idea he'd proposed to her."
Even now that the cat's out of the bag, Trammell says, you'd be hard-pressed to figure out their onscreen chemistry continues off-screen as well.
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True Blood Wedding Going to the Dogs
Originally posted 09/24/2009 10:40AM
Sure, vampires and weredogs have never gotten along in Bon Temps, La., the fictional setting of HBO's hit series True Blood, but when Stephen Moyer marries Anna Paquin, those of the furry kind will be well-represented in the wedding party.
"Splash, my alpha, will be the ringbearer," Moyer said at the L.A. Dogworks and Good Dog Animal Rescue fund raiser on Wednesday. "My son [Billy, born in 2000] might be unhappy about that."
But Splash, a 10-year-old border collie Moyer calls "a grumpy little sod," won't have to worry about getting fitted for a tux quite yet. Moyer, 39, and Paquin, 27 – who spent nearly the entire event holding hands – haven't set a date yet.
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Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer Share Sushi in Vegas
Originally posted 09/24/2009 06:00AM
• Engaged True Blood stars Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin, grabbing a late-night dinner at TAO in Las Vegas, where they feasted on lobster wantons, sushi and sashimi. The two also enjoyed cocktails. "They looked so in love, happy and were having the time of their life," an onlooker says.
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Caught in the Act!
Originally posted 09/24/2009 06:00AM
• Engaged True Blood stars Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin, grabbing a late-night dinner at TAO in Las Vegas, where they feasted on lobster wantons, sushi and sashimi. The two also enjoyed cocktails. "They looked so in love, happy and were having the time of their life," an onlooker says.
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True Blood Costar Unaware of On-Set Romance
Originally posted 09/21/2009 08:30AM
The onscreen brother is always the last to know.
Speaking at the Entertainment Tonight/PEOPLE Emmy party after Sunday's big event, Ryan Kwanten – the hottie who plays dumb-as-a-rock but well-meaning Bon Temps good ol' boy Jason Stackhouse on HBO's True Blood – said he may have been the only person not to have figured out that his costars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer were in a relationship.
"I'm always the last to know. My ear is not very close to the ground," he said. "Stephen actually had to come up to me and tell me. He said, 'Ryan I know you're not really up with the gossip side of things. but before you hear from anyone else, we've been dating for the last 10 months.' "
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Anna Paquin Truly Enjoying Her True Blood Romance
Originally posted 09/04/2009 10:05AM
Being on True Blood is bitingly good, but for Anna Paquin also having her fiancé on set of the HBO vampire series is simply the best.
"What makes relationships so difficult with my job is all the traveling and being away from your significant other," she tells Britain's Elle for its October issue. "Eventually it gets too hard to maintain."
But since the Oscar-winning actress, 27, began dating her TV vampire costar Stephen Moyer in February, life has been a dream, as they get to hang out constantly.
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Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer Kept Romance Quiet on True Blood Set
Originally posted 08/25/2009 04:25PM
They started dating two years ago, but newly engaged couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer have never let their romance adversely affect their work on True Blood, says costar Carrie Preston.
"They got together during the pilot although they kept it very quiet," Preston told PEOPLE Monday night at the Nylon magazine Fall TV & Fashion issue party that Paquin hosted. "I didn't know about it until way into the season. They were very cool and professional about it."
Moyer also attended Monday's event, held at Skybar in the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood. He was joined by much of the True Blood cast, plus celebs such as Eliza Dushku, Emma Roberts, Shannon Elizabeth, Rick Fox and Entourage's Kevin Connolly.
Moyer, 39, and Paquin, 27, spent much of the evening chatting up friends – many of whom gushed over Paquin's ring. But they also made time for each other, with Moyer hugging Paquin tight as she nuzzled close and whispered in his ear.
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